[Evergreen-governance-l] Meeting Scheduled for Tomorrow, March 20th at 1pm

[McKinney, Elizabeth]

The meeting is on. 

Elizabeth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Scott" <dan at coffeecode.net>
To: "Elizabeth McKinney" <emckinney at georgialibraries.org>
Cc: "evergreen-governance-l Governance" <evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:32:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] Meeting Scheduled for Tomorrow, March 20th at 1pm

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:27 PM, McKinney, Elizabeth
<emckinney at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow at 1pm.  Please complete the survey at the link below at your earliest convenience.
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/659YCQC

Assuming that the meeting will be on this afternoon, don't we have a
fairly major set of action items around putting together a concrete
proposal about how the Board will be nominated & elected?

The minutes at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=governance:minutes:2012-01-17
make some mention of this. I'm concerned that we're going to hit our
self-imposed deadline in our Rules of Governance:

"
By the end of the 2012 Evergreen International Conference or 30 April
2012, whichever comes sooner, the Board will have promulgated rules of
governance for this Board and the Evergreen Project to be presented
for approval by the general membership of the Evergreen Project during
the conference. At that same time, the board will designate at least
1/3 of its seats to be filled by general election at the 2012
conference. The board will also hold new elections for the board
officers at that time.
"

http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/governance/rules-of-governance.html#_transition_to_general_rules_of_governance_and_general_elections

Of course, as the current Board, we have the ability to modify or
strike that provision. It does send a worrisome message to the
community about our efficacy if we're not able to achieve one of our
major self-appointed tasks in our first year of existence.

On that front, we need to start pulling together a list of
achievements (and lessons learned?) that we as the Board can point to
during our presentation at the Conference, such as:

  * Transfer of domain names to SFC
  * Transfer of trademarks, some copyright (?) from GPLS to SFC
  * Much more transparency around conference financing
  * Documentation licensing (touchy, I know... but it was a major
issue that our SFC affiliation helped with)
  * ...