[OSGeo Oceania] Open Board Meetings

[Edoardo Neerhut]

The discussions I was referring to was the long thread from December
<https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oceania/2020-December/002481.html> about
openness. It's an ongoing effort, but one I wanted to bring up in the
context of board meetings.

I thought this was the last thing you were present for in the meeting Greg.
Apologies if I recall incorrectly. Clearly Loomio is the way to handle
these decisions, with board meeting discussions preceding the vote when
required.

On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 22:25, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I share Alex's concerns as I was also not there for that part of the
> meeting. As a board member disappointed that a decision like this is made
> (irrespective of my personal views) with out all the boards  presence.
>
> I cant see any public discussion that Ed is referring to?
>
> G.
>
> On 4/6/2021 2:58:15 PM, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I don’t have a problem with open meetings, I had to leave this Board
> meeting before this decision was made and feel blindsided by it. There’s no
> context that I can find in the minutes behind the decision.
>
> I suggest that in the future when we make these kinds of major decisions
> that we  explicitly minute a motion, with movers and seconders and a vote,
> or put them on Loomio still.
>
> I don’t think that a decision that makes us more open gets to skip the
> process.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 2:24 pm, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well done OSGeo Oceania! It's wonderful to see the board opening up its
>> processes. A big step in the right direction!
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 11:10, Edoardo Neerhut <eneerhut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> *Open board meetings*
>>> In our last board meeting
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mDVp-6-0jwI-ho-cxmLv5-mSEXxRxCJL/view?usp=sharing>,
>>> the board agreed that board meetings will be open so that anyone who is
>>> interested can attend. This has been discussed in the past, but to be
>>> perfectly honest had slipped our minds in some of the recent board
>>> meetings. There may be sections of the board meeting that need to be
>>> discussed in private, but these are few and far between.
>>>
>>> *Public calendar for OSGeo Oceania*
>>> There has been an OSGeo Oceania public calendar
>>> <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=dgea06cf2tu9ukl2f7nmfqjp98%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles%5C> for
>>> a little while now which contains all our scheduled board meetings, but it
>>> needs more visibility. Feel free to add events to it and let me know if you
>>> have trouble accessing it.
>>>
>>> *Next board meeting*
>>> The next board meeting is on April 15th at 2:00 am UTC and a far more
>>> reasonable hour in Oceania! The agenda is very much a WIP, but can be found
>>> here
>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_Onmg6B7jvYwVxnL_2mAScIqmKq0-6Lyg0A3um6wus/edit#>.
>>> Feel free to add comments if there are things you are curious about and we
>>> can work them into the agenda.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
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