On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:01 AM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
Please remember: According to our rules (Government Charter), Working Group membership is
not a prerequisite for participation in voting and decision-making!
I think you do want the Working Group to be the voting members, as it
is a FESCo subcommittee. That way it's clear who makes decisions, and
who are expected to show up for regular meetings. And who you ask to
resign when they haven't shown up for six months or whatever you
decide.
We did talk about the question of member removal when redoing
Workstation WG governance a year ago. I took the position that it
didn't need a written procedure. Just ask. If that fails (I mean
honestly, who would say no if asked to resign?) then you can file a
private FESCo ticket and they can deal with it. Again, it's a FESCo
subcommittee and FESCo can even totally dissolve the WG without notice
(not that that would ever happen but it wouldn't break any sort of
well established rules about the relationship between committees and
subcommittees, not least of which is the superseding committee is
elected by the Fedora community, and as such have more authority for
such decision making.)
Ergo, I don't think a procedure in a document makes it any less
awkward, or more automatic, that an inactive member just leaves. But I
do think that regular meetings are important, however brief. In
Workstation WG, we decided weekly was better. And sometimes those
meetings are short. Usually we go 50 minutes.
Another big change we made was Blue Jeans meetings. It took some
adjustment, but I think it helped in non-obvious ways: it makes them
special events, you are more obviously missed. The agenda is organized
in part by pagure tickets, along with the Chair's assessments, though
anyone can flag an issue with a meeting-request tag. These are open
meetings. Anyone can join video or even call in, all that info is
posted on desktop@ each week. And we take minutes and feed them into
meetbot.
And also another change we made was having cycle based permanent Chair
and Vice-Chair positions, to help establish stable leadership.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Governance
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Chris Murphy