Next public IRC Board meeting

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a big fan of having some of the Board meetings on IRC regularly,
> for better transparency and community engagement.  And I also think
> having the community Q&A section up front is helpful so that community
> members aren't held up by other agenda items.  Previously the Board
> tried a fully open meeting with no enforced protocol to do this.  That
> meeting ended up being confusing and hard to track, with multiple
> overlapping conversations.
>
> That's not a problem when everyone in the meeting has separate
> concerns that can all be handled individually by different people --
> after all, we do it every day in other IRC channels.  However, it's
> not as effective in the setting of a group meeting whose purpose is to
> explore issues, achieve consensus, and make decisions.  Clarity is
> just as important in the open Q&A portion so the Board members'
> positions are clear to the people asking questions, and the community
> at large.  Therefore, I suggest the Board consider having some sort of
> orderly process for taking questions.
>
> The Board agreed publicly that if needed, the level of order in the
> IRC meetings could be increased incrementally to make them more
> effective.  Here is how I'd propose to escalate that level, one
> meeting at a time, stopping when things seem to work OK:
>
> 1. Avoid using VOICE, and employ a self-regulated meeting protocol
>   like our Ambassadors do in their regional meetings (!/?/eof/+1):
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo#Protocol
>
> 2. Bring in a non-Board moderator to facilitate the above process,
>   through gentle reminders to participants.
>
> 3. Have the non-Board moderator employ VOICE to facilitate the
>   meeting.
>
> Thoughts?

+1. I think that process works just fine.

Will there be some sort of consensus on this before next week's public
IRC meeting? I'm assuming not having a plan in place here is the
reason that today's previously scheduled public IRC meeting is no
longer on the schedule.

-Robyn




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