Comments on: Election candidates http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/ Dave Neary's view of the world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dave Neary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/comment-page-1/#comment-991 Dave Neary Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:18:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/#comment-991 Unfortunately, at some stage this year we stopped adding the status of outstanding action items to the minutes, which makes tracking this kind of thing harder. Ask your secretary why that is. Unfortunately, at some stage this year we stopped adding the status of outstanding action items to the minutes, which makes tracking this kind of thing harder. Ask your secretary why that is.

]]> By: Dave Neary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/comment-page-1/#comment-990 Dave Neary Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:16:50 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/#comment-990 Here's one example, chosen from my actions while I was on the board: <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-February/msg00013.html" rel="nofollow">Minutes 1 Feb 2007</a>: <blockquote> ACTION: Dave to prepare preliminary budget for February 10th. </blockquote> <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-February/msg00020.html" rel="nofollow">Minutes 15 Feb 2007</a>: Review of last meeting's actions: <blockquote> ACTION: Dave to prepare preliminary budget for February 10th (DONE). </blockquote> There were 3 more budget-related actions in that meeting minutes, and in <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-March/msg00007.html" rel="nofollow">the following minutes</a> we have: <blockquote> * Dave to discuss with gnome-docs-list and advisory board about possible coordination of documentation and library.gnome.org (NOT DONE - handed off to Vincent/Behdad) * Dave to send new draft of the budget to the board with improvements, and later publish (DONE - Dave sent drafts v2 and v3, waiting feedback from the board) * Dave to send draft of budget announcement to board-list (NOT DONE) </blockquote> The budget finally got sent to foundation-list <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-May/msg00007.html" rel="nofollow">on May 28th</a>. A reasonable question to me would be "what happened between the draft budget on March 1st and 12 weeks later on May 28th?" Here’s one example, chosen from my actions while I was on the board:

Minutes 1 Feb 2007:

ACTION: Dave to prepare preliminary budget for February 10th.

Minutes 15 Feb 2007: Review of last meeting’s actions:

ACTION: Dave to prepare preliminary budget for February 10th (DONE).

There were 3 more budget-related actions in that meeting minutes, and in the following minutes we have:

* Dave to discuss with gnome-docs-list and advisory board about possible
coordination of documentation and library.gnome.org (NOT DONE – handed
off to Vincent/Behdad)
* Dave to send new draft of the budget to the board with improvements, and
later publish (DONE – Dave sent drafts v2 and v3, waiting feedback from
the board)
* Dave to send draft of budget announcement to board-list (NOT DONE)

The budget finally got sent to foundation-list on May 28th.

A reasonable question to me would be “what happened between the draft budget on March 1st and 12 weeks later on May 28th?”

]]> By: EdgeWise http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/comment-page-1/#comment-989 EdgeWise Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:42:38 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/11/28/election-candidates/#comment-989 Hmmm... how can we tell if an action item has been completed? Otherwise, seems like we could parse the minutes, and rig up a system that would calculate the percent complete for every past board member. Hmmm… how can we tell if an action item has been completed? Otherwise, seems like we could parse the minutes, and rig up a system that would calculate the percent complete for every past board member.

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