Meeting Information
Location: Sam's Billiards BR Date: 28 January 2003 BR Time: 8:30PM - 11:15PM BR Scribe: AdamShand BR Role call: AdamShand, DonPark, NigelBallard, LucasSheehan, MichaelCodanti, LonnieWormley BR
Meeting Dicussion
- Regular board meetings. When, where, how?
- From now we will attempt to have monthly board meetings on the second Thursday of each month.
- Feed back on policy draft sent to board list.
- Adam forgot the copy so it couldn't be reviewed.
- What is the warranty deal on Soekris boxes?
- Lonnie will follow up.
- Finalizing expectations for nodes.
- What are coverage expectations.
- What are support expectations.
- What size installation can we reasonable do (decision was that if the installation takes less then one day then it's within PTP's current ability. Larger installations take a case by case decision).
- Getting people involved again.
- A couple board members have been noticably abscent in recent months and their presences have been missed. Tonight everyone reaffirmed their willingness and ability to participate in Personal Telco.
- What am I not doing? What can I do better? Are my emails clear?
- Adam wanted to know what he could be doing better. We didn't dwell on this and moved on. General concensus was that he was doing okay and that people would let him know when it changed.
- New advisory board members.
It was confirmed that new advisory board members would be nominated at the August BoardMeeting and confirmed at the September MonthlyMeeting. Adam will send an announcement about this to the main list.
- Technical leadership.
Technical leadership roles were dicussed. It was decided that Don was the best person to assume this role and that he would begin to "exert his authority" as the guiding technical force for the SpecialOps list.
- Transparency.
- There was a discussion about what it means to have a transparent organization and why it's important to keep as few secrets as possible. In the interests of keeping the organization as transparent (ie. meaning available to the public) as possible it was decided that:
- The admin list will be deprecated, and traffic will move back to the general list.
The archives for the ops list will be opened and as much traffic as possible will be pushed back to the general list. The reason for this is that much of the interesting conversation that happens with in PersonalTelco is happening behind "closed doors" and this isn't good.
- The board list will become open to members to join, not just board members. Possibly rename?
- There was a discussion about what it means to have a transparent organization and why it's important to keep as few secrets as possible. In the interests of keeping the organization as transparent (ie. meaning available to the public) as possible it was decided that:
- Speak up! Don't be passive.
- Adam urged people to tell him when he is wrong/stupid/misinformed and said that when discussing policy it's important to him to hear "me too" votes from people.
- Adam's getting bitchy
- He's tired and needs help from everyone. All of your support and help is appreciated.