Communication skills

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Chris,

While a legitimate question, it is much more appropriate for  
membership-discuss than here.  I agree we need a better forum for  
discussing things, but for now please move this discussion there.

Thanks,
-- Ernie P.
OSI Board Observer
On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Chris Travers wrote:

> On 11/1/07, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
>>> I can't wait to hear what excuses you'll come up with this time...
>>
>> It's the same old excuse: a limited amount of time to volunteer.
>> Everyone on the OSI board is a busy person.  Any suggestions other
>> than "work harder"?  Note that volunteering other people's time
>> doesn't go over very well in the open source world.
>
> I think that there is a legitimate question that the board needs to
> discuss-- the extent to which OSI wants to be an  open and transparent
> organization.  Right now the OSI is not very transparent at all.  If
> that is OK with the OSI board, then so be it.  If it is felt that we
> need more transparency as a matter of credibility on the OFSS
> community and as a matter of ensuring that people who participate are
> treated as full participants then a few changes need to be made.
>
> 1)  Recommend dropping the confidentiality of submitted legal analysis
> and suggest that the process is that this analysis be sent both to the
> board and this list.
>
> 2)  Recommend posting Board minutes either to a web site or to another
> public email list.  I think this list could be used for this since
> there is usually something related to this list in there.
>
> 3)  Recommend that board minutes and press releases get published
> simultaneously.
>
> I will admit that my suggstions do impose a slight additional burden
> on some officers of the organization (mot notably the secretary) but
> this does not result in additional time burt rather a commitment to
> get certain necessary work done in a timely manner (a commitment which
> should be a requirement of such an individual anyway).
>
> Hope this helps.
> Chris Travers
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