[Members] OFFICIAL MEETING NOTICE: board and council elections

[Dave Cridland]

On Tue Sep 29 00:20:04 2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> The model for the Council is that all the interesting work happens  
> on
> the standards at xmpp.org list, in the jdev at conference.jabber.org  
> chatroom
> (does it make sense to run chatrooms at xmpp.org perhaps?), etc. All
> those people who do the work can attend Council meetings, provide
> feedback and input regarding specs, request Last Calls on their  
> XEPs,
> and do everything but vote.

Right. I've spoken privately (I don't think I've ever done so  
publically) about the possibility of removing voice from people  
who're becoming disruptive in meetings. But even in the most  
contentious, and popular, meetings, we've not had to do this.

In general, there's a small core of people who're present for nearly  
every Council meeting, and a somewhat larger group who drift in if  
there's something that interests. I can't think of a time when the  
input from these people has been anything less than helpful.

It's somewhat frustrating that we don't record attendence by non  
Council members, actually, since it means we don't formally recognise  
the contribution by thoe people.

I'd note that I see no reason to allow non-members into Board  
meetings, though - that can be an exciting priviledge of membership.

Dave.
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