[Foundation Board] Straw targets for 2017 Board meeting dates/times

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Thu Dec 8 10:31:05 UTC 2016


AFAIR, the primary reason the PTG was suggested as a venue is because
it would allow us to engage with the technical/development community
on these important topics.

Mark.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Roland Chan <roland at aptira.com> wrote:
> Thanks Alan.
>
> I see that you're suggesting we meet at the PTGs, which isn't an event that
> I was planning on attending. The travel impact for a one day (or closer to a
> half day in Tahoe) meeting is significant for anyone who happens to be in a
> location inconveniently far from the PTG.
>
> Since the Gold sponsors are now relatively evenly spread across the globe (>
> 50% from the "Rest of World"), and board membership is a definitely a goal
> for many of us, this may be a larger problem in the future, especially if
> this pattern is echoed in the individual elections as well.
>
> Perhaps worth revisiting once the new board is constituted and the size of
> the problem is known, but I have some disquiet about pegging 3/4 of the F2F
> meetings to US locations.
>
> Roland
>
> On 3 December 2016 at 10:26, Alan Clark <ACLARK at suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> Directors,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to suggest the following dates/times for 2017 board meetings.
>> I picked these dates mostly from avoiding conflicts with other industry
>> related events.  Please let me know the collisions I’ve missed.
>>
>> Jan 31, 1 -3pm pacific – conf call
>>
>> Feb 24, All day F2F at PTG, Atlanta
>>
>> April 11, 7-9am pacific  - conf call
>>
>> May 12, All day F2F at Boston Summit
>>
>> June 20, 1-3pm pacific  - conf call
>>
>> August 22, 7-9am pacific  - conf call
>>
>> September XX, All day F2F at PTG
>>
>> October 3, 1-3pm pacific  - conf call
>>
>> November 9, All day F2F at Sydney Summit
>>
>> December 5, 7-9am pacific  - conf call
>>
>>
>>
>> Don’t put these on your calendar yet.  More refinement is needed.  For
>> example I haven’t coordinated with the Foundation staff for the Summit and
>> PTG schedules.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> AlanClark
>>
>>
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