On 03/28/2015 03:37 PM, Kyle MacDonald wrote:
Tristan I absolutely agree that foundation management (inclusive of the board and the foundation management team) through community feedback is essential.
In addition may I suggest, where legal and appropriate, that the board publish performance reviews / goals for key leadership within the foundation. I would like to see clear conflict of interest disclosures from all leadership within the foundation (both current/static as well as potential). This is a problem that needs to be addressed as well.
It's great companies and individuals can contribute but if you aren't on the good side of the foundation management you can be easily left out or marginalized as they support projects/activities/press that are more "prominent" in their minds counteracting reasons to be supportive. This is now a huge challenge to anyone in our global ecosystem.
I would hope that it's no surprise that I am a huge advocate of open and transparent dealings, so in general, I am a favor of both collecting feedback and publishing all of the things we can publish. However, that sounds like an accusation of misconduct in the guise of suggesting a process or policy be adopted. I can tell you from experience that the answer to such issues is not to invent process or policy, but rather to confront them in an open and honest manner. I would also add that one of the reasons we have a foundation staff is so that there can be people who CAN make value judgments on a day to day basis as to where to orient the foundations efforts. This necessarily means that there will be people "left out" from time to time - otherwise it would be complete chaos. I have never personally experienced this being due to someone "not being on the good side" of a staff member. If there is a way in which anyone else believes they have been on the receiving side of systemic corruption, I would urge that person to raise it with one or more of their board members if it seems that raising concerns with foundation staff is going nowhere.
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On Mar 28, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Chris C. Kemp <chris.c.kemp@nebula.com> wrote:
Tristan -
I think that increasing the scope of the questions covered and generally soliciting more feedback from stakeholders would be helpful. I'm supportive of both the discussion, and the ideas you propose below.
Best, Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Tristan Goode [mailto:tristan@aptira.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 6:50 PM To: foundation-board@lists.openstack.org; Foundation@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] April 2 OpenStack Board meeting call for agenda items; Board packet materials due by Monday March 30th.
(Putting this out to the Foundation list also for wider input)
Can I please propose a quick board discussion around improving the feedback to the organisation, perhaps very easily by adding some feedback questions to the user survey? Presently there is only one non-technical question in the survey about what folks hope to see as priorities or something like that. I'd be hoping to see questions like...
1: The goals for the OpenStack board in 2014 were X, Y and Z. On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is least satisfied and 10 is most satisfied, how satisfied were you that the board met goal X in 2014? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2: How satisfied were you that the board met goal Y in 2014? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3: How satisfied were you that the board met goal Z in 2014? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
...and so on for TC performance, interactions with Foundation staff, and so on.
From what I can tell, we have a way to go to improving feedback to the Foundation on governance, organisation and overall management presently and this is a pretty standard mechanism used by organisations worldwide.
I'd welcome feedback from anyone in this area. It may be that the user survey isn't the best place to add this, but I feel like there is definitely room for discussion here.
Cheers Tristan
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Clark [mailto:aclark@suse.com] Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2015 9:53 AM To: foundation-board@lists.openstack.org Subject: [Foundation Board] April 2 OpenStack Board meeting call for agenda items; Board packet materials due by Monday March 30th.
The next OpenStack board meeting will be held on April 2nd at 12noon - 2pm pacific.
Committee Chairs and Directors please send me items you would like on the agenda. I need the materials for the board packet by EOB Monday March 30th so that I may post and distribute the materials to the board prior to the meeting. (Please tell me if materials need to be marked confidential.)
I've started drafting the agenda[1]. Expecting topics from several committees, it's going to be a very full agenda. We will also be holding an Executive Session during the meeting.
Thanks, AlanClark
[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/2Apr2015BoardMeeting
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