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The substantive questions are:

1.	Is the board elected to make/ratify decisions on behalf of the membership? - If not, why does it exist at all?  The fact is that by conducting a 'national' referendum on every issue the organisation becomes just a large electoral machine. The original aims will be lost in the machinery.

2.	Are all our decisions non-competitive in nature? - Clearly some decisions or strategies are commercial in confidence; is it proposed that we allow competitors to read these as they are formulated and perhaps not even actioned yet? Such a transparent process will allow them to stymie every effort of the foundation by (them) being aware of the initiatives as soon as we are. This is lacking common sense.  Perhaps this might be handled using a series of quarantine periods relating to a sensitivity scale to provide some measure of security. This format is used by governments all over the world to protect sensitive information, and has been proven to be acceptable to the majority of citizens.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua McKenty [mailto:joshua at pistoncloud.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2013 8:24 AM
> To: Dave Neary
> Cc: foundation at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Opening up the board mailing list
> 
> I've added some discussion of transparency to the agenda for the next board
> meeting, and will try and go through the archives before then to audit for anything
> that really ought to stay confidential (HR and personnel discussions, mostly).
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 4, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 02/04/2013 02:01 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >> You mean Dave's idea? It's certainly fairly close to the requirements
> >> I laid out, but I don't think Dave is certain mailman can even do
> >> that much.
> >
> > I pointed out the various Mailman configuration which needed to be done to enable
> that solution. It's certainly possible.
> >
> > The usual discussions that come up is whether opening up previously closed
> archives might constitute a breach of confidentiality for past discussions. There is no
> way to open up the archives only from a given date onwards.
> >
> > That seems like a topic for the board - if there is board agreement for opening up
> past discussions, then it's a rather simple matter to enable read-only subscriptions
> and open archives.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave.
> >
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