[OpenStack Foundation] Agreement on requiring board candidates to attend the meetings, and, why didn't this dogpile dial into the last meeting?

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Fri Oct 11 19:26:27 UTC 2013


Atwood, Mark wrote:
> It would be one thing if the call-in observer gallery was full of people
> on US Pacific time, or on just US TZs, and we had been discussing how
> the other TZ folks were thus disenfranchised.  But that's not the case.
> 
> I would like to see at least as many people observing each board
> meeting, which is only held every few months, as I see people observing
> the *weekly* project meetings.  Which also have TZ issues.
> 
> And finally, for many parts of the OpenStack community, this is our
> *job*.  We get paid to do this.  Dialing into a Board meeting and
> listening in should be as important in attending as the various meetings
> and con calls and all-hands and stand-ups that we do for our employers.
>  Where were all the PTLs, the TC members, the couple of dozen other
> community engagement folks?

Some of them might have been actually extremely busy producing the
software that this Foundation is about. We have a release in less than
one week, in case you forgot about it.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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