Council 2008 08

When: Wed, Aug 20 2008 at 7:15
Place: Free Geek Meeting Room
Facilitator: Laure1
Scribe: Luiz
Consensus trainer: Oso
Minutes Checker:
Attendance:
Last meeting:

COMMITMENTS

Copy these from the prior meeting's minutes. Owner of each commitment should report on status: Done, In Progress, Carryover, Hand Off, or Drop. For items not completed, see http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Carryovers.

• Technocrats: finish setting up a secure wiki for the building group.
• Vagrant will make sure there's an RT ticket for this in the technocrats queue.

• Marie and Oso - talk to Dave about the numbers he made up about our value to the community (CARRYOVER/IN PROGRESS since April)

Note: If this hasn't happened, we need to reconsider this commitment

• Seamus will talk to BAN and try to get process rolling

• Oso will fill out conflict of interest form and share with the group (CARRYOVER since March)

• Laurel 1.0 will put that stuff about the Council eligibility and meeting participation (and the sense of the council) into a policy to be put on the wiki in an appropriate place. And she will send a link

to the Council list.

• Laurel 1.0 will follow up on her facilitation reading group idea with a post to the council list with logistics.

• Council members will give Laurel 1.0 feedback on the Council Orientation document

(http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Council_Orientation), and then she will create a hardcopy version for council newcomers.

REPORTS

Reports from other working groups.

• State of the Onion http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/State_of_the_Onion
• General Priorities http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/General_Priorities
• Geek Fair planning
• News from the eWaste front?

BUSINESS

Board selection process and candidates

• Link to relevant conversation.

  (Summarize Presentation)

• List Clarifying Questions
  • Question - Answer
• List Concerns
  • Concern - Questions Which Clarify the Concern
• Proposal:

  (final proposal)

  • Decision adopted (with Unresolved Concerns Listed - AKA Stand Asides) | Send to Committee (if creating a new committee list interested people)

REMAINING COMMITMENTS

New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above.

• Name - commitment - status (discussion points if necessary)
• Name - commitment - status (discussion points if necessary)

Next Meeting

• Facilitator:
• Scribe:
• Minutes Checker:
• Reporters to other meetings?
• Date and time:
• Place:
• List of unfinished business for the next meeting:

LINKS

Council wiki page: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Council Link to Last Meeting: http://lists.freegeek.org/pipermail/council/2008-July/002373.html