This was extracted (@ 2024-03-20 21:10) from a list of minutes
which have been approved by the Board.
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beginning of every Board meeting; therefore, the list below does not
normally contain details from the minutes of the most recent Board meeting.
WARNING: these pages may omit some original contents of the minutes.
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The goal of this session was to make sure that issues important to
different members of the board get our collective attention in the near
term. Each board member provided one or more items for consideration.
We did not make any decisions or discuss any of these items in detail.
We agreed that substantive discussion and decision-making should happen
on ASF lists and/or regularly scheduled ASF Board meetings. Here is a
summary of items mentioned by individuals. All items were agreed to be
important and in many cases, board members referred back to items
already raised.
Ted: Fundraising strategy, direction and operations
Rich: Providing better support for volunteers involved in community
development. We keep repeating that we want things to be
volunteer-led, volunteer-driven, but more enablement support is
needed. Running small events and attending others requires some
financial support that we should consider providing from the
foundation.
Shane: Keeping communication focused, getting to decisions and documenting
what the decisions are.
Betrand: Finding the right balance between paid and volunteer resources.
Refining and settling on the model for how volunteer officers are
going to manage paid resources.
Phil: Getting a clear delineation of what is policy, what is best practice,
what is required at the ASF.
Information transparency - balancing privacy and confidentiality
needs with the need to provide members access to foundation data,
decision-making and agreements
Brett: Focus on volunteer and PMC enablement.
Long-term plan for executive leadership.
Need to get to consensus on where the need is for paid assistance and
what the options are in each case.
Keeping and enhancing our culture.
Getting out of negativity.
Isabel: Finding out earlier and preparing better for changes in volunteer roles.
Enablement and community involvment
Getting the right messages out, the right stories told, to improve
acculturation of new volunteers and communities at the ASF
Roman: Agree with all points above, esp. policy definition, paid vs unpaid
roles, enablement.
Mark: Agree with all points above. On acculturation, consider ways to get
"Success at Apache" or similar material disseminated to podlings in
incubation.
We concluded with a brief discussion on how / when to run votes at
Board meetings and how to make sure that all decisions and outcomes of
discussion items get either captured direcly in the minutes or people
take actions to publish or update relevant documents.