Efficient board meetings, revised

[John Goerzen]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:26:11PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > small number of guests attending meeting, being friendly to them cannot
> > harm the organization.
> 
> The problem isn't having the guests state their names.  The problem is
> having the meeting held up for n minutes for no good reason.  I don't
> think this is a huge problem, but it seemed obviously daft to me and
> since the meeting chair didn't do what I wanted putting it my
> resolution and letting the board decide seemed sensible.
> 
> `Being friendly' to someone doesn't mean keeping a dozen or two people
> waiting for them to type their name.  It means making them feel

What are you talking about?  I do not hold up a meeting waiting for
guests to state their names.  I have asked them to /msg their name to
David.  Making that request takes about 5 seconds.  Then we move on.

We only wait for board members to state their names in the channel.

-- John