Efficient board meetings, revised

Branden Robinson branden at spi-inc.org
Mon Oct 25 19:05:01 UTC 2004


On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:02:22PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> 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.
> > `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.

And we've learned not to wait for Joey S., as he'll never do it.  ;-P

-- 
G. Branden Robinson, Deputy Treasurer
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
branden at deadbeast.net
http://www.spi-inc.org/
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