Meeting log for 2008-12-17

[Jimmy Kaplowitz]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:42:45AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I recall a motion that said we should discuss on private (I could be off
> my rocker) but the thing is... the *only* people that can do anything
> about what you are arguing is contributing members. E.g; they are the
> ones that can vote. So -general may consider this noise.

Ian's right that -general is the appropriate place for general discussion about our procedures for passing resolutions and admitting new projects:

http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2007-02-15-jrk.1.html/

However, for discussing potential new associated projects before they join,
-private is appropriate, so that if e.g. the members disapprove of a potential
new project, we don't air all of that dirty laundry for the world and the
search engine indexes to see.

I'm going to try very hard not to post further on-list messages in this thread,
to cut down on the very noise you were concerned about.

> I don't know honestly but what I do know is that there are many
> contributing members that do not bother to read let alone subscribe to
> -general.

That's their loss. The spam problems have been long since fixed, so there's no
real reason not to be on it if you care about SPI enough to be a contributing
member.

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy at spi-inc.org