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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Joshua,<br>
<br>
On 2016-07-16 18:23, Joshua D. Drake wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:578AB3E1.3000009@commandprompt.com"
type="cite">On 07/16/2016 06:58 AM, Philippe Cloutier wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Greetings to all, and in particular to
those I have not had the chance
<br>
to collaborate with yet.
<br>
Yesterday I became a SPI member, apparently thanks to Martin
<br>
Zobel-Helas, just in time for the 2016 SPI board elections, in
which I
<br>
was able to vote.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Welcome!
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Joshua D. Drake
<br>
<br>
Just one comment on a specific statement, Joshua's. It contains:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Getting business items in order such as
proper insurance and
<br>
professional services.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
What this means is vague for me (I fail to see what "business
items"
<br>
means concretely).
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Concretely, the corporation is not properly protected against
potential hostile or negligent action. This protection usually
comes in the form of Limited Liability and Director's an Officers
insurance.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
That is still quite abstract for me (What kind of "hostile action"
are we concerned with?). <br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:578AB3E1.3000009@commandprompt.com"
type="cite">
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[...]<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<br>
General
<br>
<br>
Most statements say a lot more about what one has done than
about what
<br>
one intends to do. There's still one easy information about who
<br>
candidates are which is usually missing : their age.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I am not sure that age is relevant but I am 43.</blockquote>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:578AB3E1.3000009@commandprompt.com"
type="cite">I am more interested in a candidates willingness to
participate, be effective and move the corporation forward versus
whether they are 22 or 65.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Me too.<br>
<br>
Below a certain age, lack of maturity may make a candidature a lot
less interesting. But in the end, it seems that all candidates in
the last election had plenty of maturity. To clarify, that question
only came to me when reading one specific platform. I was just
suggesting this because it is trivial to include this information,
not because it is particularly lacking.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:578AB3E1.3000009@commandprompt.com"
type="cite">
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I ranked candidates based on what their
statements said about their
<br>
achievements, their goals, and my prior perception of them.
Being a
<br>
long-time Debian developer, my ranking surely shows some bias. I
was
<br>
hoping for commitments to transparency but did not read much on
that.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I would argue that transparency is implied. We are a U.S. based
non-profit and the rules are pretty clear. Every member is able to
attend every board meeting, all of our resolutions and financial
matters are public etc...
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
While there is a large part of our operations which is transparent,
I did not suspect that such a part was not.<br>
<br>
From the 5 mailing lists, 3 are private. And the only private list I
have access to seems to have more traffic than the public lists
combined, if I trust the sample formed by the couple of weeks of
presence I have. That would mean public discussions are a minority
of SPI's mailing list discussions.<br>
<br>
The contact page gives only private contact adresses for the board,
the officers and the website.<br>
<br>
The number of members is not available, nor is a list of these
members, a list of members who requested to become contributing
members, or the list of members whose contributing membership
application was rejected.<br>
<br>
Passive transparency would be a great start, but some basic facts
should also be published. For example, I cannot see SPI's staff.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:578AB3E1.3000009@commandprompt.com"
type="cite">
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<br>
Issue tracking
<br>
<br>
The desire to properly report this presumed issue brings me to a
<br>
meta-issue: does SPI not have an issue tracking system?
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
We do for reimbursements. Usually any feedback of that kind would
go through the -private list. However, I could certainly see
opening up a tracking system for other items, especially member
concerns as a whole. That is a good idea.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Thank you very much for that (and your other answers). I have
formally requested SPI to implement such a system in thread "Issue
#0 - No general-purpose issue tracking system":
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2016-July/003493.html">http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2016-July/003493.html</a><br>
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Filipus Klutiero
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.philippecloutier.com">http://www.philippecloutier.com</a></pre>
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