My concern is that board member time is limited by other duties in the project. If everyone on the board agrees to sift through the #Team_Vectors content for stuff that needs the attention of the board, that's totally fine with me. Frankly, I don't expect anyone to do that. The idea is to make it easier for board members to see what's important.

And yes, I think before a board meeting, board members should have read through the purely on-topic conversations that go on in #board_room.

Some topics having to do internal policy matters of Inkscape can also get heated and quite long, creating an atmosphere which is not pleasant for those trying to work on vectors tasks, etc. I'd rather not subject new people who signed up for vectors duties to be met with walls of administrative conversation and conflict. It makes the project look unfriendly and in conflict without any context. Whereas if the conversation takes place in the board room, it's more expected that there will be strong differences of opinion, and doesn't expose people who just want to help the project and skip the politics to things they certainly didn't sign up for. :)

We can make announcements each time there's discussion in the board room about a particular topic, and since it's separate, it's not intermixed with development matters, or vectors matters, etc. and thus is easier to digest.