Actually follow up:
I noticed Marc DID respond to the time poll. Although today is still the last day where most people are available (and at UTC too)
So a new poll would be good.
Martin,
On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 12:59 -0700, Daniel Pono Takamori wrote:
The poll is UTC, sorry for not specifying.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 03:13:50PM -0400, doctormo@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Pono,
I was hoping to have Marc be able to speak up before we started planning times, but this works as it'll give us a sense for when people will be available to meet.
I've filled it out with the assumption these times are in EST, let me know if it's UTC or some other timezone.
The goal of the request is actually to ask for the SFC's advice for conducting meetings, to onboard/train committee members on how to conduct them. Because the Inkscape project hasn't been conducting actual meetings, it's been doing "status updates" (horribly mislabeled everywhere) so every time committee members tried to add agenda items to discuss serious business, they would be removed as not appropriate for the type of status update process that event for intended for.
Now that we know that this monthly event isn't an actual committee meeting. We have an opportunity to create a real, fully developed meeting. With a discussion agenda, voting, minutes and all the parts of a meeting that many in the project really want (and thought we had, until it turned out we didn't) and your help setting that up would be great.
There is a dependency chain of administrative items that we need to work through before we get to funding though, and I don't want us to start on further items until we've fixed the first items:
- Meetings - holding actual meetings, so people have an
opportunity to talk about the administration of the project and the community has a space to bring items. 2. Constituency - We have no idea who is in the inkscape community. And this is devastating to our ability to act authoritatively as EVERYTHING is stalled waiting for the mythical "inkscape community" to agree to things. But because we don't have a handle who this community is, we have no idea if we have a quorum in any particular meeting or team, or if we're reaching people. We need meetings to have the practical space to work out how this will work. SFC's guidance will be critical here. 3. Discuss and request a change of definition of the "Inkscape Community" with the SFC (update to the Agreement text) to allow... 4. Voting on a replacement member - We're currently one short, for 6 months we've been unable to hold a vote because we have no idea who to send ballots to. 5. Then we can start sending information to everyone about important discussions for funding. Hopefully everyone in the Inkscape community will get a chance to be involved in this discussions and the inkscape Committee can act as gentle stewards allowing the community to work through items in confidence with our new regular meetings acting as the backbone (and contextual location) for the discussions.
You can see that we have quite the list of items to work through.
I believe there may be some confusion in the discussion about this being a change in the way the Inkscape Committee acts as a leadership. Or about funding. This request is not about funding, or about how "the project" makes decisions. It's just about how the committee conducts it's business and plugs back into the inkscape community so we can start being effective again.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 11:19 -0700, Daniel Pono Takamori wrote:
Here's a poll for time gathering: https://framadate.org/UsFcEuWf2duojI4o
And here's a pad I made with a preliminary agenda: https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/Jg-a7AGFdHHpMVpICGf0
There was some talk in the other thread about video/voice or IRC. I don't have any opinion and want to make the meeting accessible to all who need/want to attend, so let me know if I should setup a video call link.
-Pono
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