Talk:Board meetings
Public IRC logs
I'd like to propose that the old (say >1 month) IRC logs of Board meetings are archived onto the private wiki space. I appreciate these logs can be useful for understanding the decisions - and writing and verifying the minutes - immediately after meetings, but their usefulness after then I imagine is quite limited. Please let me know what you think below. AndrewRT 23:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- I know I've asked this before, but for the benefit of everyone else could you explain the reasoning behind this? Transparency should always be the default, there should be a specific reason for keeping something private. --Tango 23:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- I didn't realise you had asked this before! My concern is that we're ending up with a huge amount of public information out there. This increases the risks for people who go onto the Board - they may inadvertantly reveal their contact details in some way for instance - and I'm not sure I understand the benefit. AndrewRT 00:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe I asked mpeel. I certainly discussed this with someone a few days ago. I understand the reasons, and don't particularly disagree with them, but I thought it better if you explained it yourself rather since it is your proposal. --Tango 00:58, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
- I didn't realise you had asked this before! My concern is that we're ending up with a huge amount of public information out there. This increases the risks for people who go onto the Board - they may inadvertantly reveal their contact details in some way for instance - and I'm not sure I understand the benefit. AndrewRT 00:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Having thought about this and talked it through with people, I've changed my mind. In the event we want to go back and look at why certain decisions were made the old logs can be just as useful as current logs - thinking of the original discussions on our Articles for instance. If we're having meetings in public we may as well publish the logs. We just need to get used to the glare of transparancy! AndrewRT 22:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Calendar
A link to this Wikimedia UK calendar would probably help with coordination, particularly for board members that use a Google Calendar. I don't seem to have edit rights to this page, otherwise would have been bold and added it myself. --Fæ 07:48, 28 April 2011 (UTC)