Talk:Reports 11May13

Open reporting

At every board meeting this year, it has been pointed out that staff reports were published using closed formats. There is nothing to stop the wiki being used natively to publish these reports as they are almost entirely plain text with the odd table. As the year has progressed we have moved from some of the reports being presented on-wiki, to the current situation with none of the reports being available in an open standard, instead they appear to have been printed to PDF files from open office documents as a way of making them less open, guaranteeing they will not show up in on-wiki searches, almost impossible to comment on, difficult to cut and paste from, or share actions from.

This may be considered a very minor issue, but as it has been highlighted as an issue over so many meetings, I believe it now requires a vote of the board of trustees in order to either adhere to the underpinning value of openness, or to remove it as one of our top level values, that would be expected to guide the way we work together as a charity. --Fæ (talk) 16:43, 1 May 2013 (UTC)