Elections, Accountability, and Education

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:40 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> 
> FESCo seems to manage to do most of its business and I believe all of
> its voting in public. So I'm not getting the sense that adding some
> inefficiency and inconvenience to the board in the conduct of some
> part of its business is so insurmountable an obstacle.
> 
> How strongly do we believe in transparent governance? Opting out when
> there is a legal or sensitive issue is one thing, opting out because
> being transparent is more inconvenient than the alternative is
> another.

There is a difference here.  The board constantly deals with things of a
nature that can't be made public at the time of the board meeting.
FESCo /never/ has that, as whenever it runs into a legal issue, it gets
bounced up to the board (or just fedora legal directly).

We are going to make a concerted effort to provide more visibility into
the non-sensitive matters that are discussed at board meetings, but
we'll continue to do the meetings in a phone manner due to the high
bandwidth and better feel for what is being said.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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