[Sur] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
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>>> Fortunately, SLOBs votes are done via email, at any time, and the
>>> monthly SLOBs meetings are there to unjam any backlogs.
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>> ah I was under the impression that motions were debated and voted in the
>> meetings, with recourse to e-mail when meeting time ran out after debate
>> but before a vote.
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>> Nobody's in thrall to a higher power here, and if the SFC requires every
>> single expenditure to be voted, there is a reason, and perhaps the reason
>> isn't valid. With resources limited as they are, we need to be vigilant
>> about bureaucracy, that's all.
>>
>> Speaking of which, the SLOBs may wish to consider a motion numbering
>> system such as is used by legislatures. It could simplify referencing
>> previous decisions, in particular providing a search engine handle which
>> could be used to reconcile authorized expenditures. And motions could be
>> more easily listed for governance history.
>>
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> Nice idea. I could start by numbering the motions listed in [1].
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>
Done.


> -walter
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>> Sean
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> [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
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> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
>



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