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said by Icarus :
Im continually reminded having read the last minutes that this is more a "Good ol boys" network than a democracy.
Care to elaborate on this?
Sure....5 people making the decisions for 20 behind closed doors,the "minutes" of the meeting being generic at best. How do you expect people to garner interest when decisions are made behind closed doors? Steve,you,yourself said you felt the board meetings should be made public,yet you voted against them being so...care to explain?
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Steve,you,yourself said you felt the board meetings should be made public,yet you voted against them being so...care to explain?
What he said.
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| i have the same question as well, even sent MB an IM last night that i havent seen any reply to, i would expect a board member to at least acknowledge that they read my IM.
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You are dead wrong Ick. All decisions were recorded in my minutes accurately. I think you and woogs are just pissed off because you didn't get your exact personal wants fulfilled. For every member that has taken the time to either post in DCSP or IM me on open board meetings there are an equal number that have said they do not want that and they trust who they elected to represent them. The board is trying to represent *all* the members.
I do encourage input on all FP topics ... but you have taken this thread off topic and tarnished it.
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Ok, to clarify this... I personally DO NOT care if the meetings are made public or not. There is NOTHING I say in there that I will not say here, you know me better than that. I have never had a problem expressing myself anywhere. Sometimes even so to the point that when I am mad I say things that I do not mean and would never in a million years even dream of doing.
I even have taken very elaborate and time consuming steps to make it possible for anyone that wished to observe could do so. And I will continue to do so..
However, there is a point of principle here. If a board was not wanted or trusted(and certainly was not my idea), then why was one elected in the first place.
A board is exactly that... They take care of the mundane day to day executive decisions that the general population need not concern themselves with, and then report their findings or decisions in a summarized format.
Then the community can discuss said procedures and decisions and voice opinions and such. Things are not written in stone here and can always be brought up for changes and revisions.
As, I said I am not against opening board meetings to the public for observation, but if this is the case then what is the purpose of the board at all?
Everything could be done here, but this is not the proper format to do such things as it tends to be rather slow and would take many hours to do so here... Our last board meeting went over 2 hours... Can you imagine how long it would take here with just anyone and everyone posting.
I feel that it would be fine to open the meetings or say have pre meetings, but if we are to have a board they will still need to go into executive sessions just as the MOD's and DC Exec's do here.
We are all a part of this community, no? We all do our part to help and keep it going, right? Do we ask Justin to open these rooms to the public? No, as it would be ludicrous to do so.
My decision was based on an either or senario...
1. We opened ALL meetings to the public
or
2. We did not open any of them.
My original feeling(and still is) that we should have pre meetings open to discuss the agenda and what is going on and what needs to be decided on, get input from ALL the members and potential members. Then at this point the board would go into executive session and take care of what needed to be taken care of there.
I think GarG does a fine job of summarizing the meeting in the minutes, but I am not opposed to the idea of having the logs posted other than in a 2 hour meeting the logs can get VERY long and I am not sure everyone that reads them would understand at all times what it was that people were trying to get across in the discussions that ensue in the meetings.
This flat medium can be very misleading in the way that people mean things they say... There is no inflection in the tone of voice to know if someone is serious or kidding, there is no facial expressions to know what mood someone might be in at the time they make a comment. With this I feel that entire meeting logs would be misunderstood by some at certain points and times in the meetings.
My vote was NO, because the other option was not given. I am sorry if this offended anyone in any way, but this was what my decision was based on and nothing else.
Now, if I have not made myself clear here or this needs further discussion, then please lets continue this, but in a separate thread or IM.
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| i dont think anyone intends to imply that they dont trust the board, and I for one wouldnt watch i meeting just to find some minor quip to harp on, its more a matter that this is brand new to all of us, im sure some people arent entirely sure they elected the right people as im sure some people are sure they should have been elected, but either way an open meeting helps the members trust their board by (if they so choose) being able to see them make sound and reasonable decisions, and the board members will be able to show that they are indeed the right person for the job by way of their actions.
the more i debate this the more it seems like a trivial point it really shouldnt matter that the meeting are open to the public, keeping it private only makes it seem like there is something to hide.
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said by Gargoyle :
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I do encourage input on all FP topics ... but you have taken this thread off topic and tarnished it.
A board member makes a statement and I ask a question and thats off topic? Well,EXCUSE ME!
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| said by Icarus :
said by Gargoyle :
I do encourage input on all FP topics ... but you have taken this thread off topic and tarnished it.
A board member makes a statement and I ask a question and thats off topic? Well,EXCUSE ME!
You are excused. But you also ignored my post ("If you want to debate this, then please open a new thread") that was made 10 minutes before your question. As I said before, the whole discussion of "open board meetings" is off topic in this thread. I have asked sorto to split this thread out so the debate can go on but not hijack this thread.
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| Thanks sorto/fishie for the new thread.
Can we please get other members views on this posted in here?
On a side note: I would think that if 6 other members (that would be 9 or 1/3 of the membership) really want open board meetings and say so here, then I could bring this to a full membership vote that would override the two board votes I have conducted on this topic already.
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said by Axilla :
well if these members have another viewpoint i would love to see them post on the subject and make an attempt to persuade us.
I asked for input and received it here.
I posted that I was not for open Board meetings, and the reasons why. Several ppl disagreed, and several agreed. I have always made my positions known, and the reasons why.
There are Board meetings or Committee meetings that are open to the public.
There are just as many that are not. Our Board meeting topics have been posted day's before any meeting. That is where and when I think the discussion should be.
It was IM'd to me that members haven't been asked to do much.
We have just started this project, Garg has posted Board meeting topics, leaving them open for discussion. I started that post "Any Suggestions". It sat there dead in the water until I IM'd some FP members to please respond [if they so chose]. What else is there to do but hear the wants of members. Put together a list, trying to include all wants and desires. Then post the topics to be discussed at a board meeting, asking for further input to be included in that meeting.
Things have gotten WAY out hand for what I believe to be mostly of a personal nature, that once it was resolved should have been left alone.
This is truly a sad turn of events!!! What started out to be a fun project has turned nasty, and is undeserved, for it seems reasons that at first might have been founded, but later proved to be nothing to worry about, but still some keep pushing it. More importantly using it as a platform for further dissension.
It was also said that some may regret there FP board member vote.
If ppl regret voting me in as 1stVP then post it here and if the consensus is I am not wanted, I will step down!! I tell you my friends, this infighting has gone for me, beyond unpleasant. It has broken my heart!
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I do not feel it necessary to watch or have the meetings open.
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| would you like to have that option to watch a meeting sometime though? you may not want to now but in the future is that something that might be a good possibility?
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Re: FP Open Board Meetings
I do not feel that it is necessary to have the board meetings open. Publishing the minutes after approval or as directed the board vote is good enough. I trust everybody on the board. Even if I didn't trust everyone on the board I would still not want the log published or the meetings open, too many possible problems. If anything "unusual" happened I am sure we would all know real quick like.
The logs can be stored for future use if it becomes necessary.
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| i too thought there would be no problems with the open board meeting, but after some serious thoughts and speaking to memnbers of other boards i belive it would cause more harm then good....
..but i am too getting tired of the infighting.....IF YOU THE FULL FP MEMBERSHIP WANT AN OPEN BOARD MEETING....then i suggest that we call for an open vote and let the majority of the membership decide.....
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and yes all of these comments are BECAUSE YOU DO NOT TRUST THE BOARD OR INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS...so lets not sugar coat the issues...
I disagree Pness,
From the comments I have seen, it isn't that they don't trust us to have closed meetings, it is they think we don't trust them to have open ones.
I may be wrong, but I don't think I am.
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Twice today I have asked our members to refrain from imputing motivation for another individual. We can each only speak for ourselves in that regard. I may think I know what drives another individual, but I can never be certain.
These statements are coming across in a personally insulting manner. Please address all comments to issues. I think TH is capable of discussing differences without stooping to this level.
Mod Edit: My apologies, Icarus. This was a topic reply, meant for all, not directed at you.
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If I had to lean one way or the other, I would have to lean toward an open ( view only ) type meeting where the board could invite in guest speakers.
Much like a City Council or County Commissioners meeting.
Not because I trust or dis-trust anyone, but because sometimes I like to stick my head in and see what is going on. I generally learn more by what is not said then what is said.
After 2 or 3 meetings, the audience size will dwindle anyway.
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Evidently, the expectations that people had for and from this project vary greatly. Speaking for myself, I made my donation based on the information supplied about the project's intension. I gave the money because I wanted to...had the project been totally scraped and never even run the first WU, I would have been disappointed, but not mad even if I did not get a refund. I did not give the donation expecting to get anything back.
It never even crossed my mind to worry about meetings and how they were handled. To me, it's like owning stock in a company. Sure you get invited to a stockholders meeting once a year...but does anyone really think that company's don't have board meetings throughout the year? Do you get the log or even the minutes of those meetings? No..but you either trust the people that were elected to run the company or you get out of the company by selling your stock.
I don't understand the purpose of such a heated debate over such a minor issue. Why does it matter if the office holders only post the minutes of the meetings? How is it going to hurt any of y'all one way or another? Maybe someone could explain it to me.
I'm sure some of y'all have read about another DLSR Team that is considering starting a project like this. We surely are setting a bad example for them.  Please give this a little more thought and examine your motives.
I'm editing my post to concede that I have been very busy and have not been able to keep up with everything going on here lately. I'm sure that you all have your private reasons for your preferences and it was presumptuous of me to ask anyone to explain to me. I meant no offense.
Just some observations
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