[Community] requirements and meeting schedules

[Brett McDowell]

Do we have another call coming up where we want to discuss the Chair  
role, or are we going to sort it out on this email thread?

Boy, I wish we had a Chair I could direct this question to ;)

On Oct 18, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Joaquin Miller wrote:

>> >> It is my recollection that we not only agreed a quarterly  
>> meeting (telephone conference) of the Steward's Council would be a  
>> good thing, I believe we agreed and >>stipulated that a quarterly  
>> meeting of the council was a requirement we placed upon ourselves,  
>> albeit with the proviso that we could meet more often when needed.
>
> That's right.  We did.
>
> And what is written below is (as we used to say) righteous.
>
>> About the terminology of 'requirement, 'rules,' and the like.  It  
>> is my impression that there is a fundamental spirit of both  
>> seriousness and simultaneously non-formal or non-legalistic in the  
>> comments everyone tends to make.  Therefore I would suggest that  
>> the notion of a serious and yet not legally rigid way of thinking  
>> about the concept of a requirement would be something like this:
>>
>> A requirement that we place upon ourselves is something we agree  
>> as a council (and [each] individually as council members) is  
>> important and that we take on as a group obligation [and each as  
>> an individual obligation].  In that case of a "requirement" that  
>> we meet once every three months, at a minimum, I think that it  
>> could take the form of an agreement that remember and keep track  
>> of through your keeping track of the date of the most recent  
>> meeting.  The idea could be as simple as we project a date 90 days  
>> out as the default date for the next meeting, unless there is a  
>> call for a meeting at an earlier date.  Does that make sense?
>
> It does make sense.
>
> And there is no reason we can't schedule the date of the next  
> quarterly meeting three months in advance, even a year in advance.
>
> Cordially, Joaquin
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