[IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion: to consider email votes on motions only valid if they are sent to both the SLOBs and IAEP mailing lists.

Tony Anderson tony_anderson at usa.net
Tue Jun 21 12:02:06 EDT 2016


Hi, Adam

I don't think this is relevant to this motion. Clearly, if such a 
negotiation were to happen, the Board could move to consider the
matter in 'executive session'. In the meantime, there is no reason not 
to make votes public (and the discussion of them in the meetings
which is already public.)

Tony

On 06/21/2016 05:41 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Walter Bender 
> <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com
>     <mailto:dave at lab6.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi
>
>         I would appreciate public consideration of this motion by each
>         member of SLOB.
>
>         On 7 June 2016 at 10:00, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com
>         <mailto:dave at lab6.com>> wrote:
>
>             Motion: to consider email votes on motions only valid if
>             they are sent
>             to both the SLOBs and IAEP mailing lists.
>
>
>
>
>         -- 
>         Cheers
>         Dave
>
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>
>     It is my belief (hope) that the only time a vote is only sent to
>     one list rather than both is when there is an oversight by the
>     sender. Vote should be public,
>
>
> Should but not must.
>
> There can be (have been, and might be in future be) times when Sugar 
> Labs needs in-the-interim-confidential negotiations with 
> billion-dollar sponsor/ally governments and orgs or all kinds.
>
> Naturally merger/acquisition or multimillion-dollar sponsorship 
> situations affect almost everyone, who cannot all be at the 
> negotiating table, nor can all Board members cannot possibly always agree.
>
> Hence it's generally a legal/fiduciary responsibility of the Executive 
> Director (or similar) to consult privately with the Board in these 
> kinds of high-stakes situations -- keeping as many as possible 
> apprised of deliberations -- while preserving interim confidentiality 
> wherever and whenever necessary to protect the full/strategic 
> interests of 501(c)3 Sugar Labs.
>
>     but if the vote is forwarded to both lists after the fact, it
>     should still be valid.
>
>     -walter
>
>     -- 
>     Walter Bender
>     Sugar Labs
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