<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>I would appreciate public consideration of this motion by each member of SLOB.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 June 2016 at 10:00, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Motion: to consider email votes on motions only valid if they are sent<br>
to both the SLOBs and IAEP mailing lists.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>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,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Should but not must.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">but if the vote is forwarded to both lists after the fact, it should still be valid.</div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-walter<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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