<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, 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-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Fortunately, SLOBs votes are done via email, at any time, and the monthly SLOBs meetings are there to unjam any backlogs.</blockquote></div><br><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Nice idea. I could start by numbering the motions listed in [1].</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Done.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>-walter <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Sean<br><br></div></font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br>[1] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions</a><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><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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