[Linux-aus] Council Meeting 2011-02-17

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 00:36, Silvia Pfeiffer <silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Committees in the past have likely made many more monetary
>> decisions without consulting the membership. But I, too, agree that
>> there should be some process/policy for such things.
>
> I'm not sure a formal process/policy is necessarily a good idea -- if we'd
> had one of those and stuck to it, the $10k lca donations probably wouldn't
> have happened, for instance. On the other hand, if a policy like "If at all
> possible, talk to the community first -- by mailing list, blog, public
> spectacle, whatever" counts, that might work.

I agree, I think this could work really well.

Cheers,
Silvia.