[okfn-coord] Communia Network Agreement + first bank transfer?

Fri May 1 14:58:21 UTC 2009

I would also like it if these things were clearer - as long as it
doesn't slow things down too much. I wonder whether it would be useful
to have a 'tag' in the subject line (e.g. BOARDDECISION) when there
was an important decision that required everyone to support - and
these decisions could be logged somewhere? (As an aside, the
oneclickorgs project is looking at precisely these kinds of issues!)

When I get a chance to read over the COMMUNIA documents (later next
week?) I'll look over what being a legal representative of OKF will
entail in this instance - and report back!

Have a good weekend!

J.

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been leaving this thread for a while because I wanted to read it
> back properly and gather my thoughts before responding.
>
> 2009/4/29 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
>
>> OK.  So for future for these kind of (fairly minor) things is the
>> following acceptable?
>>
>> "I propose X and unless anyone says otherwise within a week this will
>> be deemed to have been approved"
>
> I think that for the day-to-day activities of the organisation, this
> is a good working practice. It ensures that those who are
> participating regularly get to steer the direction of the
> organisation, and those who want more of a hand in the steering of the
> organisation can get it by participating. It's effcient and it
> encourages participation. ++good.
>
> However, I think there are a limited number of actions which require a
> different process. These have to do with the financial and legal
> probity of OKF as a company, and appointing someone as able to
> represent OKF in the matter of signing a contract is one of them. The
> Board has taken collective legal responsibility for these aspects of
> OKF, which means that a "nobody said it wasn't a good idea 7 days
> after I suggested it" method of decision making is just not going to
> cut it. Not having seen a copy of our Mems and Arts I don't know what
> that more formal decision-making process is, but I imagine it's
> something like "a majority of the Board positively say yes".
>
> Since Rufus, Jordan and me have all said they don't have a problem
> with Jonathan taking on this responsibility, then we should be able to
> proceed (we have five Board members now, right?) with Jonathan signing
> the COMMUNIA contract.
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone jumped in here (Jordan?), with a
> suggestion of how we can move forward. Are we in the unenviable
> position where all major financial and contractual decisions need to
> be put forward by the Board, or do we have an Executive Director
> enabled by contract to do this? If not, should we have one?
>
> I'm putting myself forward with two days of time to come up with
> whatever processes OKF need to make these sorts of decisions (and
> other organisational nuts and bolts)  smooth and swift. My experience
> from ORG indicates that we'll apprciate this work later. Can we table
> an item for the Board meeting on the 16th to come up with what needs
> doing on that front?
>
> Cheers, and have a good weekend everyone
>
> Becky
>
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