[foundation-board] Face to face Board meeting this Thursday

[Ian Brown]

On 9 Aug 2010, at 09:11, Becky Hogge wrote:

> Is everybody still on for the face-to-face Board meeting this
> Thursday? Please can you RSVP, as I've had pretty much radio silence
> since we landed on the 12th as a date last week.

Yes. Could you give us directions to Hogge Palace? :)

> If all is still going to plan, I think it's time we started building
> an agenda. I also suggest that we try and roll in agenda items for our
> regular 17 August board meeting into this meeting so we can all take
> that Tuesday evening off. Let me know if you're in favour.

Yes. (I will be away 14 Aug - 19 Sep).

> It's been suggested that the meeting start at 11am.
> 
> I've started a draft Agenda here:
> http://okfn.org/board/wiki/BoardMeetings/2010-08-12
> 
> Rufus plans to bring a set of working management accounts to the
> meeting. My feeling is that we should set aside at least an hour to go
> over these, and I'd certainly benefit from either seeing them in
> advance or some sort of presentation from Rufus/Martin on the day (or
> preferably, both).

Yes.

> I think it would also be good to go through OKF's commitments for
> 2010-2011 and make sure the organisation has the resources it needs to
> meet them.

This is critical.

> Finally, I'd like to have a discussion about governance. I'm acutely
> aware that although the Board takes ultimate responsibility for the
> financial and legal health of the organisation, it's very unclear to
> whom we delegate that responsibility in the day-to-day and, therefore,
> from whom we seek reports and, ultimately, accountability at our
> quarterly board meetings.

So is this.

Cheers,
Ian.