[foundation-board] Fwd: Continuing on the OKF Board?

Mon Aug 23 17:17:13 UTC 2010

I may well be able to host the occasional Board Meeting at BFI Stephen St
(just off Tottenham Court Rd). I will need to check in with colleagues but
can't see any major obstacles.

p

On 23 August 2010 15:44, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 August 2010 14:35, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> >> Rufus, you took an action to lay out the next year's worth of Board
> >> meetings in the OKF calendar - is this now done? Are the meetings
> >> showing the up-to-date ones?
> >
> > I've just added these now altered calendar to have board meetings on a
> > quarterly basis based on 2nd tuesday of every month (was 3rd tuesday
> > but looking at dec thought this was bad so moved to 2nd Tuesday -- if
> > this is a problem for people please say!)
> >
> > Meeting are currently listed in the general OKFN Public Calendar which
> > is shown, for example, here:
> >
> > http://okfn.org/calendar/
> >
> So, for ease of ref, the dates are:
>
> 14 September 2010
> 14 December 2010
> 8 March 2010
> 14 June 2010
> 13 September 2010
> 13 December 2010
>
> What's the chance of us, as per the hope expressed at the August
> meeting, making these as f2f as possible? Jo, I know that might be a
> struggle for you (assuming we're not all able to travel to Edinburgh,
> that is). Venue-wise, I can of course offer Hinxton, and I imagine we
> might be able to make use of Panton St, too, but can anyone suggest a
> venue we could use in London?
>
> Cheers
>
> Becky
>
>
> > Rufus
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: paula le dieu <paula at ledieu.org>
> >> Date: 16 August 2010 12:10
> >> Subject: Re: Continuing on the OKF Board?
> >> To: Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello :)
> >> I confess I have been following in the background all the fantastic
> >> things that have been going on with OKFN - a fabulous win for you all
> >> and a complete turnaround from the financial and project profile of
> >> last year.
> >> I would be delighted to stay involved. It sounds as if the new
> >> structure could work much better for me as I can formally secure a
> >> quarterly commitment with work. It is now a year at the BFI and I hope
> >> that I will be able to come out of the rabbit hole a bit more ...
> >> although balance has never been one of my strengths I would like to
> >> try and once again engage with the wider world.
> >> Thanks for sticking with me - very grateful for the Board's ongoing
> support.
> >> p
> >> x
> >>
> >>
> >> On 13 August 2010 11:53, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear Paula
> >>>
> >>> It's such a shame you missed the face-to-face Board meeting yesterday
> >>> - I think you would have loved to be there. It's seems strange that
> >>> only last year we were talking about in the abstract what this year's
> >>> come seriously to fruition.
> >>>
> >>> I have been asked to write to you and ask whether you still want to be
> >>> on the Board of Directors. When you joined, you showed us what a great
> >>> contribution you could make to OKF, and everyone on the Board would
> >>> still really value your participation. You warned us when you started
> >>> your new job that it would take you out of action, and so this email
> >>> is partly to ask whether that period is now over, and partly to say,
> >>> even though it feels like it's been a long time, we'd love to have you
> >>> back :)
> >>>
> >>> In terms of how the Board's operating, changes are afoot. We've
> >>> elected to strip back the role of the Board to its formal functions,
> >>> and to move Board meetings to a quarterly framework. We've spotted
> >>> ways to improve internal processes so that Board members are in
> >>> receipt of management accounts and activity reports ahead of meetings.
> >>> A new Project Coordination committee, which Jo Walsh is chairing, has
> >>> been established out of project leads picked from various activities
> >>> around the network, and is emerging as the kind of collaborative
> >>> governance space that I think suits the vision of OKF's founders,
> >>> without compromising the financial and legal health of an organisation
> >>> that now has around £100K in the bank. At this year's f2f meeting, we
> >>> voted to make around £5K available to the coordination committee as an
> >>> experimental funding pot - possibly even as seed money for a
> >>> micro-loan system - to see how they might establish processes for
> >>> distributing OKF's operating surplus to projects less likely to
> >>> receive direct funding.
> >>>
> >>> There should be really exciting times ahead, and we would all really
> >>> welcome your expertise as we see how these changes pan out. What do
> >>> you think? The next meeting is on 21 September, with following
> >>> meetings in December, March 2011 and June 2011.
> >>>
> >>> Much love
> >>>
> >>> Becky
> >>
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