[foundation-board] Board member minimum requirements

Wed Jul 13 17:46:32 UTC 2011

Hey

On the back of my suggestion of Ben Laurie as a new board member at
OKF, I was asked to draft some minimum requirements for Board members
at our last meeting. Here goes:

-Assume collective responsibility for financial and legal probity of
organisation

-Promote the organisation and its goals

-Attendance of quarterly board meetings (We want Board members to
attend all four each year, but appreciate that circumstances might
prevent this. Absent mitigating factors, a minimum expectation would
be 3/4 board meetings, so long as meetings were calendared
sufficiently far in advance)

-Review of materials ahead of Board meetings

-Reading our email list (approx 100 threads/year currently, likely to
decline) and responding where you have specific expertise

-Participating in email list votes from time to time (roughly six of
these per year)

I was tempted to add "attending OKCon", but have resisted the
temptation because, although it was great to have us all f2f there
last month, if we want to recruit more "arms-length" board members, I
don't think we should require this. Also, if we make it a requirement,
OKF might have to pay our travel expenses next time!

Feedback welcome, all best

Becky