[foundation-board] Board member minimum requirements

Mon Jul 18 08:49:38 UTC 2011

Hi all

Paula has called this policy "spot on" on a separate thread. Anyone
else want to pitch in before I put it in front of Ben? Jordan? Martin?
James?

Cheers

Becky

On 13 July 2011 19:29, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Think this looks great Becky and don't have anything specifically to
> add - like you I think attendance at OKCon would be great but probably
> can't be mandatory.
>
> rufus
>
> On 13 July 2011 18:46, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> foundation-board mailing list
>> foundation-board at lists.okfn.org
>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Co-Founder, Open Knowledge Foundation
> Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
> http://www.okfn.org/ - http://blog.okfn.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-board mailing list
> foundation-board at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board
>