[foundation-board] Guidelines for redacting the Board minutes

[Rufus Pollock]

On 9 March 2011 17:12, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
>>>  * Redact discussion points where they appear in the full minutes as
>>> they rarely reflect the totality of discussion - record only that a
>>> discussion took place, and the subject of that discussion.
>
> I find this one a bit prescriptive / conservative. This process is in
> the interests of transparency; we could have lengthy conversations on
> whatever issue not connected to an action or resolution and it would
> be in the interest of the wider community to know the board's
> thoughts.
>
> Perhaps explicitly cover removing matters that have a sensitive
> commercial element - however better to express it - such as the long
> debt from COI.

I guess the issue is that we sometimes speak frankly
(positively/negatively) about people / institutions and by default we
may not want these opinions going into the minutes. Then again i
understand your point about transparency.

Rufus

> Otherwise it looks great.
> Sorry to have missed this the first time around.
>
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