2005-12-18 board meeting

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Board of directors meeting on 2005-12-18.

Agenda

• 5th member - Fred?
• Choose a chair?
• Tie-breaking mechanism?
• Schedule future meetings (at least until board meeting at Harvard)
  • Set agenda for meetings through Harvard: What do we want to get accomplished?
    1. Needed documents
       • Mission statement
       • Values?
       • Legislative principles?
       • 2006-2007 Policy Paper
       • others? How much can we accomplish during our term?
    2. Other questions to resolve
       • International governance structure
       • Funding and 501(c)(3) status
• We should publically announce the new board on the blog
  • We should have short bios of each board member
  • Should we have freeculture.org email forwarders for each board member? Nelson, Gavin, and Elizabeth currently have these. Is our naming system (firstname@freeculture.org) sustainable?

Minutes

Chatlog is also available on the discussion page.

Attendance: Nelson, Gavin, Fred, Karen, and Elizabeth

• Fred, the 5th Member
  • The "problem"
    • Setting 'bad' precedent for adding members of the board after the application deadline
    • The time commitment may not be possible for Fred to make
    • Fred can't make the physical meeting at Harvard
  • The solution
    • Fred will be invited to come to all the chat or phone meetings of the board as a visitor through the month of January
    • If Fred can make it to the majority of those meetings, he will be added as a member of the board and therefore have voting status

Next Meeting

• Friday, during the day, as an online chat