Archive:2005-12-18 board meeting

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?
 * Needed documents
 * Mission statement
 * Values?
 * Legislative principles?
 * 2006-2007 Policy Paper
 * others? How much can we accomplish during our term?
 * 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