On 23:34 Tue 10 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:20 Sat 07 Feb , Roy Bamford wrote: > > There is no need for the secretary to be a member of the council as > > long as the person in that role takes no part in the councils decision > > making process. > > > > The council could recruit a secretary from outside of themselves, or > > even outside of gentoo. An external recruit would need to become a > > gentoo staff member to be really useful, so they could have commit > > access to coucil web space. > > > > The Foundation has seen all that happen. > > This option works for me. In fact it's probably better that a person is > relatively less involved, since they'd hopefully be able to write a bit > more objectively. Also council members aren't distracted during the > meeting with taking notes. I've invited tanderson to come to today's meeting. I would like to cover this topic first so that we can figure out who's taking notes for the remainder of the meeting. At least initially, I would like to require a council review period (let's say 1 day after it's sent) before summaries go out. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com