September 20, 2003
The Practice of Transparency

Much of what follows will be obscure unless you have been trying to follow the inner workings of OSAF as it assumes you know a lot about who the players are, what they've been doing, and so on. So, as an experiment, I will judge by the comments to this post whether it is worthwhile to supply more of that context or not.

From a posting to osaf-announce by Mitchell Baker:

OSAF has two regularly scheduled meetings a week. One is the development meeting, sometimes also called the "all hands" meeting. The other is the Management Committee meeting, which consists of Mitch Kapor, Chao Lam, Michael Toy and me. These meetings are pretty regular events now and have reached the point where the substance might be of interest to those following the project.

So I'll be posting the Meeting Notes for these two meetings on our wiki. Please keep in mind that the notes may not be polished, and may have holes or even incomplete thoughts. You might even think of this as a reflection of our state of being, though errors in the notes will undoubtedly occur. I've opted for imperfection rather than circulating the notes for comment, as this takes more time.
The notes from the past week's Management Committee meeting can be found here.

The notes from the past week's Development meeting can be found here.

You can get to these notes from the link on the front wiki page titled "Status Reports, OSAF Development Meeting Notes and OSAF Management Committee Meeting Notes. "

[We are working on transitioning to RSS feeds and away from mailing lists as a principal means of communication. My post here is an ad hoc step in this process. -- MK]

Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at September 20, 2003 09:12 AM
Comments

Mitch,
According to my information all the great Renaissance artists and scientists had an open door policy. In other words the interested public could follow both - the progress of the work and most of the attendant circumstances. Given the quality of what they achieved I guess your way to proceed is very promising indeed.

Posted by: DaniGro at September 29, 2003 07:47 AM