[OpenID] Several Questions for the Current & Future Board

[Johannes Ernst]

I think it is time to retire this thread. All the points and  
counterpoints have been made and we are down to I Am Right No I Am  
Right it seems.

The new board will have to take a hard look at what it wants to see  
happen and how and when and by whom. Preferably, their discussion and  
hopefully agreement will captured and published to the membership with  
the invitation to provide feedback, and then the board will follow its  
own agreement.



On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:18, Dick Hardt wrote:

> On 18-Dec-08, at 9:00 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>
>> Well, as a current board member I disagree. Nobody can figure out  
>> whether "there is an issue" unless financials are transparent to at  
>> least all members of the board.
>
> The task of checking if there is an issue was delegated to myself as  
> Treasurer and the finance committee which was myself, Scott and Bill.
>
>>
>>
>> BTW, I'm not arguing at all that we need to waste any time talking  
>> about financials. If they are distributed in generally accepted  
>> formats (BS, P&L, cash flow, perhaps in this case membership  
>> pipeline) a day or two before each board meeting, AND there is no  
>> issue, nobody ever spends any time talking about them at all.
>
> No, it usually does not work that way. Someone usually has a  
> question because they did not understand something in the  
> financials, or forgot about something. This is a a good exercise in  
> a small company where things are much more dynamic and a much  
> smaller board. Having all board members involved in the details of  
> all committees is an inefficent use of resources, and slows progress  
> down substaintially as there are more board members. Given the size  
> of the board, the overhead is high in my opinion.
>

Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.

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