[NA-Discuss] Letter to the Board

[Wendy Seltzer]

The Board is aware of the frustration with limited public forum time,
but reinforcement is helpful; so are suggestions of how to organize
better.  Since it's been suggested that the SO and AC chairs wanted the
meeting that took up most of Thursday morning, if we don't like the way
it worked, ALAC should also tell Cheryl we prefer something more
interactive.

John L wrote:
>> Not a single reply or comment in days?
> 
> Well, I wasn't there, but at all the meetings I attended, they always
> wasted vast amounts of time reading reports that cut into the open mike
> time.  That's a longstanding problem, as is the hostility of the board
> to meaningful public comment at meetings.

It's been said that pressure for this format came from "the community."
 So "community" arguments against it should be put into the record.  The
 Board says it wants to hear public comment, so let's push them to make
real room for it in the schedule for Mexico City and beyond.

> 
>>> Danny, to me it felt like there was a significant chunk of the ALAC
>>> calendar in Cairo that didn't allow for meaningful participation by
>>> those of us who were _there_, and I don't just mean the open forum.
> 
> Sigh.  That's not a new problem either.  When I was on the ALAC, we
> spent way too much time on process stuff and not enough on substance.

Plus ca change...

--Wendy

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