rotating meeting chairs

[Shane Fagan]

+1 on this I think it would be great to spread the workload.

--fagan

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:05 -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
> At the meeting today I suggested rotating the chair duties for our 
> fortnightly IRC meetings, like the Tech Board does. General consensus 
> was positive, and we figured we should take it to the list so everyone 
> has a chance to comment.
> 
> Basically at the end of each meeting, we would decide who will chair the 
> next meeting. So far, the duties of the meeting chair are:
> 
> - Updating the agenda page for the next meeting
> - Sending out reminder emails
> - Pinging members at the start of each meeting
> - Cat-herding the meeting: issuing the MootBot commands and keeping 
> discussion moving along
> 
> We'll probably add to that list as we go, figuring out recurring tasks 
> that go with the meetings.
> 
> I haven't thought much about how we pick the chairs. Maybe something 
> simple like rotating through members alphabetically, with accommodations 
> when members can't attend a meeting on their rotation.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Allison
>