Re: [alac] Opening our meetings

["Sebastian Ricciardi" <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vittorio,

I think it is a good idea. Most of  Danny Younger´s comments are 
interesting, beyond the way he chooses to express his ideas.
On the same line of thinking, we should reduced our "closed" meetings to 
those organizational or procedural meetings. All meetings and discussions 
regarding subjects of public interest, should be open to everyone.

Regards to all,

Sebastian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ALAC" <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:24 AM
Subject: [alac] Opening our meetings


> All,
>
> I think we should consider the possibility of opening up our meetings to
> observers - i.e. people who would watch but not speak or interrupt the
> meeting.
>
> For the new members - we had to start having closed internal meetings
> after we had problems with a few individuals disrupting our meetings
> (e.g. in Rio 2003). Still, I think that there should be no problem in
> allowing people to observe our internal discussions (except where we
> have specific reasons to keep confidentiality, e.g. on appointments) if
> they accepted to stay silent. (We will also have public meetings to
> discuss with them.)
>
> On the other hand, we would still run the risk of these people not
> abiding by the rule and disallowing us to finalize all the work we need
> to do in a short timeframe.
>
> What do you think?
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