Board Minutes July 2017

Started at 2pm mountain with a minute of silence

In attendance: Kevin O'Brien, Linda Stevens, Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Karen Davis

Tricia facilitated the meeting. Harold took notes.

Suzanne's Emeritus Gift

Suzanne was president of the OSI for a long time. A wonderful force. Provide some kind of gift. We decided to get creative and we've employed a Graphic Recorder, April Doner. Create video. With our own Open Space inspired version of We Are the World. Just before our call, Harold put together a google doc. We spent an hour on an homage wording for a previous board member. A final wording was agreed upon. We'll ask the artist.

New Board Members

Have people attend for three meetings before we invite them on. All agreed on this as the new policy for inviting new board member. Mark Sheffield. Tricia met him at Agile Coach Camp 2015 at D.C. Mark is interested in Open Space in the U.S. and around the world and to be able to provide input over time.

We have consistently sent invitations to say new board members are welcome. We don't need to reinvent the invitation process. There are many discussions online about the board and it's function, as well as some background about our mission and the invitation is on our website.