Charter tweaks

[nebrius]

This updates the charter to be in line with the latest proposed TSC charter changes, and updates our responsibilities. There are three parts:

1. It allows us to invite observers to meetings and
2. It updates the attendance rules to match the ones signed off on by the TSC, which is dependent on 1.
3. It adds education initiatives to our list of responsibilities

Note: since this is a change to the charter, it will also require sign-off by the board once it's approved by CommComm members before we can merge this PR.

[bnb]

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@nebrius LGTM, thanks for responding to all my comments. 🙏

[nebrius]

Seems like a good idea to line up with the TSC wording. LGTM. (Not sure if only voting members should being doing that so let me know if thats the case)

All code reviews and input are definitely welcome, thanks for taking a look @mhdawson!

[nebrius]

Regarding next steps for this PR:

I read through our existing charter, and according to my reading, we actually don't need to vote on charter changes as a committee. We just need the board to approve the charter change according to whatever mechanism they use for such changes. This would also apply to the TSC as well...interesting.

As such, we only need to approve the changes using normal pull request procedures, meaning achieving lazy consensus here in this PR is the only thing that we need to do.

@williamkapke does this line up with your understanding?

[nebrius]

I'm tagging as cc-agenda so we can discuss next steps on this, specifically if my understanding as described in the comment above (#50 (comment)) is accurate.

[hackygolucky]

@nebrius The next step here is for @ashleygwilliams and @williamkapke to add it to their agenda that Mark will share to the rest of the Board as an item for discussion. This will need to happen ASAP if we want it discussed this month because the meeting is next Tuesday and the drafts are generally shared the week prior but haven't been sent yet.

[nebrius]

@hackygolucky I'm fine with notifying the board now and not waiting for the CommComm meeting. I think we've had a chance to discuss it here, and I'm sure adding a tweak or two after the email is sent out wouldn't be the end of the world.

[williamkapke]

I was unfortunately unable to attend the part of the Board meeting where this was discussed and I see it was not offered to the Board for approval. Instead, it was more of an FYI discussion....? I know that wasn't the desire of the CommComm. :(

It seems there was something about some TSC issues needing to be resolved first? If anyone has context what the dependency chain for these changes- please add to this thread.

[nebrius]

@williamkapke can you do me a favor and make sure this is on the agenda for the next board meeting if it's not already?

[hackygolucky]

@williamkapke @nebrius I have passed this on to Mark Hinkle for the Board deck for June to make sure it's on the agenda! Since we've written it as the two individual member directors representing CommComm in the Board sessions, please coordinate( @ashleygwilliams and @williamkapke ) to make sure one of you is prepared to speak on it.

[nebrius]

@ashleygwilliams @williamkapke would it help to hop on a Google hangout to discuss the details?

[nebrius]

I realize we didn't explicitly state this here, but this charter change was discussed in the 5/22 meeting and was approved by the CommComm members via consensus.

At this point, we are only waiting for the board to approve these changes.

[nebrius]

This was approved by the board, landing!