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Improve governance decision-making practicalities

I think decision making for constitution and collective agreements is a bit hard, as requires people to think about it intermittently for a long time.

The usual process right now seems to be:

  1. we discover in casual talk that something should be changed and dream about possible changes
  2. after some weeks or months, we come across this topic again and think we should finally implement these changes
  3. someone makes a draft of the changes needed, pushes it as branch and announces it in the kanthaus-governance Slack channel
  4. they ask for comments, set up a new decision on ukuvota and announce the proposal and voting periods
  5. they announce shortly before the proposal period is over
  6. they announce shortly before the voting period is over
  7. repeat from step 3 for the second decision making round

I have the feeling that steps 4, 5, 6 are quite easy to miss out, because the decision goes out of sight. I would be interested to improve this, so that we can keep our governance documents more in sync with what we have in mind.

Some more concrete points:

  • have more reminders for Slack
  • set up in-person meetings when proposal period starts, to get people more in touch with the proposal
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