Project:Council/HowToChair

This page contains advice how to best chair a council session. It should be treated as informal advice, not official policy.

Before the meeting

 * Two weeks before the meeting, send out as a new thread a call for agenda topics to the gentoo-project mailing list.
 * One week before the meeting, write together an agenda for the meeting and send it as a new thread to the gentoo-project mailing list.
 * Set the topic of #gentoo-council to contain a link to the meeting agenda (e.g., on the gmane archive of gentoo-project).

Typical agenda format

 * Roll call
 * Topic A
 * Topic B
 * Topic C
 * Bugs with council involvement
 * Open floor
 * Open floor