10 April 2009
1. DECISION LOG: We will have a formal process for making and documenting decisions.
2. DECISION LOG: we will use consensus as our decision-making method.
3. DECISION LOG: we will establish a twice a month schedule for regular meetings and schedule additional meetings as needed for working on specific goals.

13 June 2009
4. Process Decisions:
a. thumbs up visual quick vote
b. “Wordsmithing” is a shorthand request to stop the current discussion because it’s wordsmithing rather than the conceptual work at hand.
c. “Focus” is a shorthand request to stop a tangential discussion and return to the agenda item.
d. “Parking Lot” is a place to put ideas that have come up during discussion that are not part of the current agenda item, but are important to return to for further consideration at another time.
e. “Got it” means I understand what you’re saying so you don’t need to restate the idea in different words, but instead you can move on to the larger point.

19 Aug 2009
5. List of Agreements: In preparing for writing our Vision Documents, we have collected the ideas we agree on for the writing of the initial 3 documents needed before we can invite others to join: Vision, Mission, and Membership Process. This Word document “Agreements for Initial 3 Docs” is stored _________________________

29 August 2009
6. DECISION LOG: We will use Microsoft Word and its document changes tracking feature to monitor who makes what changes to our founding documents going forward.

2 January 2010
7. We will use the word “Shephard” to refer to the person accepting responsibility to initiate and guide the work of a committee.