Seven weeks so far…

[maia_bob]

454 emails this week of which 303 are labeled OTW - !General and 134 are labeled OTW – Board. The proportion of emails to IM chats is moving towards more chats. My calendar says ~15 hour week. I didn’t make it to a single official committee meeting which kind of blows my mind because it feels like this whole week has been All-OTW, all the time. *reads transcripts*

One of things I couldn’t talk about last week (Six weeks so far…) and the week before (Five weeks so far…) was Meta and you're lucky I only joined the board recently or I would have been not talking about it for over six months. if you're interested, my personal decision making process went a lot like this:

I would like to emphasise that this is a Board decision, and while AD&T, Support and Comms are receiving the feedback, they are not the instigators. Keep communicating, this is important. Be kind, this is important too.

I am also open to continuing discussing it, this is an invitation to comment or PM me if you want to talk about it with me.

ETA: Also! HUGE thank you to J. who got up when I called him at 1:35am his time because the AO3 was down for logged out users. THANK YOU!

Comments

[tiyire]

I am selfishly extremely glad that Wiki doesn´t have to care about the meta-on-ao3 discussion at all. Whew. I only looked at it from a safe distance, but it seemed like such a messy discussion. It looks to me like principles (our mission includes meta, meta is cool, let´s have meta) vs. practicalities (what does that mean for the committees involved, how do we define it, can the archive handle it, can we handle it), and while I´m fine with principles winning, I wish there were some better answers for the practicality concerns.
A discussion about what the role of the Board is would fall directly into this and of course make it much more difficult.

[maia_bob]

Your time will come!

Ahem. I sincerely hope not, and yes, we're a messy bunch it seems. I think we'll improve rapidly though, this is a hangover issue with a lot of history riding on it.

*hopes*