On 10/7/11 5:41 PM, aude wrote:
On Oct 7, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks <mcdevitd(a)gmail.com
<mailto:mcdevitd@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 7 October 2011 07:47, Kirill Lokshin
<kirill.lokshin(a)wikidc.org
<mailto:kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org>> wrote:
Hello everyone,
The next meeting of the Board of Directors will take place
on October 9, 2011, at 2:00 PM, at the Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library located at 901 G Street NW. The meeting can be
attended by conference call (916-209-4534 <tel:%28916-209-4534>,
PIN # 7328117).
The order of business for the meeting is attached, and comments
are very welcome.
As always, everyone is invited to attend the meeting, either in
person or via the call-in number.
Cheers,
Kirill
I'm confused. Have you decided to reschedule the meeting the meeting
that was going to be tomorrow before the NARA event?
My fault for not communicating this to you. :(
Yes, we've needed to reschedule due to schedule conflict of a board
member.
I wouldn't blame anyone individually, since clearly all the board
members had to know it was rescheduled when they confirmed their
availability. This is aggravating to me personally, because arranging to
host the event, while I was happy to do it, involved reserving a space,
arranging for staff to come in a little bit earlier to be there, and
using our fund to purchase a little extra breakfast food for the early
arrivals. Finding out the evening before, and only because I happened to
check in on this mailing list is not really enough notice to call all
that off. I can live with that, though.
I find it odd that the board bills these as open to the public, and then
reschedules it for the day *after* a major event, as if we're all able
and willing to spend both days of our weekend at Wikipedia events with
little notice. And back when the board had 7 members, I went to a
meeting in which only 4 attended; now it only has 6, and 4 of them have
already RSVPed for NARA tomorrow, along with more than a dozen other
local Wikimedians. So I guess I am still a little mystified by this move.
Dominic