2011/10/7 Dominic McDevitt-Parks
<mcdevitd@gmail.com>
On 10/7/11 5:41 PM, aude wrote:
On 7 October 2011 07:47, Kirill Lokshin
<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, 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.
Very sorry about that!!!
I'm willing to come in early. We could do an open discussion or something with whoever is there? It's kind of last minute but I'm open to whatever.
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.
It's tricky trying to accommodate everyone, but Nicholas has a class tomorrow morning and can't even phone in.
We do welcome and encourage chapter members to attend board meetings.
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.
We'll try our best to plan better going forward.
Cheers,
Katie
Dominic
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