2011/10/7 Dominic McDevitt-Parks <mcdevitd(a)gmail.com>
On 10/7/11 5:41 PM, aude wrote:
On Oct 7, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks <mcdevitd(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 7 October 2011 07:47, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)wikidc.org>wrote;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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