I agree, re: the tone of the resignations. And there's a small part of me that sympathizes with them - a very small part, but still. I imagine that they feel like they've been doing a lot of work, that the membership at large doesn't understand how anything has worked behind the scenes, and that everyone is ungrateful.
... the problem is, they made this bed. We don't understand how things have worked because they've deliberately chosen not to tell us, even when we've asked. These questions have been around for several years. I know one of the outgoing board members on a fannish level - at least, I did, in a couple of previous fandoms. I don't think for a second that she, or any of her fellow board members, were unaware of the displeased rumblings in fandom. I think they just chose to ignore it, or to put off the inevitable reckoning until, in their minds, they had better answers.
As for the new board, I think the best case scenario right now is that they invite the other two(?) candidates who participated in the election to join them - but I also think they need to tell the membership BEFORE they do so, and allow people to voice any objections they might have. (And listen to them, that's an important part of the equation!) I don't think there would be a large number of objections - other than the one outgoing board member, no one I saw had any particular problems with the candidates, and they've already done their homework on what the board is and what they'd like to focus on if they became board members.
But if this whole thing has done one thing, it's made me want to take a bigger role in all of this. I'm not sure I'm ready to volunteer yet, but I intend to pay a lot more attention to the running of the OTW from now on.
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... the problem is, they made this bed. We don't understand how things have worked because they've deliberately chosen not to tell us, even when we've asked. These questions have been around for several years. I know one of the outgoing board members on a fannish level - at least, I did, in a couple of previous fandoms. I don't think for a second that she, or any of her fellow board members, were unaware of the displeased rumblings in fandom. I think they just chose to ignore it, or to put off the inevitable reckoning until, in their minds, they had better answers.
As for the new board, I think the best case scenario right now is that they invite the other two(?) candidates who participated in the election to join them - but I also think they need to tell the membership BEFORE they do so, and allow people to voice any objections they might have. (And listen to them, that's an important part of the equation!) I don't think there would be a large number of objections - other than the one outgoing board member, no one I saw had any particular problems with the candidates, and they've already done their homework on what the board is and what they'd like to focus on if they became board members.
But if this whole thing has done one thing, it's made me want to take a bigger role in all of this. I'm not sure I'm ready to volunteer yet, but I intend to pay a lot more attention to the running of the OTW from now on.