OTW Board Absences

[branchandroot]

From the public minutes, from November’s election up to the June 2 meeting:

Out of 20 meetings, board members were absent for:

10 Francesca Coppa (50% absentee)

8 Naomi Novik (40% absentee)

7 Ira Gladkova (35% absentee)

4 Julia Beck (20% absentee)

4 Jenny Scott-Thompson (20% absentee)

1 Nikisha Sanders (5% absentee)

1 Kristen Murphy (5% absentee)


Your votes at work, ladies and gentlemen. Or, in some cases, not.

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

You win the deadpan snark award.

[branchandroot]

*victory sign*

[mitsuhachi]

I feel like every time I hear something new about these guys my response is just a solid minute of "...seriously?"

[branchandroot]

Yeah, the top of the list is pretty egregious.

[niqaeli]

Man, where is my reblog button. I would reblog this in a heartbeat. This basically says everything.

Well, that and this. No shit, that entry hit my droll, I was like.... hoooooooly shiiiiiiit. I refrained from saying that in a comment to the entry, but I thought about it.

The organisation seems to be so fundamentally broken. It's not even just bad people (although there's definitely bad leadership at work) but just... a profoundly badly put together organisational structure.

[branchandroot]

*wry* I actually /did/ put it on Tumblr, too, (branchandroot there also) and dumped it into the "organization for transformative works" tag stream.

And, yeah, when even the people involved /don't know/ how many committees there are, or what they're for, and the freaking Secretary and President don't feel empowered to do an audit... then there's a serious problem.

[sophinisba]

Just a note (in case others are searching) that your tumblr seems to be branch-and-root and here's the link to the OTW Board Absences post there. branchandroot doesn't have any visible posts.

Thanks a lot for making these posts!

[branchandroot]

Oh goodness, I'd completely forgotten I'd had to put dashes in! Thank you!

[ranalore]

...Well, that would certainly help explain why there has been NO movement whatsoever on the one damn thing I have been asking about for the past three years. At the wrangler level, we're informed that pretty much every change that would help us out is something that needs to be discussed and approved at the higher levels of the organization, and then we're essentially told to stop talking about said change until we're told what was decided. But it doesn't look like things are getting decided. That's...really frustrating.

[branchandroot]

The minutes certainly suggest that, yeah. It's got to be /really easy/ to stall an issue they don't want to deal with, or even just ignore the existence of things needing to be addressed.

[seagull2eagle]

Which begs the question of *why* they even wanted to run. Geez...

[branchandroot]

*dryly* Indeed, one does have to wonder exactly what those seats mean to them.

[seagull2eagle]

And yet, at the same time, there's a small pile of fanfic being produced this year...
http://astolat.livejournal.com/tag/fanfic

[branchandroot]

And it's not like I begrudge anyone their therapy-fic, but you'd think that the obligations she signed up and campaigned for herself would fit in there /somewhere/. Evidently not.

[seagull2eagle]

No, I quite love the fic myself, but fic takes *time* to write (looks at my own pile of unfinished work), and she's got a small pile of other things to do as well. Being a board member should really take precedent. 40-50% absent? Really? That's pathetic.

I want to like AO3, I really do... I like it in theory, I mostly like it in practice, I very much enjoy having it there, and they do good rescue work. But man, they're screwed up on the organization side. Don't vote on a name, vote on actual deeds!