On 5/14/2014 7:08 PM, Evan Pettrey wrote:
There's one other that I forgot to add that needs to be mentioned:
* *Be Flexible - *I can't tell you how many great ideas I've seen
killed by our rigorous adherence to bylaws that none of us created
and procedure written by somebody none of us has ever met. Bylaws
and procedure can be great and exist for a reason but we need to
realize that often times we're sucking the soul out of projects that
have a promising future simply because the idea wasn't presented
correctly, the bylaws don't explicitly state something is allowable,
etc.
We need to go back to operating like a startup. We're simply not a
large enough organization to be held back by things like this.
That our strongest contributions to the membership seem to be our
mailing lists and IRC tells me on thing for sure - currently the
best thing about LOPSA is our *community. *We need to find more ways
to give back to them.
There's one thing that I can advise the new board to do that past boards
(not all) have failed at to various extents. Designate somebody to reply
to email to [email protected]. Do it at the next meeting.
This is important. Too many emails to board@ in the past have never
been even acknowledged. (I know this because some have been mine. Some
have been from other people that I know). It doesn't even have to be the
same person. It could rotate monthly or whatever. That person doesn't
even have to be authoritative but they should be empowered to at least
acknowledge the email and then own finding the right person to follow
up. If they cannot follow-up themselves, they should be the crusader to
get the proper follow-up even if the answer turns out to be a no.
mantra: board != /dev/null
(While this has nothing to do with virtual chapters, which I do see some
value for outside the US, it does follow in line with the current thread
divergence)
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