Hi Joomla friends
I don't wish to be negative but I do need to point out that leadership has done (from what I can see) very little in 2016 so far.
Now before I get to why that matters, let's first remember where we are at:
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Joomla World Conference Pandimonium: everyone on leadership is more or less completely occupied by JWC for endless amounts of time. Totally understand the lack of communication because of this.
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Holidays: November - January is a holiday season. Lots of time away spent with family and loved ones. Totally understandable.
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Taxes & Finances: January brings tax season, we have a budgeting process which is being worked through (the one place I have seen leadership activity)
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There is some activity on PLT
So that's the current state of things from my perspective. Lots of business and distractions from Joomla.
But what of the elephant in the room. You know the one I'm talking about:
The big org restructure.
Are we still doing that? Wasn't it discussed at JWC? Were there meetings? What happened?
Curious minds want to know.
Where are we? It's february in 2016 and there's hardly been a single leadership mailing list post about the fact its a new year, about the fact that basically, the leadership restructure has been stagnant since it was voted on (it at least appears this way, reality or not).
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Its important to note a few things:
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I don't want to attack people who do important work like taking notes or minutes. I don't want to attack people period, but please know that I am specifically not blaming note takers for lacking in their duties. Its a tough job no one else wanted to do, thanks for doing it. its so important for everyone's visibility. Thank you. Thank you.
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I don't want to appear negative, or nagging. I really just wanna know what's going on!
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There has been a lot of distractions - see the 4 points I raised above. I get it!
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I don't know what its like :( I'm not on leadership, I recongize that. I know its tough and I know you probably all hate it. I'm sorry if posts like these contribute to the reasons you do. All I can say is...I'll make a deal with you - post more info on what's going on and I promise I'll not make posts like this asking about it ;)
So, Feb 2nd, 2016. Where are we?
Hi Ronnie
I think you may be misunderstanding my tone in this post -- I was simply trying to relate and symapthize with the many reasons why things have been a little slow lately from the leadership end. Please understand: I"m not blaming, I'm understanding :)
My comments about JWC may be wrong, but they aren't based on conjecture. Sarah Watz actually posts right here:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/joomla-dev-cms/ynZ74AHwa3E/6B8WlfbSBQAJ
That the capital team (leadership!) was meeting at JWC, and that she was busy due to JWC. Also I understand there's a difference between someone being busy because they are attending JWC, and leadership persons being busy because they are concurrently doing leadership tasks and helping to organize JWC - I didn't make any assumptions or suggestions as to which of those two reasons were involved in this issue.
Now, perhaps I am wrong in assuming that there was a larger set of leadership meeting at JWC. I did kind of assume that there would be a sort of summit as there usually is. In fact I would expect, and hope, based on this huge organizational change that has been proposed, voted on, and is supposed to be going forward; that the team members would have met.
All in all, I don't believe I was wrong or that I made anything up, hopefully after reading the reasons why I added JWC in there, you won't think so either.