Where are we?

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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:

1. 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.

2. Holidays: November - January is a holiday season. Lots of time away spent with family and loved ones. Totally understandable.

3. Taxes & Finances: January brings tax season, we have a budgeting process which is being worked through (the one place I have seen leadership activity)

4. 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:

1. 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.

2. I don't want to appear negative, or nagging. I really just wanna know what's going on!

3. There has been a lot of distractions - see the 4 points I raised above. I get it!

4. 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?

Yes there was no leadership summit at JWC - it was decided to not have it in the hopes of the transition team being sofar it would not make sense to spent money on sending all of leadership to JWC for a leadership summit.

Both OSM and CLT has decided to not relect new people in the anticipation of the elections for the new leadership structure, which sadly seems to take a longer time than planned, and also have some challenges with people who have resigned from the transition team.

Leadership are currently debating how it can help the transition team to finish the proces so we can move forward.

Chad you can be sure everything is good as it always is be, just in case if you are wondering, I am sober

Thanks Ronni for that insight. Is there any estimate on when we will see some decisions made? I really does feel like leadership has been completely halted since september almost. No notes, no meeting minutes, etc... the silence is deafening.

For teams and WGs, I noticed 13 reports here since Jan 1: https://volunteers.joomla.org/reports

Hi Vic - thanks for joining the conversation and sharing updates from some of your areas of responsibility.

Thanks also for sharing the link highlighting that some of the grass-roots level working groups are indeed making an effort to honor the project's frequently mentioned principles of openness and transparency.

Along the same lines that Chad asked above, how do you think OSM itself is doing in terms of honoring those same principles of openness and transparency? I'm thinking of things like the timeliness of publishing OSM board meeting minutes, timeliness of publishing OSM Year to Date Budget vs Actual reports, and the frequency of use of the OSM public email list for non-confidential subjects.

Thanks again for joining the conversation - having an authentic dialog is certainly a step for rebuilding trust. :-)