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Apologies for the lack of backstory links, I'm typing this from a phone. I think that's the only comment I've made in what I'm linking other than maybe something about php and ruby.

Otw (organization for transformative works) elections are happening right now, and boy is it wanky.

It was going to be unfunny, as you might imagine when three of the six candidates mention volunteer burn out ( http://facetofcathy.dreamwidth.org/229943.html ) in their candidate statements and one candidate Naomi Novik, founding member says she hasn't noticed.

Well if she hasn't noticed it can't be true right?

http://renay.dreamwidth.org/236955.html

Oh. Oh dear.

Add in that Sanders the candidate of colour has kept her main fandom journal for elections, and has a similar platform to the others, is told that she is too angry and has her friends getting anon comments telling them to tell her to watch her tone.

Then shit blows up when they fuck up the skins for "accessibility" when the new default is grey on grey and lots of red.

http://branchandroot.dreamwidth.org/1255716.html#comments

Apparently this was rushed to get the archive ready for Yuletide. Only Yuletide isn't a otw project.

http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/22095.html?thread=99563087#t99563087

But what really has me gobsmacked is this,
from: copracat
Let me make sure I have this correctly:

The chair of the board has been told by someone/s to stop working on a strategic plan for the organisation because she doesn't have the authority to do so.

I'm going to make a cup of tea now.

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general-jinjur (the chair in question)

more accurately, i was told that i was dishonest, conspiratorial, and secretive because:

- i asked for volunteers to help gather info and work on preliminaries in an org-wide meeting (org-wide meetings are attended by a large group of volunteers and staff, including at least one representative from every committee)
- discussed how a strategic plan was on the horizon in at least two other org-wide meetings
- hired a staffer (one who, like all our staff, was unanimously board-approved) specifically to work on stakeholder surveys (beginning of 2011 term) as part of preliminary work (staffer wound up with international outreach, as they were best to start that piece).

by doing the above, i secretly formed a cabal without ever giving anyone a chance to participate. also, i failed to do all the work (research and write-up of a proposal for the plan for the process) myself rather than involving anyone or doing any delegation.

just to clarify. (perspectives vary, of course. this is my perspective on events. i officially don't care to argue its accuracy anymore; i have just enough energy and time left to tie up loose ends and write up documentation of the stuff i did manage to accomplish (in 2010. i'm a little behind on docs).)

http://copracat.dreamwidth.org/596794.html?thread=2267962#cmt2267962

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	khym_chanur 2011-11-13 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	as you might imagine when three of the six candidates mention volunteer burn out Why don't they have enough volunteers to spread out the work thinly enough? Not enough people interested in volunteering? The standard for who can volunteer are too high/strict? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	notjo 2011-11-13 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	My understanding from reading a lot of comments and posts about this in various places is that it's like filling a leaky bucket. lim wrote about 14 hour days of coding for months, others have written about tag-wrangling becoming a full-time job with little assistance, and apparently there are huge communication issues. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

adevyish
2011-11-13 11:03 pm UTC (link)

I need comfort food just reading lim's post. I do web design, and I can tell you my #1 rule is: if less than 5% of the user base uses it, I am not. freaking. supporting. it. It can take me up to a week to fix something on IE6, never mind 70 different freaking devices. Forget anything that's not Android or iOS, forget anything running less than IE8, etc etc etc. Platform/device support is web designer hell.

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	ekaterinv 2011-11-13 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	It looks like they found someone who would devote herself utterly to coding for them, let her work herself to the bone with no help, then threw her to the wolves. For their fanfic archive. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fools_game 2011-11-13 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know lims from a pile of bricks, but the tone of desperate apology in her post is making me want to wrap her up in blankets, feed her soup, and then go punch something hard. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)