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And then there were nine
Jul. 18th, 2012 12:47The OTW Board has just announced that in 2012 it will amend the bylaws and expand the Board to nine seats instead of seven, and hold an election for the two new seats.
Let me say, as a committee chair and as a veteran of another majority-female volunteer organization (Girl Scouts, USA), that I welcome this change wholeheartedly.
It's been clear to me this year, interacting with my Board liaisons (first Ira Gladkova and then, when Ira was out due to health reasons, Julia Beck), that the Board has a very full plate - too full, really, for seven people, particularly in light of ongoing attendance concerns. The OTW is a large and complicated creation, particularly for an organization that has no physical office space anywhere, and I do believe that adding two people will alleviate both the Board workload and some of the potential bottlenecks that non-attendance - which, to be clear, is as far as I'm concerned certainly valid, expected, and not unreasonable, to a certain extent - can create.
The graphs on the announcement post are not as clear as they could be, at least for me (and I understood the reasoning the post lays out), but graphs aside, I would like to congratulate the Board for making what I believe to be the best decision for the long-term health of the OTW.
Let me say, as a committee chair and as a veteran of another majority-female volunteer organization (Girl Scouts, USA), that I welcome this change wholeheartedly.
It's been clear to me this year, interacting with my Board liaisons (first Ira Gladkova and then, when Ira was out due to health reasons, Julia Beck), that the Board has a very full plate - too full, really, for seven people, particularly in light of ongoing attendance concerns. The OTW is a large and complicated creation, particularly for an organization that has no physical office space anywhere, and I do believe that adding two people will alleviate both the Board workload and some of the potential bottlenecks that non-attendance - which, to be clear, is as far as I'm concerned certainly valid, expected, and not unreasonable, to a certain extent - can create.
The graphs on the announcement post are not as clear as they could be, at least for me (and I understood the reasoning the post lays out), but graphs aside, I would like to congratulate the Board for making what I believe to be the best decision for the long-term health of the OTW.