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Further news about the Organization for Transformative Works Board. (The OTW is, among other things, the parent organization for AO3.) You may recall that the two new Board members we just elected were taking office December 1, and the rest of the Board was resigning December 15? Today is December 19! And we have had an announcement of what they are going to do to fill the empty slots.
They're going to appoint the three candidates from the last election with the most votes to fill all the slots but one, and then fill three slots instead of two in next year's election. This is about what I predicted they'd do--we just had an election, it wasn't like they were going to get a whole new crop of people volunteering to run who hadn't run in the last election, and anyway, most of the candidates had pretty good resumes and experience.
So for those of you who might have been tempted to run around thinking the sky was falling, the board is continuing to chug along and is actually in a pretty good spot right now to clean up the messes left by the previous board and all their predecessors. Nothing has changed for the archive, except it now has a good chance of getting a board that's actually helpful.
They're going to appoint the three candidates from the last election with the most votes to fill all the slots but one, and then fill three slots instead of two in next year's election. This is about what I predicted they'd do--we just had an election, it wasn't like they were going to get a whole new crop of people volunteering to run who hadn't run in the last election, and anyway, most of the candidates had pretty good resumes and experience.
So for those of you who might have been tempted to run around thinking the sky was falling, the board is continuing to chug along and is actually in a pretty good spot right now to clean up the messes left by the previous board and all their predecessors. Nothing has changed for the archive, except it now has a good chance of getting a board that's actually helpful.
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Date: 2016-01-02 02:35 pm (UTC)From:I read the post you linked to as saying they'll hold elections for two seats next year to bring the Board up to 7 (since they're currently at 5 with the 2 elected and 3 just appointed). Yeah, I felt like the next move was virtually guaranteed once the 2015 Board quit en masse. Only good move under the circumstances.
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Date: 2016-01-04 09:29 pm (UTC)From:It's good to keep an eye on it, though.