On 10/7/11 5:41 PM, aude wrote:

On Oct 7, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks <mcdevitd@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7 October 2011 07:47, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

The next meeting of the Board of Directors will take place on October 9, 2011, at 2:00 PM, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library located at 901 G Street NW. The meeting can be attended by conference call (916-209-4534, PIN # 7328117).

The order of business for the meeting is attached, and comments are very welcome.

As always, everyone is invited to attend the meeting, either in person or via the call-in number.

Cheers,

Kirill

I'm confused. Have you decided to reschedule the meeting the meeting that was going to be tomorrow before the NARA event?

My fault for not communicating this to you. :(

Yes, we've needed to reschedule due to schedule conflict of a board member.

I wouldn't blame anyone individually, since clearly all the board members had to know it was rescheduled when they confirmed their availability. This is aggravating to me personally, because arranging to host the event, while I was happy to do it, involved reserving a space, arranging for staff to come in a little bit earlier to be there, and using our fund to purchase a little extra breakfast food for the early arrivals. Finding out the evening before, and only because I happened to check in on this mailing list is not really enough notice to call all that off. I can live with that, though.

I find it odd that the board bills these as open to the public, and then reschedules it for the day *after* a major event, as if we're all able and willing to spend both days of our weekend at Wikipedia events with little notice. And back when the board had 7 members, I went to a meeting in which only 4 attended; now it only has 6, and 4 of them have already RSVPed for NARA tomorrow, along with more than a dozen other local Wikimedians. So I guess I am still a little mystified by this move.

Dominic