Meetings
We had the first Steering Committee meeting yesterday for Swancon. It means for this year, I sit on 2 committees as well as the WASFF board as we have a transitional year before the changes that were voted in at the AGM take proper effect.
That's a lot of meetings - two Sundays in one month and one sunday in the alternate one. I was wondering at myself for agreeing to this a while back when I got up on Sunday with the first meeting ahead of me. It went for 3.5 hours but on the other side of it, I felt like I and my committee, are not in this alone. Instead of reporting to a board directly, there is now a team to work *with* on the rolling out of the con, at the broadscale. And for me, I think this is already a major success of the changes - being able to go over all the fine details as well as the broad vision, planning and strategy, and have people to bounce off, and provide extra input and also support.
I think this is going to be a really successful change in the way things operate.
That's a lot of meetings - two Sundays in one month and one sunday in the alternate one. I was wondering at myself for agreeing to this a while back when I got up on Sunday with the first meeting ahead of me. It went for 3.5 hours but on the other side of it, I felt like I and my committee, are not in this alone. Instead of reporting to a board directly, there is now a team to work *with* on the rolling out of the con, at the broadscale. And for me, I think this is already a major success of the changes - being able to go over all the fine details as well as the broad vision, planning and strategy, and have people to bounce off, and provide extra input and also support.
I think this is going to be a really successful change in the way things operate.