On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:13:52AM -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: > You don't need to be on the OGB to have an idea of the time commitment. > Keeping up with all the various threads is a major time suck. You > talking 8hours + a week. > > What changed for me when I joined the board was the amount of mental > time you devote to thinking about all this stuff. Once your on the > board you suddenly are in the best possible place to actually _do_ > something about whats happening. Thus, your always thinking about whats > going on, what it means, and how you feel about it, etc.
Yes to all of this. The effect of institutional immaturity and ill fit is far greater than the effect of (perceived) smaller size. If you want to demonstrate superb leadership and make a real difference to our future, it's going to be full time for the first quarter at least (that's how long I figure it will take to write a new constitution from scratch and get it approved). Might take longer if you don't have an engineering background and have to learn about our values, processes, and structure. If you just want to do what will hopefully someday be asked of OGB members, 5 hours a week is probably fine. But you'll fail. > Historically the OGB tends to be really active early in the term and as > roadblocks go up things tapper off. I think it's been more of a bathtub. During the summer we did very little, but the past 4 months have generally been very active again. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Fishworks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
