On 01/12/2022 02.30, ac via talk wrote:
When "directors" or "boards" or "leaders" make decisions on policy it affects operations. Always. and many times it is "politics" and ...
Note that in our case, GTALUG directors are very close to the users. Generally, the services we have are the ones the users were interested in. I've been on the board twice, I've seen all the little cogwheels turning ...
... then you need more automation/scripts - seriously, it cannot take that much of your time
Part of the problem is that a whole bunch of GTALUG services are held together by legacy scripts. Which the maintainer has moved on from. Which the new operator may not understand, or even know they are there. We may have lost the documentation (though it's probably in the GTALUG github, somewhere - most likely last edited by Chris). So more automations will solve some problems and create new ones too. You also can't automate moderation in any useful way There are no 'clock' problems: everything here is a 'cloud' (to appropriate Karl Popper's concept of defined, soluble problems vs indeterminate, insoluble ones). The board is burned out. It's good that folks are stepping up, but it might not be enough. Thanks, Evan, for your thoughtful answers. Whatever system we end up using must have public, web-accessible archives, as anything locked behind a user login is not a useful resource. Stewart