I’ll concede that you might have a valid point on the board selecting are leads. I’ll give it some thought, but I wonder if their might be a middle ground that still puts the power a bit more on the Directors side. I know the Director will change, but if we usually have someone half as AMAZING as Christian is, we would be fools to let it go to waste. Unless we want to manage each of our programs at this level? I know DevICT isn’t the same without a makerspace and with them soon to be out of our umbrella, but would we have wanted to manage that program in the same manner if they had equipment, xzy?
I am troubled by leads and assistants wanting to be on the board. We have such a small core of volunteers working to make the Makerspace and MakeICT operate and to put all the decisions in the same hands running both, spells for conflicts of interests and CONFLICTS as people will be put off by so few in charge of it all… I appreciate their desire and passion, but I worry about the fallout…
On the sailing without a map. I may have use the wrong metaphor, but the point was many of us do not know the goals of the Institute. We work to support where we can, but often we are happily going with the wind at the moment. Maybe we need a better way of communicating our plan? I sat in for the end of the new building committee discussion and it was eye opening and it did lift my spirits a bit. My dream for 5 years might be a bit grand, but I’d like to see us be to go create as they are to us now. Not their lack of community, but the building, equipment, etc. I’d be ecstatic if we had 600-1000 members, at least half being involved in the community. I’d be beside myself if we had 100-300 core members in LOVE with OUR dream, on FIRE with OUR passion, working to make not just MakeICT, but Wichita better for us being here. And as always, thank you Kim for the dialog. Being in the vicinity of greatness gives credibility to us less visible ones. I’d make a wink symbol if I knew how…