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Splitting the job into three separate jobs seems the most likely course of action. This roughly divides what I did into three equal parts.
1.Plinkers. You have a set of people, chosen by the community, and endorsed by a vote, to "plink" the meetings. These should be people of good standing in the community and prior experience of at least attending meetings. The number of people in that position should be determined by the community, but they MUST have control over who leads those meetings. Once voted in, I say they stay until, like myself, they can no longer handle their duties, or like many before them, they decide to leave the game. There should also be a way for the community to remove them if necessary. New people can be voted in as an agenda item.
2. Agenda secretary. This is the person who is voted in by the community and handles requests for the agenda items as well as makes the community annoucements. It would also be their job post meeting notes. All they handle is requests for the agenda items. Nothing else. This person also stays until the community releases them or they step down.
3. Tulga Eliason. This is the one who handles requests for dev chats, global annoucements and different community requests. This part of my job, I didn't like to talk much about because people seemed to think I had an inside line with Tulga, when all I really did, was communicate via IRC or
https://support.istaria.com in the form of a feedback. The reason it was effective, wasn't because I was an insider or anything like that. It was effective because it saved time for Tulga to hear one voice and have it be a polite one with definite suggestions and resolutions.
In making this suggestion, I'm not saying that it will take three people to replace me. I'm saying that it will take three people to do what I did and keep the sanity lost to me. [img]/Web/emoticons/emotion-4.gif[/img] [img]/Web/emoticons/emotion-4.gif[/img] [img]/Web/emoticons/emotion-4.gif[/img]
Hope that helps everyone understand better 1) Why a charter and 2) Where I stand on the apparent loss of my position.