I think they'd only benefit from reaching out to different corners of fandom. Except, they *are* reaching out to different corners of fandom. Sure the main board is composted of a group of friends, but if you’re going to be starting something as big as this, you have to have people helping you whom you can *trust* (I know because I’ve tried to do smaller things with people I don’t know, and they always seem to fall apart because you find you can’t trust certain people to do what needs to be done). Naomi is reaching out to everyone now, and recruiting them to be volunteers. Anyone can be a member, and any member can run for a position on the board. And the board is being set up in such a way that there’s always enough trusted people who know their way to get things done incase someone who can’t pull their weight is elected. It’s just a necessity for the first board to be composed of people that don’t have time to be tested.
Also, I think that the OTW hasn’t really started it’s campaign to bring users over yet, since they haven’t anything to bring them over *to*. They’re probably going to be doing a lot more reaching out once they actually have things up and running, and that’s more when people from all corners get a chance to have an impact. When there’s actually something to impact.
Look at all the outcry there has been so far that certain people aren’t being represented properly, when the OTW hasn’t really put anything out to represent fandom. All they have so far is a rather sparse webpage with a few mission statements, what really matters is how inclusive their products are.
Re: OTW Part 2
Except, they *are* reaching out to different corners of fandom. Sure the main board is composted of a group of friends, but if you’re going to be starting something as big as this, you have to have people helping you whom you can *trust* (I know because I’ve tried to do smaller things with people I don’t know, and they always seem to fall apart because you find you can’t trust certain people to do what needs to be done). Naomi is reaching out to everyone now, and recruiting them to be volunteers. Anyone can be a member, and any member can run for a position on the board. And the board is being set up in such a way that there’s always enough trusted people who know their way to get things done incase someone who can’t pull their weight is elected. It’s just a necessity for the first board to be composed of people that don’t have time to be tested.
Also, I think that the OTW hasn’t really started it’s campaign to bring users over yet, since they haven’t anything to bring them over *to*. They’re probably going to be doing a lot more reaching out once they actually have things up and running, and that’s more when people from all corners get a chance to have an impact. When there’s actually something to impact.
Look at all the outcry there has been so far that certain people aren’t being represented properly, when the OTW hasn’t really put anything out to represent fandom. All they have so far is a rather sparse webpage with a few mission statements, what really matters is how inclusive their products are.