Let’s get straight to the point. I have become more and more preoccupied with my business, which I run alongside working a full time job. Life has got busier and priorities have shifted.
If I’m honest here, this project has been tainted by Idea-ism. Too many ideas syndrome include crippling indecision, procrastination punctuated with delusions of grandeur. From building a shop (which is a lot more work than I realised but is almost complete), building our advisory dashboard (completed in 2020, thanks COVID!) plus all the updates and graphic creation and all that entails. This is only a small fraction of what has been going but gives you an idea about the self inflicted pressure I have put on myself. I’ve tried taking the pressure off and that has just led to withdrawing from operations almost entirely.
I can’t devote as much time to it now, it’s just as well that going community lead has been on my mind for years. And now, a distributed team of contributors feels right. Once in place, decisions will be made collectively and owned by all. Everyone will be able to create a forecast discussion (which will replace our status page) which can then be blended with an advisory. Contributors can focus on graphic creation, forecast analysis, statistics, managing our socials or be a generalist and do a bit of everything. In other words, it’s a decentralised team, no pressure to contribute. If no one’s available then nothing gets done–although, I like to think that at the very least I’d post something on our socials.
Moving forward and getting involved
This is going to be a painstakingly steady process but we’d like to ask anyone interested in getting involved to get in touch now. Help shape the future of Snow Watch, and I genuinely mean that.
For anyone else reading this, stay tuned.