A log of the major steps taken by the Metafilter Transition Team.
July 25, 2022
Self-nominations open via Metatalk; initial charter published.
July 17, 2022
Update #4 posted to Metatalk, featuring the initial review of the User Survey.
July 10, 2022
The Transition team met with loup to discuss what the owner and moderators of Metafilter consider the responsibilities of the eventual Steering Committee should be.
June 27, 2022
Third Transition Team post in MetaTalk, updating what we're doing and asking for help with survey.
May 23rd, 2022
Survey link posted to MetaTalk.
May 19th, 2022
Beta test ended, 10 responses total, one of them being a test by a Brandon Blatcher.
May 15th, 2022
Not posted anywhere since there wasn't much to update. Will update people once survey goes out.
Finalized survey questions. Agreed to send out to the list of beta tasters and let them test it through midnight GMT on May 19th. Decided survey should run more than 1 week, but less than a month, final time TBD.
We will contact the beta testers today and tomorrow (15-16th). Final survey link to be posted in numerous places on the site and off (listed in agenda). We are encouraging users to post it anywhere they see fit.
Once survey is up and running, we’ll start thinking about the overall structure and roles of the final committee (and time commitments from them) and how to discuss and whether to make finances public and if doing so regularly.
We will be following up with mods about financial questions.
Warriorqueen sent out the link to the beta testers.
May 12th, 2022
Update posted as a comment in previously created MetaTalk post
Following up on three stated goals in the initial post, plus small updates on how the team is structured in general, thoughts on what the team is and is not, and a timeline for future goals.
April 26th, 2022
Initial MetaTalk post from the Transition Team
The Team introduces itself and lays out a few goals, the major one being to create a survey to gather information from the community.
April 18th, 2022
Announcement of the Transition Team
Cortex, the site owner, describes his thoughts and wishes for the Transition Team