News from Aug 12, 2008

Hi all!

I'm sure most everyone at this point has been involved in, or at least heard about, our reorganization efforts. In the face of an incoming crush of birds and a dearth of foster homes and money, we've had some organization folks burn out and take a break. Others have spawned talk of communication breakdowns, fundraising, outreach and all the things we need to do and occasionally need to revamp.

The technical team is no exception to this. We spend great amounts of time putting together infrastructure, tools and documentation to try to help Mickaboo operate at its absolute peak efficiency - yet for all our hard work our biggest weakness is the same as the organization itself: Outreach. Evangelism. Plain old tootin' our horns.

We're geeks, we're not good at that evangelism stuff! Well, we should try to be - at least internally!

So, to try to help address this I've decided that I'm going to pester people more. Starting with this – subscribing the discuss@mickaboo email address to receive notifications when our blog (http://mickaboo.org/blog.html) is updated.

Some more changes are coming soon and you'll read about them here (or in your inbox) as they're implemented. Feedback is always welcome to tech@mickaboo.org, our technical support helpline. Be warned that my own personal life is in complete chaos right now so I'm NOT spending a lot of time on Mickaboo - but the precious few minutes per day that I do spend, I'm hoping this will help me spend well.

Finally, I'd like to take this opportunity to send a sqwawk-out to my devoted and utterly under-thanked technical team: You guys know who you are, I really cannot do this job without you, and you'll get some specific by-name mentions in this blog as soon as I get in touch with you and find out if you're OK having yourselves outed!

Virtually yours;
– Matt, the Tech Team Lead