Stories of abstinence

Owing to rotation of service and other factors, 10 vacancies out of 17 positions existed on the Board of Trustees as delegates gathered for the conference. Six candidates stood for election, and all were elected. One of the vacancies materialized because Beth B., Region 6 trustee, reached the end of her term and chose not…

Dan Sandweiss was hired about 8 months ago as OA’s managing director, which means today was his first opportunity to appear before the World Service Business Conference. He evinced great enthusiasm for OA’s mission, said he loves the work, and “you’ll have to kick me out” before he’ll ever leave the job. As one would…

OA’s bylaws state a number of prerequisites for members to be eligible to serve on the board, such as seven years’ membership in the program and having attended at least two World Service Business Conferences. The point of an amendment heard this morning was to specify what sort of experience at the Region level was…

Meg M., chairwoman of the board of trustees, related that the fellowship is party to a lawsuit seeking damages because an intergroup had used a copyrighted image on its website. She asked that all service bodies review their websites to guard against further such trouble. If you have an role for your service body’s website,…

Two proposals addressed how and when the World Service Business Conference would meet, and the reference subcommittee combined them into a single motion. It would call for a two-year rotation in which one year would meet in person, and the other would meet via a videoconferencing platform. In the latter case, the Trustees would have…

The World Service Business Conference is so committed to information’s getting back to intergroups, meetings, and individual members that the conference manual’s first appendix is a form to be filled out indicating the sorts of information that should be carried back home. The first few blocks of the form are about who attended the conference,…