Today was the first meeting of the committee I left since that resignation. I wasn't there but it seems that they spent a lot of time talking about my letter and that my position is strongly supported at the committee level. Hopefully incoming leadership will not be stubborn about the current path. If the current situation isn't corrected soon I doubt I'll be the last person to leave.
That any single person walking away should be such a big deal is proof of my point: that we need to minimize the barriers to participation and have some mechanism for identifying the next generation of people to do this work, getting them the opportunities and mentoring so they can be effective when they step into the role I left, and providing incentive to do important work. The current direction has abandoned all of these.
