Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
- Eric
- Senior Veteran
- Posts: 1547
- Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:30 am
- Favorite Aircraft: Super Hornet
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Has thanked: 61 times
- Been thanked: 166 times
- Contact:
Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
That being said,
I'm delighted to announce that Scarecrow has agreed to become chairman of the Community Architects starting this week. I'll continue to do some amount of coding and be available in case something breaks, but Scarecrow is going to lead the community (along with the other architects of course).
Why the change? Because YSFHQ needs to pivot, and I'm not the best person to do that. Scarecrow is what YSFHQ needs at this stage in its evolution.
I'm convinced there's a fundamental change happening in gaming. It's becoming normal to be a gamer, thanks to mobile devices. There will be a lot more casual gamers in 10 years than there are now, and if YSFHQ is going to reach them, we'll have to market proportionally more. Additionally, our website should be simple enough that anyone can understand where to go.
Of all the people I've met in the 7 years I've been playing YSFlight, Scarecrow is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to aviation. He's got a vast amount of experience coordinating airshows and going through flight training. So when we changed our organizational structure at the beginning of the year, I was confident YSFHQ was going to have great leadership.
It's not just Scarecrow though - after getting burned out one year ago and hearing tonight's discussion, I've been thrilled to see members of the community still dedicated to improving YSFlight, some more than ever before. I've come to realize that the best course of action is for me to hand over the reigns and trust that a fresh perspective with a will to act can save HQ.
Since joining the development team of YSFHQ when it was first started by Iceman, I've poured countless hours into the site, going for increasing organization and grandiose visions. I failed a lot during that time, but I learned even more. YSFHQ has given me the opportunity to test out my skills in the real world, on real users, and I've been extremely thankful for this.
However, my decisions have not always been proportional to the size of the community. From now on, existing site development on YSFHQ's forum and portal (www.ysfhq.com) will be handled by our community managers+architects and website engineers. Creating new, innovative applications is what I've been doing since I came to YSFlight, and I'll still be making those. In fact, since I'll only be doing application development and not also worrying about running YSFHQ, I'll probably be able to produce better code.
To be clear, I'll still be ensuring YSFHQ's tech infrastructure is functioning and you can ask for help from me if questions arise or something breaks, but any site maintenance/reorganization of YSFHQ will be conducted by other staff members (mostly website engineers). My role will cease to be community leader, and instead leader of R&D for YS - that's mainly 3rd party application development.
In short: SC and the other community architects (Bomb, Gunny, Decaff) are your new leaders now. Listen to them. I'm off to go code and save the world.
Thanks for the wild flight.
P.S. - Please don't let me have to arbitrate your arguments. That's not the community anyone wants to see.
- Midnight Rambler
- Staff
- Posts: 2136
- Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:08 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: F-16
- Location: Australia
- OS: Windows 11
- Has thanked: 267 times
- Been thanked: 374 times
- Copperhead
- Veteran
- Posts: 1164
- Joined: Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:00 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: YF-23A Black Widow II
- Location: Alabama
- OS: Windows 10 now.
- Has thanked: 438 times
- Been thanked: 136 times
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
^The Happy Murican^
<BoH
- Alpha Star
- Modding Team
- Posts: 1202
- Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:26 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: One of them
- Location: The nearest gliding club, or a pub
- Has thanked: 113 times
- Been thanked: 326 times
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
Thanks for everything Eric.
- VNAF ONE
- Senior Veteran
- Posts: 2147
- Joined: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:16 am
- Favorite Aircraft: A-10C Thunderbolt II
- Location: Indiana/Florida
- OS: Windows 10
- Has thanked: 230 times
- Been thanked: 406 times
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
- Turbofan
- Senior Veteran
- Posts: 2072
- Joined: Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:22 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: Boeing 747, all variants
- Location: Southern Plains
- Has thanked: 1172 times
- Been thanked: 843 times
- Contact:
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
- Flake
- VFA-49
- Posts: 4375
- Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:47 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: Boeing F/A-18A
- Location: Australia
- OS: Windows 10 (x64)
- Has thanked: 861 times
- Been thanked: 1279 times
- Contact:
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
I am excited.
Eric, it goes without saying you have done outstanding work, So thank you for all that you have done so far.
- Zack
- Contributor
- Posts: 401
- Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:34 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: F-16C Fighting Falcon
- Location: Northern California/Bay Area
- OS: Windows 10
- Has thanked: 47 times
- Been thanked: 158 times
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
Good Luck Saving The World!
- David
- Modding Team
- Posts: 431
- Joined: Mon May 30, 2011 12:03 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: Grob G109B Vigilant
- Location: United Kingdom
- Has thanked: 191 times
- Been thanked: 141 times
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
Best of luck on your endeavors, Eric.
Also, Best of luck to Scarecrow. I am really looking forward to the future Scarecrow brings to YSFHQ.
-
- Veteran
- Posts: 721
- Joined: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:42 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: Supermarine Spitfire
- Location: Punta Cana, DR
- Has thanked: 53 times
- Been thanked: 88 times
- Contact:
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
- mh3w
- Rookie
- Posts: 50
- Joined: Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:59 am
- Favorite Aircraft: Lockheed Constellation
- Location: KCGX
- Has thanked: 12 times
- Been thanked: 28 times
- Contact:
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
- ysmajor
- Contributor
- Posts: 169
- Joined: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:55 am
- Favorite Aircraft: Curtiss P-40B Warhawk
- Location: Shanghai
- Has thanked: 6 times
- Been thanked: 105 times
- Contact:
Re: Scarecrow for Chairman; Eric stepping down
Its amazing to see all that you have done for this site, the community, and YS. A very respectable achievement I'd say.
Take it easy and wish you blue skies!
- MD5Ray01
- Veteran
- Posts: 729
- Joined: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:17 pm
- Favorite Aircraft: A-10A Thunderbolt 2
- Location: Skyway Air Base, home of the 345th TFW
- OS: Windows 10
- Has thanked: 349 times
- Been thanked: 103 times
- Contact:
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests