I have become more and more preoccupied with my business, which I run alongside working a full time job. Life has got busier and priorities have shifted.
If I’m honest here, this project has been tainted by Idea-ism. Too many ideas syndrome include crippling indecision, procrastination punctuated with delusions of grandeur. From building a shop (which is a lot more work than I realised but is almost complete), building our advisory dashboard (completed in 2020, thanks COVID!) plus all the updates and graphic creation and all that entails. This is only a small fraction of what has been going but gives you an idea about the self inflicted pressure I have put on myself. I’ve tried taking the pressure off and that has just led to withdrawing from operations almost entirely.
The fact is, I can’t devote as much time to it these days and it would be a shame to shut it down or let it slowly fade into the passage of time when there’s still opportunity to serve it’s followers.
Community lead has been on my mind for years. And now, a distributed team of contributors feels right. Once in place, decisions will be made collectively and owned by all. Contributors can focus on graphic creation, forecast analysis, statistics, managing our socials or be a generalist and do a bit of everything. In other words, it’s a decentralised team, no pressure to contribute. If no one’s available then nothing gets done–although, I like to think that at the very least I’d post something on our socials.
A word on the website: It may not be updated as frequently between now and November 2026. We’re creating entirely new systems ready for our contributors and updating older features to work with the backend of our site.
Timescale and getting involved
This is going to be a painstakingly steady process but we’d like to ask anyone interested in getting involved to get in touch now. Help shape the future of Snow Watch, and I genuinely mean that.
For anyone else reading this, stay tuned.