Yesterday, we held the first of our local technical writer get-togethers without our founder. Fortunately, not much happened. Five of us showed up. We chatted as usual -- about jobs (getting and keeping), health insurance, keeping our skills updated, topics of interest to people who live nearby, and so on.
About 45 minutes into the 1-hour meeting, I asked if people want to keep meeting (yes). I asked if we want to make things a little more structured or keep them as is (resounding chorus for "as is"). They asked me about the founder -- is everything ok? Did someone offend her? (me). It hardly seemed worthwhile or productive to drag everyone else into it. I tried to leave the door open for her coming back when she's ready. I also tried to shut down that part of the conversation as fast as possible without being obvious about it.
And then we got up and left. I sent out email summarizing what we'd said and then sent a personal note to the founder, reiterating that she's welcome back whenever she's ready.
Given that the meetings will just be monthly networking events for now and won't really have a structure, I'm fine with sending out email reminders and showing up. That doesn't seem too hard, and when it does, I'll ask for help.
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