In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
I think people have very different views of the board. Personally I don't see them as our community leaders at all and I absolutely don't want them to be.
That's very true. Our role is to be the interface between the community and legal/commercial. Not to lead the community. The intention was for the community to self-manage, with minimal intervention from the board to unblock where needed.
There is a big mismatch of expectations there, that started happening when we had to weigh on the sponsorship policy.
It started for me around the attempts at kickstarting a moderation team happened - where any attempts at mentioning a CoC were derailed into "but this is a board decision" - and where we (the community) and "you" (the board) failed to resolve the things that somewhat predictably exploded now. (Which was why I was originally pushing for a community team rather than a fixed "moderation team" tbf). 
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