Executive Session

For those with the board role only.

What an executive session is

It is the board meeting without staff. A board closes the door for part of its meeting to talk through what cannot be talked through with everybody there: a review of the chief executive’s work, what staff are paid, a concern about somebody’s conduct, a conversation with the auditor. Sometimes the chief executive is asked to stay for part of it, and sometimes an adviser is asked in for one item.

BoardSource’s guide to executive sessions, which this room is built on, recommends:

Holding one at the end of every regular board meeting, so that having one never has to mean something is wrong.
A written policy for when the board goes into session and who stays.
A confidential record of who was there, what was decided and how the vote went.
Telling the chief executive what was concluded, if they were not in the room.
Ending the session once its business is done, and not holding closed sessions for what belongs in the open meeting.

Those are BoardSource’s recommendations, not a Stimpunks policy. What our board has adopted is on our accountability pages.

The board

Ryan Boren, President, Co-Founder, Co-Creative Director
Betsy Selvam, Vice President
Kristina Brooke Daniele, Secretary
Becky Hicks, Board Member

As our Board & Governance page lists them, in its order and with its titles, read on 2026-09-29. Each name goes to their own section of our About page.

Talking

The channel and the call in here are for moderators with the board role and nobody else, not even an administrator: moderators sign on at the Community Center with the moderators’ password, under a handle on the moderators’ list. Anybody can come in and look around, and the radio waits outside the door for everybody else.

The call is run by 8x8’s Jitsi as a Service, and the server hands a pass into it to the moderators this room is for and nobody else. Camera and microphone start off, and we keep nothing about a call. What goes where.

Why an exit sign

Because an executive session is what happens once everybody who is not on the board has gone out through that door. The sign over it is the only light left on, and it stays lit because the door is never locked: anybody can walk in and read this wall. What is said in here is the board’s. Nothing in the room moves, at any setting, and the sign does not flicker.

Whose words

The room is Ryan’s idea, from his brief of 2026-09-29, and its line is his. What an executive session is, and what is recommended, are described in our own words from BoardSource’s guide, which is theirs; BoardSource has no connection with Stimpunks. Who is on the board is read off our Board & Governance page. Sofia Sans and Sofia Sans Condensed are Lettersoup’s, with Botio Nikoltchev and Ani Petrova, under the SIL Open Font License; the room is ours. More in the liner notes.

Job marker — a folded note, left on a chair

You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.

The job: The one light left on

Before the code: What is the only light in the Executive Session room?

Hint 1

There is no lamp in the room.

Hint 2

Look over the door in the drawing.

Last hint

It is green, and it says the way out.

Give me the answer

The answer is The EXIT sign. There is no lamp: the one light is the EXIT sign over the shut door, left on once everybody who is not on the board has gone out through it.

Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.

Quest code: INCAMERA

Hand it in at the Adventurer’s Guild →