2/ I would say, hold us to account. I feel proud of our team’s follow through on the Q2 community roadmap we posted, and I’m optimistic we will do the same for the Q3 roadmap posted last week. I acknowledge there is still lots of work to be done rebuilding the trust between the company and Community, and my leadership team and I remain committed to that task. I’m proud of the leadership we have in place for Product and Community with Teresa Dietrich and Sara Chipps, and I’m excited to see where we can go together if we build on the momentum in our community engagement and our business.

1/ Hello Journeyman Geek - thanks for your question and your cautious optimism. You’re right, this will take time, and our ask is that you stick with us as we prove this is a priority. We’ve made public commitments about products and support we’re going to deliver, about roles that are open and roles we’re hoping to hire for, and about how we plan to use this investment overall. As we’ve seen over the last four months, sometimes organizations face external challenges to which they must adapt quickly. That’s true for an individual, a family, a company, or a nation.

Thank you @nitsua60 for your kind words and for taking the time to meet with me and the team. I really appreciated your perspective and ideas. Also, thank you for being a moderator in our community - the team and I appreciate all you and our moderators do to ensure our community has a positive and productive experience.

Thank you for your kind words. We are so happy to be partnering closely with IBM on Call for Code. It’s a great cause and our privilege to do what we can to make a positive difference during this crisis.

To answer your 2nd question, yes, we have tremendous communities on Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange. From a business perspective, we’re experimenting with integrating & elevating sites that deal with technologists of all kinds. We will strive to find a better implementation of Ads across the network, although I think we can all agree, it’s rare that people on the internet are happy when they see more advertising, instead of less ;) Still, doing that in a successful way would allow us to generate additional revenue, allowing us to better support our entire community and network of sites.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply Jon. Yes - our mission statement was expanded to include technologists soon after I joined in October 2019. Industries and disciplines are converging, all powered by technology. The global response to the current crisis is a great example.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We need to continue to work on rebuilding our relationship with the community, from moderators to power users to folks who have just signed up. We'll continue to be transparent and accountable through the quarterly CEO AMA and Community Roadmap. We'll also continue to increase our communication on Meta and in person with moderators, as interaction with this group clearly slowed in 2018-2019, and we felt that needed to change.

Hello Steve - thanks for the question. We have three lines of business. Our Talent business was impacted as hiring slowed across the globe, so we had to make cost reductions to reflect the reduced market demand. By continuing to grow Teams and Ads, we can be well positioned to bring furloughed staff back when the hiring market rebounds.