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A second designer, and the editor wakes sessions himself

The editor, Dinis Cruz, in the conductor's session, about 21:57 UTC on 4 November 2026, after the conductor offered a second designer for the figures still printed as "Figure to come". A voice transcription, kept as given. Never edited.

Yes, can you add another designer to the team? And let me know if you need me to wake any of them up, because I can just drop you a message. For example, as soon as I drop a ping to that session, you will wake it up. So you can create a new session, I can wake up existing ones. So we don't wait for the schedule, unless the schedule is in the next, minutes, and then we can wait a bit.

How the conductor reads it (not his words)

• Decision DS1: a second designer, designer2@book.the-ultimate-insider, drawing only the figures still printed as boxes. The conductor creates its session; its own session creates its hourly task (:15 London), as for the critics.
• Waking: he can ping an existing member's session to wake it at once; the conductor tells him which to ping, unless the member's schedule is due within minutes. The conductor does not fire tasks (the blank-copy incident).