On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:12, Tabitha Roder <tabi...@tabitha.net.nz> wrote: > I am watching this conversation with deep interest. In my attempts to > develop a community of olpc and sugar volunteers in New Zealand I have > experienced all sorts of extremes in emotion, energy drain, feelings of > success and failure, and I still wouldn't give it up because I believe in > what olpc and sugar have been striving for. > > Mostly I wish for more hours in the day; more hours for me and for the > volunteers who have been trying to help along this journey with me. It takes > a whole community and each of the players contributes in a different way. I > have been frustrated when I have not been able to fill a role that requires > a certain skill (e.g. translation, programmer, educator, funding guru, > importing guru, etc) and disappointed with myself for not learning all these > skills (obviously you can't learn everything). > > As a community of practice subgroup here in New Zealand we have tried to > nurture each other and help each other learn so we all have more knowledge, > we have shared challenges, learned the importance of regular interaction (we > would have failed if it were not for the regularity of same place, same > time, every week). We have had to define what we do and how will we do it, > as well as build confidence in talking to others about what we do and why. > This identity helps us. We have all had to work hard in our roles as > volunteers, whether that be in recruiting others or in sacrificing time to > investigate bugs or in other ways, or in financially supporting events to > get olpc and sugar news out to others in New Zealand. > > As community lead for NZ I have had to learn how to set boundaries and > minimums (this has been hard for me, but I have had to learn it for the good > of the community). I have had to provide direction at times and step back > and see what happens at other times. I have been surprised by some of those > things. I have encouraged a culture of support and nurturing with the > community. I have made mistakes and wished I had done better.
Will be great to count with your experience! > My two cents: a community leader MUST have time, understanding of the nature > of volunteers contributions in all their forms, and clarity in > communication. Just wanted to make clear that what we need for starting is a team coordinator that does the duties of a chairman. If that same person has the time to also lead in one or more areas, then great! But is not a prerequisite. If during the first meetings nobody offers to lead any efforts, that's fine, we'll keep meeting and discussing how to find and get those people on board. Regards, Tomeu > Tabitha > > > > On 22 May 2010 20:15, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@tomeuvizoso.net> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:59, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> >> wrote: >> > El Tue, 18-05-2010 a las 11:41 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: >> > >> >> We also need to ask the Wiki team to create a new instance of the team >> >> template, such as this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team >> > >> > Perhaps we don't need a new template. The Community Team page could >> > simply be this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs >> > >> > The header already reads "Community Home", and the content of the other >> > subpages is already more or less appropriate. >> >> Sounds like a great topic for the kick-off meeting! >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >> > -- >> > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ >> > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep