Seeing as how my reign of power is under attack I'll step in. ; ) My view is that CoLoCo will continue to make all decisions as a group, leaving only tie-breaks in votes and specific meeting times for IRC meetings and such to be left to my discretion. At that, I never have had a problem with people telling me they disagree with my decision on something, or that a certain meeting time is inconvenient for them or many other people in the group.
Now it is true that Jono Bacon needs a strong contact with each LoCo group and that is a primary task of the LoCo leader. He simply could not do his job if he had to maintain active contact with every LoCo member. That being said, I would still strongly encourage my team members to attend both the #ubuntu-us and #ubuntu-locoteams meetings and see what is going on "behind the scenes" (so to speak) for themselves. I will make a point, however, to be reporting on the happenings of these meetings regularly to the team for those who cannot make it. The spirit of Ubuntu is community, not monarchy, so I suppose to follow that would be our best guideline. : ) Cheers, David Overcash On 2/6/07, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > > Well, I'm not sure that what you have described are typical features of > > leadership, to be honest (although they are certainly features of what is > > commonly described as being "group contact"). Leadership implies an > > increased power in relation to decision making, which is the aspect I'm > > interested to hear more about, in relation to Colorado, or any other > > groups who have such a system. > > > > In the Italian team, high level decision making is done (where necessary) > > by a council, currently made up of 5 people, whose task is to represent > > the whole community, in its various aspects and arrive at a consensus > > based on public discussion. But I'm curious about how smaller groups > > handle this. > > > > Matt > > True. I didn't describe it as well as I should have, I guess. For > decisions that affect the group, generally, they are voted on within > the group. Christer would rather see the group be interdependent > working together rather than dependent on him. As president of my > local LUG, I have the same attitude. However, Christer does lead > the group, and takes on a great deal of responsibility to see that > the group heads in the direction that it should. The most effective > leaders are those who see the group become successful without much > bureaucracy or overhead. > > With that said though, being a mentor for the US Teams project, I am > interested to learn how other group leaders lead their team, and > what they do to make their team a success. Teams like Chicago, Ohio > and Colorado are making big strides, and I'm curious about the > process they take to see it happen. > > Thanks, > - -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ > |Aaron Toponce _ Join the ASCII Ribbon Campaign | > |OALUG President ( ) http://www.asciiribbon.org | > |http://www.aarontoponce.org X Against HTML e-mail | > |http://www.oalug.com / \ Against proprietary attachments| > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQEVAwUBRciPYs55Ebf8BAiPAQqSRAf+KljkLNazzUuhf0sLEh/6Vq87L0aOpdIF > D5B9lurFzwyyTww+z8DieVjVYcTlxFS6GhPvlBMAGNG8C7NwUtOMErvkEpEOb6bz > mrCAdM9y8jRZ/Wr9Jlwc+kfoL3sVNceKAl+vXzX1BZotxi/rFsv9Lz2Avdyg9WsQ > kZfTl/vuH92KtCgdDKVFdqjedfCsY8GJ9n2eO1R539IEmLuT1syHkRZkDNkg38yM > MvKcVmw9DmJR5enxucf3IjSH2DJdvucQiBKlMV+hHtf5L2UopG+spI8JnUgJ/8TE > OagDdnIMkYZoQ186Wlx+DNEdjNEiYi9uTD5aOJnsNve1pOD6XUYgDg== > =95QR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- --------------------------------------------------------- http://www.funnylookinhat.com AIM: FunnyLookinHat ICQ: 40145621 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: irc.freenode.net --------------------------------------------------------- -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
