Hi Phill, thank you for your email with some background info.
I appreciate your efforts, but before you call an election, I would like to understand a few things better: a) Comms team sounds like selfexplanatory, but I would like to understand better, what exactly the lubuntu comms team is up for. What do you see as the responsibilities and rights? b) Who does the comms team speak for - the whole community? c) What are the rights of the team compared to other people in the community? d) Why is it necessary to have a "Head of Comms" or "Leader"? Where do we want to be lead to? e) Who sets the rules for the team? Where do you get the rules for calling this election? f) Rather than thinking about how we can make a structure with leaders and secretarys I would be more interested in ideas and projects, that people want to do (e.g. we had people talking about a new mockup for the website. I would be happy to implement something new, if someone has a mockup or so.) My experience in the free software community is - if someone wants to be active and do something, they just start to do something and by being active in the community assume a role, e.g. Julien - "lubuntu developer" or Raffael - "lubuntu designer". Did we ever vote to have them in that role? So, if the lubuntu comms team wants to get together and do something, an active person will automatically resume a role. I guess, I do not have a good understanding of your idea for this team. So, I am looking forward to your response. Thank you, Mario On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Well, lets start at the most recent things... > > It was mooted at one of the Lubuntu Meetings that we got a PR / comms team > together (go look it up if you've forgotten, my system is having real > problems). > > I knew a good guy used to journailsm and the dog-eat-dog world it is for > news and asked Jens if he would do me a personal favour to be not so much a > Team Leader, but as a consultant. That is why you will see me described as > his sectretary. > > We have some good volunteers, including those used to PR / comms work such > as Rafael from art side and Mario from ubntu.net > > along with Steve (Yorvyk) . > > We were given a link from Julien, who believed it to be in good faith and we > followed it. since then, we have had little flashes of "This is not a great > idea to work with these people". > > I'm most troubled by that having two experienced people on PR / advertising > telling us to say 'NO', is that when we said 'NO' that muktware then went > and asked individual members to try and influence an over turning of that > result & that discussions did take place. > > There is a simple reason that https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms > > exists, that is for us to chat to each other. If any external group wish to > chat to us, then that is via the group mailing list. Else we will end up > splintered. > > As a result, Jens now has put himself up for re-election as our T.L. and I > have have as admin for the team. It was clearly stated by Julien that sub > teams govern them selves. I pretty much 'threw' the sub teams together in > very short time. I think that it is fitting now that we do have the people > required to make comms be a conduit for announcements, PR, advertising stuff > etc. that this team should vote as to if they wish the structure as is to > remain, or wish to have a different structure. > > As this is a call to voting, no new members can be accepted for voting. Once > the vote is finalialsied then new members may join. > > For: > > Team Leader: Jens (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nrwlion) > > Admin: phillw (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw) > > Please either vote for, or nominate different candidates. The vote will > finish 23:00 UTC Tuesday 7th Feb so that I can ensure things are in place > for the Lubuntu weekly meeting on Wed 8th Feb 20:00 UTC. > > It is really important that you make your selves known with your views. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
