On Apr 15, 2009, at 00:02, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, John Plocher wrote: >> Whatever it is that makes us more than the sum >> of our parts, that "extra, special sauce" is where the OGB fits in - >> as facilitator, cheerleader, ombudsman, fixer, whatever.... > > Hi John - > > That is where I'd like to see my role, and I would be interested > in knowing where teh community would like to see us focus our > efforts (as best we can, with the skills we have). perhaps a poll > is not the right thing - are there other suggestions?
I've proposed that we schedule show-and-tell report-back from key groups at each OGB meeting, use the output to populate a report on the website by the website community, derive goals and action items from the session and use those as the guides for who we need to be encouraging how. Jim Walker wrote: > Having members of the community present for 15 minutes at > each OGB meeting has some appeal to me in terms of helping us > get to know extroverted parts of the community and their issues, > but it doesn't sound very efficient and may exclude less > squeaky wheels. Vision is good as long as it isn't too ego > centric. Right. The Apache Board provides a template and timetable so that this is not a volunteer sport for egos but a report-back for projects. I don't think they actually have someone show up at the meeting though - they just publish reports. My concern about starting that way is it creates a work item that will be unwelcome and, frankly, ignored. So we get work item reports from extroverts. That's better than nothing, or than imposing our own view, surely? S.
