Sometimes the way around this is to just expand the leadership AND have regular / annual elections (which would coincide with dinner + beer potlucks)
So you have a division of labour (for free, mind you, so that only committed volunteers with an actual interest in the project will step up) and moreover there is a continuous influx of new blood and the responsibility passes from past office bearers so it isn’t a years long strain on their work life balance. From: Silklist <[email protected]> on behalf of Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 8 November 2024 at 10:23 AM To: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> Cc: Ameya Nagarajan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] Founding (and letting go / handing over) passion projects I think one thing that happens esp with passion projects (used this as shorthand for this kind of thing) is that the founders struggle to let the project change. While others might share a large overlap of your passion behind the project, it's not full. and it's hard to let go while still at the helm.I feel that if the people originally driving it start to open it to change while still driving, someone else will automatically rise up and be ready to take over. Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) [Image removed by sender.]<http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 09:37, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 8:01 AM Peter Griffin via Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: But I’ve always had a problem in trying to get other people to take things over. Many are happy to help, but not to take over or even take large responsibilities. Which means that I wind up having to be the moving force behind them. (None of them are so popular or have as fervent followers as a cult would, I hasten to say, and nobody takes me seriously enough to be a proper guru, alas.) While I think through an answer to the original question, I thought I'd share a couple of related experiences I have had: I've been part of many communities as a founding member over the years, and a couple of experiences of change of guard come to mind: - One, where I was part of a small group of people who helped found what eventually became a very large volunteer-driven community, had me withdrawing because the internal politics had become toxic. So it wasn't a case of "Can you take my place?" but more like "I'm out, it's all yours now". - Two, where I was left to run an online group by default when the founding member walked away. I'm being intentionally vague here because both examples above are known to members here, and have the potential to become arguments which I don't have the bandwidth for at this time. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com<http://pobox.com>)) ((www.digeratus.com<http://www.digeratus.com>)) -- Silklist mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist
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