Just to weigh in briefly on this discussion, as an outsider to the team but as an observer for some time and with some experience of various teams growing up around the Ubuntu community.
I think that one of the messages that Ruben has identified is definitely a valid one: that you don't get leaders in this community by appointment at the outset of a project. People grow into leaders and get recognition and validation as leaders by doing good work and leading by example. What the marketing team very clearly needs is some focused and achievable tasks which are done regularly (producing materials, updating the pre-release feature documents, etc etc). I think that a leader will grow out of the team once that is done. There are plenty of good people on this list and plenty of people doing great marketing work in local community teams so I'm confident that that will happen when some focused projects are established. With that in mind I'd encourage Paolo during the meeting to set out what he's done with the Italian Marketing Team because this is a good example of identifying focused projects, and addressing them. The same applies to others with similar initiatives in other local teams. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
