Hi,
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 01:03:59AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl < > toli...@debian.org> wrote: [snip] > I can't speak for always, but I can say that for almost the year leading up > to approximately one or two weeks prior to DebConf, unbeknownst to most, > including myself, there was no active DebConf press team lead. While there > are certainly lessons to be learned here, this situation has, at least for > now, been addressed. > > I do see DebConf press and Debian press teams as definitely a great starting > point for collaboration. I'd even be willing to go as far as saying that as > acting DebConf press team lead, I would be willing to relinquish that role > to my Debian press counterpart, now that there is one, if everyone thought > that was for the best. (How does the saying go? "Tag you're it!") :) In all > seriousness, I do think that in instances were there are role overlaps > between Debian and DebConf, we should take into consideration the feelings > and wishes of the people doing the work, and privately reach out to them to > see what they want, before arbitrarily pushing a new reporting structure on > them. (Trust me we don't want to demotivate anyone, as the work is hard > enough as it is, and we are short of workers). > > Alexander, I'd be willing to help you start capturing the information I've > learned and I have been handed down, in my two years with the org. (mostly > as a very junior member of the team). Maybe in a press-team wiki? Maybe you > can add what you have learned and we can also work to document some of the > pain points where we can strive for improvement. > > -Brian > > P.S. - I also want to apologize and take full responsibility for the 10th vs > 11th error. I can't even claim ignorance of the facts, as I had been > explained the issue ages ago, but for some reason when proofreading it > didn't notice it, nor did the various other people on the mailing list and > irc that reviewed it. > > +1 Please let me say to you that you're fantastic: this is f****ng collaboration! Persons like you make Debian great. Francesca _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
