HI, On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Tassia <tas...@acaia.ca> wrote: > We agreed that the chairs would take on the administrative task of > facilitating the teams' composition, so I'll explain in a bit more > detail how we are going to proceed. > > As soon as we have agreed on a list of subteams, we are going to publish > a call for help, inviting people for a long-term commitment to a > specific team. We are also going to send individual invitations for > people who have already helped in specific tasks in previous years and > are no longer involved with DebConf organization.
As this has already started for the fundraising team (with extra urgency due to time pressure), I'd like to point out a couple of things that I consider might be done better for future teams. I consider it a mistake to mail the "current" members of a team, telling them that they are past members (personally, I found this very very troubling). I think that the process of figuring out the teams should include: 1 - Talking with the current members of the team, asking them if they want to continue working on it in the future (but not telling them that they are past members). 2 - Inviting past members to join the current members. 3 - Inviting some people that are "local" to the next year DebConf to join the team, already asking them for a longer term commitment. I think it also makes sense to send more personalized mails. i.e. "You worked on the talks team in DC10 and you made such a great job, would you be interested in joining the team once again?" instead of just "you are a past member of the talks team..." And all this work should be work done in agreement and together with the current team members, not a complete reboot pretending that they don't have any say in what happens next. > When the base groups are formed, the lead and shadow positions will > emerge by answers to these questions: "Who would make good leaders for > those teams?" and "If you see yourself as a team leader, who would be > good alongside you?". I think these questions can be improved, particularly because you are asking for nominations for shadow and wizard only if one nominates oneself. I would prefer to be able to nominate leads, shadows and wizards even if I don't nominate myself. The second question as worded here is fine and makes sense, a lead and a shadow should be able to work together. But in the email it had the addition of being the only point of including shadows and wizards, which I think was a mistake. -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
