Hello all
There are some teams in Debian that focus in areas similar to the DPL tasks and
allow people to make a difference in the project working on them, without the
need - and the burden? or the satisfaction? - of being a DPL. For example:
* treasury, press/publicity and partners deal with the relationship with
companies/organisations,
* publicity/press, the web team and events team can have influence on the image
we transmit and how the project is perceived
* frontdesk, MIA, outreach, events and the welcome team can have an impact in
expanding/improving our user base and contributor base, helping and motivating
them etc.)
* ...
Sometimes I feel that having a (single person) DPL role is somehow harmful for
people to get involved in these tasks:
- the elected person gets so squeezed that after their service they just prefer
to focus in other tasks,
- the non-elected get depressed and don't continue contributing ideas/work to
advance Debian in these areas,
- the watchers just focus on DPL'ship (if they fit or not) and thus the more
granularity in commitment (via the involvement in these teams) is overlooked.
- the team members may continue overloaded until they decide they just need a
break, and are not sure if all this flourish of ideas is tied to the DPL role
("having a hat", the "campaign period"...), or the people contributing to the
debates (and the candidates) are motivated enough to get involved even if they
are not elected :-)
What are your views on this?
Kind regards,
--
Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
