On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Derek J. Balling <dr...@megacity.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > > > On 3/2/2015 10:13 AM, Martin James Gehrke wrote: > > The benefit I see is an ED is a constant stream of progress. > > Relying on volunteers mean you are at the mercy of their > > availability. I see LOPSA having a major issue with project > > continuity. Things start but stall, things never get started, etc. > > An ED changes nothing with regards to the "Relying on volunteers". An > ED isn't a "doer", they're a "manager". > > You are still at the mercy of the availability of the volunteers, and > there is still going to be issues with continuity (since volunteers > are not always as good at clean hand-offs to later volunteers, and an > ED doesn't really change that). > > An ED is best thought of as more like a cat-herder type role. > > D > > I think perhaps we're being a bit pedantic on the title vs. the role. If an ED isn't capable of being both a manager and doer then go out and hire somebody a different title. The point here being that we need somebody that can execute on projects, we currently have too many chiefs (directors, vocal members, etc) and not enough doers. Putting somebody on the payroll who can be a doer would be great progress. > > - -- > I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 > F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at > http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt > > Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: > https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0 > Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJU9H89AAoJEGYbOtbYKrvQsPsP/2GrUI8PHFKNOvchw4g/WUrs > D4hWdepFj5+LdxxW7nrpo68sNUm01u0e7DPqdYUfF4SYYSoqVGmdafYMO8lQZHjY > WQP+zOTRmxEqzG2Q9fWz543IxRw6kEbkEg0fNOvufPWGVWIQaboGIG4kmRhB2hHU > 4AmP+858E/ExAnqvpxTf805Qc1UZB8/5bw12jcsTxvxuOG6RXHPqvilNKnwDsCo/ > CYuN7my7szhm+CUXsuWJBL6zd77ndcgEdXMUysIMCCEwlHMG/0vwPQuE51id2wBO > eeMOKVQWdpRE+n6LZsHHB2vWM+A/2q3du2orDKXfBmDdJn7GPY0LIbW1C8a9KWNZ > e4NZliDJnnO6ZMhEEgYgCNL54ohXb9Tgkhxv3xrTaX0ejWGeWZeuGskijsjVo4fx > Urb59hr75zPdYx4+hWzTtN7OjslZ+Pydafw1nvMP8/O+yHc013NzKiwsK2AHe1yc > OlOrgI5UALlpyTigWRqjrOoObVfXeajgnlO6aWHMceKKIFySSdMeLKoUM5EHxU0/ > iL1Jn71QFs/zUr5GpTxIMjGyPWfzRoNHpcQZQnyIgqVTX0RWUa2UxWFvUmdLW3Fg > ZlR+sM7D51Mg+hecwN/ZNF3iPGlvxQhAzZG/AeNy4acsE+PUybF1K+zUf8h38q4l > 049YSh+0Bc7I2u+fzMyn > =ihYl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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