Leo Simons wrote: > Greg Brown wrote: > > > > If I can attempt to summarize, there is a difference between the *concept* > > of a leader and the *title* of a leader here at ASF (please correct me if I > > am wrong). > > Correct! You missed the rationale in the summary, though :-) > > * There is a goal that leadership comes from multiple people (and also > not from people at a single company, and only as allowed by the > community, and ...). > * There is a goal that who lead can change over time. > * There is a goal that it is easy for new people to feel included and > get involved. > * There is quite a bit more emphasis on > leadership-that-is-not-software-development at the ASF and especially > during incubation. > > And such and so forth. The terminology (not) in use tends to help just > a little bit to work towards those goals. > > ...just a little bit, though, most of it is still up to you! :)
Thanks for the board report changes Greg. Avoiding the use of the term in those cases seems to work well. Of course "lead by example" is certainly welcomed. -David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
