Hi all, A moment of truth before it is too late :)
1. I'm totally lost with many emails with the very same subject and/or contents, talking about almost the same thing. The only difference is: there are more than one email. But if someone read these emails, he/she will find hard time to tell the 'real' difference and the real reason behind several threads. I do fail to see the point here and have no idea why? do we lack the basics of communications? or am I missing something here? no blaming here, just being super honest and direct to the point. 2. Before X disagrees with Y and before Y responds to X, and before Z steps in and do anything ... can we please take a moment and re-think in different way? aren't we missing something MUCH MORE important and obvious than a website and recruiting people or mailing lists or servers? perhaps I was very wrong for NOT prioritize our to do list - blame me if you wish - but let's look ahead and move forward .. in the same time, learn from our mistakes. Something is missing here - to be discussed in #3 3. We DO NEED a project/team structure BEFORE we start ANYTHING. Why? because I, for one, have no idea what is going on? who is in charge of what? why X steps in always and Y is watching? lots of unanswered Qs and the reason is, I/We are discussing a LESS important topics thinking these topics are the most important of all. No. We're wrong. We do miss much more important step .. thanks to Gustavo who mentioned that in away on one of his replies. 4. I'd suggest before we move forward with anything, we MUST come up with a team structure and distribute the tasks :) without that, it would be a REAL HUGE MESS. 5. Once we are done form that (it should take 24 maximum), we can move forward in more effective, organized and productive way. In short, I think the NEW priority to-do-list is: - *Team Structure:* 1. Each one of us MUST - IMHO - has a role. 2. Once each one of us has a role, he/she will have a tasks to do. 3. While it is very healthy to share opinions within the team, I find it - specially in the future - very hard to carry on if X will step into Y's area and so on. While Kibo's concept is taken from Ubuntu where a whole team could lead a project, that must be tweaked as Kibo is a business project and tasks - IMHO - must be distributed wisely and *before* that, roles must be decided first. - *Internal Team Communications:* 1. The current approach is definitely not healthy and not doing any good to us at all. Something is wrong. Before we spend time, efforts and energy to blame the platform, let's have a moment of truth and admit we're not following the correct way to communicate. At least, this is what I feel. Feel free to disagree with me. 2. Once we find out what is wrong with our internal communications, we need to find the BEST alternatives for US, not for the world. It is WE who are going to use some platforms and before these are helpful for US, these platforms MUST help Kibo. Remember, without Kibo, we're no longer a team if you know what I mean. Kibo's project is gathering us under one roof. So, whatever we need to go for, this must first of all help Kibo itself before it helps us. What you don't like might help the project. What does not help the project might be very great for you. Kibo first, then us. Feel free to disagree with me and I'm open to any correction/suggestion/feedback. 3. If we are serious enough, why only Emily has sent me her phone number? no trust? or you disagree? forgot? what is the reason why I have not received any other phone number? 4. We should have MORE than 1 platform to communicate. I would name: - Phones for urgent and important stuff - Emails (not mailing lists, I mean E-mails) - Since we're meeting and doing video calls on Google Hangout, our Google+ Community could be used as a secondary media or platforms. - Perhaps a 4th media/platform for internal communications NOT work progress, projects, etc. I am talking about communications here :) - *Website:* 1. The logo must be ready to be published. 2. Website Alpha should be ready in 24-48 hours from now. Once that is ready, we can start tweaking, updating, adding, etc. 3. By 1st of Feb, 2015, the final version of our website must be up and running as we discussed before. 4. Our website is not only for clients, it is also for newcomers we need to recruit. This link: http://amjjawad.net/kibo/ is not helpful and people need to 'see' more organized stuff. So, having an up and running website is helpful in two ways: clients and recruiting. 5. While we believe in: "All of us are smarter than anyone if us", there must be a website team who take FULL responsibility. Because we're only 7 at this point, we need a technical person and someone who knows what to put on the website. More might be helpful but I fail to see why we should allocate more than 2 out of 7 for the website unless I'm missing something. This should be done 'after' having a final website. Since we're at the Alpha Stage for the website, I think more hands are needed unless I'm wrong. - *Recruit people: *Only when all the above is done or at least we started working on, we can start to recruit people from: 1. Real Life: each one of us - IMHO - should help and recruit. 2. Social Media: by using different channels such as our own channels. Kibo's channels are new and without followers now. Later, that can be different. 3. Internet: Blogs, contact 3rd parties, etc. 4. Please note: there is NO harm to recruit people while working on the above items, I am not saying do not recruit. I am setting priorities from my eyes and I could be wrong :) I couldn't sleep last night and I missed ToriOS's team because I couldn't come up with the above list last night. I guess I managed to do that now. I'm not an expert, I'm not perfect. I will never claim that in my entire life. You could be better than me. You can do things in better ways with better results. There are lots of things I might be wrong about. There are too lots of things you could be correct about. All that is not important, trust me. What does really matter is: *Kibo* and the *team*. All of us are smarter than anyone of us. Only, if that will be done in the correct way. Every beginning is hard. > *Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they > were to success when they gave up.* > And, I'm sure you know who said that one :) I have started Kibo, not because I'm jobless and striving to find a job. I have started Kibo because I believe in the concepts and above all, I want to do something I love, not something I have to do just because I'm forced to do just because I need money. Life worth much more than money. You may disagree with me, that's fine, but this is how I see it from my eyes. Last but not least, our disagreements should NOT tear us apart, period. Have a wonderful day, everyone! P.S. I don't want to share my own number on a public mailing list but once you send yours, I shall reply with mine. P.S.2 We need to use a free messaging service and the best option for me now is Whatsapp. Works on my two very old phones :) -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> http://torios.org - StartUbuntu <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu> - Ubuntu GNOME <http://ubuntugnome.org/> - http://amjjawad.net
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