Seems fair to me. +1 On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 21:23 -0800, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi All, > > To those of you who don't know me, I am Jono Bacon and I am the Ubuntu > Community Manager, now residing in the Easy Bay in sunny California. :-) > > Aside from just being part of the team, I have also been helping to > resolve some conflict that has been happening in the team. I have had > some calls with Neal and Grant and spoken to many of you to gather your > input about the team and this conflict. > > Today I had a conference call with Neal and Grant and both identified > that a key issue is that sometimes unresolved issues are left open and > not resolved. Typically in most LoCo teams in these scenarios the leader > will help unblock and bring closure to these issues. While Neal is the > leader Ubuntu California, there was some uncertaintly in our call as to > how formally recognized this is. > > I made a suggestion in the call, but Grant, Neal and I all agreed that > we should not move forward with the suggestion without gathering > feedback from the team as to whether it is needed. As such, I would like > to ask each of you to provide feedback on the following suggestion - > some of you will want to mail me your feedback privately, and some will > be happy to reply to the list. Whatever method you choose: please > summarize *your* view, and not the view of someone who has asked you to > provide feedback one way or the other. The aim of this is for me to get > a barometer of opinion for this proposal. > > This is it: > > I recommend we have a leadership appoint process that works like this: > > * With Neal already the leader of the team, starting from April > 1st 2010 he would start a formally recognized one year term of > leadership (he would be grandfathered in). > * In March 2011 a leadership appointment process will happen > that works like this: > o there will be an invitation for people to nominate > themselves for leadership. There will be a standard wiki > template used for people to produce their case for > leadership and others will provide testimonials. > o a meeting will be scheduled and nominations will be > discussed, there will then be a vote using a voting tool > to identify the leader. > o if there is a draw or some conflict surrounding the > vote, the LoCo Council will evaluate the case and pick a > leader. > > What do you think? Please vote with: > > * +1 - you agree with the above proposal. > * -1 - you disagree with the above proposal. > > Again, feel free to provide feedback privately to me or publicly on the > list. > > Thanks! > > Jono > > -- > Jono Bacon > Ubuntu Community Manager > www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org > www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon > >
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