Re-imagining

[Darcy Casselman]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Mark Paskal <markpaskal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think there needs to be a minimum level of leadership to facilitate good
> communication.


To some extent, I figure this would occur naturally if you have a robust
ecosystem of city teams.  Because the sort of people who start city teams
are the sorts of people who don't like to see the national LoCo or whatever
lying fallow (it could be I'm projecting, as it is evident there are also
city team leaders who think national LoCos are a useless waste of time, but
whatever.  I don't think it's necessary for *every* city team leader to be
on board for a national/regional LoCo to work.  And I'm all for them
getting their dues even if they don't want to play along.  But I
digress...).

Leaders are just people.  There's no "leadership" school, really.  Unless
you count MBAs, but they make me sad.  (Well, actually, Ubuntu tried to do
something like leadership and/or community management training or
documentation a couple cycles back I never really thought of myself as a
leader, but I have this tendency to get involved and do things because I
think they ought to be done.  Which is why I'm also running a hackerspace.

For a mailing list, I don't think it takes much.  You just need a person or
a couple of persons to be granted the role of moderator.  And hopefully
they have the respect of the participants and can do the job well.  Boom,
you have a leader.

Darcy.
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