Re-imagining

[Darcy Casselman]

I was making a point about the Ubuntu Leadership team but got distracted in
editing.  What I was trying to say is there was some effort towards
leadership training (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLeadership), but it
seems to have fallen away.  I read the documents, and there was some good
effort there, but I don't know how much of a practical impact they would
have had.

I think growing a leader from raw potential takes a lot of care and
feeding.  Or they just show up and do their thing.

Darcy.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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