Developments on the Ubuntu governance

[Ian Weisser]

> On 11/17/2014 07:17 AM, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> What I meant was a team that can help new people find a place to use
> their skills.  Like some sort of hub where there are members of the
> core teams of Ubuntu to help the new one into a team that they can be
> in.  Something like that.

A team of 'guidance counselors' is certainly one solution. However, it
addresses only one symptom (hard for new participants to find a
welcoming point of entry) of the problem (a culture that equates
technical prowess with leadership). 

It might work...but I don't think it would help much. The facilitating
volunteers would find it frustrating when other teams and projects
ignored their new-participant leads. Been there when I worked on Ubuntu
Brainstorm.

My preferred solution is to address the underlying problem. This isn't a
problem we can throw a team at for a cycle or two. It's an element of
the culture within our community, a holdover from Ubuntu's technocratic
roots during the first few years.

Cheers,

-Ian