Developments on the Ubuntu governance

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, November 17, 2014 11:27:01 AM Ian Weisser wrote:
> > 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.

I've been following this thread and you lost me here.  What's your view of the 
underlying problem?

Scott K