Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, November 20, 2014 06:37:44 PM Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > Again, nothing is stopping anyone from doing this. Nothing is stopping
> > someone stepping up and inspiring our community to focus on the
> > desktop, make it awesome, and continue to be the best it can be.
> > No-one is stopping anyone from building the strongest local user group
> > community in the world, creating an incredible community of artists
> > and designers, and more.
> >
> > 
> >
> > The point of my blog post is that I don't think you are going to see
> > as much of this from Canonical (due to the focus on cloud/mobile), and
> > am suggesting our governance and leadership spends more time doing
> > this. They are perfectly placed to do this; our governance is
> > independent and diverse, and I think this kind of motivational,
> > inspirational leadership could inject so much opportunity and
> > motivation into the project.
> 
> Do governance board members need to do this with their "governance hat"
> on? I think everyone could write more, blog more, point out brilliant
> things, etc. To me everyone should feel empowered to do this, governance
> board member or not.

I think this is pretty exactly on target.

There's an issue here, but it's rather orthogonal to project governance.

Scott K