[Ubuntu Leadership] Suggested Name Change

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On 10/28/2011 06:08 AM, Juha Siltala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 16:05, Penelope Stowe<pstowe at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Amber Graner<akgraner at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>>> HI all!
>>>
>>> I'll be adding this to our roadmap as well.
>>>
>>> I think the name needs to be changed to something such as:
>>>
>>> Ubuntu Leadership Mentoring Team
>>> Ubuntu Leadership Development Team
>>>
>>>
>>> We need to be seen as a resource and an argumentation to the
>>> leadership/governance structure that is already in place, NOT as a
>>> competition to what is already there.  With adding one word to the
>>> name of the team we can effectively begin to do this then we can
>>> hopefully encourage more people to help out and more of the
>>> established leaders join the team as well and collaborate with us.
>>>
>>> We want people to join the team to because they are all ready a leader
>>> in the community and/or they are wanting to improve their own
>>> leadership abilities and/or mentor other people to become leaders
>>> themselves, by changing the name be become more of a group of team
>>> players who are leading through our ability to offer various
>>> resources.
>>>
>> I'd like to add my support to the idea of a name change. I know I've
>> had a few moments of looking at something and thinking "but which
>> leadership team?" when seeing things like blueprints for this team.
>> Either of the ones Amber proposes seem appropriate to me.
> I agree that "Ubuntu Leadership" sounds like we're taking over, which
> we of course are not. "Development" sounds descriptive of the team
> actually tries to do.
>
+1 for Mentoring although I think Leadership gets across an accurate 
message since atleast
on the West Coast schools have "Leadership" classes which act to develop 
leadership skills in young people.

-- 
Sincerely,

Benjamin Kerensa
Team Lead
Ubuntu Oregon LoCo