[Ubuntu Leadership] New Member Introduction and Some Ideas

[cprofitt]

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 10:17 -0400, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm Svetlana Belkin, a new member and in this e-mail I have some ideas
> for this team/project.

Nice to see some new energy in this project.

> I know you guys are not active but I think it's the right time to get
> this team and project off the ground since it was brought up in the last
> vUDS[1].  But since Jono Bacon now doesn't work for Canonical, I think
> it's up to this team/project to produce the content.  When I subscribed
> to the list, I saw that you started some projects.  I think we start
> with them and add to them if needed.
> 
> I also saw that you have a leadership handbook for the LoCo's.  I think
> that can written and also worked on with the Ubuntu Manual project/team.
> 
> I reported a IDEA bug in the community.ubuntu.com requesting pages
> on leadership [2].  Maybe once we have content, that content can be on
> that page.
> 
> My last idea is one that deals with the vUDS.  I was thinking of doing
> some idea of a leadership panel track of five members of different teams
> and they can talk about how to be a leader in their team.  They can also
> answer questions that people on IRC have.
> 
> I hope this team can get off the ground again and help new leaders.

I like the idea of a leadership panel / track. It would be helpful for
people to connect and discuss the ideas that helped them grow their
communities.

The Ubuntu Community needs to help people develop skills necessary with
growing and leading diverse groups in an on-line settings.

I am happy to see some new energy here. Please let me know if there is
anything I can do to assist.

Charles