[Ubuntu Leadership] Let's Reboot This Team (Again)!

[Phill. Whiteside]

Hi,

well before RL took him out of the loop, a certain guy was asked to write
up a paper[attached]. I do think he posted it up, but time flows and things
change. The Author of this is back as a GC for linuxpadawan[1]  and will
take on restricted duties (a few hours a week) for teams / padawans.

Those who know him, will see his style :) For the Others he is "the
lion"[2]

Regards,

Phill.
1. http://wiki.linuxpadawan.net/AboutUs
2. http://wiki.linuxpadawan.net/SilverLion


On 1 February 2016 at 00:37, Simon Quigley <sqawesome99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Svetlana,
>
> > Yet another year passed and looks like we have not tired to reboot this
> team in order to create a
> > powerful community of leaders within the Ubuntu Community. I want to try
> again on rebooting this
> > team, even though I'm aware that we have resource (time and human)
> problems. The reason is that
> > Find-A-Task was again brought up on the community-list [1] saying that
> it's not helping the
> > Community, but Ian himself said[2] that it's a problem with leadership.
> This is why I'm making a
> > call to reboot this team.
>
> I can't speak for anyone else, but my only problem is motivation if
> something dies down. I easily
> have the time and capacity to help with something like this.
>
> > I have three projects/ideas that we could start on:
> >
> > 1. Mentoring Program
> >
> > It's the same one [3] that I suggested last year.
>
> Just a quick note on this, before I let some people down, a program like
> this exists called Linux
> Padawan[1]. Although this exists, there are only so many masters, and a
> program like this
> specifically for Ubuntu would be very advantageous. We could maybe even
> work with them on this. I
> have carbon-copied Phill Whiteside.
>
> > 2. Material Collection
> >
> > Our resource page [4] only have two links and both link to the "Building
> > Community" wiki pages.  I don't recall if those two pages have any
> > material on leadership.  I'm planning to write a blog post, for those
> > who don't use mailing-lists, and an e-mail to both Community Team and
> > the LoCo Contacts mailing-lists, as they are our Community-based
> > mailing-lists, but I wanted to discuss this idea first.  I'm not sure if
> > this would help the team and the Community.
>
> In my honest opinion, leadership isn't something that one can just read
> some documentation on and
> suddenly be proficient at. If you are referencing documentation on getting
> started with the team and
> such, I'm all for it.
>
> Also, I think that would be a good idea, to get this out to more people. I
> can definitely send
> something to my LoCo. But overall this is a good call, Svetlana, because
> mentioning this on some
> random mailing list isn't going to spread it out that much. But if you get
> a blog post(that can go
> into UWN) and an email(that can go to Local Community teams and such) sent
> out, this would be great.
>
> > 3. Leader's Code of Conduct
> >
> > It looks like we had one in the beginning but it's gone.  I know that
> > someone still has the copy.  I don't know if, in the past, the team
> > required all leaders within the Community to sign it.  I think it would
> > be something that we could try to do again because it will offer
> > protection- or would it be useless if our Community is a meritocracy? If
> > not, the two other problems is that there is no way to show that someone
> > has signed it on LP and (to me) that board members of every board are
> > required to sign it since they are leaders.  Or would this be void if
> > the CC sees who is fit and who is not for the members of each board?
>
> Well, I sort of have mixed opinions on this. I think signing the Ubuntu
> Code of Conduct would be
> mandatory, as that covers a lot of good concepts. If there are specific
> rules/guidelines this team
> should adhere to, that would also be good.
>
> > Out of these three, I think the second one would be the easiest to work
> > on since it's simple.  The third idea would be the second because it
> > requires a bit more work, if we figure out that it's still needed.  The
> > first last would be the hardest to work on since it requires resources
> > that we seem to not have.
> >
> > Please feel free to reply to this e-mail or we can start three separate
> > threads for each idea.
>
> I would love to help out where help is needed. As stated before, I have
> the time for a project like
> this, and it sounds like an awesome idea. I also think you should consider
> talking to the folks over
> at Linux Padawan to get tips from them, because the Linux Padawan program
> is phenomenal. But an
> Ubuntu version of this would be good to focus on contributing to Ubuntu or
> something of that nature
> because contributing to Ubuntu is such a broad concept, and having someone
> there to "hold your hand"
> makes the experience ten times better, whereas I personally see Linux
> Padawan as helping with
> general Linux skills.
>
> I know I focused on the mentoring portion that you suggested, but overall
> a Leadership team would be
> something awesome for people new to the Ubuntu Community, to be able to
> look at that person's
> contributions and be inspired by that person's good work in the community.
> Something like this
> should exist already, and I am surprised it doesn't.
>
> If you have any questions/comments/concerns, I am tsimonq2 on Freenode.
>
> [1] http://linuxpadawan.net/
>
>
> --
> Have a nice day,Simon Quigleytsimonq2Contact for the Ubuntu US Wisconsin
> LoCo TeamLubuntu Contributor
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