[Ubuntu-US-CA] Team Leadership Election Announcement!

[Jack Deslippe]

Hi All,

Some time ago (January 2009 apparently), I crafted the following proposal
for the Cali-team structure -
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVvuU9dbI-YnZGhtOWh6cHZfMjYzcXpxdDhoZA&hl=en
-
It was met with some interest at the time but never enacted.  While, I am in
no way really attached to any particular detail of that proposal, I will
mention that it contains a three-person leadership council - where
specifically each of the three leaders represented a different region of
California.  Additionally, each was elected once a year.

Sorry I missed the IRC meeting yesterday, but I'd like to mention now that I
think it is important that before this election takes place, we also have in
place a plan to carry out future elections on a regular basis - so, we have
a continuous feedback cycle.  I.e. - I think we should have a very brief but
well-defined leadership structure for the group laid out somewhere.
 (Forgive me if this is already up on the Wiki somewhere).

Anyway, given the above, I obviously vote for the 3-person council - and
hope the short list of bylaws etc are coded up somewhere.

Cheers,

Jack

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The idea of elected leadership in Ubuntu California has been floated
> by the team several times in the past, and this evening during our
> meeting the LoCo Council formally requested that we move forward with
> it.
>
> The final question the team needs to discuss is whether we should
> continue to have a single leader, or if we should have a team of three
> leaders sharing responsiblity equally.
>
> Can people weigh in with their thoughts?
>
> As far as the election itself goes, the LoCo Council has requested
> that we follow the following schedule so that team leaders will be
> elected within 3 weeks:
>
> Nominations will be collected for 2 weeks.
>
> In order to nominate yourself, create a wiki page (your
> wiki.ubuntu.com page will do fine! Just add an Ubuntu California
> Leadership section) with information about you, your qualifications
> (participate in events? other leadership experience?), why you wish to
> be part of the team leadership, and the county you live in. Then mail
> the LoCo Council (loco-council at lists.ubuntu.com) with your applcation.
>
> Voting will take place on the 3rd week and be handled by sending your
> vote to the LoCo Council (loco-council at lists.ubuntu.com). An
> announcement including all the applicants with links to their wiki
> pages will be made when voting starts with a reminder about how to
> vote.
>
> Anyone who is a member of the California LoCo can vote and can be
> nominated. If you intend to nominate yourself, be sure you have signed
> the Ubuntu Code of Conduct[0], if you need help doing this feel free
> to ask on list or join us in #ubuntu-california on irc.freenode.net
> and we'll help you out (I'd also be happy to help out if you want to
> send me a direct email).
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to discuss on list or email the
> LoCo Council.
>
> Note: Due to the issues which lead to the problems with the team, it
> was requested by the council that that Grant Bowman, Mark Terranova,
> Nathan Haines and Neal Busset be excluded from nominations this time.
>
> [0] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
>
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