[ubuntu-us] Next US Teams Project Meeting

[Trey Brown]

Is there a way to just tack down a meeting time and then discuss in the
meeting? Not everyone subscribes to this list and the discussions taking
place can/will influence some people's stance on the issue at hand.

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Trey

On Nov 25, 2007 10:33 PM, Chuck Frain <chuckfrain at pobox.com> wrote:

> Not to insult anyone, but from my perspective I haven't really seen any
> leader of the group from my perspective. If anyone asked, I was saying
> that Aaron was the defacto informal leader from the way I saw things.
>
> From my angle, the US Teams Project seems to be cruising along just
> fine. I like the idea of education weeks and trying to do a national
> event would be fun. For those types of things I think we need a 'leader'
> to coordinate the efforts. That could just as easily be done by the
> project lead. Once the US has teams in each state, this project is over
> as far as it's original intent. If it evolves into something else great,
> but that is a discussion in and of itself (that needs to be discussed
> soon from the list I've seen).
>
> However I don't see a leader as having any real power in a group like
> this as it is really a support group more than an active group. We need
> a contact so when something needs to be done from the greater community
> standpoint one person can be contacted. That person has to be trusted to
> make the straight forward decisions and have a regular IRC meeting for
> the bigger choices.
>
> Joe Terranova wrote:
> > Then we can discuss not having a leader at the meeting. But if we're
> > only going to only have a team contact, then we should clarify what
> > authority a team contact has -- that being not much at all. That lack
> > of authority should be enforced, even in times of conflict.
> >
> > On Nov 25, 2007 11:11 PM, Aaron Toponce < aaron.toponce at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Why all the politics?  Let's just run the project as a project as we've
> >> been doing for the past 11 months.  Creating leadership positions are
> >> just telling me that someone needs power to make decisions and put
> >> people in their place, as there seem to be some dissensions amongst
> >> members.  Let's keep our focus on the core of the project- to get state
>
> >> locos approves, not create leaders and councils and bureaucracy.
>
>
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