Docs Leadership: How to get there from here.
Christopher Curran
ccurran at redhat.com
Thu Jan 22 06:55:22 UTC 2009
Eric Christensen wrote:
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> In today's meeting[1] we discussed new leadership in the Docs Project.
> There was a mixed discussion about what kind of leadership we needed and
> how to get them and the future of the Docs Project. At the end of the
> discussion Karsten left us with three questions that I'm now passing
> along to the list. Let's hear some ideas on this, please.
>
> The three questions are:
> 1) Do we want to hold elections or just have someone appointed by our
> current leadership to take the reigns.
>
Elections are good but it should also be based off merit. We need a
doer, a mover in the current community. Someone who makes lots of edits
or submits lots of new content.
> 2) Do we want a Steering Committee or Single Leader with Lieutenants to
> direct this project (basically a single leader with help)?
>
The project is small enough for one(1) leader. Anything more is a layer
of bureaucracy that will slow us down. If it seems like too much of a
task to manage 20 odd casual writers you need to redefine your concept
of management.
> 3) And the biggest question is do we want the Docs Project to remain a
> sub-project of Fedora or do we want to move to being a Special Interest
> Group (SIG)?
>
>
Stay a project.
Chris
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