Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp <gentoo-nfp@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] How to improve the trustees
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:53:36
Message-Id: 1201812816.15235.64.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] How to improve the trustees by Alec Warner
1 On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:31 -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
2 >
3 > > Also I think that possibly the trustees should do more personnel and
4 > > drama management. Which presently falls under the council, but doesn't
5 > > seem technical in nature. But that could potentially be controversial,
6 > > and not likely to be one of the first actions.
7 >
8 > I would prefer you inquire about this at a council meeting. Gentoo
9 > the distribution has lots of siloing and leadership problems that need
10 > work and I think with stronger leadership you will note a decrease in
11 > drama. I am not sure how many developers are interested in being a
12 > 'project lead'; currently people are more 'technical leads'.
13
14 I agree on taking this to the council, when the time is right.
15
16 IMHO once the new board is able to decide on handing things to the SPI
17 and/or doing it in house. The next thing is likely to turn to the
18 council, and say, how can we help :)
19
20 After all that's the mission of the board right. To help, oversee, and
21 provide for the project in non-technical ways :)
22
23 --
24 William L. Thomson Jr.
25 Gentoo/amd64/Java

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