First of all, they should ruthlessly dictate that No Lecture Recordings Shall be Made Publicly Available by any Free Software Related Club, Unless They are Accompanied by Textual Transcripts.
Just kidding :-) :-) :-) Now, the serious part. There are an interview with and a blog entry from current/former DPLs (leaders of the Debian project) at: http://lwn.net/Articles/174705/ http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/being-dpl The thing which striked me in both articles was the message that a DPL should be concerned with ensuring that the machinery works smoothly, that people can go on doing their work. A good DPL is someone who does not unnecessarily meddle with working processes. "Strong Leaders" are not likely to be able to accomplish their disruptive goals. A person, who wants to make a change, had better start or join a project and work within that project. He would be accomplish more than if he were sprinkled with the holy yellow liquid of the avian flu-infected egg as he was being enshrined with the leadership position. It reminds me of the E-mail discussion which we had in this mailing list few months ago about the proper roles of Hamakor board members. Some people wanted them to go and actually accomplish some things. Others (me, included) said that they should only help projectors, and that projectors (who could be also board members, or could be people outside of the board) are the ones to move and shake things. --- Omer -- Eli Marmor's Law: netiquette forbids people from replying "I agree with you" to messages in mailing lists, skewing discussions in favor of the troublemaker type of dissenters. My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
