Hi, during the last months some of us have tried to make more explicit the areas in Sugar Labs that are in need of an owner, and have used http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vacancies for that.
In some cases, we are not only missing an individual that is willing to take a particular position, but we are missing entire teams such as deployment and documentation teams, as critical as they are for our operation. I'm of the opinion that a good first step to get a team created around a subject is to have an individual that gives visibility to the importance of that work and incentives others to join. This is the main role of the team coordinator, at this stage. And that's why I added to that page the descriptions for the coordinators of the documentation and deployment teams, and also have tried to keep the job descriptions as minimal as possible, to make it easy for someone to step up in the initial stage and also to make it easy to find a replacement when needed. The page has been recently edited, adding to the deployment team coordinator "Has to keep continuous contact with local deployments". I think that's the job of the team, but the coordinator doesn't need to take responsibility for the team's performance, it only needs to help in some specific ways that the team can do their duties, if the rest of the circumstances are right (such as, having fellow team members). These specific ways are holding regular meetings in IRC and keeping a wiki page up to date regarding the team mission, goals and members. This email is not about that edit in the wiki, but more a call for more team coordinators. Holding bi-weekly meetings and keeping a page in the wiki updated can take less than 5 hours per month, but you will be planting a seed that can make Sugar to address much better the needs in the field, and impacting the education of several hundreds of thousands of children around the world. I'm reverting that edit with the hope that someone will realize the big impact that such a small commitment can have. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
