On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Colette Alexander < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Stackers, > > This is the continuation of an ongoing conversation within the TC about > encouraging the growth of leadership skills within the community that began > just after the Mitaka summit last year[1]. After being asked by lifeless to > do a bit of research and discussing needs/wants re: leadership directly > with TC members, I made some suggestions on an etherpad[2], and was then > asked to go find out about funding possibilities. > > tl;dr - If you're a member of the TC or the Board and would like to attend > Leadership Training at ZingTrain in Ann Arbor, please get back to me ASAP > with your contact info and preferred timing/dates for this two-day training > - also, please let me know whether April 20/21 (or April 21/22) would > specifically work for you or not. > I'd like to, but curious about the possibility of deferring until after the new TC is elected? I know the seats tend to stay static, but with possibly half the TC changing it would offer a nice opportunity to get to know any new members. Thanks for working on this effort! Anne > > > Longer version: > Mark Collier and the Foundation have graciously offered to cover the costs > of training for a two-day session at ZingTrain in Ann Arbor - this > includes the cost of breakfast/lunch for two days as well as two full > working-days of seminars. Attendees would be responsible for their own > travel, lodging, and incidental expenses beyond that (hopefully picked up > by your employer who sees this as an amazing opportunity for your career > growth). Currently, I've heard the week before the Austin Summit suggested > by more than one person coming in from out of the country as preferred > dates, but we've not committed to anything yet, so here might be a great > time and place to hash that out among interested parties. ZingTrain has > suggested a cap of ~20 people on the course, but that's not totally firm, > so it's possible to add more if more are interested, or we could hold two > separate two-day sessions to accommodate overflow. My ideal mix of people > include those who are really excited by the idea of training, and those who > are are seriously skeptical of any leadership training at all. In fact, if > you've been to leadership training before and have found it to be terrible > and awful, I think your input would be most valuable on this one. My > summary of reasoning behind the 'why' of ZingTrain can be found on the > etherpad I already mentioned[2]. Also, did I mention, the food will be > amazing? It will be[3]. > > Some complications: the week before the Newton Summit there will be a set > of incoming TC members (elected in early April) and likely some TC members > who will be outgoing. Some possible solutions: we can certainly push back > training til post-Summit when we can have a set of the 'new' TC, or we can > sign up anyone interested currently, and allow a limited number of newly > elected folks who are interested sign on as the election is finished. I > certainly welcome any thoughts on that. > > A note about starting out with the TC/Board for training: this initiative > began as a set of conversations about leadership as a whole in the entire > OpenStack community, so the intent with limiting to TC/Board here is not > exclusion, merely finding the right place to start. My proposal with the TC > begins with them, because the leadership conversation within OpenStack > began with them, and the goals of training are really to help them talk > about defining the issue/problem collectively, within a space designed to > help people do that. > > If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ping me on IRC > (gothicmindfood) or ask them here. > > Thanks everyone! > > -colette > > > [1] > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2015/tc.2015-11-03-20.07.log.html > [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Leadershiptraining > [3] http://www.zingermansdeli.com/ > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Anne Gentle Rackspace Principal Engineer www.justwriteclick.com
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