On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:40:30 -0500, "Richard Johnson" > That is why I proposed you don't remove them from the list, however > you can send them into a disabled/expired status. That way there they > still get the messages, however they aren't listed in the main window. > The people who you see on the main window for the Marketing Team on > the LP should be those waiting to field questions, comments, and/or > concerns from others. I agree that the current list shouldn't be > removed, however they shouldn't remain active if they are in a way, > "not active". Just my two cents. Thanks. >
I disagree with what the list of members of the marketing team should be. I think it should be a list of people who want to have themselves lsited as members of the marketing team, as it is currently - people who have expressed an interest in the marketing team, and said they want to be a part of it. If you want another list of people ready to answer questions, then make that - don't try and retask the existing list by removing people. I actually don't think that such a list is required though. I don't think that we should be encouraging people to start contacting individuals, but rather giving them easy routes to contact the team as a whole. If that is currently not happening and interested parties are picking people at random off the list and contacting them, then we need to fix that. I think removing/diabling/expiring people is the wrong way to try and fix this, as it has the posibility of alienating the people that you remove/disable/expire. The inactive members of the team are the ones at the finges of the team, they haven't made much commitment to the team and so can very easily walk away and find something else to do. Why give them a push in that direction? I'm more than a little worried that this has even come up. I consider inclusiveness as something that is very much part of the core values of ubuntu and free software in general. The idea that people can be removed from a team or relegated to a desabled/expired status by another person for any reason short of them deliberately causing trouble for the team (and even then I would hope the descision would not be taken lightly) is very troubling. I'm not convinced that there is any problem with having people on the list even if they aren't doing anything - but there are problems with removing them. All the people on the lsit chose to put themselves there, and expressed an interest in the marketing team by doing so. Why should we be overturning that and risking pushing them away from the team? Robert ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
