Vid Ayer wrote:
> On 8/15/06, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dave Sullivan wrote:
>> >
>> > Being a newcomer to the Marketing Team, I thought that this may (or may
>
> Welcome to the team !
>
>> > before, I have a lot of enthusiasm for Ubuntu and would love to promote
>> > it, but reading the mailing list and looking at the wiki and such, it
>> > seems somewhat disorganized, and thus I feel discouraged and/or
>> > intimidated to just hop into a project and go for it.
>
> Getting to know the community and its working ways takes time for a
> newcomer. So you could start out small with wiki page edits, join
> teams in LP (and corresponding list/channel) which regularly look for
> people willing to accomplish tasks. Well the Fridge.ubuntu.com is
> looking for contributions (stories, articles and what-have-you). Send
> your write-up to <fridge-devel AT lists.ubuntu.com> and we might just
> publish it.
>
>> > I would love to help out, but again, I just feel slightly intimidated.
>
> Dont be, there is a lot happening and we would love to have people who
> are willing to get the work done and delivered. A little more action
> and less noise please.
>
>
>> In practice, the Ubuntu project has something similar I believe.
>
> Actually the Ubuntu community does not have 'management' layers,
> except ofcourse the Tech board and the CC, if I may call them that.
That will do nicely :-)
> Almost all team memberships are open*
[...]
> * Except the translation teams to ensure quality.
again, nice, and it shows in the excellent stuff I see in english on
the shipit packs.
It is really easy to impose control from the top, traditionally with
written rules. It is more difficult to shepherd a community of
volunteers ('manage') while at the same time letting individuals feel
enabled. I think Ubuntu project does this well.
>> The upper level of management are probably those who have a financial
>> responsibility. The assistants may be in more than one level. It is
>
> ... actually the volunteers afaik, do not handle money (cash) for
> teams per se, unless they have taken permission from the CC/Ubuntu or
> Canonical.
That is what I guessed. I regard those as 'upper' levels and part of
the spectrum of the Ubuntu project.
btw what does CC stand for and is the Tech board explained somewhere?
> Hope that clears things a bit...
Thanks
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alan c
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