The different extremes being voiced seem to be, "Ubuntu Community Marketing will fail without leadership as it has before" and "Leadership in FLOSS will kill individual initiative". Why can't we think in terms of grey versus black or white?
Yes, leadership naturally separates itself from the pack to assume roles of responsibility and with that comes the personal feeling of success or accomplishment. But how many open source projects fork at the first lack of consensus? If open source directives are truly free, then you are always going to have opinions that disagree regardless of how loud they might be. Ubuntu allows for anyone to contribute and that holds true for us as well as it does for every other aspect of the project. Like the core-developers team, a proposed core-marketing team would help determine our priorities, oversee tools and repositories to ensure that new contributions are added regularly to our "distribution" and be there to report back to the group instead of expecting everyone to listen to a cacophony of minutiae concerning each task. I still firmly believe that each change in direction, each major undertaking should seek consensus from the group. Each new person joining our team should always have the freedom to do as much (or as little) as they want in whatever areas that they want. All leaders should be responsible for making the things that we need the most help with more visible to those new users, so they can come in and make an immediate impact because they have direction and know what needs to be done. Thanks, John Vilsack PS: I think it would be remiss for us to begin listing off C.V.s and historic accomplishments as a means to justify our opinions. Some of the smartest people I have met in my life, and some of the ones who have made grand contributions throughout history have done so by taking their first steps. We should judge based on initiative and talent, not bullet points.
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