Ann: CoLoCo Leadership Change

[Matthew East]

On Tue, February 6, 2007 3:04 pm, Aaron Toponce wrote:
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>> Because I'm simply curious, can you explain a bit more about what the
>> "leader" does within the group? It seems clear from your email that
>> there
>> are lots of active people in the group, what responsibilities/jobs does
>> the leader have which other members don't?
>>
>> I'm accustomed to groups without leaders so I'm curious to know how the
>> leader figure works and when it is effective/non-effective.
>>
>> Matt
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> In the Utah LoCo, our leader is the official contact/connection
> between Ubuntu/Canonical and Utah.  He's also responsible for making
> sure that we meet regularly and all the needs of the group are met.
>  Typical leadership responsibilities, I guess.

Well, I'm not sure that what you have described are typical features of
leadership, to be honest (although they are certainly features of what is
commonly described as being "group contact"). Leadership implies an
increased power in relation to decision making, which is the aspect I'm
interested to hear more about, in relation to Colorado, or any other
groups who have such a system.

In the Italian team, high level decision making is done (where necessary)
by a council, currently made up of 5 people, whose task is to represent
the whole community, in its various aspects and arrive at a consensus
based on public discussion. But I'm curious about how smaller groups
handle this.

Matt
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