Of the latest discussion about how we're doing and overall ramblings

[Tm_T]

Sorry that I'm sending this separate from the ongoing thread, somehow
I feel this is better served as separate. This is also partly
self-reflection, so don't let my writing style make you feel I'm
pointing my old, wrinkly, bony finger on you (only).

During my years working on several different communities and
organisations one common thing has arised on pretty much each one of
them: I'm not good at respecting hierarchy. Sometimes I don't even see
hierarchy that do exist. Why I'm telling this? I don't want to have
hierarchy in our community, that's why! (:

What triggers me to write the previous paragraph has been something I
have learned from my current dayjob and our IRC community: some people
have barriers I don't see because of my personality on speaking up
things they don't like. This is actually somewhat alarming, as I would
rather try reduce those barriers until they're extinct. (:

For past week or so I've been pondering more deeply on a thought I've
passed by several times during last few years within Ubuntu IRC
community: how we face our peers. Do we tell them when we see them
doing a good job? Do we keep telling them they're doing good job after
few years of good track record? No? Why not? Do we tell them when
they're not doing their best? And more importantly, how we're telling
that? I'm probably one of the worst examples in so many occasions. (:

So what does it matter we don't communicate about how we're doing?
Because I sense when it becomes rare and only done in negative terms
the person in the receiving end will take it personally, "how I'm
doing worse than others?!" I know I need to try not to think that way
in time to time in my daily life. So here I am criticizing the team on
doing a poor job, without giving a silver bullet. But there's no
silver bullet, no miracle cure. There's only hard work. I feel we have
lost some of our enjoyment within a team. Or maybe that's just a
perception I get for being less active. (:

I would like to encourage each and every one of us to tell others how
they're doing, discussing with them about ways of doing things, and
letting them know when they're doing well even if it's every time.
Atleast for a moment. (:

...

I had more in my mind when I started writing this, but I already
forgot the rest of it when reaching this point so I'll get back to
that when I remember again. (:

Free huggles available, poke me to get yours!

-- 
Tm_T, Jussi Kekkonen
  Ubuntu/KDE developer  tmt at ubuntu.com