[CoLoCo] Organization Structure

[David Overcash]

If it is not already apparent to those who hang in IRC regularly and who are
active on this team, I am looking to move my leadership to someone else on
the team in the hopes that it will stir the activism to new heights.  Also,
I am becoming busier and busier with my work at school and as an RA so I
feel it is unfair for me to try to commit time to this group and not give it
what it deserves.

At our next release party (coming up in just a few weeks) I'll put out an
official call for a new leader and we'll see if we can vote something in.

Cheers,
David Overcash

On 10/1/07, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> I think this idea is worthy of a try.  Previous to Dave and Mitch, it was
> basically my show with some good flavouring by Neal.
>
> My hope was that Dave and Mitch could replace Neal and myself and continue
> since it seemed at that time that the structure was working.   I can't be as
> involved as I once was from a leadership perspective since I work for
> Canonical  (it just doesn't look right) but I will always participate.
>
> So, I think some experimentation is good.  Leadership positions are
> exceptionally good for obtaining full Ubuntu membership. If we can cycle
> people through those Leadership positions then we can be the LoCo with the
> highest Ubuntu Membership. In fact, we might already be. Someone should do
> some counting. :-)
>
> Joey
>
> On 9/28/07, Dave Vanderploeg <dave.vanderploeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I came away from Thursday's meeting thinking about how we could improve
> > the group, specifically how we can make it more organized. I've been
> > thinking about it a lot and trying to come up with a workable, practical
> > solution. None of my ideas are really new, but I think we need to implement
> > them if were going to make a stronger group.
> >
> > First, I think we should eliminate the position of "Deputy Team Lead"
> > and have a board of 3 (Mitch, Jim and Neal?). Each board member will preside
> > over a number of CoLoCo's "projects". Each project also needs a leader that
> > organizes the group and gives status reports back to the board. The board
> > gives status reports to the Team Lead. Its important to have all of this
> > info on our website as well, so anyone can view it (can we add a
> > projects tab?). If someone has interest in a specific project it should be
> > clear exactly who they need to contact. If a project has no interest we need
> > to mark it as "inactive and available". At the moment I think a number of
> > our projects are inactive, but we need to let everyone know that, so people
> > know where we need help. (BTW, I think we may need a Treasurer as well. I
> > know we only have about $20 as a group right now, but if that starts to
> > change we should have something set up.)
> >
> > Current Projects (that I can think of):
> >
> >    - Outreach (big umbrella, may need to be split up somehow)
> >    - Website Development (inactive?)
> >    - Gutsy Party
> >    - Hardy Party
> >       - Press Agent
> >       - Inreach (there are huge number of CoLoCo members that
> >    aren't active, maybe we can get some of them interested)
> >    - Supply Team (Mostly David and Joey?)
> >    - Education Outreach (Mostly Jim's deal, right?)
> >    - Free Tech Support (inactive)
> >
> > Since everyone here is volunteering their time I don't want anyone to
> > feel bad if they get busy and can't work on a project. If we have a better
> > organization structure, people moving in and out will be easier to replace.
> > The head of outreach can tell Jim that he's going to Zimbabwe for a month,
> > Jim can find someone else in that group and put them in charge (temporarily
> > or permanently) all without the team lead needing to do anything. I
> > mentioning this now because I think we should discuss it in our meeting next
> > Thursday, and I wanted to give people a heads up to think about how they
> > would like to see the group organized.
> >
> > Dave.
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