Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice website team inaugural conference call

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Ivan M. <ivanm@patentpending.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi Michael, David, all,
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Michael Wheatland
> <michael@wheatland.com.au> wrote:
> > David Nelson and myself are organising the inaugural LibreOffice website
> > team conference call.
> >
> > To vote on the time please visit: http://doodle.com/wzy78i52av4h6din
>
> Is this the same meeting as the one we already created a Doodle poll
> for at [1], or is it something different altogether (in which case, is
> the other meeting off?)
>
> > In the call we expect to discuss website team leadership, nomination of
> team
> > leaders, coordination of tasks and the way forward for the website team
> and
> > the developments we are responsible for.
>
> Hasn't the nomination of team leaders already been done by the SC? I
> was hoping we could finally move forward, but another round of
> nominations and discussions is going to delay things further (that
> said, I think confcalls are good opportunities to make progress as
> long as suitable provisions are made for those who can't attend).
>
> If the SC is OK with this, no problem. However, the last thing I want
> is for us to first delay by revisiting previous decisions only to have
> them invalidated by the SC which will cause further delays. I'm not
> against short term delays for long term gains if this is an
> opportunity to move forward (which I hope it is) now that the new
> website theme and initial content are up and running, but I also want
> to make sure that we won't be wasting time.
We will not be wasting time. The website team as a whole has
been segregated by the communication faults that have occurred.
David and myself agree that the best way forward is for the website team to
stand up together as a grass roots united community team. Demonstrate that
we have the skills required to build the website into a community tool and
build trust with the whole community that we listen to everyone.

One aspect that this entails is definition of scope and setting up teams to
manage these resources. There has been unhappiness at the designation of
leaders by the SC without any consultation with the team involved. David and
I have discussed this at length and we see, as I hope others see, that we
need more scope and definition about our responsibilities. This is not to
disregard the SC statement about the leaders, but the first action of these
SC assigned leaders was to unify the team, get consensus amongst the team
regarding sub-projects and better define the people coordinating these
groups.

The SC is precisely that, a steering body, it is the community which finally
decides where this project ends up by way of positive contribution,
collaboration and communication.

We will not be wasting time, we will be (hopefully) uniting the great
talents that we have at our disposal, generating trust and defining the
roadmap for the website team instead of the chaos theory coordination that
has occurred thus far. I can't see any circumstances where this does not
strongly benefit our team and the community as a whole.

Thanks for your concern, and it is this exact reason that we need this
conference call, to clarify all of these issues and to take responsibility
for the website team's resources.

Michael Wheatland

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