Forum .LRN Q&A: Proposal to update leadership team membership

Many of the members are not able to attend meetings or contribute.

The membership should be updated to include those who can actively contribute and regularly attend meetings.

For about the past year, maybe more, the only regular meeting attendees have been Emmanuelle, Don, and myself. Occasionally some others will attend meetings also. Most decisions about the release process have been made by those three members.

Others also attend meetings but are not members of the team.

So I suggest the .LRN Board should nonimate a new leadership team, possibly with fewer members who have the time to contribute and are currently working with .LRN.

I'd like to be more integrated with the community, not sure if my place is the Leadership Team (maybe not since I'm a developer)

I'm currently working with OpenACS and .LRN in a production server. I have some improvements for .LRN... some are actually working, some are in development, and some others are only proposals. Although, I'm used to not having a reply to some of my forum messages. Some of them asking for permission to commit changes or proposals. So, I'm not sure how can I contribute.

I do my best to keep on up to date, but it's not easy since there is no irc log, and I have no other emails alias... for instance, I was in the OCT for 6 months, hoping it would give me more access to more information of releases, new features, and so on, but it took me 6 months to be added to the oct mail list... so a week after that, I was no re-elected. BTW, I wrote a few OCT minutes, but now there is nobody doing that.

I'd like to became an active committer, and a happier OACS user/developer. Can the Leadership Team help me to achieve that?

There's a problem with irc meetings at least in my case, it's not something I get paid to do and lately I have been pretty short in time for things I don't get paid for doing, so I just pop in whenever I'm around at the time of the meetings. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I want to get paid for attending meetings, but maybe you shouldn't expect too much on people with a lot of different things to do.

While I like the idea of the IRC meetings I think the bulk of discussion and decission making should go to the forums and the honchos list in the rare cases in which is better to keep it private. Having stated this I don't feel you should drop members for not attending irc meetings. What I think this community needs is not less members involved in decission making, is encouraging people to participate, and to do so we should encourage people to commit their works, I think 5.5 is a big step forward for that, but right now both core and leadership team seem close groups from the outside, we should fix that or the current situation won't change.

Just want to point out that IRC meetings are necessary. I don't think having those meetings or using IRC for them are the problem. However, we definitely need to get the IRC logger back. Also, we fail at posting the minutes regularly and it's something we need to fix too.

There is also a meeting IRC bot, I will try to find out about it.

I agree. I can make one for .LRN and OCT (if needed and okay).

https://openacs.org/xowiki/.LRN_Meetings

https://openacs.org/xowiki/OCT-Meetings

now we just need to update the agendas and minutes after we are done with each meeting.

1. decide (and announce any decision)

2. Post opening things up for nomination

3. THEN post your nominations

At minimum the board and leadership team needs to discuss some basic stuff, like how we'll decide (vote of those on the board and leadership team? board alone? ???).

Currently the leadership team is that set of people listed as such at dotlrn.org. Yes, we want to change it. As of yet, we haven't.

.LRN Leadership Team – A group of people decided on by the .LRN Board and Leadership Team. .LRN Leadership Team members do not have to be voting .LRN members.