Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: F2F leadership team meeting (April 27, 2007)

11: Re: F2F leadership team meeting (April 27, 2007) (response to 1)

Posted by Christian Fuchs on 05/05/07 02:57 PM

Hi, since I perfectly understood the problem of people being in the Leadership Team and not contributing in the meetings (even I was almost always attending, but not able to follow the technical discussions going on) I would like suggest the following.
I agreed to work in the leadership team to bring the user/teacher perspective into the team and as far as I understand now, technical knowledge (programming) is needed.

So I will resign from the leadership team to make room for someone who can help with programming.
If one needs know-how I can contribute, I will be glad to join again.

I think, you are doing great work and .lrn is on its way to be the leading learning environment.

13: Re: F2F leadership team meeting (April 27, 2007) (response to 11)

Posted by Avni Khatri on 05/09/07 09:40 AM

Hi Christian -

I don't think the problem is people who attend meetings not contributing during the meetings.

I think one problem was that during Zen (for a while) we were discussing too
many technical details in the leadership meetings. These technical details should not have been discussed in a leadership meeting and should have been taken offline. I think in today's leadership meeting the Zen team members agreed with this and we will strive to follow this.

Instead of mainly relying on the honchos email, the leadership team will post more discussions in the forums.

In order to be more inclusive, the leadership team will also post meeting agendas and meeting notes in the .LRN Q&A forums when they are available.

Also, I don't think the purpose of the leadership team is purely technical (though this is a software development project) nor should it be. My personal opinion is that it is necessary to have a user/teacher perspective on the .LRN leadership team. 😊

Thanks,
Avni

Please chime in if you have thoughts.

14: Re: F2F leadership team meeting (April 27, 2007) (response to 11)

Posted by vivian Aguilar on 05/09/07 11:40 AM

Hello Christian,
I really think that your contribution is very valuable, specially for .LRN we need feedback from educators. Maybe you can consider to join the marketing team (It is not formed now but i think it will need people like you).. I encourage you to read this post http://www.openacs.org/forums/message-view?message%5fid=986303

cheers

15: Re: Res: Re: F2F leadership team meeting (April 27, 2007) (response to 13)

Posted by Olga C. Santos on 05/09/07 12:20 PM

I agree with Avni. In fact, I'm a programmer, but not a TCL/OpenACS programmer. Leadership team should focus on high level techncial issues (Zen's discussion were an exception, mainly I think because there were no other issues to talk about). And when discussing high level technical issues, it is always very welcome the view of non-technical people, who can provide some common sense to technical stuff.

By the way, there is always a way to contribute to the meetings, ... making the minutes and posting them in the fourms!

Olga