some history and background

[Paul Orwig]

Hi all,

Here is some history and background information about what has taken place with proposed leadership structure changes up to now:

1. Initial proposal - July 2011
At the joint leadership summit in San Jose, CA, members from PLT, CLT, and OSM spent most of the final day discussing how to potentially improve Joomla's leadership structure. The agreed upon next steps were to write a blog summarizing the proposed changes and invite feedback from the community.

2. Leadership Blog - September 2011
A blog was drafted that summarized the proposed leadership structure changes that came out of the joint summit in San Jose. All leadership team members had the opportunity to review the draft and provide input. After all input was received and revisions made, the blog was published here (including links to translations in 11 other languages):

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1503-proposed-leadership-structure-changes-and-request-for-community-feedback.htmlhttp://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1503-proposed-leadership-structure-changes-and-request-for-community-feedback.html

3. JPeople Discussion - September through November 2011
There was a long public discussion about various aspects of the proposed leadership structure changes that took place here:

http://people.joomla.org/groups/viewdiscussion/1344-proposed-leadership-structure-changes-a-request-for-community-feedback.html?groupid=714

4. Public leadership email list followup thread #1 - October - December 2011:
Following the JPeople discussion, the main options for potential next steps were summarized posted to the public leadership email list with a request for discussion and a vote. Five leadership team members participated in that thread, so there was not felt to be enough participation to move forward. Here is that public leadership email list thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-leadership/browse_thread/thread/fd993d5932214c74?hl=en

5. Public leadership email list followup thread #2 - February - March 2012:
A new public leadership email thread was started asking for a vote to either revisit these discussions face to face at a followup joint leadership summit, choose one of the options given in the previous public leadership list email thread, or just let the idea for proposed changes die. The most interest was to revisit the discussions face to face at a followup joint leadership summit, and there was also support along with no objections to the idea of forming a working group to come up with recommendations that leaders could discuss and make a final decsion about at the joint summit. Here is that public leadership email list thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-leadership/browse_thread/thread/5cd8c965e0738398/988fb77128c16f0b?hl=en#988fb77128c16f0b

6. Working group formed - March 2012
You all are requested to put together some recommendations on the subject of proposed leadership structure changes that will serve as a starting point for discussions planned for the upcoming joint leadership summit in Germany on May 21-22. The goal at that joint leadership summit will be for leadership to make a decision about whether to implement any leadership structure changes, and if it is agreed to implement changes, what those changes will consist of.

Thanks in advance for the time and effort you all will put into coming up with these recommendations!

Best regards,

paul