Task 2: working on leadership changes

[Javier Gomez]

Hi, according to our agenda this week we should be working on having a
better understanding of the proposed leadership changes:
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1503-proposed-leadership-structure-changes-and-request-for-community-feedback.html

Please add your questions here that we could send to the leadership in
order to understand better the proposed leadership structure changes.

[Javier Gomez]

Paul shared a simple diagram of the current and proposed structures
from the keynote speech I gave at JoomlaDay New England.

You can find the present structure in the page 10 and the proposed new
structure in the page 12: http://www.slideshare.net/porwig/jdne-2012-keynote

As you could see all of the committees should branch out from "the
board", and PLT, CLT, and OSM no longer exist.

On Apr 12, 12:01 pm, Javier Gomez <javier.go...@opensourcematters.org>
wrote:

> Hi, according to our agenda this week we should be working on having a

> better understanding of the proposed leadership changes:http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1503-proposed-leadership...

[Jeremy Wilken]

Here is Paul's presention video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RMApKl-ZPc&feature=g-upl&context=G23f553bAUAAAAAAAGAA

He talks about the current structure specifically more starting about 30 minutes into the talk, followed by talking about the proposed changes.

[Javier Gomez]

I'm sharing my firsts questions. Please attach as many questions as
you have. We plan to address this questions to the leadership list
before Thursday 19 (next week).

Q1: In this new proposed structure: how will the different committees
interact between them?
Q2: In the proposed changes all of the project’s current teams that
operate under the oversight of the Production Leadership Team (PLT),
Community Leadership Team (CLT), and OSM would be reorganized into a
number of committees. Each of these committees would operate under the
oversight of the project’s new board of directors. Is there the risk
that the Board of directors become a bottle neck in communication when
all this committees try to communicate them? Is there any plan to
avoid this situation?

On Apr 12, 12:26 pm, Jeremy Wilken <jeremywil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is Paul's presention video as

> well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RMApKl-ZPc&feature=g-upl&context=G23...

[Jeremy Wilken]

Hi Javier, did you also see the notes from the meeting we had last week? We may or may not end up following the tasks specifically as we somewhat discussed at the beginning, but that can be discussed Monday. We discussed brainstorming some things as well beyond just questions. I think some of these questions get into opinions, so they won't necessarily be possible for us to send them to the leadership (and I don't think we need to do that unless we have a specific question we cannot answer ourselves).

Questions about current leadership structure

1) Where does communication break down between groups or individuals?

2) How are people held accountable for their responsibilities?

3) Which groups/teams are considered the best examples of achieving their responsibilities?

4) How does the community have opportunities to influence the project?

Questions about proposed leadership structure

1) How do people get into various leadership positions? (Elections, appointments...)

2) What responsibilities or 'powers' are given to the board and to the various subgroups? 

3) How does the board oversee the subgroups?

4) Do the subgroups have any requirements? (Such as is there a 'head' of the subgroup? Can they function however they need?)

5) How does the community have opportunities to influence the project?

[tine.graf]

I think we need a better common understanding of what we are doing here.
What I understood was, that we have to prepare a proposal for a structure of a new leadership team with 11 directors & working committees. So this is a general description of the structures, working principles, responsibilities, evaluation of activities. On this we are working by defining the board, describing tasks, etc. and we already agreed on re-naming the whole leadership group.
The second tasks we have is to describe how we want to implement that structure in between the next year, taking into account the current situation. Therefore, we need to point out what the current persons, belonging to different leadership teams/group are having to do until we start with the new structure. And this includes balancing the current tools and tasks against to the requirements of the community and the competitiveness of the project.
Currently, we are working on part one, describing the new structure, I hope we could agree on that and finish it during the next week. Than we can start describing the process of implementation.
I am convinced that easier to describe what we want to have first and after how we can achieve that, as this is the most complicate part.

Let me know please, what do you think about.