From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LX9aC-0005Q6-MA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:32:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50813E0319; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29115E0319 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (c-98-246-79-112.hsd1.or.comcast.net [98.246.79.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD0664C7C; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:32:30 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: Tiziano =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= Cc: gentoo-council Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Secretary & President Message-ID: <20090211073230.GC8049@comet> References: <1233912372.13212.23.camel@localhost> <20090206221229.GB3493@comet> <1234000902.24784.7.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1234000902.24784.7.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: 9ab3aee6-0237-4c6f-82ff-899b6818cdaf X-Archives-Hash: 64a8e7d8464859d83a8034acf45a03a9 --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11:01 Sat 07 Feb , Tiziano M=FCller wrote: > Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 14:12 -0800 schrieb Donnie Berkholz: > > I agree that splitting president and secretary into separate roles=20 > > is a great idea. I feel strongly that rotating these positions often=20 > > will result in both roles being ineffective, because it takes time=20 > > to get even decent at either of them. Does anyone want to return to=20 > > the 4-hour meetings we used to have? >=20 > Can you maybe outline the tasks the Secretary has to do besides=20 > uploading the log and generate a summary and where it gets=20 > complicated? Because I currently can't immagine where these tasks need=20 > much of a training. That depends on whether you just ramble on and write stuff or whether=20 you communicate clearly, concisely, and accurately. Writing things for=20 the appropriate audience in a way that tells them only what they want to=20 know and doesn't waste their time with extra info is nontrivial, in the=20 same way as writing a clean ebuild is. Anyone can write an ebuild, but I=20 sure wouldn't add most people's first tries to the main tree. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkmSfw0ACgkQXVaO67S1rtumfACgrN261C77oNJQbfkXbbw/DC2+ yCoAn2Ytoh92Qv+kjdQSC77yxjOwA9en =AFC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7--