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[Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Daniel Holbach
<daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It would be great if you could share your ideas for discussions here, so
> we can collect them on a wiki page for the event.

Thanks for starting this conversation!

> My suggestion would be to talk a bit more about hands-on leadership this
> time and be a bit less heavy on governance, ie: "What do I do if my part
> of the community fragments?" or "How do I deal with conflict in the
> team?" or "How do I decide what to do with initiatives which have
> stalled?" - that would help us to share tips and knowledge among teams
> in general.

I want to begin by saying there has been great work by David Wonderly,
Amber Graner and others on the Leadership team that was formed last
fall. Unfortunately they've all been pulled away for other tasks and
the project has largely gone silent.

So I invite everyone to take a look at their project page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLeadership/Projects and click on the
"draft version" of the LoCo Leadership Training Handbook, it will open
a Google document. This is a spectacular document which already has
some content that Daniel outlines above and I think deserves review,
but which I'd love to see in a broader leadership document. Having
such a document draft as a goal coming out of this leadership summit
would make me feel very good about attending.

As far as what should be covered, here are some of my proposals:

 - How to nurture new leaders

 - How to effectively deal with disruptive community members

 - How to nurture a "just do it" environment while still having some
level of quality and expectations for contributors

 - How to deal with conflict when there are friends involved (both on
a personal and professional level)

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