[Chicago] Director of Outreach to be named shortly

[Cezar Jenkins]

This only works if there is more than one volunteer. 

While I like the sentiment, and agree it should be done when there is conflict on the choice, it should be done only when needed. Decisions by committee can work really well when people need to come to terms, but in my experience do little more than slow things to a crawl, and burn people out from bike shedding that results.

I’m somewhat disheartened by the discussion going on here. Brian asked for a volunteer and it turned into a discussion of decision making that has the smell of an attack. 

I only see changing the way things are done now if there is a) a demonstrated need to do so, and b) enough volunteers to build a board.

PS1 was mentioned earlier. That’s a much different situation, they rent property, deal with dangerous equipment, and other things that shoulder a much higher level of responsibility. One thing to point out with them is that when they were moving, and needed to get things done, they established a temporary dictatorship to do so.

TLDR: I don’t see a demonstrated need to turn Chipy into a bureaucracy. 



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From: sheila miguez sheila miguez
Reply: The Chicago Python Users Group chicago at python.org
Date: February 6, 2014 at 8:24:44 AM
To: The Chicago Python Users Group chicago at python.org
Subject:  Re: [Chicago] Director of Outreach to be named shortly  

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
I found a Director of Outreach. They will be named shortly. It is a 6 month gig and we will see how it goes.

Here is my stance on this.

A decision like this should happen openly and involve discussion with chipy members. Consider Pumping Station: One as an example. The concept of membership there is less fuzzy than it is with chipy, but ps1 does serve as an example of a community where there are positions with specific responsibilities as well as "area hosts". For board positions, such as treasurer, director, vp, etc., members nominate other members or themselves, there is discussion on the mailing list and in person, and before a vote each nominee talks to the group.

For area hosts, the board will ask members to apply for an area. For example, this happened recently with the tool cage area. People are able to attend board meetings until it is time for the board to vote.

I like this type of model more than I like the model of one person making a decision by fiat.



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