Brother, you hit the nail on the head. I am so there!!!! :)
Regards, Alan On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll let it stew for a coupla days before > I start charging in, but yeah something > along these lines will surely address the > palpable feeling of disempowerment we too > often dish out. > > From: Alan Cabrera <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:29 AM > Subject: Re: Incubator reorg ideas: sub-groups per technology? > > On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What we really need for podlings is a "bill of > > rights" towards what they can expect of their > > mentors, because too few of them actually are > > willing to question the participation of the > > people who signed up to mentor them and that's > > not helping anybody. > > Great idea. > > This spring I sent out personal messages to various podling members and asked > them what they thought were problems with the incubator, if there were any. > (There's a novel idea, ask the podlings what they think the problems are. > Sorry, but slogging through all these emails instead of watching re-runs of > Firefly irritates me. :) ) I got an earful. > > Other than their concern for diversity/activity, the two biggest reported > problems are timely resolution "infrastructure" requests and they way we seem > to chronically make up and debase shit in the middle of voting. As a podling > incubates we seem to compulsively debate processes, rules, etc., ten feet > ahead of the podling train. > > We're working on the automation bits. > > Your document on what podlings can expect, in terms of to expect and what > "noise" they can ignore during incubation would be fantastic. I will commit > to helping you out with this. > > > Regards, > Alan > >
