[openbeos] Re: Team Leaders

Whoa, there!  Does this mean I have to turn in my hooded robe?  How much
fun can a secret cabal be without hooded robes, fer cryin' out loud?!?

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Michael Phipps wrote:
>>Interesting to read indeed...
>>Now that wouldn't have happened if those almighty teamleaders wouldn't discuss and decide everything privately.
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> A number of people seem to have this *vastly* mistaken impression and I want to nip it right now.
> Team leaders are servants. Very simple concept. We aren't people who enjoy wielding power.
> We are a dedicated group of people who have signed on to do *EXTRA* work.
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> To track the state of modules/kits and be sure that things are getting done. To do the "paperwork" of
> getting things on the website, sourceforge, etc. To see what is not getting done and get people assigned.
> Woo hoo! We are just a boatload of fun!
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> We are a small group who critiques each other freely. Something that can not, should not and will not happen on
> the main (OBOS) list. We volunteer for admin because we have a passion to have things get done and are willing
> to do extra work to make sure that they do. Not to have every thing we do criticized in front of 450 people.
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> Yes, we make decisions. Pretty darn few. A lot less than you probably think. Many things are just "done", then adopted
> if they work out. Prime example - our first web site. The site was written, then sent to me as a completed work.
> Another example - "our" IRC channel. Someone chose that, and it just caught on. There was not a dark, secret meeding
> of team leaders in hooded robes who vote in a dark room.
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> OBOS is a project founded on results. If you want respect, or more "power", such as it is, in the organization, then do more work.
> Very simple. I know I will forget some people, but here are some examples of people who have stepped up and done prodigious
> work:
> Ithamar, Aaron, Daniel, Axel, Bruno, DarkWyrm, Erik, Tyler, Jason VanDerMark, Marcus, David Reid and more.
> These are people to whom I will look for help and listen to for advice. They work like animals and produce great work.
> Most of them are team leaders. That isn't a coincidence. They do the most work and get the most credit, recognition, etc.
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> I don't know, folks. If you think that Linus and Alan Cox share every email that they write to each other, I would be very surprised.
> Or if the patch acceptance group of BSD land doesn't have a mailing list, I would be surprised.
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> Anyway. Back to work for me...
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