On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Then start by answering your own question. Fedora's goals, it's mission, > and it's plan are driven by it's community[1]. Not by the Board, and with all > respect to our excellent leader, not by the FPL. > > So, what do you want that plan to be? > > josh > > [1] And by community, I mean everyone that contributes to it regardless of > employer. A suggestion..... straight from my interactions in a local brick and mortar non-profit group over the past couple of months. Run a set of organized mission, vision, values, belief exercises with a core group of 20 to 30 project leaders and empower those people to come to a consensus on messaging and to frame a vision for the project 3 years out. The specific exercises we are did in my brick and mortar non-profit will not directly apply (of course). We committed a solid 20 hours on a single weekend to do most of the activities based around a fast networking format as described here: http://www.squarewheels.com/scottswriting/mission.html I went in extremely skyptical because it was obvious going in that there were a lot of differences of opinions as to what direction the org is going in. And came out of the process I was actually pretty amazed that it went as smoothly as it did and that leaders were individually willing to let go of their own ideas as to what the org's priorities are and were willing to invest into what the obvious repeated themes where in the fast networking exercises. Part of that success was the skill of the outside facilitator. There were moments when people expressed their ownership of an idea somewhat emotionally, and having a skilled outside facilitator there helped work through those moments. Part of the success was that the attendees were pre-identified as community leadership in the org who were willing to give up their entire weekend to craft direction (and committed to susequently meet for follow up meetings of normal length as well). Now of course, my local org doesn't scale to Fedora in terms of logistics. Fedora can't get the right 30 leaders into a face-to-face room at a conference center across town and have them break up into table teams of 5 or 6 people. At least not without significant expense. So this sort of approach would have to be adapted. But I think its a good approach for the type of problem Mike is struggling with. I wish I thought I had the skills to facilitate this sort of thing, but I know I do not. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
