On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:42 pm, william(at)elan.net wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Greg Connor wrote:
I have recently been studying the difference between Management and
Leadership.
The Council should certainly have leadership role but it being a head
of SPF Community can not go at it along. It can bring up its ideas for
future of SPF to SPF but moving forwarding should require agreement
by majority of the group especially at larger decisions and then the
council can lead towards those agreed upon goals.
This is slightly off-topic. What has to happen is the community has to give
duties and responsibilities to the council. Otherwise, the council has no
mandate and has no right to do anything in the name of the group.
Here's what I see the council doing:
(1) Advocating and advertising SPF.
(2) Ensure that SPF adopters are being supported by whatever means
necessary.
(3) Managing the mailing lists and the web resources for the SPF community.
(4) Building a coalition of companies, organization, and individuals that
support SPF.
These are broad statements, but they are broad for a reason. Intelligent
humans like we have on the council will understand what they mean and use
their intelligence to meet them.
I know I am sounding like a freak for advocating this repeatedly. But I will
repeat myself nonetheless. You cannot function as an organization unless
you get a set of bylaws with all of these very basic things spelled out and
written down. You must get these bylaws adopted by the community. There is
one of two ways to do this: Get everyone to agree to the bylaws all at once
(practically impossible), or start with a small seed group and then draft
the community into the group over time (very practical).
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Jonathan M. Gardner