Q to all candidates: about advancing Debian (as organisation) while not being DPL
Hello all
There are some teams in Debian that focus in areas similar to the DPL tasks and
allow people to make a difference in the project working on them, without the
need - and the burden? or the satisfaction? - of being a DPL. For example:
* treasury, press/publicity and partners deal with the relationship with
companies/organisations,
* publicity/press, the web team and events team can have influence on the image
we transmit and how the project is perceived
* frontdesk, MIA, outreach, events and the welcome team can have an impact in
expanding/improving our user base and contributor base, helping and motivating
them etc.)
* ...
Sometimes I feel that having a (single person) DPL role is somehow harmful for
people to get involved in these tasks:
- the elected person gets so squeezed that after their service they just prefer
to focus in other tasks,
- the non-elected get depressed and don't continue contributing ideas/work to
advance Debian in these areas,
- the watchers just focus on DPL'ship (if they fit or not) and thus the more
granularity in commitment (via the involvement in these teams) is overlooked.
- the team members may continue overloaded until they decide they just need a
break, and are not sure if all this flourish of ideas is tied to the DPL role
("having a hat", the "campaign period"...), or the people contributing to the
debates (and the candidates) are motivated enough to get involved even if they
are not elected :-)
What are your views on this?
Kind regards,
--
Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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