[IAEP] on team coordinators

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

during the last months some of us have tried to make more explicit the
areas in Sugar Labs that are in need of an owner, and have used
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vacancies for that.

In some cases, we are not only missing an individual that is willing
to take a particular position, but we are missing entire teams such as
deployment and documentation teams, as critical as they are for our
operation.

I'm of the opinion that a good first step to get a team created around
a subject is to have an individual that gives visibility to the
importance of that work and incentives others to join. This is the
main role of the team coordinator, at this stage.

And that's why I added to that page the descriptions for the
coordinators of the documentation and deployment teams, and also have
tried to keep the job descriptions as minimal as possible, to make it
easy for someone to step up in the initial stage and also to make it
easy to find a replacement when needed.

The page has been recently edited, adding to the deployment team
coordinator "Has to keep continuous contact with local deployments". I
think that's the job of the team, but the coordinator doesn't need to
take responsibility for the team's performance, it only needs to help
in some specific ways that the team can do their duties, if the rest
of the circumstances are right (such as, having fellow team members).
These specific ways are holding regular meetings in IRC and keeping a
wiki page up to date regarding the team mission, goals and members.

This email is not about that edit in the wiki, but more a call for
more team coordinators. Holding bi-weekly meetings and keeping a page
in the wiki updated can take less than 5 hours per month, but you will
be planting a seed that can make Sugar to address much better the
needs in the field, and impacting the education of several hundreds of
thousands of children around the world.

I'm reverting that edit with the hope that someone will realize the
big impact that such a small commitment can have.

Regards,

Tomeu