On 19 May 2016 at 15:11, Robert Ramey wrote:
This is why I think Naill's approach, difficulties resulted in so much frustration. It pains me because I know he's worked hard on trying to make changes. But on the other hand - look at eh GSOC program. It seems to me he took more of the bottom up approach and was a lot more successful at it. This is really what I mean.
I don't invest my charity time on things not supported by a network of others - otherwise you just build ivory towers no one else is interested in. You need collective buy in to achieve change. Boost GSoC is supported by a ton of people who made everything I've achieved as lead admin possible. We've also seen substantial buy in from the Steering Committee who have spent a LOT of money on GSoC. That's what made that possible, not some "bottom up approach" - on my work there I have been very amply supported by others. For making Boost great again I keep coming back to the fact that some *group* - not me or you or anybody individually - with the recognised authority to decide on global strategy needs to make a decision. That group is the Boost Steering Committee. (whom, just to be clear, cannot act on anything without someone submitting a formal proposal. So a formal proposal needs to be sent to boost-steering, and they'll vote on it next meeting) Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/