On 14/05/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
The Leader I am speaking of is a person with a passion
for the Project and
its people, but detached from its content. Someone with the patience,
interest and skills to manage the day-to-day activities of a Project. They
should not be involved in any active editing of any Article in the Project.
Their role is strictly a problem-solving one. A person that, when all the
dust settles, at whose feet the daily buck does stop.
This person may be difficult to find, but I do not believe impossible. The
person can come from within the Project or from without. However, if from
within, that person would need to stop all editing of content, and devote
all of their time and energy to helping those who are.
My main intent with this thread was to get some serious, creative minds
thinking about what I see is a serious problem confronting the future of WP
and its people.
At the moment I see it as several communities inhabiting the same
space and banging into each other in areas where one assumes control
over an area and another disputes that. Rather than a single coherent
community.
I'm still getting my head around the actual problem. Let's continue
this thread for a while. Anyone else want to describe the elephant as
they see it?
- d.