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Subject: RE: What is a good Project Management Committee member?
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:27:41 -0700
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I think the League of Crafty Guitarists is a brilliant metaphor.  Thanks =
Dave.  I think it might be good to notice, as well, how audiences =
respond as participants in such a performance.

In pondering the question on this thread, I find that puzzling over =
roles may be off the mark.  I still want to know what would be the =
evidence of community by how others perceive and respond to the project =
atmosphere. =20

Today, I will expend my thread-penny on this question:

   "What has anyone invited/moved to contribute here know they are =
welcome,=20
    know their contribution is honored, and are thrilled with being part =
of it?"

An easy way for anyone to address this question, especially the current =
committers and PPMC members, is to ask it of themselves.  Or we can ask =
it with someone else's name.  For example,

   "What has orcmid know he is welcome, know his contribution is =
honored, and
    thrilled with being part of it?"

A greater challenge is having whatever that is work for anyone else I =
choose to name.  Rob, Kay, An, Andrea, J=C3=BCrgen, Ma, and those who've =
not yet arrived  -- and have it work for me.

Since I'm on the PPMC, I have to ask myself this question,

   "What am I doing to create the [project] world in which I want to =
live?"

Then I get to deal with the gap between my own actions and how I say I =
want it to be.  That's where the not-good-news insights are available.  =
It's humbling.  From there, the challenge is finding appropriate action =
that aligns who I am and how I act that offers up the world I want to =
live in.
=20
 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Fisher [mailto:dave2wave@comcast.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 22:42
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: What is a good Project Management Committee member?


[ ... ]

>> Perhaps a better musical metaphor to aspire to might be Robert =
Fripp's The League of Crafty Guitarists [1] I hadn't thought of them for =
awhile, but I saw them live about 25 years ago. A big circle of =
guitarists sharing and passing on riffs.

Here the emphasis is on observation and passing the lead. The guitar =
players are in a circle and are watching each other.

Regards,
Dave

>>=20
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>>=20
>> [1] http://www.thelcg.net/music.html