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On 3/1/2016 4:41 PM, Colette Alexander wrote:
> Hello Stackers,
>
> This is the continuation of an ongoing conversation within the TC about
> encouraging the growth of leadership skills within the community that
> began just after the Mitaka summit last year[1]. After being asked by
> lifeless to do a bit of research and discussing needs/wants re:
> leadership directly with TC members, I made some suggestions on an
> etherpad[2], and was then asked to go find out about funding possibilities.
>
> tl;dr - If you're a member of the TC or the Board and would like to
> attend Leadership Training at ZingTrain in Ann Arbor, please get back to
> me ASAP with your contact info and preferred timing/dates for this
> two-day training - also, please let me know whether April 20/21 (or
> April 21/22) would specifically work for you or not.
>
>
> Longer version:
> Mark Collier and the Foundation have graciously offered to cover the
> costs of training for a two-day session at ZingTrain in Ann Arbor  -
> this includes the cost of breakfast/lunch for two days as well as two
> full working-days of seminars. Attendees would be responsible for their
> own travel, lodging, and incidental expenses beyond that (hopefully
> picked up by your employer who sees this as an amazing opportunity for
> your career growth). Currently, I've heard the week before the Austin
> Summit suggested by more than one person coming in from out of the
> country as preferred dates, but we've not committed to anything yet, so
> here might be a great time and place to hash that out among interested
> parties. ZingTrain has suggested a cap of ~20 people on the course, but
> that's not totally firm, so it's possible to add more if more are
> interested, or we could hold two separate two-day sessions to
> accommodate overflow. My ideal mix of people include those who are
> really excited by the idea of training, and those who are are seriously
> skeptical of any leadership training at all. In fact, if you've been to
> leadership training before and have found it to be terrible and awful, I
> think your input would be most valuable on this one. My summary of
> reasoning behind the 'why' of ZingTrain can be found on the etherpad I
> already mentioned[2]. Also, did I mention, the food will be amazing? It
> will be[3].
>
> Some complications: the week before the Newton Summit there will be a
> set of incoming TC members (elected in early April) and likely some TC
> members who will be outgoing. Some possible solutions: we can certainly
> push back training til post-Summit when we can have a set of the 'new'
> TC, or we can sign up anyone interested currently, and allow a limited
> number of newly elected folks who are interested sign on as the election
> is finished. I certainly welcome any thoughts on that.
>
> A note about starting out with the TC/Board for training: this
> initiative began as a set of conversations about leadership as a whole
> in the entire OpenStack community, so the intent with limiting to
> TC/Board here is not exclusion, merely finding the right place to start.
> My proposal with the TC begins with them, because the leadership
> conversation within OpenStack began with them, and the goals of training
> are really to help them talk about defining the issue/problem
> collectively, within a space designed to help people do that.
>
> If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ping me on IRC
> (gothicmindfood) or ask them here.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> -colette
>
>
> [1]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2015/tc.2015-11-03-20.07.log.html
> [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Leadershiptraining
> [3] http://www.zingermansdeli.com/
>
>
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So is this for only current TC members? What about people that aren't on 
the TC?

I asked in this in today's TC meeting but figured I'd ask here where 
it's more global.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann