The Keeper of Secrets: The Dance of Community LeadershipLeslie Hawthorn
This talk was delivered as the closing keynote at the FOSDEM 2013 Conference.
Video is available at http://video.fosdem.org/2013/maintracks/Janson/The_Keeper_of_Secrets.webm
This content is licensed CC-By-3.0, so please use, remix and share widely!
Abstract:
Leaders in communities that value openness and transparency are faced with a difficult challenge: people confide in you constantly, but your role as a leader is to promote positive change in your project; change only proceeds where information flows. How does one negotiate the need to maintain trust and harmony in the human sides of our interactions in development communities, while still ensuring that the social problems that may inhibit community progress are mitigated? How does one manage to do all this while keeping one’s commitments to one’s friends and to project values like transparency and openness?
In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will explore the role of secrets and disclosure in our open development communities. Specifically, she will explore how good leaders know when to discuss secrets, when to remain mum and, in particular, how to tell secrets "the right way". Drawing on six years of experience working with 100s of FOSS communities, she will discuss some of the most contentious and hilarious social problems she’s encountered and how they were addressed, with names and details omitted sufficiently well to keep her own commitments to confidentiality.
The power of meditation and how it affects our brainsBali Holistic
Let us explore how meditation can have healing effects for our body, our mind, our emotions, our soul, and the world. For meditation retreat visit our website http://www.baliholistic.com
Cumming May 1 luncheon Community TransformationOs Hillman
Os Hillman presents to Cumming, Georgia (Forsyth County) business leaders, May 2015 about what are the spiritual foundations required for community transformation.
The Keeper of Secrets: The Dance of Community LeadershipLeslie Hawthorn
This talk was delivered as the closing keynote at the FOSDEM 2013 Conference.
Video is available at http://video.fosdem.org/2013/maintracks/Janson/The_Keeper_of_Secrets.webm
This content is licensed CC-By-3.0, so please use, remix and share widely!
Abstract:
Leaders in communities that value openness and transparency are faced with a difficult challenge: people confide in you constantly, but your role as a leader is to promote positive change in your project; change only proceeds where information flows. How does one negotiate the need to maintain trust and harmony in the human sides of our interactions in development communities, while still ensuring that the social problems that may inhibit community progress are mitigated? How does one manage to do all this while keeping one’s commitments to one’s friends and to project values like transparency and openness?
In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will explore the role of secrets and disclosure in our open development communities. Specifically, she will explore how good leaders know when to discuss secrets, when to remain mum and, in particular, how to tell secrets "the right way". Drawing on six years of experience working with 100s of FOSS communities, she will discuss some of the most contentious and hilarious social problems she’s encountered and how they were addressed, with names and details omitted sufficiently well to keep her own commitments to confidentiality.
The power of meditation and how it affects our brainsBali Holistic
Let us explore how meditation can have healing effects for our body, our mind, our emotions, our soul, and the world. For meditation retreat visit our website http://www.baliholistic.com
Cumming May 1 luncheon Community TransformationOs Hillman
Os Hillman presents to Cumming, Georgia (Forsyth County) business leaders, May 2015 about what are the spiritual foundations required for community transformation.