Raleigh, NC
Travis Kepley is a Senior Instructor at Red Hat where he helps employees, partners and customers understand how Open Source Software can create a better IT and business infrastructure. Travis started at Red Hat in January of 2008 as a Technical Support Engineer before becoming a Solutions Architect prior to moving to his current role. Travis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and now lives in Raleigh with his wife and dog. When not extolling the virtues of open source, Travis is found fishing as well as playing and recording music.
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Thanks a ton for the European view of this. Love hearing about what works and doesn't when building and maintaining communities that govern projects, products or, in this case, teams.
And the Packers do vote for their board, who then in turn assigns representatives for different positions within the org. In fact, many times over the years the Packers would send a coach to league meetings where the rest of the league is sending owners. From Wikipedia:
"The team's elected president represents the Packers in NFL owners meetings, unless someone else is designated. During his time as coach, Vince Lombardi generally represented the team at league meetings in his role as general manager, except at owners-only meetings, where the team was represented by president Dominic Olejniczak."
So it sounds pretty similar to what you're describing. Again, thanks very much for the information, I love hearing about the way these sorts of things work in other parts of the world!
I remember being amazed that there was a tech movie using real life tech in their interaction with the OS. Thanks for the reminder. Also, in another scene with the protagonist and a computer (not to give away more spoilers), he was clearly using bash. That was really cool.