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Do nothing yourself

Jenn began her career as LinuxChix coordinator with a simple rule: Do nothing yourself. The last coordinator burned herself out by trying to do too many jobs all at once. Jenn delegated every job possible to other people, since being LinuxChix coordinator by itself strains the limits of anyone's volunteer time. Each job - webmaster, mailing list administrator, local chapter head - was filled by several volunteers. As we discovered, there are usually more volunteers than jobs.



2004-05-08