## The Secret
to Keeping Your Community Strong for Decades Brian (bex) Exelbierd (@bexelbie)
Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator (FCAIC)
Red Hat SFScon, Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy - 10 November 2017 ## Agenda - Evolving Governance - Global and Local Communities - Budgets - Onboarding New Contributors - Encouraging Diversity ## What is the Fedora Project? - A complete operating system and software set - A community infrastructure - 350+ active contributes each week - Corporate Sponsor - Started in 2003 - 27th Release ships soon ![Fedora Logo](fedora_logo.png) ### Governance: 2002 ![Genesis](genesis.png) ### Governance: 2003 - 2004 ![Core + Community](core-community.png) Open, Free, Innovative, Forward-Looking ### Governance: 2004 - 2006 ![Core + Extras](core-extras.png) Infinity, Freedom, Voice ### Governance: 2007 - 2012 ![The Fedora Board](board.png) The Code Merges!
Independence is a key value
The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of Free and open source software and content as a collaborative community. ### Governance: 2013 - Today ![The Fedora Council](orgchart.png) Fedora creates an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users. ## Global Community Online, Flock, FUDCon, FADs ### Challenges - Balancing "talk" and "do" - Making Flock Global - FUDCons are confusing - FADs are challenging
  ### Solution? Communication ## Local Community - Ambassadors are the representatives of Fedora to the world - Divided into four Regions with Budget Authority
  ### Challenges - Regions were not defined by Fedora - Regions work regionally but need to execute locally - Some ambassadors are not active in other areas - Some groups in Fedora are hard to contact
  ### Solution? Mindshare Commitee ## Budgets: 2003 - 2013 - Black Box Budgets - Historical Precedence is a Driver - Money is rooted with the Ambassadors
  ### Challenges - "Ask Red Hat" leads to uncertainty - Almost everything has to be regionally justified - Planning is hard if you can't see the balances ## Budgets: 2014 - Today - Community has a known budget - The Council allocates project wide - Transparent budget @ budget.fedoraproject.org
  ### Challenges - Communication - Numbers are scary - Change is scary #### budget.fedoraproject.org ![It's full of Numbers](budget.png) ## Budgets: 2014 - Today - Community has a known budget - The Council allocates project wide - Transparent budget @ budget.fedoraproject.org
  ### Challenges - Communication - Numbers are scary - Change is scary #### Fedora's Contributors (mostly) ![It's full of Contributors](contributors.png) ### Onboarding New Contributors #### Challenges - What does contribution mean right now? - Which contributors to focus on - Direct contribution is often not what people think - Docs are key for user and contributor onboarding
  #### Solutions - Join SIG maintaining WhatCanIDoForFedora.org - 7 Fedora Classroom Intro Skills Sessions - Docs team has made it easier to contribute and project information is next to traditional documentation - Considering a History/Why project to learn more about our community ## Encouraging Diversity ### Successes - Active Diversity Team - Fedora Women Day is our big success - 10 events this year; 2 last year ### Challenges - Reviewing our Code of Conduct - Reporting mechanism is vague - What do with a report - Diversity Survey of our Community - Mindshare or Council? - Diversity Advisor ## Notes - Governance dates are approximate - Image Credit - Org Charts (before today): Brian Exelbierd - Org Chart (today): Fedora Project - budget.fedoraproject.org website - Contributor Graph: 2017 State of Fedora Talk by Matthew Miller - The Legal Bits - All images in this presentation are copyright their respective owners and are used under a Creative Commons License or considered fair use. - This presentation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Please use, remix and share widely! For license information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ## Thank You - Brian (bex) Exelbierd | bexelbie@redhat.com | bex@pobox.com - Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator - @bexelbie | https://www.winglemeyer.org - Slides: https://www.winglemeyer.org/bexelbie-talks-demos/SFS-Bozen-Italy-2017/