On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> Further, Red Hat fills several board seats anyway. Fedora is Red Hat's >> baby. Red Hat still has to prove how serious they take the Fedora community. > > I don't want to hijack the thread, but if you compare the investments made > into Fedora and the commitment to the community of Red Hat in 2005 and Red > Hat in 2008, what questions do you have about Red Hat being serious about > Fedora? > > Our daily operational budget has been multiplied about five or six fold > (community architecture + fedora infrastructure budget) compared to when I > started as the FPL. > > Furthermore, the number of full-time employees working directly on Fedora > has increased significantly over the past 2-3 years, with basically every > single hire coming from the Fedora community, and expanded roles being > created from within Red Hat (like Spot's new job, for example, as Fedora > Engineering Manager). > > Maybe it doesn't look like it from the outside, but Fedora has gotten a huge > amount of investment, comparatively, over the past few years, and that > investment continues. > > What else would you like to see from Red Hat to prove that it takes Fedora > and community seriously? I'm not trolling, I really want to konw, so that I > can work on making it happen. > Personally, I don't think Red Hat needs to publish anything but I own stock in the company so am probably biased. I would like to support Open Book Management.. even though Fedora is not a separate company/organization/etc treat it as such. Publish on the quarter how much was spent on salaries, hosting, equiptment, health care, etc etc. Treat everyone who has signed the CLA as stockholders/employees for this separate organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-book_management http://www.inc.com/guides/hr/23178.html -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board