As many community members (and hopefully all Board members) are aware, Diana Martin has been conducting anthropological studies on the Fedora Project, and you can find a draft of her report here: http://www.cyber-anthro.com/?page_id=343 http://www.cyber-anthro.com/research/Harrelson-Fedora.pdf It's a reasonable expectation for Board members to set aside 30-60 minutes to read this study carefully (yes, it is long, but informative), and to use it as a jumping off point to identify specific issues that Fedora leadership could help improve or solve. And of course interested community members should feel free to do the same, and help in those discussions. For instance, one of the points raised in the study was about how new contributors set their expectations. Mike McGrath recently wrote, in collaboration with some other members, a fantastic and much-needed wiki page[1] to help both new contributors and the teams they join set expectations for involvement and success. Wiki pages aren't the solution to every problem, of course. More generally, the process of transparently exploring (and then possibly documenting as a result) some aspect of Fedora can be key in building consensus and agreement. Diana is looking for input from the community on ways to improve the study, so I would encourage readers (including the Board) to send questions and suggestions directly to her for consideration, although certainly discussion's welcome here too. For instance, you might ask her to present and discuss certain metrics gathered in the study but not shown yet in the report. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_be_a_successful_contributor -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
