On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: > Does this sound like you or someone you know? Please contact me (or > any Board member). We?d like to get the group started soon. Thanks! I wrote up some thoughts in a blog post (http://spevack.livejournal.com/107990.html), but after I posted it, I thought it might have been more useful to put the main points in this thread. ====== (1) Part of the charter/goals states that the CWG "aims to act as a central point of contact by being available to communicate needs between various groups". How will this be different than the Fedora Logistics List? Is it meant to discuss less-technical collaboration needs between groups? Make sure that this is clear before you get started. (2) Will the CWG only be making recommendations, or will it also be rallying the troops to implement? There are opportunities here to ressurect ideas like the wiki challenge and harness resources like the Fedora Engineering Services team, which seems under-utilized and also seems like something that could easily be grown, given the number of smart engineers in our community who are looking for short-term, high impact projects. (3) Make a concerted effort to bring in some new voices. I think that the Fedora Project finds itself in the midst of a generational shift. This must be embraced, and not feared. I'd suggest that no more than two of the initial five members on the CWG should be folks who have a history of serving in high-visibility or leadership roles within Fedora. Let's make sure that we're giving newer members of our community opportunities to step up into important roles. (4) Make a bold decision about the question of how Fedora wants to handle "poisonous" people, and give it a one-release-cycle trial period. Make it clear that Fedora remains a community that is open to many voices, and that will always respond most favorably to the people who are actually stepping up to contribute any sort of work to the bottom line. But also make it clear that there is a right and a wrong way to disagree. Just because we're a community of volunteers doesn't mean we don't have to treat each other professionally. If people spoke to their co-workers the same way they sometimes speak to each other on Fedora lists, there would be consequences, and justifiably so. I've always thought that Fedora's "code of conduct" could be a simple as "don't be a jerk", but I support the mandate of the soon-to-be-formed CWG to decide otherwise. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
