On Thursday, March 10, 2011 06:51:28 pm Jesse Keating wrote: > I recently got an email from an individual who was frustrated with > various things, and one item that was clear to me was that the > individual did not know where to bring some the concerns up. It > appeared that they did not know how Fedora was governed or that there > were contact points for higher level project management. I wanted to > point out to him where he could find this information only to discover > that it was not easy to find from fedoraproject.org. The best I could > do was the About Fedora page (http://fedoraproject.org/en/about-fedora) > which has a small link to the wiki Overview page > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview), but neither of which talk > about our governance model. I think our governance model is something > special, something that sets us apart from other projects, something > that makes us "Different". > > Not only should this detail be easy to find, it should be somewhat > prominently displayed for anybody who's going beyond "where can I get > the bits" to "how does this project work?" > > I believe the individual that contacted me would have been far less > frustrated if he had been able to find info about our board, and this > list in particular, so that he could being up his issues in a relevant > setting and not get turned away repeatedly from the various other > contact points we do list at fedoraproject.org. > > Beyond the general statements above, I do not have specific suggestions > on what content should be up there, although I did speak briefly with Mo > and she has some ideas she'll reply with once she is no longer traveling. Hi Jesse, you're completely right but I think the problem #1 is - we currently don't have answer (yet) neither. At FUDCon we spent almost two days discussing governance structure. Some notes from this session you can find here [1]. But more visibility of Board can be done now and I know we are failing here - but we are getting better - Fedora Board blog (mostly for Board meetings minutes for now), public Trac... I think it's still not enough, so my personal goal (and the goal #1) - help myself and Board to communicate better to the public. Thanks R. > Thanks for your time! [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Possible_Future_of_Fedora_Governance -- Jaroslav ÅeznÃk <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
