On 02/15/2012 06:30 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:17:38AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:49:34 -0700,
Robyn Bergeron<rbergero@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(That said, we have seen a dramatic drop in the number of FADs
sponsored; I don't think this is necessarily a sign of anything
concrete, except perhaps (a) people have forgotten that this
resource exists, or (b) we have fewer people working on new projects
or solving problems that they are excited about, and can produce
results face-to-face more rapidly. I suspect the latter may be the
case, and is certainly troubling, but is a topic not really for this
email.)
My (possibly selective) memory is that Paul instigated a lot of the FADs
when he was FPL. Since his job change he has had to cut back his time and
probably isn't in a position to see the needs and push for setting up FADs
as much as he used to be able to.
In one sense, Bruno's statement confused me, because I only recall
helping to drive a handful of FADs when I was FPL. Then in another
sense it made me feel happy someone thought I was doing a good job
with those. At least I think that's what he meant, so thanks for the
kind words Bruno! :-)
But in truth, I recall most of the FADs during my FPL time being
driven by other Fedora contributors. What I do recall doing is
talking about FADs often, and when good ideas came up, suggesting to
the key contributors involved that they should organize a FAD event
once they had a plan for the work.
And much of the framework for "having a FAD" was actually set up by,
IIRC, yourself and Community Architecture - the documentation is fairly
comprehensive (although perhaps hard to find or know about without
people broadly advertising or suggesting it.)
My first FAD... well, Fedora event, period -- was the Marketing FAD we
did in March, 2010. Mel Chua and I mostly drove the arrangement of
that, with Mel doing the pointing of, "Yes, you can," and
credit-carding, and myself doing agenda-driving with plenty of
encouragement from Paul and Mel. It was incredibly valuable, both from
a productivity as well as team-building/bonding experience -- and I
think that we, collectively, simply don't take enough opportunities to
do these, don't point it out as a resource to or encourage it amongst
others.
It does seem like there were more of them a couple years ago than
perhaps there were in the last year. But unfortunately the last part
of Bruno's statement is only too accurate; I definitely don't get the
time for Fedora these days that I used to. However, since I didn't
really drive many of the FADs personally I suspect
QUICK! Sentence-finishing FAD! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
I think I do want to amend my previous statement about quantity of FADs
a bit: We do continue to have FADs -- I think we are having fewer of
them that are focused on solving a particular problem, and perhaps more
of them that are oriented as "Mini-FUDCons."
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FADs#Past_FADs
Not saying that that is a bad or good thing, just pointing out that I
previously spoke incorrectly. :)
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