To my knowledge there has never been a company that has been refused as a Fedora sponsor. Are there any specific companies you have in mind you want to reach out to and what would be your sales pitch to them? Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Scherer" <misc@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora community advisory board" <board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:16:00 AM > Subject: Re: What is success for Fedora? > > Le mardi 01 juillet 2014 à 11:16 -0400, Josh Boyer a écrit : > > Something the Board has talked about recently is defining success for > > Fedora. The project has often done this directly through our main > > deliverable, which is shipping another Fedora release. We work hard > > to create, test, and deliver a high quality Linux distribution. We > > look at feedback and try and correct mistakes or oversights in the > > next release. These are all fine things, and things that should > > continue as we stride towards Fedora.next, but is that really defining > > success for the project as a whole? Is Fedora simply a project to > > create a Linux distribution, or is it something larger? > > > > Our Four Foundations speak to the bedrock that Fedora is built on and > > provide guidance in decision making for specific instances. Yet we > > seem to rarely stand back and evaluate how Fedora as a project is > > doing. Are we achieving some manner of success in promoting those > > Foundations? Should we be striving for that? Is it even measurable? > > If so, how? > > > > The Board is starting this thread to have an earnest discussion around > > what people see "success" being for the Fedora project. Hopefully the > > Board members will chime in with their own thoughts soon, but we want > > to get as many ideas around this as possible. Hopefully this > > discussion will help the Board, and the community as a whole, gather > > some insight as to where we think Fedora is, where it should be > > heading, and what we should be doing to get it there. > > One "easy" to measure item would be to start going toward sponsor > diversity. > > IE, I would feel Fedora would be more a success if we had a more diverse > sponsorship. even if i do not think there is something fundamentally > wrong with RH, I do not see any negative outcome into having something > with more diverse companies helping. > (and I think this would increase community participation and so improve > free software for everybody ) > > -- > Michael Scherer > > _______________________________________________ > board-discuss mailing list > board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
