Re: [Request for Comments] Governance change for Fedora Project

Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff@xxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:33:24 -0400



    On 08/18/2014 05:07 PM, Stephen John
      Smoogen wrote:

    
          On 18 August 2014 14:31, Carl
            Trieloff <cctrieloff@xxxxxxxxxx>
            wrote:

            
              On 08/17/2014 09:13 PM, Stephen John Smoogen
                wrote:

                > It is a problem with the Board structure because
                there have been many

                > people who have been on the board who have tried to
                do things only to

                > find that the board does not have any 'power' to
                enact anything.

                
              The best leadership does not use executive power to make
              things happen.

              Vision, common purpose, supporting culture, ability to try
              and

              fail/learn, and some metric to understand if progress is
              being made is

              far more effective leadership. To me the discussion is to
              keep the

              current passive parts the board does, but to take on a
              former mentioned

              in a active role to facilitate for the project.

              
              Hope that makes sense.

              Carl.

                
            It does. However the best leadership will not get
              anything done if there is no one willing to help out or no
              budget to pay for the resources that the people need to
              enact things. What happens is in those cases is that the
              leadership or people leave to find the places where they
              can get the resources they need.  We have been very good
              about being able enact small things that don't require a
              lot of resources but anything larger needing long term
              focus, more than a couple of volunteers and a laptop... we
              tend to fall apart quickly around the 6 week mark. Various
              people think that the Board (or being a member of the
              Board) can fix that but it had none of the tools either.
            

    That is exactly why the board should be active in creating common
    purpose etc as I listed, as 90% in open source is people
    contributing because they believe in the objectives/priorities, see
    or believe the project is going somewhere and are willing to help
    make it happen.  If we look at for example OpenStack, in all cases
    someone believes in the project or a project objective and based on
    that either personally contribute or signs their company up to
    contribute. 

    
    Carl.

  
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