On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:22:06AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > So, having an advisor to work on diversity inititiatives - this is > *awesome* to have. It does raise a couple of questions for me. Admittedly, > these are probably more of the sorts of questions a prospective candidate > might ask, rather than questions about the document as drafted. Thanks Bill. Good questions -- and as the proposal looks to be on its way to passing, it's good to start examining the next details. > 1) There's procedural overlap with the Fedora Community Action and Impact > Coordinator role (third party interactions, potential budget > responsibilities) and mission overlap with the outreach seat (growing the > community). Is this intentional? Do we feel that this will lead to more > synergy in these roles? These roles do form a natural subcommittee of sorts, and yes, I do hope for... synergy. I guess you're allowed to use that word now that you don't work for Shadowman anymore. :) The "outreach" side is more focused on userbase, but traditionally building a userbase of potential contributors has been a key Fedora strategy, and I think that will continue. And we'll see how the action/impact coordinator role develops. > > 2) The two goals/responsibilities defined here are very different, both in > what they're actually doing (working internally vs sponsoring externally), > and in how well Fedora (and Red Hat, as primary sponsors) have historically > succeeded at them. When determining success, how are the two > responsibilities weighted, and how does this affect what candidates are > chosen? Hmmm. I guess I don't see them as that opposed. > 3) For the Fedora-facing initiatives aspect of the role, what are the axes > of diversity that this intends to tackle? Examples would be gender identity, > ethnicity, age, nationality, language, employer, and many others. I think all of those except employer; that's a separate issue for Fedora (and I think part of the action/impact coordinator role, although not exclusively). My own concerns are primarily over gender identity and ethnicity, but I don't want to be limiting here. > 4) For historic board seats, they went to those who stood for election and > generally had a personal stake in the project. For the new council seats > other than this, we either have paid positions or selected from inside > Fedora. If, as has been suggested, this role is filled from outside the > fence to bring in new perspectives, how confident are we in finding someone > who wants to do this solely as a volunteer? Yeah; we will see. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
