Last week at Red Hat's Summit, we indicated our intent to create a Fedora Foundation. This was communicated to many of you but we want this message to get to everyone in the community about our goals and vision for the Foundation. We would appreciate your input and comments. Fedora Project : Goals and Vision The Fedora Foundation is Red Hat's next step in its commitment to build a true open source community around Fedora. The purpose of the foundation is to expand the collaboration within the community and between the community and outside projects. It is our hope that the foundation will expand to cover many Fedora related sub-projects with Red Hat continuing to devote significant engineering resources to the overall project. Red Hat believes the Fedora Project is both an essential part of the open source development cycle that leads to its commercial ventures and a community that does more than consume Fedora as a product. Such a community can prosper best when the needs and wishes of the participants are all represented. Whenever a project changes there is concern about the future. Red Hat and the leaders of the Fedora Project understand this and value feedback from everyone. There are no current plans to change the Fedora Core distribution project, processes and management. As many have asked Red Hat will also maintain ultimate overall control of the project to ensure that we continue to have timely, high quality releases. Fedora Roadmap Red Hat has always wanted to expand the Fedora Project. Our original vision encompasses Fedora Extras, which has taken a lot longer than expected, and a vast amount of hard work and contributions from individuals outside and inside Red Hat. The community has already created a Fedora Legacy project and a Documentation project. Fedora Alternatives still awaits. Fedora can only expand by enabling individuals and groups to contribute rather than consume. The Foundation exists to do this, not just for Red Hat originated Fedora projects but for those that come from the community. Your participation as individuals, as companies, as creators is welcome and desired, both in defining the future of Fedora and in making it happen.
