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Subject: Fedora mission statement - msg#00039List: fedora-advisory-board
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Contributors and other community members have been asking for more
clarification of Fedora's objectives and mission. The Fedora Board, as a community governance body, agreed to take on this topic, as shown in several of our previous meetings' minutes. We've decided to tackle this problem in several phases. The first phase involves making a general mission statement that clearly declares the Fedora Project's reason for existence -- what we are trying to achieve. This is not the statement that can or should answer every single question about how the Project works, or how we prioritize different types of initiatives. Those statements will follow, but they should all support this overall mission: "To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community." The three elements of this mission are clear: * The Fedora Project always tries to lead, not follow. * The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread free/libre code and content. * The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of many people throughout our community. In preparation for the next phase, we've built out a Foundations page on the wiki to help describe the Fedora core values -- Freedom, Friends, Features, and First. These Foundations help ensure that as we pursue specific objectives, we do so in a way that's in line with our community's beliefs and shared values. For instance, if one were to formulate the objective of "wait for Distro X to solve problem Y," one would quickly find this objective to be out of sync with at least our Features and First values. Next the Board will be embarking on defining a set of broad objectives, envisioning how we can achieve the mission. This is at least in part a responsibility of the project leader, so I'll take a strong interest in helping the Board build out those objectives in a way that helps our whole community understand their underlying rationale. A number of these objectives may already be documented, and I don't expect there will be any major surprises in this content. My hope is that we'll be providing information that helps people understand the basis for our processes, but still encourages contributors to try new avenues as well. We don't want to shut ourselves off from new and different ideas, as long as they support the mission and values our community shares. Thanks for reading, and viva Fedora! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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Previous Message by Date:Fedora Board Recap 2009-03-10https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-03-10 == Roll Call == * Board Members: Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal,Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, Chris Tyler, Harald Hoyer, Chris Aillon, Matt Domsch, and Spot Callaway * Secretary: John Poelstra == Trademark Followup === * Paul Frields has sent necessary letters for trademark agreement and domain name registration ** 10 letters sent so far ** Feedback has been positive so far * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees * Deadline for reply is 2009-03-20 * Will send mail to those who haven't responded on 2009-03-23 ** Will not use the @fedoraproject.org addresses due to password expirations == What is Fedora? == * How well will mission statement translate to other languages? * Add links to definitions of key words * Mission statement arrived at: ** ''To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community'' ** Paul Frields to send announcement to fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board Next Message by Date:Fedora's LWN subscriptionJust over a year ago, we[1] purchased a group subscription to LWN for 75 accounts. The purpose of these accounts was to ensure that Fedora contributors who might otherwise not have access to LWN's premium material would have the ability to access it. We just renewed the subscription, and this seems like a good time to clean it up. We have been using 73 of the 75 accounts. Of those 73, there are 18 who have not logged in since September 1, 2008 (just over 6 months). As the administrator of the subscription, I'd like to propose the following: * remove those people's subscriptions, giving us 20 total subscriptions free to allocate. * advertise on Planet and fedora-announce-list to see if there are new Fedora folks in the past year who would like a subscription, and distribute them. I'd like to be fair about distribution, so I was thinking to set up a wiki page where people could request a subscription, and give it a deadline. Once the deadline hits, have a little lottery if there are more requests than there are open subscriptions. Repeat every 6 months. Thoughts, comments, or objections? --Max [1] The purchase was made from the budget of Red Hat's Community Architecture team. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board Previous Message by Thread:Fedora Board Recap 2009-03-10https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-03-10 == Roll Call == * Board Members: Paul Frields, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal,Jesse Keating, Dimitris Glezos, Chris Tyler, Harald Hoyer, Chris Aillon, Matt Domsch, and Spot Callaway * Secretary: John Poelstra == Trademark Followup === * Paul Frields has sent necessary letters for trademark agreement and domain name registration ** 10 letters sent so far ** Feedback has been positive so far * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees * Deadline for reply is 2009-03-20 * Will send mail to those who haven't responded on 2009-03-23 ** Will not use the @fedoraproject.org addresses due to password expirations == What is Fedora? == * How well will mission statement translate to other languages? * Add links to definitions of key words * Mission statement arrived at: ** ''To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community'' ** Paul Frields to send announcement to fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board Next Message by Thread:Fedora's LWN subscriptionJust over a year ago, we[1] purchased a group subscription to LWN for 75 accounts. The purpose of these accounts was to ensure that Fedora contributors who might otherwise not have access to LWN's premium material would have the ability to access it. We just renewed the subscription, and this seems like a good time to clean it up. We have been using 73 of the 75 accounts. Of those 73, there are 18 who have not logged in since September 1, 2008 (just over 6 months). As the administrator of the subscription, I'd like to propose the following: * remove those people's subscriptions, giving us 20 total subscriptions free to allocate. * advertise on Planet and fedora-announce-list to see if there are new Fedora folks in the past year who would like a subscription, and distribute them. I'd like to be fair about distribution, so I was thinking to set up a wiki page where people could request a subscription, and give it a deadline. Once the deadline hits, have a little lottery if there are more requests than there are open subscriptions. Repeat every 6 months. Thoughts, comments, or objections? --Max [1] The purchase was made from the budget of Red Hat's Community Architecture team. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
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