## The Secret
to Keeping Your Community Strong for Decades
Brian (bex) Exelbierd (@bexelbie)
Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator (FCAIC)
Red Hat
SFScon, Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy - 10 November 2017
## Agenda
- Evolving Governance
- Global and Local Communities
- Budgets
- Onboarding New Contributors
- Encouraging Diversity
## What is the Fedora Project?
- A complete operating system and software set
- A community infrastructure
- 350+ active contributes each week
- Corporate Sponsor
- Started in 2003 - 27th Release ships soon
### Governance: 2002
### Governance: 2003 - 2004
Open, Free, Innovative, Forward-Looking
### Governance: 2004 - 2006
Infinity, Freedom, Voice
### Governance: 2007 - 2012
The Code Merges!
Independence is a key value
The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of Free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
### Governance: 2013 - Today
Fedora creates an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.
## Global Community
Online, Flock, FUDCon, FADs
### Challenges
- Balancing "talk" and "do"
- Making Flock Global
- FUDCons are confusing
- FADs are challenging
### Solution?
Communication
## Local Community
- Ambassadors are the representatives of Fedora to the world
- Divided into four Regions with Budget Authority
### Challenges
- Regions were not defined by Fedora
- Regions work regionally but need to execute locally
- Some ambassadors are not active in other areas
- Some groups in Fedora are hard to contact
### Solution?
Mindshare Commitee
## Budgets: 2003 - 2013
- Black Box Budgets
- Historical Precedence is a Driver
- Money is rooted with the Ambassadors
### Challenges
- "Ask Red Hat" leads to uncertainty
- Almost everything has to be regionally justified
- Planning is hard if you can't see the balances
## Budgets: 2014 - Today
- Community has a known budget
- The Council allocates project wide
- Transparent budget @ budget.fedoraproject.org
### Challenges
- Communication
- Numbers are scary
- Change is scary
#### budget.fedoraproject.org
## Budgets: 2014 - Today
- Community has a known budget
- The Council allocates project wide
- Transparent budget @ budget.fedoraproject.org
### Challenges
- Communication
- Numbers are scary
- Change is scary
#### Fedora's Contributors (mostly)
### Onboarding New Contributors
#### Challenges
- What does contribution mean right now?
- Which contributors to focus on
- Direct contribution is often not what people think
- Docs are key for user and contributor onboarding
#### Solutions
- Join SIG maintaining WhatCanIDoForFedora.org
- 7 Fedora Classroom Intro Skills Sessions
- Docs team has made it easier to contribute and project information is next to traditional documentation
- Considering a History/Why project to learn more about our community
## Encouraging Diversity
### Successes
- Active Diversity Team
- Fedora Women Day is our big success
- 10 events this year; 2 last year
### Challenges
- Reviewing our Code of Conduct
- Reporting mechanism is vague
- What do with a report
- Diversity Survey of our Community
- Mindshare or Council?
- Diversity Advisor
## Notes
- Governance dates are approximate
- Image Credit
- Org Charts (before today): Brian Exelbierd
- Org Chart (today): Fedora Project
- budget.fedoraproject.org website
- Contributor Graph: 2017 State of Fedora Talk by Matthew Miller
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## Thank You
- Brian (bex) Exelbierd | bexelbie@redhat.com | bex@pobox.com
- Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator
- @bexelbie | https://www.winglemeyer.org
- Slides: https://www.winglemeyer.org/bexelbie-talks-demos/SFS-Bozen-Italy-2017/