Dear all,
You are kindly invited to the meeting:
Council (FESCo/Mindshare/D&I Report) on 2019-05-29 from 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 US/Eastern
At fedora-meeting-1(a)irc.freenode.net
The meeting will be about:
The Fedora Council will hold our regular FESCo/Mindshare/Diversity & Inclusion Report meeting this week
at 10:00am US/Eastern. All are welcome!
To convert to your local time, run:
date -d 'TZ="US/Eastern" 10am tomorrow'
This meeting will be conducted via video chat at https://meet.jit.si/FedoraCouncil with notes taken in #fedora-meeting-1 on IRC.
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Hi Ben! I hope you're doing well. :)
I wanted to suggest adding expected time commitments for each elected
body of Fedora; however, I wasn't sure where to deliver this feedback on
the election process and would appreciate your guidance on where to
share this suggestion publicly.
In the past week, I tried to nominate four people (not employed by Red
Hat) for either a Council or Mindshare Committee seat. Each person I
reached out to was unsure of what is expected of them in the role (i.e.
specific responsibilities) and how much time commitment is expected to
be an active and engaged member of the elected group. I lacked current
domain knowledge from how each group operates and what is a reasonable
expectation of time commitment. Because this was unclear, each person
declined the nomination.
I read Brian's blog post, "Contributors are Empowered When They Know the
Process", and I felt this is one area where contributors are missing the
"domain knowledge" of what elected bodies in Fedora do:
https://community.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/contributors-are-empowered-when-t…
There is some documentation for each elected body, but I think we could
do better to engage more people from more places. This seems to affect
FESCo less than Council and Mindshare. FESCo currently has seven
nominations, Council has two, and Mindshare has three. It could be
interesting to dig deeper if FESCo does anything differently.
I also think doing this well helps diversity and inclusion because it
enables more people to enter Fedora leadership positions who may not
traditionally be represented in those groups. Like Brian's blog post
mentions, when people understand how things work and what policies
exist, it makes it easier for them to take the big leap. Fedora
engineering and mindshare efforts benefit when there are more ideas from
diverse backgrounds / use cases at the table.
I wasn't sure where to direct this feedback and I would prefer to make
it public for others to weigh in on too. Let me know if there is a
specific Pagure repo I should file an issue against or if there is
somewhere else I can share this feedback.
Thanks for your time!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
justinwflory.com
TZ=America/New_York
Pronouns: he/him/his
Today we are starting the Nomination & Campaign period during which we
accept nominations to the "steering bodies" of the following teams:
* FESCo (Engineering) (4 seats) [1]
* Fedora Council (1 seat) [2]
* Mindshare (1 seat) [3]
This period is open until 2019-05-22 at 23:59:59 UTC.
Candidates may self-nominate. If you nominate someone else, please
check with them to ensure that they are willing to be nominated before
submitting their name.
The steering bodies are currently selecting interview questions for
the candidates.
Nominees submit their questionnaire answers via a private Pagure
issue. The Election Wrangler or their backup will publish the
interviews to the Community Blog before the start of the voting
period. Fedora Podcast episodes will be recorded and published as
well.
Please note that the interview is mandatory for all nominees. Nominees
not having their interview ready by end of the Interview period
(2019-05-29) will be disqualified and removed from the election.
As part of the campaign people may also ask questions to specific
candidates on the appropriate mailing list.
The full schedule of the elections is available on the Elections
schedule[4]. For more information about the elections process, see the
wiki[5].
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Nominations
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mindshare/Nominations
[4] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-30/f-30-elections.html
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Dear all,
You are kindly invited to the meeting:
Council (Open Floor) on 2019-05-22 from 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 US/Eastern
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The Fedora Council will hold our regular Open Floor meeting at 10:00am
US/Eastern in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. All are welcome!
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Open Floor meetings happen every four weeks. They do not have a
preset agenda. Instead, we spend the first few minutes of the
meeting deciding what topics will be discussed. If attendees —
Council members and otherwise — have several topics of general
interest, the primary meeting chair (usually the FPL or FCAIC)
will put them in order, and after a certain amount of time
discussing the first, ask if it's time to move on.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council_Meetings#Open_Floor_Meetings
Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9410/
Dear all,
You are kindly invited to the meeting:
Council (Tickets and Ongoing) on 2019-05-15 from 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 US/Eastern
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at 10:00am US/Eastern in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. All are
welcome!
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Tickets and Ongoing meetings happen every four weeks. We don't want
to be entirely ticket-driven (since that's a reactive process), but
this helps keep important issues from slipping through the cracks.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council_Meetings#Tickets_and_Ongoing_Meetings
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Dear all,
You are kindly invited to the meeting:
Council (FESCo/Mindshare/D&I Report) on 2019-05-01 from 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 US/Eastern
At fedora-meeting-1(a)irc.freenode.net
The meeting will be about:
The Fedora Council will hold our regular FESCo/Mindshare/Diversity & Inclusion Report meeting this week
at 10:00am US/Eastern. All are welcome!
To convert to your local time, run:
date -d 'TZ="US/Eastern" 10am tomorrow'
This meeting will be conducted via video chat at https://meet.jit.si/FedoraCouncil with notes taken in #fedora-meeting-1 on IRC.
This week's primary meeting chair (usually the FPgM, FPL, or FCAIC) will
reply to this message with specific information.
Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/5237/