From e6c73f1a1999339892e5d0a505940156c7cfdee1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian (bex) Exelbierd Date: Mar 01 2018 13:17:18 +0000 Subject: update FCAIC page --- diff --git a/council/fcaic.adoc b/council/fcaic.adoc index 264ce60..00febbb 100644 --- a/council/fcaic.adoc +++ b/council/fcaic.adoc @@ -1,27 +1,23 @@ Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator ============================================== +The _Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator_ (or _FCAIC_) is a full-time, Red Hat-employed job to lead initiatives to grow the Fedora user and developer communities, and to make Red Hat / Fedora interactions even more transparent and positive. +The Fedora community budget comes to us through The Red Hat Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team, and this position facilitates decision-making on how to best focus that to meet our collective objectives. +First and Foremost, the FCAIC supports the link:fpl.html[Project Leader] in all things "Community," and works directly with Fedora Leadership to help bring more Heat and Light to the project. -The _Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator_ (or _FCAIC_) is a -full-time, Red Hat-employed job to lead initiatives to grow the Fedora user -and developer communities, and to make Red Hat / Fedora interactions even -more transparent and positive. The Fedora community budget comes to us -through The Red Hat Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team, and this position -facilitates decision-making on how to best focus that to meet our collective -objectives. First and Foremost, the FCAIC supports the link:fpl.html[Project Leader] in -all things "Community," and works directly with Fedora Leadership to help -bring more Heat and Light to the project. - -The FCAIC is appointed to the Community Action and Impact seat on the Fedora -link:charter.html[Council], Fedora’s top-level community leadership and -governance body. The Council is responsible for stewardship of the Fedora -Project as a whole, and supports the health and growth of the Fedora -Community. +The FCAIC is appointed to the Community Action and Impact seat on the Fedora link:charter.html[Council], Fedora’s top-level community leadership and governance body. +The Council is responsible for stewardship of the Fedora Project as a whole, and supports the health and growth of the Fedora Community. -image::bex-ocean-thumb.jpg[float="right",50%] -== Current F-🎂 +== Current F-🎂.footnote:[What's with the cake? The abbreviation FCAIC sounds like "F-Cake" in American English. If this position is going to have a title that is a mouthful, at least the mouthful can be yummy cake!] -Brian Exelbierd (Hey @bex! Your bio goes here!) +image::bex-ocean-thumb.jpg[float="right",50%] +https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:bex[Brian (bex) Exelbierd] became the Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator in October 2016. +At Red Hat, Brian has worked as a technical writer, software engineer, content strategist and is now an Open Source community manager in the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat. +Brian spends his day enabling the Fedora community by clearing road blocks and easing the way for the community to do great things. +Before Red Hat, Brian worked with the University of Delaware as the Director of Graduate and Executive Programs in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and as a Budget Analyst. +Brian’s background in software engineering stretches back years before his university work and includes stints at small, medium, large and governmental organizations. +“Glue Code” is how many of Brian’s projects could be described. +These are projects that fill in the interstitial spaces between large systems and provide continuity and ease of use. Follow him on Twitter https://twitter.com/bexelbie[@bexelbie] or on his http://www.winglemeyer.org[blog]. == Previous Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinators @@ -32,20 +28,25 @@ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Decause[Remy DeCausemaker ]:: == Roles and Responsibilities == === Council === + * Work with other Council members to identify the short, medium, and long term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them * Primary Council member with responsibility for the development of the annual Fedora community budget * Participate in decision-making about use of trademarks, project structure, community disputes or complaints, and other such issues === Special Initiatives === + * Design and spearhead special initiatives to grow user and contributor bases === Metrics === + * Implement metrics for community engagement, participation, and satisfaction; create and execute projects to improve those metrics; report regularly on progress and adjust approach as needed === Opportunities === + * Identify opportunities to engage new contributors and community members; align project around supporting those opportunities === Liaise between Red Hat and FOSS Community === + * Communicate community needs to Red Hat and participate in regular meetings with internal Red Hat stakeholders; align Red Hat participation in Fedora beyond platform engineering * Represent Red Hat’s stake in Fedora community success * Improve on-boarding materials and presentation of Fedora to new Red Hat hires; develop standardized materials on Fedora which can be used at Red Hat globally. @@ -55,19 +56,20 @@ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Decause[Remy DeCausemaker ]:: The FCAIC will work with Fedora Council and OSAS to determine annual Fedora Budget * Ensure that budget is published and tracked transparently, with a public page indicating how each year’s budget is earmarked and its current state. -* More information at [[Budget.next]] +* More information at https://budget.fedoraproject.org === Fedora Event Planning and Participation === Participate in planning and organizing Fedora’s Flagship events each year, including: * Flock -* DevConf.cz +* DevConf * FUDCons * Fedora Activity Days (FADs) * Red Hat Summit The FCAIC also represents Fedora at other major industry conferences and hackathons such as: + * AllThingsOpen * FOSDEM * PyCon (and Sprints) @@ -77,4 +79,3 @@ The FCAIC also represents Fedora at other major industry conferences and hackath === Communications === The FCAIC provides and facilitates regular communications to Fedora Magazine, the Fedora Community Blog, and other mass communication channels to talk about community goals/progress and general community boosting. -