From 79b5108567b6eefd8ffc51def9749c77a266dd8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Stevens Date: Feb 24 2023 08:05:18 +0000 Subject: Amendments as per comments on PR#180 --- diff --git a/project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc b/project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc index 6137562..a278dd4 100644 --- a/project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc +++ b/project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ -= What are Community Initiatives? - -:page-aliases: objectives.adoc += What are Community Initiatives? :page-aliases: initiatives.adoc -Fedora Community Intitiatives (formerly "Objectives") contain projects which do not fall neatly into the 6 monthly Fedora release-cycle. -Typically they require longer to complete; 12-18 or even up to 24 months, and they are not limited to engineering projects. -The Council looks to achieve a balance between engineering projects and those from the wider Fedora community. +Fedora Community Intitiatives (formerly "Objectives") contain projects which do not fall neatly into the biannual Fedora release-cycle. +Typically they require longer to complete; 12-18 or even up to 24 months, and are not limited to engineering projects. +The Project necessarily has oversight of more than purely the engineering of Fedora. +Other key concerns are aspects such as administration; documentations; outreach; motivation; communications; budgets and best practice. +Within the Project these are grouped under a heading of https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/[Mindshare] +The Council looks to achieve a balance between engineering projects and those aligned with Mindshare. -The primary role of the xref:council::index.adoc[Fedora Council] is to identify the short-, medium-, -and long-term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them. -Anyone can propose a Community Initiative to the Council. -To be accepted it should to align with Fedora's https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/#_our_mission[mission statement] and long-term goals. +The primary role of the xref:council::index.adoc[Fedora Council] is to identify the short-, medium-, and long-term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them. +Anyone can propose a xref:initiatives.adoc[Community Initiative] to the Council. +To be accepted it should align with Fedora's https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/#_our_mission[mission statement] and long-term goals. Each Community Initiative has a designated Community Initiative Lead. -This Lead sits on the council for the duration of the Initiative and is responsible for coordinating efforts -to reach the Community Initiative's goals, as well as evaluating and reporting on progress. +This Lead sits on the council for the duration of the Initiative and is responsible for coordinating efforts to reach the Community Initiative's goals, as well as evaluating and reporting on progress. The Initiative Lead works regularly with all relevant groups in Fedora to ensure that progress is made. [[proposing]] @@ -27,14 +26,12 @@ To succeed, Community Initiatives ideally require a leadership team with divisio For example separating roles of project leadership, engineering, marketing and documentation, depending on the size and scope of the Initiative. The Council can assist a proposer in finding the right people to work on the project if required. -Community Initiatives will be assigned an Executive Sponsor from amongst the existing Council members, -to assist with raising and maintaining the visibility of the Initiative in the community. +Community Initiatives will be assigned an Executive Sponsor from amongst the existing Council members, to assist with raising and maintaining the visibility of the Initiative in the community. [[completing]] == How are Community Initiatives Finalized? -At the end of the expected duration of the Initiative (as specified at the proposal / acceptance stage), -the Council will assess the progress of the Initiative. +At the end of the expected duration of the Initiative (as specified at the proposal / acceptance stage), the Council will assess the progress of the Initiative. If the all of the aims, or all of the most significant of them have been achieved the Initiative will be terminated. If the aims are close to complete and further work will substantially increase the impact it may be allowed to continue for a further agreed period, after which it will be terminated. Initiatives will not be allowed to run indefinitely. @@ -48,8 +45,7 @@ This section documents the current Initiatives we, the Council, have accepted fo === Websites & Apps Revamp Summary:: -To reboot the websites team to include webapps in the scope of work and set up the team so that they can grow capacity -in the future to build new exciting apps to meet community needs. +To reboot the websites team to include webapps in the scope of work and set up the team so that they can grow capacity in the future to build new exciting apps to meet community needs. Community Initiative Leads:: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:T0xic0der[Akashdeep Dhar]