<div dir="ltr">As I mention at some of the meetings I went when talking about the role, creating a position with so much formality is why people will consider it a job, when it's clearly not. Don't want to say that formality is bad, just that it's out of scope to post a job description for what is just a communitary roll.<div><br></div><div>Do we have a job description for FAmSCo, FESCo or the Board? Sometimes, keeping things simple can be less confusing.</div><div><br></div><div>Easy way to go with is just to appoint someone and start working, and in a year or two make an election to select someone else or go with the same person again. Posting formal request like this create hiring expectations between the community members.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-02 11:43 GMT-04:30 Máirín Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duffy@redhat.com" target="_blank">duffy@redhat.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 07/02/2015 11:45 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:<br>
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I would underscore that this is a position on the Fedora Council, which is part of Fedora community governance.<br>
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Reliance on volunteering or unpaid work is one of the reasons there are fewer people from minority backgrounds, who have less leisure time, in open source, so I wouldn't offer the value of volunteering as an explanation in this context.<br>
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The argument implicitly being posed here, whether intended by anyone involved or not, is this:<br>
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Is it better to have no role at all than an unpaid one?<br>
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Those are the two options right now.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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~m<br>
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