<p>Robert added concerning the communities issue.</p>
<p>><br>
> At the end of 2010, the Fedora board decided to agree on "strategic<br>
> goals" for Fedora, so they can focus their work in 2011. When we looked<br>
> back at what had happened with these goals one year later at FUDCon<br>
> Blacksburg, we realized that hardly anything wa up with so far:<br>
> 1. Improve budget management: We want to make payments for our<br>
> contributors easier and faster. Budget needs to be more<br>
> transparent. We want to move decisions from FAmSCo to the local<br>
> communities. Reporting for credit card holders needs to become<br>
> easier. We are working on all this for a while already but<br>
> hardly made any progress, because there are big changes inside<br>
> of Red Hat. It is unclear who will manage our budget in the<br>
> future and we don't even have exact figures of our spending in<br>
> the last year. So as soon as there is some progress, we can<br>
> start working on this. We already set up a new trac instance</p>
<p>Would be nice!</p>
<p>> 2. Improve the elections: I have been spending a lot of work on the<br>
> new FAmSCo election guidelines and I want to continue with this<br>
> because I think there is still a lot to be improved. Even if we<br>
> have the best guidelines ever, we can improve, participation ,<br>
> documentation and the process. My goal is to have one simple and<br>
> streamlined election process for the whole Fedora project.<br>
> 3. Solve conflicts about local communities: As FAmSCo chair, I<br>
> received a lot of mails about conflicts in various local<br>
> communities. I was asked to make a decision, but frankly<br>
> speaking I cannot. I am willing to help and to act as a<br>
> middlemen, but it is not on me to decide who gets a certain<br>
> domain or not. Instead of solving these conflicts one by one it<br>
> is better to think about how we want to deal with them. Maybe<br>
> the Fedora community working group can help? I don't know, but I<br>
> continue to work on it.</p>
<p>I have been involved with this for months. Actually for ID and IT, as I am maintainer of <a href="http://fcomm.org">fcomm.org</a>.<br>
Robert is working on a proposal.<br>
It is involving RH legal also for domain names.<br>
We already are a "working group" :-) Nice to see you here ;-) <br></p>
<p>> If you like my ideas, I would appreciate your help. If you don't like<br>
> them, I am looking forward to your feedback. And if you have more ideas<br>
> how to make the Fedora community a better place, lets discuss them.<br>
><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
> Christoph<br>
><br>
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> <a href="http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2012/01/15/board-goals-2011-retrospective-and-what-we-can-learn-for-the-future/">http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2012/01/15/board-goals-2011-retrospective-and-what-we-can-learn-for-the-future/</a><br>
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