[diversity] [fedora-diversity] Issue #18: Nominating a team lead

[Justin W. Flory]

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# Summary

The Diversity Adviser role is currently
[unfilled](https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@l...,
but we need someone to help organize and drive Diversity and Inclusion efforts in Fedora.
This ticket summarizes what we need and intends to open the floor for someone to volunteer
in a leadership capacity.

# Background

One of the repeating themes from our discussions in the past few weeks is how to enable
ourselves to be the most productive in our limited time as volunteers. Currently, there
are some organizational challenges limiting us from using some of our time together most
effectively. Resolving these challenges will move us towards maximizing our time together
and working through tasks at a more expedient rate. One of the things that will help us
accomplish this is choosing someone to help drive and lead some of the efforts that we are
working on. Having someone in this leadership role would help us take down some of these
blockers and help us make progress quicker than we have been.

# Responsibilities

Some of the responsibilities of what this would look like are outlined below. This list is
not exhaustive.

* **Chairing meetings**
    * Would chair IRC / video meetings and help organize the team meeting structure to
maximize the most effective use of our time
    * Responsible for creating agenda before meeting as a rough outline of what to cover
* **Identify core short-term and long-term tasks**
    * Recognize existing tasks, identify new tasks, and prioritize based on team bandwidth
and expertise
        * New tasks to focus on how to have a larger impact on Fedora and community
    * Strategize how we proceed together as a team to accomplish these tasks
* **Helping break down and delegate tasks**
    * Some of our tasks are very big and need to be broken into smaller pieces with
timelines for completion to be realistic
    * Spend time looking at existing tickets, help envision the goals, and form a path
forward from current position
    * Collaborate with others to help envision the goals and work with team members to
build realistic timelines on what they can include
    * Delegate action items with realistic check-ups when possible
* **Coordination and representation with the Fedora Council**
    * As with the [Diversity Adviser](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity_Adviser)
role, attend Council meetings and serve as the Diversity and Inclusion representative
where possible
    * Represent needs and vision of D&I efforts and act as a liason between Council
and Diversity WG
* **Ticket / wiki gardening**
    * Keep ticket metadata updated and current with tags, priorities, milestones
    * When necessary, help garden the wiki with accurate / current information

# Length of leadership

Since this is a volunteer position, it is difficult to pin this onto someone as a
permanent role. As a suggested way of maintaining this in the long run, we could have the
team lead follow the Fedora release cycles, and at the beginning of every release, the
team lead would have a chance to renew their leadership role. If someone else wanted to
help lead the team, they would also have a chance to self-nominate. This could become
integrated into the Fedora Elections cycle for a community election (but for the immediate
sense, this is something we should endeavor to self-nominate as soon as possible).

# Nominations

If the above sounds reasonable, I propose that we begin collecting nominations for anyone
who would to take the helm in this leadership capacity. We should endeavor to move this
seat to an electable role by F27.
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[Amita Sharma]

amsharma added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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I don't think this is something which can be achieved with quality process within 2
weeks. I have been there and did it for the first diversity adviser role selection, it
took a lots of good efforts and thoughts to process applications. I suggest to reuse the
already happened successful process, so that we can save some time and energy here.
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[Amita Sharma]

The issue: `Nominating a team lead` of project: `fedora-diversity` has been assigned to
`amsharma` by amsharma.

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[Bhagyashree Padalkar]

bee2502 added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@amsharma What do you mean by reusing the past process ? Do  you mean the
selection/interview process ? How do you exactly propose we reuse it - do a community call
for volunteers again ? Can you elaborate a bit more ?

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[Amita Sharma]

amsharma added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@bee2502 leaving any ticket unassigned too seems not a good thing, we need some ownership
for the tasks, while we are going to have discussions on every ticket in open with
everyone.

Here are some pointers to the last process (I am not sure why/how you are not aware of
these) -
https://fedoramagazine.org/help-fedora-find-a-diversity-adviser/
https://fedoramagazine.org/call-for-applications-for-fedora-diversity-adv...
http://piratepad.net/Diversity-MOM

I can explain more in meeting.

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[Bhagyashree Padalkar]

bee2502 added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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This ticket is not about electing a new Fedora Diversity Advisor, but just a team lead for
Diversity team. Since the Diversity Adviser role is currently unfilled, but we need
someone to help organize and drive Diversity and Inclusion efforts in Fedora as we are
facing some organizational issues. 

We aim to have a decision by next meeting.
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[Jona Azizaj]

jonatoni added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Agree with you Bee. Let's discuss about this during our next meeting.
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