[Pitch] "Fedora under the hood" series

[Ankur Sinha]

Hello,

I was wondering if any one was interested in joining me to writing a
series of "Fedora: under the hood" posts (if the editorial team permits,
of course) with the aim being to:

- show that Fedora is a FOSS community with the OS being our mode of
  choice to work towards the community mission.
- discuss the work that goes into the creation of each release:
  including programme management, design, rebuilds, QA, websites,
  announcements---all of it.

The hope is that by speaking actively about why, who, and how we do
things, we improve the general understanding of how we tick. In
addition, that improved understanding will hopefully encourage more
"users" (to use the "vendor <-> user" terminology explained
later) to
join the community and contribute to FOSS---in whatever way they choose.
Finally, it will also make people aware of the resources that the
community has or does not have access too, and why some things are done
and others aren't.

Rationale:

Based on my personal experiences, so this is anecdotal evidence, it
seems that most people outside the community have little or no
understanding of how the Fedora community does things. They seem to
apply the "vendor <-> user" development model to Fedora too: someone,
somewhere, for some reason, is doing all of this for "users" instead of
the "community" paradigm: where there isn't a clear distinction between
"developers" and users---all contributors are also users, and we're all
part of the community and contribute in whatever ways we can often in
our free time.

Mostly, the magazine includes posts on how to use software: "to do
things with Fedora". The new website also says "Make the most of using
Fedora" next the Fedora magazine bit.  So, users get to learn about all
using the tools and the software, and not much about why, who, how, all
of this software (and the accompanying information) is
developed/integrated/provided to them.

PS: Of course, the primary aspect of the "vendor <-> user" paradigm is
that
the user pays in exchange for the service. This enables the "vendor" to
maintain the resources required to continue providing the service and
further improve it. How users "pay" to use Fedora if we also follow this
model does not seem to come up often somehow.

Thoughts?

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,

Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

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