RFC: Fedora Community Working Group charter (draft)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 22:29, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> OK, finally a first stab at a charter to create a Fedora Community
>> Working group.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rdieter/Draft_Fedora_Community_Working_Group
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Hi Rex,
>
> This sounds reasonable and there is clearly a need for mechanisms to
> resolve disputes and promote a happy project but I do have some
> reservation about creating a new body that by the nature of the work
> it is tasked with is largely a black box.
>
> Currently we have three governance bodies that all do this sort of
> community work. Is the intention to remove these functions from those
> bodies and aggregate that effort into this new group? If so, what do
> you see as the benefit of doing that?

Or maybe it could formalize them. Our working charters are sometimes
flimsy  with groups here in adhoc basis growing into formality. What
are the limits of those groups? What groups are they? When governance
body 1 conflicts with governance body 4 what do we do?

Using define:Governance in Google I got the following definition from princeton

administration: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who
make up a body for the purpose of administering something;

Governance bodies I know of:
1) Board
2) FESCO
3) Fedora Packaging Group
4) Ambassadors
5) EPEL
6) Infrastructure
7) Marketing
8) Websites

Any community over the size of about 144 people ends up with needing
formalized methods to deal with governance.

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