[Request for Comments] Governance change for Fedora Project

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 18 August 2014 15:49, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:07:51PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 18 August 2014 14:31, Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 08/17/2014 09:13 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > > > It is a problem with the Board structure because there have been many
> > > > people who have been on the board who have tried to do things only to
> > > > find that the board does not have any 'power' to enact anything.
> > >
> > > The best leadership does not use executive power to make things happen.
> > > Vision, common purpose, supporting culture, ability to try and
> > > fail/learn, and some metric to understand if progress is being made is
> > > far more effective leadership. To me the discussion is to keep the
> > > current passive parts the board does, but to take on a former mentioned
> > > in a active role to facilitate for the project.
> > >
> > > Hope that makes sense.
> > > Carl.
> > >
> >
> > It does. However the best leadership will not get anything done if there
> is
> > no one willing to help out or no budget to pay for the resources that the
> > people need to enact things. What happens is in those cases is that the
> > leadership or people leave to find the places where they can get the
> > resources they need.  We have been very good about being able enact small
> > things that don't require a lot of resources but anything larger needing
> > long term focus, more than a couple of volunteers and a laptop... we tend
> > to fall apart quickly around the 6 week mark. Various people think that
> the
> > Board (or being a member of the Board) can fix that but it had none of
> the
> > tools either.
>
> Interestingly I think you're speaking directly (and well) to a point I
> mentioned earlier about the FPL's ability to bring in other roles as
> needed.  What if that included someone with actual funding power?


I think that would help many areas where long term continuity is needed.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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