governance, fesco, board, etc.

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Dimitris Glezos wrote:

>> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 15:31 -0400, Tim Burke wrote:
>>
>>> "high level goals is a very broad term", so it may well cover what I'm
>>> thinking...  Most of this discussion and detail is about the mechanics
>>> of putting out a release.  I think another major objective of the board
>>> is less about release production and more about community. Such as
>>> broading adoption, making things approachable for growing communities.
>>> I know you guys do spend a lot of time on that, so I think its useful to
>>> have some mention in the charter responsibilities of the board that
>>> there a lot of outreach involved.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Fedora is so much more than just a Linux distro ... :)
>
> I too believe that the board should continue to increase its attention 
> to community empowerment and enablement rather than technical 
> issues/decisions. "Community" not as in not-Red-Hatters-developers, 
> but as "contributors and users of Fedora -- present and future, and 
> their potential -- small or large".

Yes, an emphatic +1.  This was, I would say, so obvious a requirement to 
me as I was writing it that I didn't even bother to write it down. 
Everything starts with community building and goes from there.

--Max