What is success for Fedora?

[Christian Schaller]

To my knowledge there has never been a company that has been refused as
a Fedora sponsor. Are there any specific companies you have in mind you
want to reach out to and what would be your sales pitch to them?

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Scherer" <misc at zarb.org>
> To: "Fedora community advisory board" <board-discuss at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:16:00 AM
> Subject: Re: What is success for Fedora?
> 
> Le mardi 01 juillet 2014 à 11:16 -0400, Josh Boyer a écrit :
> > Something the Board has talked about recently is defining success for
> > Fedora.  The project has often done this directly through our main
> > deliverable, which is shipping another Fedora release.  We work hard
> > to create, test, and deliver a high quality Linux distribution.  We
> > look at feedback and try and correct mistakes or oversights in the
> > next release.  These are all fine things, and things that should
> > continue as we stride towards Fedora.next, but is that really defining
> > success for the project as a whole?  Is Fedora simply a project to
> > create a Linux distribution, or is it something larger?
> > 
> > Our Four Foundations speak to the bedrock that Fedora is built on and
> > provide guidance in decision making for specific instances.  Yet we
> > seem to rarely stand back and evaluate how Fedora as a project is
> > doing.  Are we achieving some manner of success in promoting those
> > Foundations?  Should we be striving for that?  Is it even measurable?
> > If so, how?
> > 
> > The Board is starting this thread to have an earnest discussion around
> > what people see "success" being for the Fedora project.  Hopefully the
> > Board members will chime in with their own thoughts soon, but we want
> > to get as many ideas around this as possible.  Hopefully this
> > discussion will help the Board, and the community as a whole, gather
> > some insight as to where we think Fedora is, where it should be
> > heading, and what we should be doing to get it there.
> 
> One "easy" to measure item would be to start going toward sponsor
> diversity.
> 
> IE, I would feel Fedora would be more a success if we had a more diverse
> sponsorship. even if i do not think there is something fundamentally
> wrong with RH, I do not see any negative outcome into having something
> with more diverse companies helping.
> (and I think this would increase community participation and so improve
> free software for everybody )
> 
> --
> Michael Scherer
> 
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