First complaint

[Spencer Hunley]

I agree with Maria and Matthew - it's with Fedora, and Fedora itself has no
budget since it's a community-based distribution, similar to the budget for
Debian. She seems to be confusing Red Hat with Fedora here, probably
because the position was posted by employees of Red Hat - but looking at
the tweet it clearly states "The @fedora community is looking for a
Diversity & Inclusion Advisor", so I'm not sure where the confusion sits.


Spencer Hunley <http://about.me/spencerhunley>
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 09:15:52AM -0400, Tyler Golden wrote:
> > Well, we've got our first complaint about the fact that this is a
> volunteer position:
> > https://twitter.com/FeyNudibranch/status/616283167700332545
> > Thoughts on how we should respond?
>
> My response would be something like:
>
> Fedora is a community project and does not have a budget for _any_
> positions. Red Hat sponsors some people to work on Fedora, but this is
> a community initiative and we didn't want to wait on the possibility of
> finding sponsorship. I recognize that it severely limits the pool of
> people able to help, but that seemed better than no such thing at all.
> Many of us who work for Red Hat are working on diversity from a company
> perspective as well, but that's not directly related, and again, we
> didn't want to block on that.
>
> That's pretty long for a tweet, though. :)
>
>
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