Draft: next blog post

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 12:07 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> At Today's meeting we discussed a perception issue with the WG and we
> decided we should write something about ti to try to correct the shot.
> 
> Here is a first attempt at addressing the core arguments.


Looks pretty good. I've tweaked some of the wording and have a second
draft attached now. The only thing I'm not certain about is the first
two lines. Simo, were those meant to be the blog title and first line?

Maybe instead title it:
"Fedora Server Working <strikeout>for</strikeout> With You"

Thoughts?
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Who matters in the Server Working Group ?

You do!

At the last meeting Miloslav raised the issue that some people feel
that not being a voting member of the working group is perceived as
not having their opinion valued and may discourage participation.
Luckily for us we have quite a few participants that didn't get that
nonexistent memo and are providing great contributions to the Fedora
Server project.

The role of WG voting members is that of "public servants". They take
it upon themselves to do some of those boring tasks that are required
in any group or organization. To get the bureaucracy out of the way of
the "do-ers", and when needed work as arbiters. So far this seems to
have been working quite well, and it is hard to recall a contentious
issue that has required official WG members votes to move forward.

In general the Server WG works by consensus among all participants,
regardless of status on or off of the Working Group. The ones that 'do' 
are the ones that have a greater impact than anyone else (even on the
WG). We really welcome any point of view. The developers among the
participants know they have some blind spots when it comes to user-
friendliness or prioritization of features. This is why we like to have
a diverse representation in the Working Group. We also have to work
on non-code matters so any help in any area, be it testing, marketing,
advocacy, documentation, localization, etc.. is extremely welcome.

So if you have ideas around the Fedora Server product and want to help
in any way please feel free to show up in the mailing list[1], on IRC
channels[2], participate in our weekly IRC meeting[3] and in general
get in contact and share.

SWG

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/server
[2] #fedora-server on freenode IRC
[3] #fedora-meeting-1 on freenode IRC, Tuesdays at 1600 UTC
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