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These are our [[Community Architecture|team]] goals for FY11 (March 2010 - February 2011).
== Community Architecture FY10 Goals ==


These are our team goals for FY10 (March 2009 - February 2010).
== Leading Red Hat's education strategy ==


Goals that are written in <s>strikethrough</s> have been completed.
The Community Architecture team is accountable for Red Hat's strategy in the intersection of [http://theopensourceway.org The Open Source Way] and educators and educational institutions.  Our multi-year goal is to build a community of practice in this space, establishing Red Hat as a thought leader and facilitator.  Furthermore, we should demonstrate a force-multiplied return on our investments, as professors and institutions with whom we work have the ability to impact multiple students over the course of many semesters and school years.


As our goals change throughout the year, this page will be updated and modified.  It will be reviewed by the team and our manager quarterly.
=== Professors' Open Source Summer Experience ===


=== Open Source in Education ===
[http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE POSSE] continues into its second year, with the following goals and metrics:


'''''Be a catalyst for creating a free & viral open source curriculum that does not cannibalize existing revenue and that is intended to reach an order of magnitude more users than are currently trained in introductory-level Red Hat courses.  Build a community of educators in support of the Open Source in Education vision. Participate in ancillary educational opportunities as they arise and where associated value is sufficient.'''''
* Be on a pace to have a public-facing POSSE Alumni list containing at least 400 professors after 5 years of POSSE.
** For tracking purposes, a reasonable metric is 50 after this year's POSSEs conclude, 125 after year 3, 250 after year 4, 400 after year 5.
* Solidify the Computer Science POSSE curriculum with 2010 POSSEs, and facilitate at least one inter-disciplinary POSSE as well.
* Establish metrics that can be tracked over time.
** Conversion rate -- how many POSSE graduates go on to organize and/or teach a POSSE in the future?
** Attrition rate -- how many POSSE graduates are still teaching after X years, and how many are still teaching open source?
* Build a roadmap for a POSSE alumni reunion, which encourages further POSSE development, and is critical to the leveraged, yet managed, expansion of POSSE.
** Given the long time cycle of academia, planning for this may occur during FY11 for an event during FY12.
* Continue to work with Red Hat Legal in determining whether or not it is appropriate to pursue any trademarks.
* Roll out some infrastructure that will facilitate registration, planning, and execution of POSSEs, which will lower the barrier to organization and make it easier for POSSE alumni to organize future POSSEs.
* Produce swag as necessary.


'''Assist in the creation of a college/university curriculum focusing on open source.  ([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])'''
=== Teaching Open Source community ===
* Content should not cannibalize current [https://www.redhat.com/training/ GLS] revenue opportunities.
* Make Red Hat the center of a community of educators who are interested in this vision.
* Assist in development of a grant process, providing incentive for educators to participate in the creation and distribution of the curriculum.
* If appropriate, organize a conference to help kickstart this vision.
* Deliver the curriculum to the world with branding that associates it to Red Hat.
* Determine the future of the current “open source in education” mailing list and wiki.


'''Engage with educators who have shown an affinity towards the Fedora Project. ([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])'''
The [http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page TOS] brand provides Red Hat with a home base for its educational community efforts.  We want to grow that brand, with the following goals and metrics:
* If appropriate, invite them to join the curriculum initiative.
* Solidify the infrastructure for this site, with an eye towards some light Red Hat branding, showing that we are a sponsor of the community.
* Offer assistance in helping them bring Fedora or open source into their classrooms.
* Re-focus the community as a place where open-source engaged professors come to gain efficient visibility and to collaborate with their peers.
* Convert at least 5 new opensource.com/education contributors from the TOS community.
* Implement a TOS Ambassadors program, which allows professors who find value in TOS to represent TOS and grow the TOS brand.  Have at least 5 talks given by members of the TOS community who are not Red Hat employees.
* Produce swag as necessary.


'''Provide support to the Red Hat Academy team in their initiative to open the project up and build community around it([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])'''
The team must measure and track the investments that it has made in educational activities.
* Treat our university investments like a financial portfolio and track returns and prospects over time.
* Establish guidelines for future investmentsFormalize and expand a model for giving small grants to professors or educational projects that drive our mission forward.


'''Devise and execute on a communications strategy that puts Red Hat senior management in the center of the dialogue in higher education.  ([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])'''
=== Curriculum ===


'''Launch and lead a Fedora [[Campus_Ambassadors|Campus Ambassadors]] program, focusing on specific schools and student bodies for recruitment into the Fedora community.  ([[JackAboutboul|Jack]])'''
==== Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook ====
* <s>Finalize specific goals for this program, with a launch at [[FUDCon:FUDConF11|FUDCon Boston]] (FY09Q4).</s>
* Create list of schools that will participate in the pilot.
* Track the new Fedora contributors that we gain due to this program.
* Engage with the current [[Ambassadors|Fedora Ambassadors]] project and ensure that the differences between the two groups are understood.


'''Maintain the [[Scholarship|Fedora Scholarship]] program. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
Continue the growth of the [http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Project textbook project], with the following goals:


=== Project Building ===
* Alpha complete by the end of Q1, with use in 1 class.
* Beta complete by the end of Q2, with use in at least 3 classes when 2010 school year starts, with no more than 75% of the textbook written by Red Hat.
* Roadmap for 1.0 release at the end of Q4, incorporating feedback from all usage, with no more than 50% of the textbook written by Red Hat.
* Roadmap for textbook community (instructor, student discussion forum) at the end of Q3.


'''''Create, be, and be known for being a center of excellence on the following topics on the use, motivations, and characteristics of:'''''
==== RH 007 ====
* '''''Open source community building best practices other than participation in code development as presently done by Red Hat engineering.'''''
* '''''Free distributions, their development communities, and their relationship to Red Hat's paid products and commercial value proposition.'''''


'''Create a community health [[CommunityArchitecture/Dashboard|dashboard]], reflecting the status of the communities that exists around key Red Hat initiatives.  ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
Pending the removal of all internal blockers, RH 007 should be given a proper open source license, and opened up as a [[SIGs/Education|Fedora Education SIG]] project with a roadmap for updates and localization.
* This project should be done in consultation with both RH and JBoss input.
* Provide internal advocacy and exposure to the team's work.
* Include metrics of participation, statistical analysis, and deltas over time.
* Data driven benchmarking.
* Work on the [https://fedorahosted.org/ekg/ EKG project], which is an upstream tool for analyzing mailing list and other contributions to projects.
* Highlight projects that have been identified as critical to Red Hat, and provide analysis of the health of the communities around those projects to aid in decision making.
* Provide the Community Architecture team with a tool that can demonstrate the improvements in the communities in which we engage directly.


'''Develop a cookbook (and potentially an internal Red Hat course) around the community building strategies and tactics that have made us successful. ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])'''
==== Fedora Scholarship ====


'''Participate, and when possible, provide leadership and vision in key Red Hat projects, providing valuable services to our "internal customers".  Be internal advocates of the Community Architecture vision. Ensure that projects are built to handle new contributors.'''
The [[Scholarship|Fedora Scholarship]] continues into its 4th year. In this year, the administration of the project should be in the hands of either a community member, or a non-full-time team member, with the team continuing to provide oversight.
* Building an ISV ecosystem, including [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL EPEL]. ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])
* RHELCon. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])
* [http://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page FreeIPA]. ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])
* [http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ Spacewalk]. ([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])
* [http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]. (???)
* [https://fedorahosted.org/genome/ Genome]. ([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])
* Other projects, as need arises during the year. (???)


'''Become a recognized expert on the impact that other Linux distributions have on Red Hat's business. ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])'''
=== Thought leadership ===
* Serve as a resource to other teams inside of Red Hat, as needed.


'''Better understand perceptions of the Fedora brand internally and externally, and recommend/take actions to improve that brand as needed. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
Develop [http://opensource.com/education opensource.com] as a platform for speaking in public about our education work, and its intersection with [http://theopensourceway.org The Open Source Way], with the following metrics:
* Articles should generally rate as among the best, by whatever metrics OSDC uses to judge the success of the different channels.
* By the end of FY11, the team should only be producing 50% of the content.


=== Global Community Stewardship ===
=== Red Hat summer coding ===


'''''Maintain the overall health status and growth of the Fedora Project, encouraging minimal Red Hat touch in community leadership, except in the communities of greatest importance to Red Hat.  Provide leveraged development & marketing, and authentically spread the Red Hat brand worldwide.'''''
This summer marks the first session of Fedora [[Summer Coding 2010]], which has so far included:


'''Create a "top tier" of Fedora-focused events that exist worldwide. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
* 35+ students made 40+ application proposals
* Organize [[FUDCon|FUDCon]] in various regions. (NA, LATAM, EMEA, India/APJ).
* 30+ mentors
* Organize [[FAD|Fedora Activity Days]] around the world, with specific focuses and goals.
* $15k in funding raised ($10K from Fedora Project edu budget, $5K from JBoss Community budget)
* 11 funded projects and 3 unfunded


'''Make Fedora Ambassadors as self-sufficient as posible. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
The overall goals are:
* Work with the [[Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee|Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee]] to manage a global events budget.
 
* Cultivate and support local leadership communities worldwide.
* Teach participation in open source directly to groups of worthy students, with a mentoring program in place that pairs students with projects in an immersive environment.
* Engage with and assist Red Hat community assets worldwide, such as [[RodrigoPadula|Rodrigo]] (LATAM), [[SankarshanMukhopadhyay|Sankarshan]] (India), and [[HarishPillay|Harish]] (APJ).
* Increase awareness of Red Hat as a mentoring organization.
* Identify, encourage, and develop local community leaders.
* Improve processes, tools, and culture around mentoring new contributors in to Red Hat upstreams, Fedora Project and JBoss.org in particular.
* Grow the program sponsorship and administration beyond Red Hat to ISV/IHV partners, academic organizations, and other institutions.
* Make a strong brand connection for students between open source, Red Hat, and professional development.
* Run two programs per year, because summer in one hemisphere is winter in the other.
 
Project metrics:
 
* Growth rate of project ideas, students, proposals, mentors, and accepted projects.
* Increase in other sponsors, including providing administrative support.
* Program admin 25% out of CommArch hands by winter 2010.
* Program admin 50% out of CommArch hands by summer 2011.
 
== Open Source evangelism ==
 
Be a steward, proponent, and guiding compass in the role of [http://theopensourceway.org The Open Source Way] within the company, and in growing Red Hat's position as the world's trusted open source leader outside the company.
 
=== External ===
 
==== The Open Source Way ====
 
Establish [http://theopensourceway.org The Open Source Way] as a growing, living best practices manual that is referenced in all things Red Hat participates in, and as a hook for public speaking engagements, with specific actions and goals:
* Team members should reference TOSW in talks, and look for ways to draw connections to TOSW that are beyond only Red Hat or Fedora activities.
* Balanced with the above, use TOSW as a starting point for Red Hat and Fedora project marketing efforts, which not only highlight TOSW but which also complement the product and sales messages that Red Hat sends.
** In particular, focus on cloud and virtualization.
* Grow a cadence of contribution to TOSW, with a small, but healthy mailing list and wiki editing community.
** Develop a roadmap for what portions of TOSW need to grow.
** Incorporate video, audio, or a podcast that can be part of TOSW brand.
 
==== Metrics and statistics ====
 
Lead an open, community-inclusive effort to identify a methodology for capturing and analyzing various streams of data that open source projects produce, with the following milestones, to be mostly completed in the Q2/Q3 timeframe:
* Identify the sorts of statistics that are most useful to the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project], including wiki edits, bug information, package updates, package ownership and maintenance, mailing list activity, etc.
* Identify a data model, collection protocol, and query/reporting protocol that can be independently useful for multiple projects.
* Work with the Fedora [[Infrastructure]] team to deploy this within Fedora, as a proof of concept.
* Apply this to other communities that Red Hat and the Fedora Project are interested in, such as RPM, Deltacloud, Spacewalk, etc.
 
=== Internal ===
 
==== The Open Source Way ====
 
Use [[new hire orientation]] as the first place to expose incoming Red Hatters to [http://theopensourceway.org The Open Source Way], and how it is applied internally.
* Maintain our orientation materials in an internally-public place, and develop a roster of 2 or 3 Red Hatters who are capable of delivering the talk, thus cultivating leadership and ownership of the ideas outside of only this team.
* When surveys are done regarding orientation, our team's sections should have the highest marks possible in terms of value to new hires.
 
Complete, socialize, and institutionalize an "open sourcing process" for use across Red Hat when we release new code, documentation, content, etc. into the world.
* This should have modules that cover engineering, press, legal, branding, etc.
 
Develop a compliance training course for TOSW that can be part of the annual modules that employees are expected to complete.
* Pitch the idea to the Red Hatters who are in charge of compliance training, and earn their buy-in.
* Create a version of TOSW that fits into the model required, and has questions that can be tested.
* Determine which groups of employees within the company should pilot this module, and make it happen.
 
== Fedora Project stewardship ==
 
The Community Architecture team contributes to the success of the Fedora Project, and ensures that the Fedora community is healthy.  The team's efforts within the Fedora Project are spent less on the technical aspects of the Fedora distribution, and more on supporting the inclusive infrastructure of participation that the Fedora Project aspires to, encouraging minimal Red Hat touch in community leadership.
 
=== Sub-project leadership ===
 
As needed, triage Fedora communities.  Fill leadership gaps, identify critical path, build up a community of leadership, and ultimately transition leadership to that community.
 
==== Marketing ====
 
The Fedora [[Marketing|Marketing]] team should be community-led early in the Fedora 14 release cycle.


'''Work with other parts of the Fedora Project to create and track quantitative metrics of community size, growth, and contributions. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
==== Ambassadors ====


'''Maximize the value of Red Hat's relationship with OLPC and Sugar Labs, both from an engineering and a marketing point of view. ([[GregDeKoenigsberg|Greg]])'''
Make Fedora [[Ambassadors]] as self-sufficient as posible.  When Fedora holds its 2011 elections for the [[Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee]], the only Community Architecture team members who should run for election are those who are (if applicable) specifically tasked with community leadership in specific regions of the world.
* Serve as a consultant to [http://laptop.org/en/ OLPC] and [http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page Sugar Labs].
* Serve on the board of Sugar Labs.
* Chair the marketing committee for Sugar Labs.
* Maintain the relationship between OLPC and the Fedora community.
* Advise OLPC management in community matters.
* Contribute to OLPC and Fedora development.
* Ensure that Fedora is viable as an operating system that runs on the XO hardware.


'''As needed, triage Fedora communities. Fill leadership gaps, identify critical path, build up a community of leadership, and ultimately transition leadership to a community member.'''
* Work with the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee to manage a global events budget.
* [[Marketing|Fedora Marketing]]. ([[JackAboutboul|Jack]])
* Cultivate and support local leadership communities worldwide.
* [[DocsProject|Fedora Documentation]]. ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])
* Identify, encourage, develop, and engage with local community leaders.
* EPEL. ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])
* Fedora Spins. (???)


=== Individual ===
==== Premier Fedora Events ====


'''''Individual goals that don't fall into a specific category, but are still important.'''''
Be a catalyst for [[Premier Fedora Events]], while encouraging community leadership, ownership, and accountability.
* Ensure that at least 3 [[FUDCon|FUDCons]] are held in various regions, in which primary organizational responsibility is driven by local community members with financial support from Community Architecture.
** Have a plan in place, with Red Hat resources, that will allow for 4 FUDCons in FY12+.
* Ensure that at least 20 [[FAD|Fedora Activity Days]] are held around the world, with specific goals and deliverables.
** Analyze the past two years of FADs, and make recommendations regarding what kinds of FADs are more or less successful, and how we can improve our success rate, and total number of FADs, over the course of 2 years.
* Establish standard operating procedures around Premier Fedora Events, so that community members worldwide feel that they are empowered to organize events, attend events, make use of resources, and proactively provide value to different parts of the Fedora Project.


'''Assist and advise [[PaulWFrields|Paul Frields]] in his role as [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]]. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
=== Visibility ===


'''[[CommunityArchitecture/Expenses|Budget]], [[CommunityArchitecture/Meetings|meeting]], and Community Architecture team management. ([[MaxSpevack|Max]])'''
Team members maintain a presence in the Fedora community, since it is a focal lens for many projects that are important to Red Hat.
* Keep up with [[FWN|Fedora Weekly News]], Planet Fedora, [http://lwn.net LWN], etc.
* Participate in community events as members of the Red Hat Community Architecture team, as open source evangelists, and as Fedora Ambassadors.  Deliver an appropriately broad or narrow message, depending on our role at each event.


'''Manage Red Hat's relationship with summer coding projects (ie: [[Summer_of_Code|GSoC]]).  ([[KarstenWade|Karsten]])'''
== Other ==


'''Engage [http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons] to explore options for a joint project that provides value to Red Hat and/or Fedora. ([[JackAboutboul|Jack]])'''
There are several other goals that are general, and don't fit into any of the previously discussed buckets.


'''Form a collaborative relationship with one new third-party group that provides value to Red Hat and/or Fedora. ([[JackAboutboul|Jack]])'''
=== Blogging ===


'''Maintain an active blog, with at least 50 substantive posts in FY10. (Full Team)'''
Each team member authors a blog that is aggregated on [http://planet.fedoraproject.org Planet Fedora] and other appropriate aggregators (such as [http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet Planet TOS]).


'''Enroll in some sort of training/developmental course that Red Hat offers. (Full Team)'''
=== General management ===
* RHCT, RHCE, Leadership, Time Management, etc.


'''Maintain a strong level of participation in the Fedora community. (Full Team)'''
The team's manager is accountable for the [[Accounting|budget]], [[Community Architecture meetings|meetings]], and team leadership.
* Keep up with Fedora mailing lists, [http://planet.fedoraproject.org Planet Fedora], [http://lwn.net LWN], etc.
* Fedora is a focal lens for many projects that are important to Red Hat.
* Participate in community events as members of the Red Hat Community Architecture team, as open source evangelists, and as Fedora Ambassadors.


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Latest revision as of 19:07, 22 March 2011

These are our team goals for FY11 (March 2010 - February 2011).

Leading Red Hat's education strategy

The Community Architecture team is accountable for Red Hat's strategy in the intersection of The Open Source Way and educators and educational institutions. Our multi-year goal is to build a community of practice in this space, establishing Red Hat as a thought leader and facilitator. Furthermore, we should demonstrate a force-multiplied return on our investments, as professors and institutions with whom we work have the ability to impact multiple students over the course of many semesters and school years.

Professors' Open Source Summer Experience

POSSE continues into its second year, with the following goals and metrics:

  • Be on a pace to have a public-facing POSSE Alumni list containing at least 400 professors after 5 years of POSSE.
    • For tracking purposes, a reasonable metric is 50 after this year's POSSEs conclude, 125 after year 3, 250 after year 4, 400 after year 5.
  • Solidify the Computer Science POSSE curriculum with 2010 POSSEs, and facilitate at least one inter-disciplinary POSSE as well.
  • Establish metrics that can be tracked over time.
    • Conversion rate -- how many POSSE graduates go on to organize and/or teach a POSSE in the future?
    • Attrition rate -- how many POSSE graduates are still teaching after X years, and how many are still teaching open source?
  • Build a roadmap for a POSSE alumni reunion, which encourages further POSSE development, and is critical to the leveraged, yet managed, expansion of POSSE.
    • Given the long time cycle of academia, planning for this may occur during FY11 for an event during FY12.
  • Continue to work with Red Hat Legal in determining whether or not it is appropriate to pursue any trademarks.
  • Roll out some infrastructure that will facilitate registration, planning, and execution of POSSEs, which will lower the barrier to organization and make it easier for POSSE alumni to organize future POSSEs.
  • Produce swag as necessary.

Teaching Open Source community

The TOS brand provides Red Hat with a home base for its educational community efforts. We want to grow that brand, with the following goals and metrics:

  • Solidify the infrastructure for this site, with an eye towards some light Red Hat branding, showing that we are a sponsor of the community.
  • Re-focus the community as a place where open-source engaged professors come to gain efficient visibility and to collaborate with their peers.
  • Convert at least 5 new opensource.com/education contributors from the TOS community.
  • Implement a TOS Ambassadors program, which allows professors who find value in TOS to represent TOS and grow the TOS brand. Have at least 5 talks given by members of the TOS community who are not Red Hat employees.
  • Produce swag as necessary.

The team must measure and track the investments that it has made in educational activities.

  • Treat our university investments like a financial portfolio and track returns and prospects over time.
  • Establish guidelines for future investments. Formalize and expand a model for giving small grants to professors or educational projects that drive our mission forward.

Curriculum

Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook

Continue the growth of the textbook project, with the following goals:

  • Alpha complete by the end of Q1, with use in 1 class.
  • Beta complete by the end of Q2, with use in at least 3 classes when 2010 school year starts, with no more than 75% of the textbook written by Red Hat.
  • Roadmap for 1.0 release at the end of Q4, incorporating feedback from all usage, with no more than 50% of the textbook written by Red Hat.
  • Roadmap for textbook community (instructor, student discussion forum) at the end of Q3.

RH 007

Pending the removal of all internal blockers, RH 007 should be given a proper open source license, and opened up as a Fedora Education SIG project with a roadmap for updates and localization.

Fedora Scholarship

The Fedora Scholarship continues into its 4th year. In this year, the administration of the project should be in the hands of either a community member, or a non-full-time team member, with the team continuing to provide oversight.

Thought leadership

Develop opensource.com as a platform for speaking in public about our education work, and its intersection with The Open Source Way, with the following metrics:

  • Articles should generally rate as among the best, by whatever metrics OSDC uses to judge the success of the different channels.
  • By the end of FY11, the team should only be producing 50% of the content.

Red Hat summer coding

This summer marks the first session of Fedora Summer Coding 2010, which has so far included:

  • 35+ students made 40+ application proposals
  • 30+ mentors
  • $15k in funding raised ($10K from Fedora Project edu budget, $5K from JBoss Community budget)
  • 11 funded projects and 3 unfunded

The overall goals are:

  • Teach participation in open source directly to groups of worthy students, with a mentoring program in place that pairs students with projects in an immersive environment.
  • Increase awareness of Red Hat as a mentoring organization.
  • Improve processes, tools, and culture around mentoring new contributors in to Red Hat upstreams, Fedora Project and JBoss.org in particular.
  • Grow the program sponsorship and administration beyond Red Hat to ISV/IHV partners, academic organizations, and other institutions.
  • Make a strong brand connection for students between open source, Red Hat, and professional development.
  • Run two programs per year, because summer in one hemisphere is winter in the other.

Project metrics:

  • Growth rate of project ideas, students, proposals, mentors, and accepted projects.
  • Increase in other sponsors, including providing administrative support.
  • Program admin 25% out of CommArch hands by winter 2010.
  • Program admin 50% out of CommArch hands by summer 2011.

Open Source evangelism

Be a steward, proponent, and guiding compass in the role of The Open Source Way within the company, and in growing Red Hat's position as the world's trusted open source leader outside the company.

External

The Open Source Way

Establish The Open Source Way as a growing, living best practices manual that is referenced in all things Red Hat participates in, and as a hook for public speaking engagements, with specific actions and goals:

  • Team members should reference TOSW in talks, and look for ways to draw connections to TOSW that are beyond only Red Hat or Fedora activities.
  • Balanced with the above, use TOSW as a starting point for Red Hat and Fedora project marketing efforts, which not only highlight TOSW but which also complement the product and sales messages that Red Hat sends.
    • In particular, focus on cloud and virtualization.
  • Grow a cadence of contribution to TOSW, with a small, but healthy mailing list and wiki editing community.
    • Develop a roadmap for what portions of TOSW need to grow.
    • Incorporate video, audio, or a podcast that can be part of TOSW brand.

Metrics and statistics

Lead an open, community-inclusive effort to identify a methodology for capturing and analyzing various streams of data that open source projects produce, with the following milestones, to be mostly completed in the Q2/Q3 timeframe:

  • Identify the sorts of statistics that are most useful to the Fedora Project, including wiki edits, bug information, package updates, package ownership and maintenance, mailing list activity, etc.
  • Identify a data model, collection protocol, and query/reporting protocol that can be independently useful for multiple projects.
  • Work with the Fedora Infrastructure team to deploy this within Fedora, as a proof of concept.
  • Apply this to other communities that Red Hat and the Fedora Project are interested in, such as RPM, Deltacloud, Spacewalk, etc.

Internal

The Open Source Way

Use new hire orientation as the first place to expose incoming Red Hatters to The Open Source Way, and how it is applied internally.

  • Maintain our orientation materials in an internally-public place, and develop a roster of 2 or 3 Red Hatters who are capable of delivering the talk, thus cultivating leadership and ownership of the ideas outside of only this team.
  • When surveys are done regarding orientation, our team's sections should have the highest marks possible in terms of value to new hires.

Complete, socialize, and institutionalize an "open sourcing process" for use across Red Hat when we release new code, documentation, content, etc. into the world.

  • This should have modules that cover engineering, press, legal, branding, etc.

Develop a compliance training course for TOSW that can be part of the annual modules that employees are expected to complete.

  • Pitch the idea to the Red Hatters who are in charge of compliance training, and earn their buy-in.
  • Create a version of TOSW that fits into the model required, and has questions that can be tested.
  • Determine which groups of employees within the company should pilot this module, and make it happen.

Fedora Project stewardship

The Community Architecture team contributes to the success of the Fedora Project, and ensures that the Fedora community is healthy. The team's efforts within the Fedora Project are spent less on the technical aspects of the Fedora distribution, and more on supporting the inclusive infrastructure of participation that the Fedora Project aspires to, encouraging minimal Red Hat touch in community leadership.

Sub-project leadership

As needed, triage Fedora communities. Fill leadership gaps, identify critical path, build up a community of leadership, and ultimately transition leadership to that community.

Marketing

The Fedora Marketing team should be community-led early in the Fedora 14 release cycle.

Ambassadors

Make Fedora Ambassadors as self-sufficient as posible. When Fedora holds its 2011 elections for the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee, the only Community Architecture team members who should run for election are those who are (if applicable) specifically tasked with community leadership in specific regions of the world.

  • Work with the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee to manage a global events budget.
  • Cultivate and support local leadership communities worldwide.
  • Identify, encourage, develop, and engage with local community leaders.

Premier Fedora Events

Be a catalyst for Premier Fedora Events, while encouraging community leadership, ownership, and accountability.

  • Ensure that at least 3 FUDCons are held in various regions, in which primary organizational responsibility is driven by local community members with financial support from Community Architecture.
    • Have a plan in place, with Red Hat resources, that will allow for 4 FUDCons in FY12+.
  • Ensure that at least 20 Fedora Activity Days are held around the world, with specific goals and deliverables.
    • Analyze the past two years of FADs, and make recommendations regarding what kinds of FADs are more or less successful, and how we can improve our success rate, and total number of FADs, over the course of 2 years.
  • Establish standard operating procedures around Premier Fedora Events, so that community members worldwide feel that they are empowered to organize events, attend events, make use of resources, and proactively provide value to different parts of the Fedora Project.

Visibility

Team members maintain a presence in the Fedora community, since it is a focal lens for many projects that are important to Red Hat.

  • Keep up with Fedora Weekly News, Planet Fedora, LWN, etc.
  • Participate in community events as members of the Red Hat Community Architecture team, as open source evangelists, and as Fedora Ambassadors. Deliver an appropriately broad or narrow message, depending on our role at each event.

Other

There are several other goals that are general, and don't fit into any of the previously discussed buckets.

Blogging

Each team member authors a blog that is aggregated on Planet Fedora and other appropriate aggregators (such as Planet TOS).

General management

The team's manager is accountable for the budget, meetings, and team leadership.