MaxSpevack/FY09

FY09 Goals

These are my personal goals for FY09 (March 2008 - February 2009). They are related to my team's goals.

EMEA Community

Organize and lead a multi-day FUDCon in the Czech Republic (Q3, September 2008).

• METRICS: Was this event as good or better as the recent US-based FUDCons? Do a survey similar to the FUDCon Raleigh 2008 survey and compare results. How many people showed up? What technical work was achieved? How much did we spend, and what value did we generate for our money?

Have a presence at important Linux events in Europe.

• Fedora presence at LinuxTag (Q1, May 2008).
• Fedora presence at FOSDEM (Q4, February 2009).
• Fedora presence at other important shows as necessary (Q1 - Q4).
• METRICS: How many events did we attend? How many new contributors did we sign up at these events? Were these the best LinuxTag and FOSDEM shows that Fedora has been to yet? How much did we spend, and what value did we generate for our money? Did we have speaking sessions?

Generate at least 1 Fedora in the enterprise success story in Europe.

• Work with Europe's sales engineers and marketing folks to identify a large Red Hat customer who has interest in participating in Fedora.
• Bring some of that customer's engineers into Fedora in a way that provides them with additional value that they would not otherwise get from their Red Hat subscriptions.
• Use Fedora to augment their pre-existing Red Hat customer experience.

Integrate with Europe's sales and marketing endeavors. Have a Fedora presence at major Red Hat marketing events, when applicable.

• Attend the EMEA Marketing meetings in Munich (Q2, June 2008).

Bring Red Hat's Czech Republic engineers into the Fedora community.

• METRICS: What percentage of Red Hat's engineers in Brno have Fedora accounts? What kinds of things are they contributing to Fedora?

Fedora

Assist Paul Frields in his role as Fedora Project Leader.

• METRICS: Is Paul happy and successful in his new role? Is he getting sufficient support from the Community Architecture team?

Contribute to the creation of a Fedora messaging index that can be used worldwide.

• Be accountable for the localization of that messaging index for all major European languages that Fedora supports.

Find and report Fedora success stories.

• Turn these into Red Hat Magazine articles, and work with Corporate Marketing to figure out the best way to share these stories.

Investigate opportunities to promote Linux, Open Source, and/or Fedora in classrooms and various education curricula.

• Ensure that there is a Fedora Intern program.
• Get the Fedora Scholarship program up and running.

Leadership

Make the Fedora Ambassadors as self-sufficient as possible.

• Be the mentor, consultant, and primary point of contact within Red Hat for the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee and for all Fedora Ambassadors in EMEA.
• Maintain a global event calendar for all Ambassadors worldwide.
• Set an example for Fedora Ambassadors about how to organize and run an event.
• Set up a template for an Event Report.
• Have local leaders coordinating every event, with me providing help and budget.
• Train Ambassadors to be Fedora spokesmodels.
• METRICS: Are we growing our contributor base? How much did we spend, and what value did we generate for our money? How many events did we attend?

Provide leadership to various Fedora sub-projects.

• Determine the critical path for success and community leadership in the future, and get the projects to that point. Then, serve in an advisory role.
• Fedora Weekly News
• Fedora Free Media
• Fedora Websites

Manage the Community Architecture team's budget and weekly meetings.

• Keep track of total expenses, expenses per quarter, etc.
• Make sure that we have weekly meetings that are useful.
• METRICS: Did we stay under-budget for each quarter, and for the year? Do we have records of all our meetings from the year?

Technical

Have localized Live images of Fedora at every event in Europe.

• Get kickstart files created and approved, and with a local owner of each.
• Get the spins made.
• Mass-produce media when applicable.

Be a catalyst for several community-led engineering efforts.

• A Live USB key tool .
• A web application for handling the creation/distribution of Fedora spins.
• Investigate potential between Fedora and Amazon EC2.
• Creation of a Fedora/JBoss spin.

Personal Goals

Relocate to Netherlands (Q1, May 2008).

• Pretty centrally located in Europe.
• Most of the events are in the Western part of Europe (France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany). From the Netherlands, much of this travel can be done via public transportation.
• Some travel will be needed to the Czech Republic. Not a far trip, and easy to get there 2 or 3 times per year.
• English is (comparatively) widely spoken in the Netherlands. From a language perspective, the transition will be easy.
• Red Hat already has an office in the Netherlands, so I will not be totally alone.
• It is a short trip to see several of our more prominent European Fedora contributors.
• Laws for bringing a pet from US to EU are pretty easy.

Start learning Dutch.