Community Architecture FY09 Goals
These are our team goals for FY09 (March 2008 - February 2009).
Goals that are written in strikethrough have been completed.
As our goals change throughout the year, this page will be updated and modified. It will be reviewed by the team quarterly.
Max, Greg, Jack, and Karsten are "official" members of the Community Architecture team, meaning that they are part of that team's internal management structure at Red Hat. Other people whose names appear on this list are doing work to assist the Community Architecture team, but are not part of its management chain.
Expand University Community
Multischool university tour in Q1.
Visit approximately 15 universities throughout the United States, generating leads with students and faculty that will be pursued during the rest of the year. (Jack)- Curriculum/Linux lab deal with CMU. (Jack)
- Open source course at Syracuse. (Jack)
- Fedora Campus Ambassadors. (Jack) FIXME: is the name right, and add a link to the page.
Seneca College and Red Hat partnership.
Contract signed with Seneca College for an open source course (taught by Chris Tyler and based on Fedora. (Greg)- FIXME: What else regarding Seneca? How about the general case of a curriculum that can be used elsewhere, building on Will Cohen's work? (Greg or Jack)
- Solid Fedora presence at FSOSS. (Jack)
Hire and manage interns for Fedora & Community Architcture. (Max)
Implement Fedora Scholarship program. (Max)
Focus on university communities in India. (Rahul)
Strengthen Global Community
Take FUDCon Global.
FUDCon Boston. (Max & Paul)FUDCon Brno. (Max)- FUDCon in India. (Rahul & Sankarshan)
Fedora presence at important worldwide events.
Stewardship and leadership of the Ambassadors project.
- Work with FAMSCo on global events. (Max)
- Be the point of contact for North American community. (Karsten)
- Be the point of contact for Central & South American community. (Greg)
- Be the point of contact for EMEA community. (Max)
- Be the point of contact for Asia & Australia community. (Harish)
- Be the point of contact for India community. (Max)
- Hire a permanent Community Architecture presence for Central & South America. (Max)
Leadership of our community in India. (Rahul)
- Manage Fedora Free Media in India.
- Raise profile of contributors in India.
NEED TO BE REWORKED
| Strengthen business value of community development work | Success
stories coming from large RH customer || Greg & Max || Ongoing | ||
| - | Build ISV ecosystem with Fedora/EPEL | Greg and Karsten |
Ongoing |
| - | Develop func and cobbler with enterprise contributors | Greg |
Ongoing |
| - | Making Spacewalk happen | Greg | DONE |
| - | Assist in community development of FreeIPA | Greg | 10% |
| - | Continue development of EPEL | Max | Ongoing |
| Community marketing | Provide leadership to Fedora Marketing team |
Greg || Ongoing | |
| - | Create and localize messaging index | Greg | 25% |
| - | Fedora 9 GTM plan | Max & Paul | DONE |
| - | Fedora success stories | Max | Ongoing |
| - | Spokesmodel training | Max | Ongoing |
| - | Work with Red Hat corporate communications team | Max & Paul |
Ongoing |
| - | Provide leadership to Fedora Weekly News | Max |
Ongoing |
| - | Provide leadership to Fedora Free Media | Max |
Ongoing |
| Community engineering & technical achievements | Produce localized
spins of Fedora || Max || 25% | ||
| - | Finish wevisor in the community | Max & Yaakov | 10% |
| - | Windows program for LiveUSB creation | Max & Luke Macken | DONE |
| - | Provide leadership to Fedora Websites team | Max | Ongoing |
| - | Fedora TV / Miro | Greg | 30% |
| - | Online Services/Desktop opportunities | Jack | 0% |
| - | Investigate Amazon and Fedora opportunities | Max & Mike McGrath | 0% |
| - | JBoss/Fedora live spin & packaging | Karsten & Greg | 0% |
| - | Real-time IRC translation services | Greg & intern John McLean | 25% |
| - | Establish product plan for K12 Linux (channel) | Greg |
ABANDONED |
| - | Assist with OLPC/Sugar | Greg & Dennis Gilmore | Ongoing |
| - | Increase Fedora mirrors in Asia & India | Harish | Ongoing |
| General Management | Budget and meeting leadership | Max | Ongoing |
greg: olpc quick wins, sugar on fedora, fedora on olpc
karsten: isv strategy, java packaging
jack: education, CMU, fsoss, college reps -- MIT next week starting up their Fedora Users Group, which is the beginning of the campus ambassadors project, with the goal for announcement for FSOSS. CMU in the hands of business affairs, another goal is the announcement at FSOSS. Syracuse is going to be teaching an open source class
fsoss: campus ambass kickoff, cmu?, fedora scholarship
other: marketing (jack/greg), na ambassadors (karsten), websites (max), jboss.org (karsten)