MaxSpevack/FY10

FY10 Goals

These are my personal goals for FY10 (March 2009 - February 2010). They are related to my team's goals.

Goals that are written in strikethrough have been completed.

As my goals change throughout the year, this page will be updated and modified. It will be reviewed with my team and my manager quarterly.

Open Source in Education

Maintain the Fedora Scholarship program.

Project Building

Create a community health dashboard, reflecting the status of the communities that exists around key Red Hat initiatives.

• 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 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.

Organize a RHELCon, in the style of a FUDCon but with a focus on enterprise community

Better understand perceptions of the Fedora brand internally and externally, and recommend/take actions to improve that brand as needed.

Global Community Stewardship

Create a "top tier" of Fedora-focused events that exist worldwide.

• Organize FUDCon in various regions. (NA, LATAM, EMEA, India/APJ).
• Organize Fedora Activity Days around the world, with specific focuses and goals.

Make Fedora Ambassadors as self-sufficient as posible.

• Work with the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee to manage a global events budget.
• Cultivate and support local leadership communities worldwide.
• Engage with and assist Red Hat community assets worldwide, such as Rodrigo (LATAM), Sankarshan (India), and Harish (APJ).
• Identify, encourage, and develop local community leaders.

Work with other parts of the Fedora Project to create and track quantitative metrics of community size, growth, and contributions.

Individual

Assist and advise Paul Frields in his role as Fedora Project Leader.

Budget, meeting, and Community Architecture team management.

Maintain an active blog, with at least 50 substantive posts in FY10.

Get my RHCE.

Maintain a strong level of participation in the Fedora community, since it is a focal lens for many projects that are important to Red Hat.

• Keep up with Fedora mailing lists, 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.