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FOSCo
What is FOSCo?
Fedora Outreach Steering Committee (FOSCo) strives to be a group for cross-team collaboration on all user facing efforts, with representation from any interested groups, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), or individuals.
FOSCo has a remit to track efforts in all project areas against a commonly agreed set of goals, with an remit of communicating these efforts with the larger community in an easy to follow manner.
FOSCo works towards improving internal cooperation and wishes to make outward-facing efforts more effective and develop a stronger sense of community
Functions
FOSCo functions are:
- primary channel of communication amongst groups;
- proposes budget and its allotment (in place of FAmSCo);
- proposes marketing strategies;
- proposes documentation strategies;
- proposes design strategies;
- proposes ambassadors strategies;
- solves over groups issues;
- coordinates groups tasks;
- finds solutions for sharing people amongst groups when workloads required;
- requires and analyze metrics for the outreach activities;
- proposes groups improvements and coordinates them;
- leads outreach efforts;
- brings up engineering strategies (Engineering is FESCo's business and the overall strategy is up to the council);
- gets in touch with the Council for over outreach issues;
- supports Fedora worlwide;
- documents the state of the OS;
- primary channel of communications;
- organizes a FAD with team leaders to be held once per year;
- avoids overlaps amongst group workflows;
- establishes and coordinates working groups for certain tasks;
- coordinates the Ambassadors program together with mentors;
- approves funding and swag requests (over the groups accountability);
- keeps updated, clear and simple all the groups policies.
Composition
Constitution
The first committee (only this time nominated by FAmSCo) is composed by few groups with the task of fixing the starting issue and getting ready to integrate other groups (at first G11n and Websites at first which signed up already) spreading the invitation in the Mailing Lists and following the discussions will ensue.
What are we doing next?
FOSCo Executive Dashboard.
Our first initiative is to create an executive dashboard to be distributed project-wide, by aggregating information from various places and presenting it in a simple manner. We see this as a perfect start for FOSCo to begin delivering value to contributors project-wide.
Why FOSCo wants to create an Executive Dashboard?
Visibility: FOSCo Executive Dashboard will give the project great visibility and insight. We will inform the project exactly what’s going on in key aspects which will allow for better focus and resource allocation.
Ongoing Improvements: We have all heard it “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” The FOSCo Executive Dashboard will allow us to measure performance throughout the project and thus improve it.
Performance Against Plan: Making sure the overall project is performing to a commonly agreed set of expectations is a key priority. The FOSCO Executive Dashboard will do just that. We will show how we are performing against our commonly agreed goals from the agreed plans versus our actual, real-time results.
Contributor-Level Performance Improvements: When contributors know their performance is being visible in a dashboard, and can see their results, they innately start to improve their work.
How to get involved?
Mail-list archives.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/outreach/
Join the mail-list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach
Issue tracker
https://fedorahosted.org/fosco/
Join the conversation in IRC
Channel #fedora-outreach on freenode
FOSCo news
Current state of the proposal for upcoming FOSCo
FAQ
TBC