Quaid/Plan for FreeIPA in 2009

Feb to May 2009

Goal

Be recognized as the best location for hacking on anything IPA
- ... giving ownership to the community and
- ... being radically transparent to give the community the leg up
- ... enables FreeIPA to capture the developer/contributor mindshare by ignoring the "this is our secret marketing data" mistake

Get embedded in FreeIPA team
- bstevens note to prod mgr/devel team lead(s)
- Self-intro on list
Assessment report on current state of Free IPA community (Mar)
- EKG statistics + activity internal v. external
  - e.g. internal wiki v. external wiki, internal design v. external devel, barriers to participation
- Resource focus, i.e., production v. community enablement
Gap analysis
- What else is missing?

Radical externalization (Mar, Apr)
- Feature(s) for F11? (Feb)
- Wiki work all external
- Eradication of ipa-design list
  - Internal team business list is only one required
- Marketing/PRD content pushed to external wiki wherever feasible
Close communication/collaboration gaps (Apr)
- New tools or processes needed?
- Is it easy to join and get started?
Increase visibility to participant community (May)
- Fedora Planet
- Open source publications
- Feature focus for Fedora 11?