Summary

The Diversity Adviser role is currently unfilled, but we need someone to help organize and drive Diversity and Inclusion efforts in Fedora. This ticket summarizes what we need and intends to open the floor for someone to volunteer in a leadership capacity.

Background

One of the repeating themes from our discussions in the past few weeks is how to enable ourselves to be the most productive in our limited time as volunteers. Currently, there are some organizational challenges limiting us from using some of our time together most effectively. Resolving these challenges will move us towards maximizing our time together and working through tasks at a more expedient rate. One of the things that will help us accomplish this is choosing someone to help drive and lead some of the efforts that we are working on. Having someone in this leadership role would help us take down some of these blockers and help us make progress quicker than we have been.

Responsibilities

Some of the responsibilities of what this would look like are outlined below. This list is not exhaustive.

• Chairing meetings
  • Would chair IRC / video meetings and help organize the team meeting structure to maximize the most effective use of our time
  • Responsible for creating agenda before meeting as a rough outline of what to cover
• Identify core short-term and long-term tasks
  • Recognize existing tasks, identify new tasks, and prioritize based on team bandwidth and expertise
    • New tasks to focus on how to have a larger impact on Fedora and community
  • Strategize how we proceed together as a team to accomplish these tasks
• Helping break down and delegate tasks
  • Some of our tasks are very big and need to be broken into smaller pieces with timelines for completion to be realistic
  • Spend time looking at existing tickets, help envision the goals, and form a path forward from current position
  • Collaborate with others to help envision the goals and work with team members to build realistic timelines on what they can include
  • Delegate action items with realistic check-ups when possible
• Coordination and representation with the Fedora Council
  • As with the Diversity Adviser role, attend Council meetings and serve as the Diversity and Inclusion representative where possible
  • Represent needs and vision of D&I efforts and act as a liason between Council and Diversity WG
• Ticket / wiki gardening
  • Keep ticket metadata updated and current with tags, priorities, milestones
  • When necessary, help garden the wiki with accurate / current information

Length of leadership

Since this is a volunteer position, it is difficult to pin this onto someone as a permanent role. As a suggested way of maintaining this in the long run, we could have the team lead follow the Fedora release cycles, and at the beginning of every release, the team lead would have a chance to renew their leadership role. If someone else wanted to help lead the team, they would also have a chance to self-nominate. This could become integrated into the Fedora Elections cycle for a community election (but for the immediate sense, this is something we should endeavor to self-nominate as soon as possible).

Nominations

If the above sounds reasonable, I propose that we begin collecting nominations for anyone who would to take the helm in this leadership capacity. We should endeavor to move this seat to an electable role by F27.