#137 Add some "welcome to Council" docs
Merged 2 years ago by bcotton. Opened 2 years ago by bcotton.

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  ** xref:policy/edition-promotion-policy.adoc[Edition Promotion Policy]

  ** xref:policies.adoc[Additional Policies]

  * Council Procedures

+ ** xref:procedures/welcome.adoc[Welcome to Council]

  ** xref:procedures/team_directory.adoc[Team Directory]

  ** xref:procedures/tickets.adoc[Ticket Queue]

  * xref:history.adoc[Council and Board Historical Membership]

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+ = Welcome to Council

+ 

+ Welcome to the Fedora Council!

+ You have just joined

+ (or perhaps you are thinking about joining)

+ and now you want to learn your way around.

+ If you have any questions,

+ don't hestitate to ask for help.

+ Ask for a mentor if you think that would help you.

+ 

+ == General expectations

+ 

+ *Be brave.*

+ You are on the Council because you represent the Fedora community.

+ We expect you to share your ideas and opinions.

+ If you are the representative of another group

+ (i.e. Diversity & Inclusion, FESCo, and Mindshare Committee representatives),

+ you are expected to speak on behalf of the group you represent.

+ Let the rest of the Council know when you need help.

+ Share what's going well.

+ Communicate Council goings on back to the group you represent.

+ 

+ *Take action.*

+ The Council is an active leadership body,

+ which means Council members should feel empowered to _do_ things,

+ not just _discuss_ things.

+ You don't need to wait to be assigned a task.

+ If there's something that needs to be done,

+ feel free to do it!

+ 

+ *Ask for help.*

+ Every member of the Fedora Council was new at some point.

+ Don't feel bad if you need to ask for help or if something is unclear.

+ Think of it as finding a bug in the documentation!

+ 

+ 

+ == Access

+ 

+ When you were elected or appointed to the Fedora Council,

+ the FPgM (or someone else) opened an issue in our https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issues[ticket tracker].

+ This provides a checklist for all of the places you need to be granted access.

+ Don't worry!

+ There's not much you need to do there.

+ If there's something Council-related that you don't have access to,

+ open an issue or ask in xref:_#chat[chat].

+ 

+ == Communication

+ 

+ We have asynchronous conversations in the https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/project/council-discuss/60[Council Discussions topic] on Discussion.

+ This is a public forum,

+ so we expect—and welcome—input from community members who are not on Council.

+ On the rare occasions when we need to discuss confidential matters,

+ we have a private mailing list.

+ 

+ For synchronous communication,

+ we use the https://matrix.to/#/#council:fedoraproject.org[*#council*] channel on chat.fedoraproject.org

+ (briged to the *#fedora-council* IRC channel on https://libera.chat/[Libera.Chat]).

+ 

+ == Meetings

+ 

+ The Council holds bi-weekly business meetings.

+ These are an opportunity to check on the progress of tasks

+ and have conversations about open issues.

+ Attendance is not mandatory,

+ but we encourage you to attend and participate as often as you can.

+ Business meetings are open to the community at large.

+ 

+ Once a month,

+ we hold https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Video_Meetings[video meetings].

+ These are an opportunity to let the community showcase their work

+ and ask the Council and broader community for help.

+ Video meetings are open to the community at large.

+ 

+ From time to time,

+ the Council holds face-to-face meetings.

+ These are private and in-person when possible.

+ Attendance at these meetings is strongly encouraged.

+ The Council will pay travel expenses when necessary.

+ 

+ == Tickets

+ 

+ *Expectation:*

+ Tickets are for discussing and voting on a specific proposal.

+ If you have an idea that needs broader discussion or brainstorming,

+ start a thread on Discussion.

+ 

+ Procedures for labels, priorities, and voting on tickets are in the xref:tickets.adoc[Ticket Queue docs].

This is intended to be a one-stop shop for new Council members. It's
probably missing a lot, but it's better than what we had before, which
was nothing.

I opened a PR to get some attention. I'll wait a day or two and then merge if there are no glaring objections. We can make further improvements as we go.

rebased onto 459e3f6

2 years ago

Pull-Request has been merged by bcotton

2 years ago