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+ = Welcome to Council
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+ Welcome to the Fedora Council!
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+ You have just joined
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+ (or perhaps you are thinking about joining)
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+ and now you want to learn your way around.
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+ If you have any questions,
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+ don't hestitate to ask for help.
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+ Ask for a mentor if you think that would help you.
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+
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+ == General expectations
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+
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+ *Be brave.*
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+ You are on the Council because you represent the Fedora community.
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+ We expect you to share your ideas and opinions.
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+ If you are the representative of another group
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+ (i.e. Diversity & Inclusion, FESCo, and Mindshare Committee representatives),
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+ you are expected to speak on behalf of the group you represent.
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+ Let the rest of the Council know when you need help.
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+ Share what's going well.
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+ Communicate Council goings on back to the group you represent.
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+
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+ *Take action.*
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+ The Council is an active leadership body,
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+ which means Council members should feel empowered to _do_ things,
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+ not just _discuss_ things.
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+ You don't need to wait to be assigned a task.
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+ If there's something that needs to be done,
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+ feel free to do it!
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+
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+ *Ask for help.*
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+ Every member of the Fedora Council was new at some point.
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+ Don't feel bad if you need to ask for help or if something is unclear.
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+ Think of it as finding a bug in the documentation!
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+
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+
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+ == Access
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+
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+ When you were elected or appointed to the Fedora Council,
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+ the FPgM (or someone else) opened an issue in our https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issues[ticket tracker].
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+ This provides a checklist for all of the places you need to be granted access.
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+ Don't worry!
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+ There's not much you need to do there.
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+ If there's something Council-related that you don't have access to,
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+ open an issue or ask in xref:_#chat[chat].
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+
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+ == Communication
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+
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+ We have asynchronous conversations in the https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/project/council-discuss/60[Council Discussions topic] on Discussion.
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+ This is a public forum,
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+ so we expect—and welcome—input from community members who are not on Council.
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+ On the rare occasions when we need to discuss confidential matters,
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+ we have a private mailing list.
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+
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+ For synchronous communication,
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+ we use the https://matrix.to/#/#council:fedoraproject.org[*#council*] channel on chat.fedoraproject.org
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+ (briged to the *#fedora-council* IRC channel on https://libera.chat/[Libera.Chat]).
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+
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+ == Meetings
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+
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+ The Council holds bi-weekly business meetings.
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+ These are an opportunity to check on the progress of tasks
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+ and have conversations about open issues.
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+ Attendance is not mandatory,
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+ but we encourage you to attend and participate as often as you can.
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+ Business meetings are open to the community at large.
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+
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+ Once a month,
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+ we hold https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Video_Meetings[video meetings].
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+ These are an opportunity to let the community showcase their work
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+ and ask the Council and broader community for help.
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+ Video meetings are open to the community at large.
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+
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+ From time to time,
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+ the Council holds face-to-face meetings.
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+ These are private and in-person when possible.
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+ Attendance at these meetings is strongly encouraged.
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+ The Council will pay travel expenses when necessary.
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+
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+ == Tickets
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+
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+ *Expectation:*
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+ Tickets are for discussing and voting on a specific proposal.
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+ If you have an idea that needs broader discussion or brainstorming,
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+ start a thread on Discussion.
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+ Procedures for labels, priorities, and voting on tickets are in the xref:tickets.adoc[Ticket Queue docs].
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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.