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#171 Initiatives: Convert "Objectives" to "Community Initiatives"

Merged 2 years ago by jflory7. Opened 2 years ago by jflory7.

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Initiatives: Convert "Objectives" to "Community Initiatives"

Justin W. Flory (he/him) • 2 years ago

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		`== Composition`

		`- === Objective Leads`
		`+ === Community Initiative Leads`

		`- On an ongoing basis, including sessions at Flock and in public online`
		`- meetings, the Council will identify two to four key https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/objectives/[community objectives]`
		`- with a timeframe of approximately eighteen months, and appoint`
		`- Objective Leads for each goal. These will serve as auxiliary Council`
		`- members, with binding votes only over concerns relevant to their`
		`- particular area.`
		`+ On an ongoing basis, including sessions at Flock and in public online meetings, the Council will identify two to four key xref:project::initiatives.adoc[Community Initiatives] with a timeframe of approximately eighteen months, and appoint Community Initiative Leads for each goal.`
		`+ These will serve as auxiliary Council members, with binding votes only over concerns relevant to their particular area.`

		`- Each objective will be documented with measurable goals, and the`
		`- objective lead is responsible for coordinating efforts to reach those`
		`- goals, evaluating and reporting on progress, and working regularly with`
		`- all relevant groups in Fedora to ensure that progress is made.`
		`+ Each Community Initiative will be documented with measurable goals, and the Community Initiative Lead is responsible for coordinating efforts to reach those goals, evaluating and reporting on progress, and working regularly with all relevant groups in Fedora to ensure that progress is made.`

		`=== Representatives`

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		`=== Auxiliary Seats`

		`- As with the objective leads, the next appointed positions are`
		`+ As with the Community Initiative Leads, the next two appointed positions are`
		`auxiliary seats. They are intended to have significant positive impact`
		`on the project as a whole, but in order to minimize the overall`
		`influence of appointed positions vs. those selected by the community,`
		`@@ -310,6 +303,8 @@`
		`https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/council-docs/commits/main[git repository]`
		`for Council documents.`

		`+ 2023-02-07: Change name of Objectives to Community Initiatives. See xref:project::initiatives.adoc#history[Community Initiatives History & Future].`
		`+`
		`2023-02-02: Update Diversity & Inclusion Team Representative to DEI Advisor, remove auxiliary status and designate as a full voting member.`

		`2017-11-15: Update Diversity Advisor to Diversity & Inclusion Team Representative`

project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc

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		`+ = Current 12-18 Month Community Initiatives`
		`+ :page-aliases: objectives.adoc`
		`+`
		`+ The primary role of the xref:council::index.adoc[Fedora Council] is to identify the short-, medium-, and long-term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them.`
		`+ This section documents the medium-term targets we've highlighted (as explained in the Council charter).`
		`+ Each Community Initiative has a designated Community Initiative Lead who is responsible for coordinating efforts to reach the Community Initiative's goals, for evaluating and reporting on progress, and for working regularly with all relevant groups in Fedora to ensure that progress is made.`
		`+`
		`+`
		`+ [[proposing]]`
		`+ == Proposing a Community Initiative`
		`+`
		`+ Any community member can propose a Community Initiative to the Council.`
		`+ First, discuss on the https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/council[#council tag on Fedora Discussion].`
		`+ Next, if well-received, file a https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/[ticket].`
		`+ Of course, people need to be ready to do the actual work required — a Community Initiative with no passionate bottom-liners won't get far.`
		`+`
		`+`
		`+ [[current]]`
		`+ == Current Community Initiatives`
		`+`
		`+ [[websites-apps]]`
		`+ === Websites & Apps Revamp`
		`+`
		`+ Summary::`
		`+ To reboot the websites team to include webapps in the scope of work and set up the team so that they can grow capacity in the future to build new exciting apps to meet community needs.`
		`+`
		`+ Community Initiative Leads::`
		`+ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:T0xic0der[Akashdeep Dhar]`
		`+`
		`+ Timeframe::`
		`+ 8–12 months`
		`+`
		`+ Community Initiative Details::`
		`+ See the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Websites_%26_Apps_Community_Revamp[wiki page].`
		`+`
		`+`
		`+ [[history]]`
		`+ == History`
		`+`
		`+ See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Completed[completed Community Initiatives] and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Potential[potential Community Initiatives].`
		`+`
		`+ Historically, Community Initiatives were known as Objectives.`
		`+ This transition was made in February 2023 following in-person discussion by the Fedora Council in our 2023 Council hackfest in Frankfurt, Germany.`
		`+ We agreed to convert "Objectives" into "Community Initiatives", which the Council felt was easier to understand and communicate the roles of these efforts in Fedora.`
		`+ There is no functional change to Objectives; it is just a semantic change.`

project/modules/ROOT/pages/objectives.adoc

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		`- = Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives`
		`-`
		`- == Overview`
		`-`
		`- The primary role of the xref:council::index.adoc[Fedora Council] is to identify the short, medium, and long term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them.`
		`- This section documents the medium-term targets we've highlighted (as explained in the Council charter).`
		`- Each objective has a designated Objective Lead who is responsible`
		`- for coordinating efforts to reach the Objective's goals,`
		`- for evaluating and reporting on progress, and`
		`- for working regularly with all relevant groups in Fedora to ensure that progress is made.`
		`-`
		`- == Proposing an Objective`
		`-`
		`- Any community member can propose an Objective to the Council`
		`- (discuss on the https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@lists.fedoraproject.org/[mailing list]`
		`- and if well-received, file a https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/[ticket]).`
		`- Of course, people need to be on board to do the actual work required — an Objective with no passionate implementers won't get very far.`
		`-`
		`- == Current Objectives`
		`-`
		`- === Websites & Apps Revamp`
		`-`
		`- Summary::`
		`- To reboot the websites team to include webapps in the scope of work and set up the team so that they can grow capacity in the future to build new exciting apps to meet community needs.`
		`-`
		`- Objective Leads::`
		`- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ramyaparimi[Ramya Parimi] and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:T0xic0der[Akashdeep Dhar]`
		`-`
		`- Timeframe::`
		`- 8–12 months`
		`-`
		`- Objective Details::`
		`- See the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Websites_%26_Apps_Community_Revamp[wiki page].`
		`-`
		`- == History and Future`
		`-`
		`- See`
		`- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Completed[Objectives/Completed]`
		`- and`
		`- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Potential[Objectives/Potential]`

jflory7 commented 2 years ago

This commit follows in-person discussion by the Fedora Council in our
2023 Council hackfest in Frankfurt, Germany. We agreed to convert
"Objectives" into "Community Initiatives", which we agreed was easier to
understand and communicate the roles of these efforts in the project.

There is no functional change to Objectives. It is just a cosmetic
change, and we will follow this change with more communications about
the transition to bring more excitement into Initiatives.

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t0xic0der commented 2 years ago

sumantrom commented 2 years ago

t0xic0der commented on line 24 of project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc 2 years ago

s/Objective/Community Initiative/g

t0xic0der commented on line 30 of project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc 2 years ago

s/Objective/Community Initiative/g

t0xic0der commented on line 36 of project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc 2 years ago

The URL formatting needs to be looked into but for now, let's just change the link name from "Objectives" to "Community Initiative".

t0xic0der commented on line 3 of project/modules/ROOT/pages/initiatives.adoc 2 years ago

Good work with this.
People might still be referring to the (now called) "Community Initiative" as (still) "objectives".

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jflory7 commented 2 years ago

@t0xic0der Nice catches. I updated the text as you suggested. I also confirmed the page alias works as expected.

Metadata Update from @jflory7:
- Pull-request tagged with: type - existing docs
- Request assigned

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jflory7 commented 2 years ago

We agreed in the Fedora Council 2023 face-to-face hackfest that this change to the charter is approved. As a note, this is a semantic change that does not change the function of Objectives/Community Initiatives, but better reflects the purpose and intent of what these efforts mean. As such, it was not eligible for the policy change proposal.

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jflory7 commented 2 years ago

Noting the approval above (and will be documented by zodbot in @bcotton's meeting minutes), I am going to merge this Pull Request.

I asked @mattdm for help in writing a brief CommBlog update to explain the rationale for this change and how the community should interpret this for proposing future Community Initiatives.

Pull-Request has been merged by jflory7

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