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#181 council: Amend history of the FCA role title
Merged 2 years ago by bcotton. Opened 2 years ago by jflory7.
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- = Fedora Community Architect (F.C.A.)
 

+ = Fedora Community Architect (FCA)
 

  :page-aliases: fcaic.adoc
 

  

- The _Fedora Community Architect_ (F.C.A.) is a full-time, Red Hat-employed job to lead initiatives to grow the Fedora user and developer communities, and to make Red Hat & Fedora interactions more transparent and positive.
 

- The Fedora Community budget comes to us through the Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
 

+ The _Fedora Community Architect_ (FCA) is employed full-time by Red Hat to lead initiatives that grow the Fedora user and developer communities.
 

+ They also help make Red Hat and Fedora interactions more transparent and open.
 

+ The Fedora community budget comes to us through the Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
 

  This position facilitates decision-making on how to best focus that to meet our community's goals and objectives.
 

- The F.C.A. supports the xref:fpl.adoc[Project Leader] with all things "Community" and works directly with the Fedora Leadership to help bring more Heat and Light to the project.
 

+ The FCA supports the xref:fpl.adoc[Project Leader] with all things "community" and works directly with the Fedora Leadership to help bring more Heat and Light to the project.
 

  

- The FCA is appointed to the Community Action and Impact seat on the Fedora xref:index.adoc[Council], Fedora’s top-level community leadership and governance body.
 

+ The FCA is appointed to the Community Architect seat on the Fedora xref:index.adoc[Council], Fedora’s top-level community leadership and governance body.
 

  The Council is responsible for stewardship of the Fedora Project as a whole, and supports the health and growth of the Fedora Community.
 

  

  

  [[current]]
 

- == Meet the F.C.A.
 

+ == Meet the FCA
 

  

  [.profile-picture]
 

  image::https://jwf.io/img/logo.jpg[Justin W. Flory (he/him)]
 
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  [[roles-budget]]
 

  === Budget ===
 

  

- The Fedora Community Architect will work with Fedora Council and OSAS to determine annual Fedora Budget
 

+ The Fedora Community Architect works with the Fedora Council and Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to determine the annual Fedora Budget.
 

  

  * Ensure that budget is published and tracked transparently, with a public page indicating how each year’s budget is earmarked and its current state.
 

  
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  === What about FCAIC and FCL?
 

  

  The title of this role evolved and changed over the years since its inception in February 2015.
 

- When the role was first created, the role title was *Fedora Community Leader* (F.C.L.).
 

- At the time, the F.C.L. role provided much needed separation with roles of the Fedora Project Leader.
 

- However, the title did not feel right yet either.
 

+ The creation of the role was largely envisioned and advocated for by xref:fpc.adoc#previous[Robyn Bergeron], then the Fedora Project Leader.
 

+ When the role was first created, the role title was https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-community-action-and-impact-job-opening-red-hat-osas/[*Fedora Community Outreach and Impact Lead*], which was often shortened to Fedora Community Lead (FCL).
 

+ At the time, the FCL role provided needed separation of responsibilities with the xref:fpl.adoc[Fedora Project Leader], including the role of organizing the annual Fedora contributor conference, Flock.
 

+ However, the FCL title did not feel totally right either.
 

  Anyone can be a leader in the Fedora community, whether they are employed by Red Hat or not!
 

  We did not want to imply otherwise.
 

  

- Later, in October 2016, the role title was changed to *Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator* (F.C.A.I.C).
 

+ Later, in October 2016, the role title was changed to *Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator* (FCAIC).
 

  This title was lengthier but better captured what community engagement means in a large, globally-distributed community like Fedora.
 

- Over time, community management in Free & Open Source Software (F.O.S.S.) communities is better recognized as an important part of successful projects.
 

- More projects, organizations, and companies working on F.O.S.S. introduced new roles in community management and leadership.
 

+ Over time, more projects, organizations, and companies working on Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) introduced new roles in community management and leadership.
 

  However, community work does not have an industry-accepted job ladder, as is more common with software engineering.
 

  Red Hat eventually settled on the title of _community architect_ for community work in its pioneering Open Source communities.
 

  

  Fast forward to 2023.
 

  The landscape has changed and evolved!
 

  So, it was the ideal time to reflect on the title for this role.
 

- The title was changed in January 2023 to *Fedora Community Architect* (F.C.A.), its current title.
 

- Ultimately, the goal of changing the name is to better describe the role and what the F.C.A. does in Fedora.
 

- The lengthy "F.C.A.I.C." title usually came with an explanation to others unfamiliar with Fedora and our community culture.
 

- F.C.A. is also a handy shortening of the longer F.C.A.I.C. acronym too!
 

+ The title was changed in January 2023 to *Fedora Community Architect* (FCA).
 

+ Ultimately, the goal of changing the name was to better describe the role and what the FCA does in Fedora.
 

+ The lengthy "FCAIC" title usually came with an explanation to others unfamiliar with Fedora and our community culture.
 

+ FCA is also a handy shortening of the longer FCAIC acronym too!

This commit fixes the story and original title of the Fedora Community
Architect and its many different historical iterations. This came up in
private message with @mattdm, when he pointed out to me that I missed
some details in how I explained the history of the role title and how we
got to where we are today.

Furthermore, based on the suggestion of @mattdm and other low-vision
users on Fedora Discussion, I dropped the use of punctuated acronyms as
this did not have the desired impact I thought I was making for screen
reader users. So, to respect the feedback of those who participated in
the discussion, I am ending this precedent and will move back to
acronyms not broken with punctuation.

Metadata Update from @jflory7:
- Pull-request tagged with: type - existing docs
2 years ago

I'm going to assign this one to @bcotton to make a final check and merge, as our informal (or is it formal?) Council secretary.

Metadata Update from @jflory7:
- Request assigned
2 years ago

I was chatting with @mattdm and there are a couple more changes I want to make before this gets merged. Please hold!

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  • fca.adoc: Amendments suggested by @mattdm
2 years ago

I added commit 591c8b8ec103b10432f2626fcd2e151fe87c1e2a to mention the early role of Robyn Bergeron in the creation of the FCL role and to clarify the separation of FPL/FCL duties by way of the Flock example.

This is no longer blocked and can be merged, if we are happy with it!

LGTM

I'm not sure "Heat and Light" is well understood enough to stand alone. Can this be expressed less metaphorically?

This sentence doesn't quite...word...correctly to me. Maybe it's the passive voice? Who is recognizing it? Or why/how has it become recognized? Or should this sentence be dropped in favor of adding "Over time," to the following?

Should this be "works" instead of "will work"? The future tense seems out of place here.

Let's drop ", its current title". This way, if we change the title in the future, we don't have to remember to update this line.

s/is/was/ ? It's only present tense right now as you write it. It will be in the past for all future readers.

I think this would read easier as

The Fedora Community Architect (FCA) is employed full-time by Red Hat to lead initiatives that grow the Fedora user and developer communities.
They also help make interactions between Red Hat and Fedora more transparent and positive.

(I don't like "positive" here because it implies that they were negative, but I'm struggling to find an alternative. "constructive"? "fruitful"?)

I have left many comments. I don't think any of these are blockers, just style tweaks. I've tried to avoid anything that was merely "well I wouldn't have written it that way", but some of that may have snuck in. Happy to discuss here or in chat if you disagree with or have questions about anything.

@bcotton I agree but I'd prefer to address this in a separate PR. It is on my to-do to reframe my role following our Atlanta meeting, but I am still wrapping my head around this role, and that will influence how I express this in a less metaphorical way.

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  • @bcotton feedback: Simplify wording of opening sentence
2 years ago

@bcotton +1. Addressed in commit 829249c5bad4950cfe39be3373df803f3d419bdc.

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  • Address most of @bcotton's remaining feedback
2 years ago

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  • Address most of @bcotton's remaining feedback
  • @bcotton feedback: Simplify wording of opening sentence
  • fca.adoc: Amendments suggested by @mattdm
  • council: Amend history of the FCA role title
2 years ago

So, I shouldn't have pushed my commits until I was done, because Pagure lost the diff with Ben's comments. The latest commits addressed most of this feedback, but I haven't been able to figure out this one:

This sentence doesn't quite...word...correctly to me. Maybe it's the passive voice? Who is recognizing it? Or why/how has it become recognized? Or should this sentence be dropped in favor of adding "Over time," to the following?

@bcotton Could you please recomment or clarify which line this one was about?

Based on my

Maybe it's the passive voice? Who is recognizing it? Or why/how has it become recognized? Or should this sentence be dropped in favor of adding "Over time," to the following?

I think I was talking about

Over time, community management in Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) communities is better recognized as an important part of successful projects.

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@bcotton Makes sense. I rewrote it this way as you suggested:

Over time, more projects, organizations, and companies working on FOSS introduced new roles in community management and leadership.

I also squashed my commits into one and prepared this PR for merge. It should be ready now.

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2 years ago

LGTM. Everyone else has had their chance to weigh in by this point, so I'll go ahead and merge.

Pull-Request has been merged by bcotton
2 years ago
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