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Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator
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The _Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator_ (or _FCAIC_) 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 even more transparent and positive. 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 FCAIC 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.
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The FCAIC 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 Council is responsible for stewardship of the Fedora Project as a whole, and supports the health and growth of the Fedora Community.
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Current F-🎂footnote:[What's with the cake? The abbreviation FCAIC sounds like "F-Cake" in American English. If this position is going to have a title that is a mouthful, at least the mouthful can be yummy cake!]
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Roles and Responsibilities
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Work with other Council members to identify the short, medium, and long term goals of the Fedora community and to organize and enable the project to best achieve them
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Primary Council member with responsibility for the development of the annual Fedora community budget
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Participate in decision-making about use of trademarks, project structure, community disputes or complaints, and other such issues
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Special Initiatives
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Design and spearhead special initiatives to grow user and contributor bases
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Metrics
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Implement metrics for community engagement, participation, and satisfaction; create and execute projects to improve those metrics; report regularly on progress and adjust approach as needed
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Opportunities
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Identify opportunities to engage new contributors and community members; align project around supporting those opportunities
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Liaise between Red Hat and FOSS Community
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Communicate community needs to Red Hat and participate in regular meetings with internal Red Hat stakeholders; align Red Hat participation in Fedora beyond platform engineering
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Represent Red Hat’s stake in Fedora community success
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Improve on-boarding materials and presentation of Fedora to new Red Hat hires; develop standardized materials on Fedora which can be used at Red Hat globally.
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Budget
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The FCAIC will work with Fedora Council and OSAS to determine annual Fedora Budget
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