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- Tech lead roll is important to continue on with
- Need someone coming in after Fedora 6 to help guide roadmap
- Also recognize that there is need for heads-down development AND engage with community
- Ie bringing in new committers
- Concern about burn-out is real, and there is a need to secure this
- Personality geared toward building community
- Feel like there is saturation in the field of people who have time or have capacity to help
- Institutions don’t necessarily want to invest in persistence layer like Fedora
- Consider this opportunity to use Fedora 6 as a
- Need a combo of leadership/technical expertise
- Is there a possibility to explore options like one-time contractors for specific partners?
Group 3 (Tim’sTim)
- (Rosy) - book about open-source: What is Fedora as an Open-Source project in the context of this book? - https://project-types.github.io
- Where do we fit? And what would this mean for employment?
- If we fall in one category, how can we pivot to be in a different one that we would like to be in
- Vast majority of all open-source projects are “stadiums” - handful of contributors but a large number of users
- Institutions are struggling enough to find developers, so why would they then hand over their people to projects?
- Do we just embrace our “stadium-ness” and hire to support this need because we may never be able to overcome this set up therefore hire senior developer to just write code and develop products
- (Tim) maybe this changes the direction of Governance and their responsibilities
- Challenges of employment - competing with salaries, and the available people
- Really important to take care of the software, and those that curate it because it’s valuable and critical
- (Maurice) “membership” sounds too much like a club, and clubs are not as big a sell anymore
- There needs to be tech underneath the sales piece
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