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= Fedora Leadership
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The Fedora Project is led by contributors from across the community.
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Different functional areas of Fedora at times evolve, build, or dismantle their own formal (or informal!) leadership over time.
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Because Fedora is an open source project, we encourage new contributors to identify problems, find solutions, and collaborate with other members to achieve results.
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Our community recognizes and empowers able leaders from among our peers.
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The Fedora Project aims to have a thin layer of governance that enables decision making without excessive drag.
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The following are current examples of _leadership groups_ in Fedora.
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== Fedora Council ==
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image::council-badge.png[float="right",50%]
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The xref:council::index.adoc[Fedora Council] is the topmost governance and leadership body in Fedora, and is made up of appointed and elected members from across the Fedora community.
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Details about the Council such as size, constitution, and succession planning are found in the xref:council::index.adoc[Fedora Council Charter].
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The https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/fpl/[Fedora Project Leader] (or "FPL") serves as the chair of the Council.
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== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee ==
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The xref:fesco::index.adoc[Fedora Engineering Steering Committee] (commonly known as "FESCo") is a community-elected body empowered by the Council to manage the technical features of the Fedora distribution and specific implementations of policy in the Fedora Project.
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You can find further information about FESCo, its members, and its policies on the xref:fesco::index.adoc[FESCo section].
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== Fedora Mindshare Committee ==
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The xref:mindshare-committee::index.adoc[Mindshare Committee] represents leadership for user and contributor community growth and support.
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== Other groups ==
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The list above is not a complete list of every group of empowered community members.
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Other groups steer specific parts of Fedora as well, empowered and supported by the relevant teams.
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The list above shows the three leadership groups that most often work on issues of policy or practice affecting large portions of the Fedora Project.
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Community members are always encouraged to get involved in leading Fedora in ways that are important to them, while minimizing overhead and governance project-wide.
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=== Working Groups ===
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Fedora https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Editions[Editions] — currently,
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Atomic_WG[Atomic],
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server[Server],
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and
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation[Workstation],
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— and sometimes Fedora Project Objectives are lead by _Working Groups_.
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These groups are either independent subcommittees of FESCo, Mindshare, or the Council.
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They have formal membership and decision-making processes, but generally the membership is intended to include active contributors and the decision-making power reflects that.
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A seat on the Working Group itself is _not at all_ required to participate meaningfully in the work on Editions or Objectives.
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=== Subprojects ===
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-project/subprojects/subprojects.html[Subprojects] are long-standing major areas of effort under the overall Fedora umbrella.
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Each subproject has its own governance.
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=== Special Interest Groups ===
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-project/subprojects/sigs.html[Special Interest Groups], or "SIGs", are much less formal.
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The process for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Fedora_SIG[creating a SIG] has *no red tape*.
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Different SIGs have different structures; some use formalized voting and others don't.
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Some SIGs may eventually become subprojects; for others, the lightweight framework is perfect.
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