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This commit updates my last name throughout the Project and Council docs pages. I am officially and legally "Wheeler" now and I have already updated my FAS account information. So this is just making it more official! Signed-off-by: Justin W. Wheeler <jwf@redhat.com>
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= Fedora Community Architect (FCA)
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:page-aliases: fcaic.adoc
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The _Fedora Community Architect_ (FCA) is employed full-time by Red Hat to lead initiatives that grow the Fedora user and developer communities.
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They also help make Red Hat and Fedora interactions more transparent and open.
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The Fedora community budget comes to us through the Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
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This position facilitates decision-making on how to best focus that to meet our community's goals and objectives.
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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.
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The FCA is appointed to the Community Architect seat on the xref:index.adoc[{team_name}], Fedora’s top-level community leadership and governance body.
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The {team_name} 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]]
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== Meet the FCA
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[.profile-picture]
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image::https://jwf.io/img/logo.jpg[Justin W. Wheeler (he/him)]
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link:{FWIKI}/User:Jflory7[Justin W. Wheeler] (pronouns: he/him) became the Fedora Community Architect in October 2022.
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Justin is a creative maker.
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He is best known as an Open Source contributor and Free Culture advocate originally from the United States.
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Justin has participated in numerous Open Source communities and led different initiatives to build sustainable software and communities for nearly ten years.
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This includes his participation in the Fedora Project since 2015.
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In Fedora, he co-founded and led the xref:commops::contribute/commops-landing.adoc[Community Operations] team for four years and was a founding member of the xref:dei::index.adoc[Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Team].
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You can read more about Justin's past and present Fedora activities link:https://jwf.io/#fedora[on his website].
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Previous to Red Hat, from June 2020 to September 2022, Justin supported the link:https://www.unicef.org/innovation/[UNICEF Office of Innovation] as the first Open Source Technical Advisor.
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At UNICEF, he supported the link:https://www.unicefinnovationfund.org/[UNICEF Venture Fund] and other Open Source activities within the Office of Innovation.
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Together with a team of mentors, Justin mentored twenty-three start-up companies of diverse start-up companies from nineteen countries and five continents.
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[[roles]]
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== Roles and Responsibilities ==
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[[roles-council]]
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=== {team_name} ===
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* Work with other {team_name} 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 {team_name} 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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[[roles-special]]
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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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[[roles-metrics]]
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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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[[roles-opportunities]]
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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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[[roles-community-liaison]]
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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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[[roles-budget]]
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=== Budget ===
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The Fedora Community Architect works with the {team_name} and Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to determine the annual Fedora Budget.
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* 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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[[roles-events]]
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=== Fedora Event Planning and Participation ===
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Participate in planning and organizing Fedora’s Flagship events each year, including:
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* Flock, Nest, & Hatch
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* Release Parties
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* Fedora contributor hackfests
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The Fedora Community Architect also represents Fedora at other major industry conferences and hackathons such as:
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* All Things Open
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* DevConf CZ, IN, US
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* FOSDEM
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* PyCon (and Sprints)
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* LibrePlanet
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* Red Hat Summit
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[[roles-communications]]
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=== Communications ===
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The Fedora Community Architect provides and facilitates regular communications to Fedora Magazine, the Fedora Community Blog, and other mass communication channels to talk about community goals/progress and general community boosting.
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[[previous]]
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== Previous Fedora Community Architects
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link:{FWIKI}/User:Riecatnor[Marie Nordin]::
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November 2019 – October 2022 (_Fedora Linux 31 to 37_)
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link:{FWIKI}/User:Bex[Brian Exelbierd]::
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October 2016 – November 2019 (_Fedora Linux 25 to 31_)
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link:{FWIKI}/User:Decause[Remy DeCausemaker]::
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February 2015 – June 2016 (_Fedora Linux 22 to 24_)
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[[previous-titles]]
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=== What about FCAIC and FCL?
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The title of this role evolved and changed over the years since its inception in February 2015.
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The creation of the role was largely envisioned and advocated for by xref:fpl.adoc#previous[Robyn Bergeron], then the Fedora Project Leader.
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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).
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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.
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However, the FCL title did not feel totally right either.
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Anyone can be a leader in the Fedora community, whether they are employed by Red Hat or not!
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We did not want to imply otherwise.
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Later, in October 2016, the role title was changed to *Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator* (FCAIC).
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This title was lengthier but better captured what community engagement means in a large, globally-distributed community like Fedora.
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Over time, more projects, organizations, and companies working on Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) introduced new roles in community management and leadership.
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However, community work does not have an industry-accepted job ladder, as is more common with software engineering.
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Red Hat eventually settled on the title of _community architect_ for community work in its pioneering Open Source communities.
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Fast forward to 2023.
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The landscape has changed and evolved!
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So, it was the ideal time to reflect on the title for this role.
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The title was changed in January 2023 to *Fedora Community Architect* (FCA).
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Ultimately, the goal of changing the name was to better describe the role and what the FCA does in Fedora.
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The lengthy "FCAIC" title usually came with an explanation to others unfamiliar with Fedora and our community culture.
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FCA is also a handy shortening of the longer FCAIC acronym too!
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