Community Outreach Revamp Update

In the Winter months we developed and implemented a community survey with regards to community outreach, focusing on why, how, and what. We set ourselves to host, curate and report back our results. We had some interesting conclusions, which you can find here. Furthering on the same train of thought, we are working with the Fedora Council and Mindshare Committee on community oriented questions for an annual contributor survey that is in development. We hope to receive a greater and more diverse set of responses as the annual contributor survey will be targeted toward Fedora's entire contributor community and not mainly promoted within Mindshare and Outreach teams.

We have also been working to raise awareness around the Revamp Objectives and its goals. Most recently we presented at DevConf.CZ and later this month we will give an update at the Fedora Linux 34 Release Party. As the follow up with the same intent, we have applied to several applicable conferences in the upcoming year. This will give us more mindshare with community at large, and allow us to gather feedback and make adjustments as we move forward.

We have coordinated an Outreachy internship for the upcoming summer session to work on various design materials to assist in the Revamp. Marie has been working to to prep things up for the upcoming outreachy intern and mentoring applicants during the month of April. We are scheming up design projects for the intern to work on, including some designs for the Role Handbooks, infographics, and a re-designed cheat cube (or two!).

In the last few months, we have seen the benefit of keeping one source of truth while in the past we have have kept our on-going tasks documented at multiple places. This led to the challenge of keeping everything updated and was not a good usage of the time for the team. Keeping this in mind we retired the trello board and we are using a hackmd document to track our progress.

A few words of gratitude to Fedora Council and the whole community for supportiung the Revamp as a Fedora Objective. We are also thrilled to be incorporated into an updated Fedora Organizational Chart (under development here).