Fedora has a job whose entire purpose is the health of the community around the distribution, and this month it changed hands. So we got the person leaving and the person arriving on at the same time.
- Justin Wheeler, Fedora Community Architect since 2022, now moving into a new role as AI Alignment Community Architect
- Shaun McCance, incoming Fedora Community Architect, continuing as CentOS Community Architect
What we covered:
- Where the role came from in 2015, and how the name and the charter have changed since
- What the job actually involves day to day: the Council seat, Mindshare, Code of Conduct, budget, and Flock
- How to get event support through Mindshare, whether you need a real budget or just a shipment of stickers
- Justin’s new AI Alignment role, and why he thinks community consent on AI has to be earned
- This Week in Fedora and the conversation about the Matrix ingestion bot
- What Shaun carries over from CentOS, and what stays deliberately separate between the two projects
- Where both projects will be: CentOS Connect, DevConf US, Texas Linux Fest, and All Things Open
Listen: Fedora Project Podcast 60: Changing of the Guard, the New Fedora Community Architect
Watch: https://youtu.be/h5qoj9bEEOI
One ask from the episode: the podcast could use a producer. Not on mic, not on camera, just someone to help schedule episodes and keep up with the guest list. If that sounds like you, come find me in #podcast:fedoraproject.org.