@jflory7 filed Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #505. Discuss here and record votes and decisions in the ticket.
We need to build an agenda. Let me start with a proposal!
Format proposal
I would like us to spend an entire day without laptops or phones, and without other appointments or calls. Everyone 100% present. And only use pen and paper, and a whiteboard for notes. (I’d love to have all days of the face-to-face like this in fact.)
It’s a very unique opportunity to be in one place like that, and I think it would be very valuable to spend it discussing, brainstorming, and figuring things out on a level we’re otherwise not able to. I’d like us to use this unique time well.
Topic proposal
One thing I’d like us to do is to revisit how the council works internally. How we communicate day to day with each other, our roles and responsibilities, our workflows, meetings, new kinds of activities, etc. Tools changed, people changed, the world changed, the problems changed, and I’d like us to come up with ways of working that fit the current situation. I don’t know why, but I’ve been struggling to meaningfully (apart from a few +1’s in tickets) during my almost a year of service. And it wasn’t a lack of time. I wonder if it’s just me and I should simply not run for the next election period, or if there’s more of us who would find this kind of “reset/refresh”, if you will, helpful.
Edit: Written communication and all that… I don’t mean to imply we’re doing badly or anything like that. I just really feel that we could benefit from evolving a few things! And this hackfest feels like realistically the only (very unique!) way to seriously do that!
I want to make sure we talk about the budget. We didn’t this year, and that’s hurting us now.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the F2F in-person this year due to some personal issues.
If I am able to facilitate topics virtually (still an unknown for me), here is what I want to discuss:
- Budget overview & management: Less about the data, more about how the Council can help strategize how the budget is spent.
- 2026 hackfest location: I know it is early but it would help with cost-savings for us to to try and make a plan for location and dates while we are together.
- Maybe something about Flock. TBD.
I just created Council/2025 Hackfest - Fedora Project Wiki which should help to plan everything.
Thanks for kicking this off, @ffmancera!