We’re working on Fedora Strategy 2028 — our next five-year plan. We are now reviewing those Objectives and their associated Impact. Read this guide for details on the current planning phase.
This Objective is part of the Theme “We build on the success of Fedora.next” and the Focus Area Editions, Spins, and Interests. For general discussion of this focus area, please see the topic Fedora Strategy 2028: Focus area review (Editions, Spins, and Interests).
Objective and Impact
Objective: Each Edition has a story for each release.
Impact: Better fuel for marketing, leading to more interest and press.
This is a relatively simple one, as strategy2028 Objectives go. It’s inspired by something the Fedora Workstation Working Group is developing: rather than new releases simply being a collections of updates, each will have a theme like “developer improvements” or “gaming” or “better a11y”.
We want each Edition working group to do this.
Fedora Editions are specific operating system variants we’re intentionally making to grow and support key user segments. So, maintaining a story-based approach is fundamental to being an Edition.
It gives Marketing something to promote to the press and to the enthusiast community every release — and it gives me something clear to talk about.
And, of course, it gives the teams concrete improvements to focus on — and to get people excited about, bringing in new contributors with expertise in or passion for that release’s theme.
Our goal now
For this Objective and related Impact, validate that:
- If the Impact is achieved, it’s reasonable to expect an increase in active Fedora contributors.
- Success in the Objective logically results in the intended Impact.
- That link is reasonably sufficient — that is, it represents everything needed to have the Impact.
- While there might be other ways to have similar Impact, the chosen Objective is the right one for Fedora right now.
- The wording is precise and clear. The Objective is concrete, and the Impact is (at least a little bit) inspirational. Together, they fit into this Focus Area.
Bonus. If you can improve the longer explanatory paragraphs at the top of this post, that’s helpful too!
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