User:Quaid/Plan for FreeIPA in 2009

Feb to May 2009

Goal

 * Be recognized as the best location for hacking on anything IPA
 * ... giving ownership to the community and
 * ... being radically transparent to give the community the leg up
 * ... enables FreeIPA to capture the developer/contributor mindshare by ignoring the "this is our secret marketing data" mistake

Research and initial report

 * Get embedded in FreeIPA team
 * bstevens note to prod mgr/devel team lead(s)
 * Self-intro on list
 * Assessment report on current state of Free IPA community (Mar)
 * EKG statistics + activity internal v. external
 * e.g. internal wiki v. external wiki, internal design v. external devel, barriers to participation
 * Resource focus, i.e., production v. community enablement
 * Gap analysis
 * What else is missing?

Community org and growth

 * Radical externalization (Mar, Apr)
 * Feature(s) for F11? (Feb)
 * Wiki work all external
 * Eradication of ipa-design list
 * Internal team business list is only one required
 * Marketing/PRD content pushed to external wiki wherever feasible
 * Close communication/collaboration gaps (Apr)
 * New tools or processes needed?
 * Is it easy to join and get started?
 * Increase visibility to participant community (May)
 * Fedora Planet
 * Open source publications
 * Feature focus for Fedora 11?