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The community dashboard is a research and analysis project. The goal is to help the team bring rigor to its goal-setting and also to give us a means of measuring success over time. | The community dashboard is a research and analysis project. The goal is to help the team bring rigor to its goal-setting and also to give us a means of measuring success over time. | ||
== | == Background == | ||
=== Community | === Community Biology 101 === | ||
Community serves as a catalyst in Red Hat's R&D processes. | |||
[[Image:Catalyst.png]] | [[Image:Catalyst.png]] | ||
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/c2005/purves6/figure06-14.jpg | http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/c2005/purves6/figure06-14.jpg | ||
'''Reaction:''' The progress of any task from ''idea'' to ''reality''. | '''Reaction:''' The progress of any task from ''idea'' to ''reality''. The task can be as simple as a one-page summary of Fedora 10 for the press, or as complicated as the feature planning process for Fedora 11. The task can be code, leadership, process documentation, testing, writing, artwork, etc. | ||
For any reaction to complete requires some amount of '''energy'''. From a business point of view, '''energy''', '''time''', and '''money''' are all synonymous. | |||
The '''blue curve''' represents a reaction that does not operate with a community-building mindset. Perhaps this is a proprietary software project, and community isn't even an option. Perhaps it is an open source upstream that is so focused on coding, it doesn't have the time to properly build a community. Either way, the amount of energy required to reach a successful end state is high. | |||
The ''' | The '''red curve''' represents a reaction that does operate with a strong community. Whether it is a Fedora sub-project, Fedora as a whole, the RPM upstream, OLPC, or an emerging technology like Cobbler or Func is irrelevant. | ||
Note that both reactions ultimately reach the ''same end state''. The difference is the energy required to get there. Microsoft and Red Hat can both produce an operating system. Our job is to ensure that Red Hat does so more efficiently, and community is the mechanism by which we achieve that. | |||
=== Incremental vs. Continuous === | === Incremental vs. Continuous === | ||
Revision as of 19:57, 30 October 2008
Community Dashboard
The community dashboard is a research and analysis project. The goal is to help the team bring rigor to its goal-setting and also to give us a means of measuring success over time.
Background
Community Biology 101
Community serves as a catalyst in Red Hat's R&D processes.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/c2005/purves6/figure06-14.jpg
Reaction: The progress of any task from idea to reality. The task can be as simple as a one-page summary of Fedora 10 for the press, or as complicated as the feature planning process for Fedora 11. The task can be code, leadership, process documentation, testing, writing, artwork, etc.
For any reaction to complete requires some amount of energy. From a business point of view, energy, time, and money are all synonymous.
The blue curve represents a reaction that does not operate with a community-building mindset. Perhaps this is a proprietary software project, and community isn't even an option. Perhaps it is an open source upstream that is so focused on coding, it doesn't have the time to properly build a community. Either way, the amount of energy required to reach a successful end state is high.
The red curve represents a reaction that does operate with a strong community. Whether it is a Fedora sub-project, Fedora as a whole, the RPM upstream, OLPC, or an emerging technology like Cobbler or Func is irrelevant.
Note that both reactions ultimately reach the same end state. The difference is the energy required to get there. Microsoft and Red Hat can both produce an operating system. Our job is to ensure that Red Hat does so more efficiently, and community is the mechanism by which we achieve that.