[Ambassadors] Community Management Literature?

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, inode0 wrote:

> I'm really very curious about how you view the Fedora project within 
> this framework? In particular, do you view Fedora as a hybrid 
> organization?

I'm going to have to thumb through it again the next time I'm in Raleigh 
before I can say anything too intelligent, but my gut tells me that 
Fedora is definitely a hybrid-like organization.

We try to push authority, accountability, and decision-making as far to 
the edges as possible, but there is still a bit of a hierarchy in terms 
of committees, and in some cases the people who are paid by RH to work 
on Fedora full time -- I think Fedora Infrastructure is the perfect 
hybrid example.  Everyone is a leader and a doer, but Mike McGrath holds 
a "first among equals" kind of a role.

It's been a long time since I flipped through this book and chatted 
about it w/ Greg.  I might be getting terms wrong.  I'll refresh my 
memory when I'm in Raleigh in January.

I'm glad people are enjoying the book though!

--Max