The FCA charter has described the role as a broad "community manager"
since its last major revision. This rewrite reframes it around the four
concrete areas the FCA actually owns: Council governance, budget and
fiduciary stewardship, the Flock contributor conference, and the CentOS
ecosystem relationship. CentOS is newly explicit, reflecting the
deepening ties between Fedora and its sibling project. Two sections that
no longer describe real work—Community Initiative Support (paused by the
Council) and Collaboration with Community Ops (duplicated in the
Communication section)—are removed.
Decision-Making now states plainly that the FCA, while a Red Hat
employee paid by the Red Hat Open Source & AI Program Office (OSAIPO),
acts as a fiduciary for the Fedora Project: the community budget belongs
to Red Hat, but its stewardship serves Fedora. The FCA's working
relationship with the Fedora Project Leader and Fedora Operations
Architect is documented for the first time. The Communication section's
stakeholder list is tightened to only the relationships tied to a formal
responsibility. The Code of Conduct Committee duties are narrowed to
coordination and secretarial work, removing language that overstated the
chair's deliberative role. A "2026 role changes" section summarizes this
rewrite for future readers.
Document metadata is also corrected: the author byline now resolves
properly (it was silently broken by a misplaced attribute entry), the
unused :page-authors: attribute is removed, and the revision line
carries both a semantic version (`v5.0`) and the review date.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaun McCance <shaunm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jona Azizaj <jonatoni@fedoraproject.org>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context)
Justin Wheeler
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