OK, at last week's meeting, we settled on our new Mission and Vision statement,
which compromises the "Impact" portion of the Kellogg Logic Model. This is one
half of the "effects" side of the diagram (the set of things we indirectly
influence).
The other half of this is the "Outcomes" column. We need to describe a list of
outcomes that our efforts need to have in order to effect the Impact we decided on.
Outcomes *must* be measurable. We don't necessarily need to be able to measure
it today, or even a specific plan to create those measurements, but it must be
at least theoretically possible to do so.
Back at Flock, we had a short brainstorming session and came up with a few
ideas. I'm going to try to capture them here (in a slightly more structured
approach than we had in the notes).
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(1)
Summary: A growing number of startups and other SMBs pick Fedora Server for apps
and services
Supports: Vision
How it supports: Greater participation in the ecosystem leads to better testing,
documentation and widespread knowledge availability.
How to measure: Download statistics, formal and informal polls, bugzilla reports
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(2)
Summary: Admins are happy with default settings
Supports: Mission
How it supports: "Validated" service roles will be those conforming to default
settings.
How to measure: User surveys, news articles, bugzilla reports
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(3)
Summary: Customers not frequently adding packages to base outside of roles
Supports: Mission
How it supports: "Validated" service roles will be those conforming to default
settings.
How to measure: Bugzilla reports, sosreport
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(4)
Summary: Community of users contributing roles
Supports: Vision and Mission
How it supports: Greater participation in the ecosystem leads to better testing,
documentation and widespread knowledge availability. Community development will
increase number and quality of available roles as well as increased affinity to
the project.
How to measure: Number of participants involved and roles in the catalog.
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(5)
Summary: We get buzz (Translation: increased media presence)
Supports: Vision
How it supports: The more positive reviews of Fedora Server, the more confident
that people will be in its ability to deliver what they need.
How to measure: News articles, social media analytics
These are just some starter examples; we can take or drop any of them. Other
examples of outcomes (in a similar format) are hereby solicited.