During this election season, there are two (2) appointed seats and two (2) community-elected seats open on the Fedora Board. This cycle, Bill Nottingham, Karsten Wade, Matt Domsch, and Jef Spaleta are turning over their seats. These folks have given very generously of their time over the last year -- and in some cases years -- and helped with a great deal of heavy lifting. Thank you, each and every one; the community and I are in your debt!
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations
As you'll see from the URLs above, there is an incredible slate of worthy candidates up for election, and I'm very excited to see people who are interested and passionate in helping drive Fedora forward by helping the Board remove barriers to contribution. Those barriers get reduced steadily over time, but there is always more to do.
The elections will begin on 7 December, after a set of town hall meetings where community members can ask the nominees questions. Check the general elections wiki page above for the schedule and details. We have set these meetings up in response to community requests and encourage you to attend as many as you like. You should also feel free to write to individual nominees directly to ask questions that are important to you.
The two appointed seats on the Board are nominated by Red Hat and chosen by the FPL. One appointment is held back until after the elections so that the Board's composition can be balanced as needed. The balance of the appointments are announced before elections.[1]
For this cycle, Chris Aillon will return to the Board as an appointee. Chris is a long-time Fedora contributor and member of the Red Hat Desktop team, and among other responsibilities he is the maintainer of the ever-popular Mozilla Firefox and related packages in Fedora and in RHEL. Chris served on the Board previously for approximately a year, from summer 2007 to summer 2008.[2] The Board and I welcome him back, and look forward to working with him again.
= = = [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
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