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The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in November/December 2012:
The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in January 2014:


* [[Board/Elections/Nominations|Fedora Project Board]] (two seats)
* [[Board/Elections/Nominations|Fedora Project Board]] (two seats)
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (four seats)
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (four seats)
* [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo (Ambassadors)]] (three seats)
* [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo (Ambassadors)]] (three seats)
* [[Name suggestions for Fedora 19|Fedora 19 Name]] (separate schedule from the committee elections)


All dates and times noted are UTC time.
All dates and times noted are UTC time.


= FESCo Elections November/December 2012 =
= FESCo Elections January 2014 =


These members were elected in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/fescof18? last elections]:
These members were elected in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/fescof20? last elections]:


* [[User:Kevin| Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik)
* [[User:Kevin| Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik)
* [[User:Notting| Bill Nottingham]] (notting)
* [[User:Notting| Bill Nottingham]] (notting)
* [[User:Tmraz|Tomáš Mráz]] (t8m)
* [[User:Mattdm|Matthew Miller]] (mattdm)
* [[User:Pjones|Peter Jones]] (pjones)
* [[User:Pjones|Peter Jones]] (pjones)
* [[User:jwboyer|Josh Boyer]] (jwb)
* [[User:Tmraz|Tomáš Mráz]] (t8m)




As per the [[FESCo_election_policy|FESCo election policy]], the following finish their terms, and the seats are up for re-election:
As per the [[FESCo_election_policy|FESCo election policy]], the following finish their terms, and the seats are up for re-election:
* [[User:Mitr| Miloslav Trmač]] (mitr)
 
* [[User:Limb| Jon Ciesla]] (limburgher)
* [[User:Toshio| Toshio Kuratomi]] (abadger1999)
* [[User:Mjg59| Matthew Garrett]] (mjg59)
* [[User:Mitr| Miloslav Trmac]] (mitr)
* [[User:Mmaslano|Marcela Mašláňová]] (mmaslano)
* [[User:Mmaslano|Marcela Mašláňová]] (mmaslano)
* [[User:Sgallagh|Stephen Gallagher]] (sgallagh)


More information at the FESCo [[Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee|wiki page]].
More information at the FESCo [[Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee|wiki page]].
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For the last election, see [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations&oldid=290360 NominationsMayJune2011]
For the last election, see [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations&oldid=339247 NominationsMayJune2013]


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* '''Future plans:'''
* '''Future plans:'''


=== Questionnaire ===
== [[User:Sgallagh|Stephen Gallagher]] (sgallagh) ==
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* '''Mission Statement:''' Make Fedora THE platform for rapidly developing the next generation of free, open-source software.
* '''Past work summary:''' Red Hat employee since 2008, Lead developer of the System Security Services Daemon, participant in the FreeIPA project. Fedora Hosted admin maintaining ReviewBoard. FESCo member since June 2011. Currently serving on the Fedora Server Working group.
* '''Future plans:''' Continue to drive Fedora to become the best platform for developing exciting new technologies for the desktop and datacenter. Involve myself heavily with the Fedora Server product development and delivery.


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= Candidates =
== [[User:Ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] (dgilmore) ==


== [[User:Sgallagh|Stephen Gallagher]] (sgallagh) ==
* '''Mission Statement:''' Ensure Fedora is sanely deliverable, and continues to be leading edge
* '''Past work summary:''' Former FESCo member, Former Fedora Board Member, Lead for Secondary Arches in Fedora, Fedora Release Engineer lead, Involved in Fedora since its inception. Currently serving on the Base Working Group. Member of Fedora Infrastructure. Red Hat Employee since 2008.
* '''Future plans:''' Enable Fedora to deliver a great core, set of products, tooling and documention to enable people to come up with creative new ways to deploy and use Fedora in the real world.


=== Introduction ===
== Miloslav Trmač (mitr) ==


* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Mission Statement:''' Ensure Fedora products form a coordinated and well-integrated universe.
** Make Fedora THE platform for rapidly developing the next generation of free, open-source software.
* '''Past work summary:''' Currently FESCo and Server WG member, security architect at Red Hat.  Contributor since RHL times, worked on all parts of the technology stack (from kernel through basic infrastructure to desktop and web applications).  Author of the Fedora signing server.
* '''Future plans:'''
** With the introduction of Fedora products, make sure that they make consistent technology choices to avoid splintering the Fedora universe into incompatible subgroups and wasting effort on reimplementations.
** More QA automation - supporting the current tool work, make it more integrated into the packaging process and increasing testing coverage.
** Fedora is often the place where packages affected by changes other packages first interact, and handling this well is critical for achieving good user experience. To that end, I want to improve the handling of changes that affect other packages and ensuring distribution-wide consistency - while making it possible to make successful transitions faster, not slowing change down in bureaucracy.
** I also generally favor policies that allow quick bug->fix turnaround time and allow more enhancements into released versions of Fedora.
** Outside of FESCo my interest is in improving security of Fedora.  


* '''Past work summary:'''
== [[User:mmaslano|Marcela Mašláňová]] (mmaslano) ==
** Red Hat employee since 2008, developed the System Security Services Daemon, participant in the FreeIPA project. Currently advising the OpenLMI project and working on packaging Node.JS and its dependencies. Fedora Hosted admin maintaining ReviewBoard. Working with the OpenShift developers to host tools for use with Fedora such as Gerrit. Former FESCo member from June 2011 - 2012. Currently employed as the BaseOS Architect at Red Hat.


* '''Future plans:'''
* '''Mission Statement:''' Fedora must be usable as the development platform for all kind of developers.
** Continue to drive Fedora to become the best platform for developing exciting new technologies for the desktop and datacenter.
* '''Past work summary:''' FESCo member and Env and Stacks WG coordinator. I used to work mainly on maintenance of the Perl stack.
* '''Future plans:''' Work on goals defined by Env and Stacks WG. I'd like to see more automatization in packaging and updates. I'd like to help enable software stacks for projects like Cloud or Big Data by SCL.


== [[User:Limb|Jon Ciesla]] (limb) ==
== [[User:Toshio|Toshio Kuratomi]] (abadger1999) ==


=== Introduction ===
* '''Mission Statement:''' Fedora is undergoing a transition from being simply a single Linux Distribution into a project that will create several overlapping distributions and various other platforms and technologies.  I'd like the opportunity to help guide Fedora through the transition so that we can both create these new products and not abandon the good parts of the model that people have come to expect.
* '''Past work summary:''' Infrastructure hacker.  Fedora Packaging Committee member.  Current FESCo member.  Fedora packager from fedora.us to the present.  Involved in the rather ad hoc Python SIG and EPEL packaging.
* '''Future plans:'''  Currently working on how to integrate SCLs into Fedora.  Looking forwards, I think we'll need something similar for docker images and openshift cartridges/gears as well.


== [[User:kyle|Kyle McMartin]] (kylem) ==


* '''Mission Statement:''' To further the goals of the project and Free Software in general by helping enable contributors to bring the highest quality and most diverse collection of software to the distribution.  I'm fully committed to the goals of Free Software, for ideological, but also primarily technical reasons.
* '''Mission Statement:''' Ensure Fedora remains on the cutting edge of open source software, while providing a consistent and coherent experience to users.
* '''Past work summary:''' I've been a Fedora user since RHL 7.1, and an active packager since 2007, as well as a sponsor and member of FESCO and the FPC.  I initially focused on games and php applications, but have expanded to other things over time. I also encounter and deal with many of the issues we encounter as a project in the course of my day job.
* '''Past work summary:''' Red Hat employee since 2007, Linux kernel developer, toolchain tinkerer, general OS bug fixer. Previously a Debian developer and Canonical/Ubuntu developer.
* '''Future plans:''' Ideally, I'd like to find ways to encourage and educate new contributors.  I've sponsored a few new packagers, but would like to help shorten the time from first interest to active packager, and can only do so much on my own.  I also have ideas and opinions on many areas FESCO addresses, including the Feature process, and would like to continue to contribute what experience I have to those conversations.  I'm also very much interested in helping ARM achieve Primary architecture status, and have been doing a bit of work towards that goal.
* '''Future plans:''' Bring my experience to bear in guiding Fedora for the next few years as we transition from a mere collection of packages grouped together with little integration into a series of targeted products.


== [[User:mjg59|Matthew Garrett]] (mjg59) ==


=== Introduction ===


== Questionnaire ==
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* '''Mission Statement:''' To help Fedora developers get their work done in such a way that we ship a distribution that benefits our users.
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* '''Past work summary:''' I'm a former Red Hat employee keen on continuing to contribute to Fedora. I've worked on various power management and ACPI features, and have been leading the Secure Boot implementation that's been adopted by most significant Linux distributions. I've recently been spending time on helping with the remaining Anaconda and upgrade issues for Fedora 18.
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* '''Future plans:''' FESCo exists to enable Fedora contributors to get their work done, providing that that work doesn't adversely affect other contributions  or the goals of the distribution. That isn't how it's always been treated recently. I want to focus on returning FESCo to being an enabling group, while simultaneously engaging the community in discussions to fix the various infrastructural and policy flaws that stand in the way of developers.
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== [[Miloslav Trmač]] (mitr) ==
* To achieve competitive advantage, have defined a strategy? Differentiation? Focus? Both?
=== Introduction ===
* Do you agree with, and are you committed to, the Fedora [[Foundations]]? If no, what do you believe should be changed?
* Do you believe that it is incompatible with the Freedom foundation to allow ''in any way'' the installation of non-free software from Fedora products without an explicit and informed action on the part of the user/system administrator to allow the installation of such software?


* '''Mission Statement:''' Make Fedora work better for its primary purpose as a distribution - to turn various differing upstreams into a consistent and well-integrated whole.
= Candidates =
* '''Past work summary:''' Contributor since RHL times, worked on many things including a tcsh internals rewrite, initscripts, pyrpm, switch from MD5 to SHA-256 hashes in RPM and other places, audit work from the kernel to GUI layers, volume_key, encrypted disk support in libvirt, kernel's crypto interface, and the Fedora signing server. Used to be a heavy-duty translator into Czech. 
* '''Future plans:''' Fedora is often the place where packages affected by changes other packages first interact, and handling this well is critical for fulfilling the above-mentioned primary purpose of a distribution.  To that end, I plan to work on improving the Feature process, and otherwise improving the handling of changes that affect other packages and ensuring distribution-wide consistency - while making it possible to make successful transitions faster, not slowing change down in bureaucracy.  I also generally favor policies that allow quick bug->fix turnaround time and allow more enhancements into released versions of Fedora.  Outside of FESCo my interest is in improving security of Fedora.


== [[User:toshio|Toshio Kuratomi]] (abadger1999) ==
== [[User:user1|User1]] (user_1) ==


=== Introduction ===
=== Introduction ===


* '''Mission Statement:''' To refine existing FESCo procedures in light of problems we've encountered.
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Past work summary:''' I've contributed to Fedora since the fedora.us days and was a member of FESCo during the merge of Core and Extras.  Recently I've been an active member of the Fedora Infrastructure Team working on FAS, PackageDB, and general scripting and bugfixing, worked on Packaging Guidelines as a member of the Fedora Packaging Committee, and have just returned from a stint on the Board.  Around alpha release, I can often be seen to step in to get python packages building or work on bugs that have hit the community's radar but aren't important enough to hit a blocker list.
**  
* '''Future plans:''' Past FESCo's have streamlined many policies including the updates policy, a fast track for nonresponsive maintainers, and how FPC guidelines are approved.  The current and next FESCo are likely going to be tackling an update of the Feature Process.  There's been a lot of work around this already.  Many packagers have contributed to the [[Fixing_features]] wiki page. FESCo has been discussing issues on the [https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/896| Refining Features] ticket.  I'd like to help organize the identified problems and suggested solutions and incrementally improve pieces of the policy.  If we finish that work, it may be time to take another look at improving the non-responsive maintainer policy.


== [[User:mmaslano|Marcela Mašláňová]] (mmaslano) ==
* '''Past work summary:'''
**


=== Introduction ===
* '''Future plans:'''
**


* '''Mission Statement''': Fedora should be opened for new projects, but we need to work more on inclusion of changes. Features or changes of default shouldn't lead to breakage of rest of the system.
=== Questionnaire ===
* '''Past work summary''': Red Hat employee since 2006. I started as a maintainer of small utilities in Base group and become a Perl maintainer. Currently, I'm working as a supervisor of Languages group. I have almost finished second term in FESCo. My current project is Software Collections, which are able to provide more versions of the same software in a single distribution release.
* Question1?
* '''Future plans''': Fedora should provide environment stable enough for development of new features. I'd like to work in FESCo on review of new features and help to communicate between group of developers so the lack of communication does not bring surprises late in the development cycle of release.
** Answer1

Revision as of 03:53, 28 January 2014

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The nomination period is CLOSED
The nomination period ended at 23:59:59 UTC on January 13, 2014.

The following elections will take place in January 2014:

All dates and times noted are UTC time.

FESCo Elections January 2014

These members were elected in the last elections:


As per the FESCo election policy, the following finish their terms, and the seats are up for re-election:


More information at the FESCo wiki page.


For the last election, see NominationsMayJune2013

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Voting eligibility is determined by a community member's Fedora Account System (FAS) memberships.

To vote for FESCo you must have cla_done + one other "non-cla" group in FAS.

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Introductions

  • Mission Statement:
  • Past work summary:
  • Future plans:

Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh)

  • Mission Statement: Make Fedora THE platform for rapidly developing the next generation of free, open-source software.
  • Past work summary: Red Hat employee since 2008, Lead developer of the System Security Services Daemon, participant in the FreeIPA project. Fedora Hosted admin maintaining ReviewBoard. FESCo member since June 2011. Currently serving on the Fedora Server Working group.
  • Future plans: Continue to drive Fedora to become the best platform for developing exciting new technologies for the desktop and datacenter. Involve myself heavily with the Fedora Server product development and delivery.


Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)

  • Mission Statement: Ensure Fedora is sanely deliverable, and continues to be leading edge
  • Past work summary: Former FESCo member, Former Fedora Board Member, Lead for Secondary Arches in Fedora, Fedora Release Engineer lead, Involved in Fedora since its inception. Currently serving on the Base Working Group. Member of Fedora Infrastructure. Red Hat Employee since 2008.
  • Future plans: Enable Fedora to deliver a great core, set of products, tooling and documention to enable people to come up with creative new ways to deploy and use Fedora in the real world.

Miloslav Trmač (mitr)

  • Mission Statement: Ensure Fedora products form a coordinated and well-integrated universe.
  • Past work summary: Currently FESCo and Server WG member, security architect at Red Hat. Contributor since RHL times, worked on all parts of the technology stack (from kernel through basic infrastructure to desktop and web applications). Author of the Fedora signing server.
  • Future plans:
    • With the introduction of Fedora products, make sure that they make consistent technology choices to avoid splintering the Fedora universe into incompatible subgroups and wasting effort on reimplementations.
    • More QA automation - supporting the current tool work, make it more integrated into the packaging process and increasing testing coverage.
    • Fedora is often the place where packages affected by changes other packages first interact, and handling this well is critical for achieving good user experience. To that end, I want to improve the handling of changes that affect other packages and ensuring distribution-wide consistency - while making it possible to make successful transitions faster, not slowing change down in bureaucracy.
    • I also generally favor policies that allow quick bug->fix turnaround time and allow more enhancements into released versions of Fedora.
    • Outside of FESCo my interest is in improving security of Fedora.

Marcela Mašláňová (mmaslano)

  • Mission Statement: Fedora must be usable as the development platform for all kind of developers.
  • Past work summary: FESCo member and Env and Stacks WG coordinator. I used to work mainly on maintenance of the Perl stack.
  • Future plans: Work on goals defined by Env and Stacks WG. I'd like to see more automatization in packaging and updates. I'd like to help enable software stacks for projects like Cloud or Big Data by SCL.

Toshio Kuratomi (abadger1999)

  • Mission Statement: Fedora is undergoing a transition from being simply a single Linux Distribution into a project that will create several overlapping distributions and various other platforms and technologies. I'd like the opportunity to help guide Fedora through the transition so that we can both create these new products and not abandon the good parts of the model that people have come to expect.
  • Past work summary: Infrastructure hacker. Fedora Packaging Committee member. Current FESCo member. Fedora packager from fedora.us to the present. Involved in the rather ad hoc Python SIG and EPEL packaging.
  • Future plans: Currently working on how to integrate SCLs into Fedora. Looking forwards, I think we'll need something similar for docker images and openshift cartridges/gears as well.

Kyle McMartin (kylem)

  • Mission Statement: Ensure Fedora remains on the cutting edge of open source software, while providing a consistent and coherent experience to users.
  • Past work summary: Red Hat employee since 2007, Linux kernel developer, toolchain tinkerer, general OS bug fixer. Previously a Debian developer and Canonical/Ubuntu developer.
  • Future plans: Bring my experience to bear in guiding Fedora for the next few years as we transition from a mere collection of packages grouped together with little integration into a series of targeted products.


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  • To achieve competitive advantage, have defined a strategy? Differentiation? Focus? Both?
  • Do you agree with, and are you committed to, the Fedora Foundations? If no, what do you believe should be changed?
  • Do you believe that it is incompatible with the Freedom foundation to allow in any way the installation of non-free software from Fedora products without an explicit and informed action on the part of the user/system administrator to allow the installation of such software?

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