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The nomination period is OPEN. The nomination period will remain open through 23:59:59 UTC on May 15, 2012.

For the last election, see NominationsNovember2011

In the May 2012 election, there are 5 seats open. Open seats are currently held by: Kevin Fenzi, Bill Nottingham, Peter Jones, Stephen Gallagher, and Tomáš Mráz.

Questionnaire

The community has submitted the questions that it wants you to answer. The list of questions is here: F18_elections_questionnaire#Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee_.28FESCo.29

Please do not answer them on the wiki. Please email your answers to Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" at ankursinha AT fedoraproject.org by May 22 2012. All the candidates' answers will be collected and put up together before the town halls.


Person Name (IRC nickname)

  • 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
  • Future plans: Continue to drive Fedora to become the best platform for developing exciting new technologies for the desktop and datacenter.

John Dulaney (j_dulaney)

  • Mission statement: To promote Fedora in my role as an ambassador; to continue to develop test criteria for new features coming into Fedora and evolve the QA process as needed to fit with the evolution of Fedora. I will also strive to make sure that Fedora remains at the forefront of technology and to be the best Free distribution of Linux.
  • Past work summary I am a member of the Fedora Quality Assurance team. I help write test cases for new features, I am a proven tester (testing critical path software updates), I test new releases starting prior to branching, and I help establish release criteria. I am also a Fedora Ambassador, especially within the Fayetteville region. I spread knowledge of Linux in general and Fedora in particular and inform people that they do have a choice for Freedom.
  • Future plans: Strive to improve the testing of Fedora; both personally and collectively throughout the QA team, to continue to educate people on the advantages of Linux and Free Software, and to continue to test Fedora.

Kevin Fenzi (nirik)

  • Mission Statement: To make sure Fedora continues to lead the way.
  • Past work summary: Have been on FESCo a long time. Red Hat employee for 1 year. Currently head of Fedora Infrastructure. Active in many parts of Fedora to assist others and reduce roadblocks to getting things done and having fun.
  • Future plans: I'd like to make sure we have a smooth on-ramp for bringing ARM folks into the fold. I'll work on adding more Fun back into Fedora and see if we can streamline some of our processes.

Keiran Smith (Affix)

  • Mission Statement: Make fedora The distrobution of choice for aspiring developers and systems administrators
  • Past work summary: I am currently a Fedora Packager and Ambassador. I Maintain NginX[EPEL], Amarok[EPEL], ZNC, Nagios and more. Was also a member Zikula Insights Team and FES
  • Future plans: I would like to bring forward the effort to make fedora available on more platforms such as ARM and MIPSEL. I would like to see a world where fedora becomes the distro of choice, Where we can run fedora on a wide range of devices such as Routers, Phones, Televisions and alot more.

Tomáš Mráz (t8m)

  • Mission Statement: Keeping balance between contributors making changes and stability and usability of Fedora as a distribution.
  • Past work summary: I've been Red Hat employee for more than six years working on packages related to security (PAM, OpenSSL, libgcrypt, GNUTLS, ...) in both Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I am one of the upstream maintainers of PAM. I was FESCo member for the past year.
  • Future plans: Fedora must not stagnate and that means substantial changes in the core packages are always happening however we need to keep balance between those disruptive changes and the usability of Fedora as an operating system of choice for software developers and server related work (experimental servers, special servers where the latest software versions are required etc.).