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Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2009: Nominations

Nominations are closed.

Candidates may be any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.

Ambassadors will be following the Fedora general election timeline.

You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write.

David Nalley (ke4qqq)

I am pleased with many of the steps that the current FAmSCo has taken, and am happy that I could be a part of those decisions. In particular I am happy with the decision to instantiate a formal mentoring process, and am largely happy with the results.

I do wish that we could have accomplished more, but there is always want for that.

I do find that there are many who question the continued relevance of FAmSCo with the rise of excellent regional leadership. It is a great situation to be in, local Ambassadors on the ground taking control of what goes on is indeed the goal. Going forward, I hope FAmSCo continues encouraging the regional uptake of responsibility. I also hope that FAmSCo will constantly reevaluate it's performance and place, and continue to make sure it is relevant.

I have been a Linux user since ~2001 and am employed as a Unix administrator as a $dayjob. I've been involved with the Fedora Project since early 2006, and am currently involved in the Ambassadors, and Docs Project, though the past few months I have been more absent than normal due to a recent $dayjob change, and relegated myself largely to fixing a few bugs in the install guide. I am also a packager, and maintain around a dozen packages, and am co-maintainer for a few more. I am involved in a number of other open source projects, and also serving on the board of the Southeast Linuxfest.

Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff)

As some of you may already know, I am an Ambassador from Canada, specifically from Quebec City. One thing that I would like to do as a FAmSCo member would be the creation of a well defined workflow to help Canadian Ambassadors represent Fedora by : 

 * Setting up a Canadian Event Box (already started)
 * Helping Canadian Ambassadors in getting resources they need
 * Help them with the sponsoring of events in Canada
 * Represent Canada in FAmNA and FAmSCo meetings

The big goal I have for this term is to have Canada be an included part of FAmNA.

I know that my goals sound very Canada centric but I think that creating and documenting this process will benefit Ambassadors in regions less represented.

I started working with Linux ten years ago when I was in high school. Since that moment, the interest in learning more never left. That led me to work in an Open Source related environment. Currently, I mostly do deployment, development and security work with RHEL.

My involvement in the community is with bugzilla and trying to help people on irc and multiple boards across the net. I recently started to use Rawhide daily on a separate box at home, helping with tests and use cases. I plan on doing some packaging effort, submitting some packages that I maintain for my personal use.

I am also very active in local events, mainly "Install Fest" and LUG meetings. I love to make presentations, sharing knowledge with other people in the room, having some great discussions about a subject, etc. 

 * Promote Fedora in Quebec and Canada
 * Be sure to have a strong Fedora image and presence across Canada
 * Recruit and mentor new Canadian Ambassadors
 * Try to facilitate new Ambassadors contributions
 * Document every step to make them accessible to other Ambassadors

Joerg Simon (kital)

I am proud that major goals i had planned last year for my first FAmSCo candidature are achieved:

But i also failed with some goals:

Once doesn't count ;) - i would be really happy if you trust me again. As a FAmSCo member i will further do all my best to help all Fedora Ambassadors to achieve their best contributions.

After a history as Linux user/enthusiast/contributor since 1995, my involvement with Fedora started with my first FUDCon in 2005, today i contribute to multiple groups in the Fedora Project. My main focus in Fedora right now is: the work on membership Community Development and Mentoring, Fedora as Security Testing Platform and the Fedora Security Spin, Fedora mailing list- and membership-administration and working on strong support for the Fedora Community in underrepresented regions in the world! Promoting Fedora on Events is another major part of my work and so i work as organizer, driver, helper, slogger, promoter on a lot Events every year and i produce, store and ship a lot of the EMEA SWAG and Booth Material.

Luca Foppiano (lfoppiano)

I'm an Ambassador coming from Italy, I'm and I was involved also in different project under Fedora's hat. The main goal is to bring new ideas and new ways to operate and communicate around the world, in order to improve and simplify the way people are involved in event and within the fedoraproject.

Maria Gracia Leandro (tatica) 

Quieres leer mi Declaración en Español? Accede a: 
(Would you like to read my Statement in Spanish? Go to: )
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tatica/FamscoStatement_ES

Nominated by Paul Mellors

As a Fedora Ambassador, I have been able to help several users and new ambassadors on this learning and teaching journey. My main goal is to make users heard and understood, make them be part of everything and give them answers to their needs. We all know that ambassadors are the knowledge gate into fedora and a connecting part between users and developers.

Fedora is one of the best communities, solid and organized but fedora is a lot more. We need to encourage our ambassadors not only to spread fedora to users, we also need to spread fedora to governments, developers, schools and also to ourselves. We need to teach people how to use fedora, but also how to contribute.

I'm really unsure about getting into FAmSCo, I know I'm one of the newest ambassadors running for this position, but maybe we need a new approach to get some issues solved, new ideas, more feed back, something. Let's keep fedora be what it is for us and work to grow up.

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Max Spevack (spevack)

Robert Scheck (rsc)

Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (RodrigoPadula)

Scott Seiersen (sseiersen)

Shakthi Kannan (mbuf) 

 * Streamline delivery of content to scale down the learning curve in using F/OSS with the help of Fedora.
 * Fedora marketing to regions that require attention and support.
 * Work on providing more hands-on workshops for newbies starting to work with Fedora.

I help with the following: 

 * Conduct free workshops, and training sessions during weekends /work.
 * Create F/OSS content /downloads.
 * Assist newbies on starting to work on F/OSS projects.
 * Work on Fedora Electronic Lab packaging Fedora Electronic Lab.

I don't make long term plans, but would like to focus on the above mentioned objectives for the next one year (to begin with).

Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit)

Sandro Mathys (red_alert)

Nominated by Christoph Wickert

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