Revision as of 12:37, 14 January 2014

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:

Fedora Project Board (two seats)
FESCo (Engineering) (four seats)
FAmSCo (Ambassadors) (three seats)

All dates and times noted are UTC time.

Fedora Board Elections January 2014

For the last election, please look at NominationsmayJune2013

There are two seats up for elections this period:

E1: currently held by Michael Scherer
E2: currently held by Jaroslav Reznik

More information on board seats history is available here

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

To vote for the Fedora Project Board you must have cla_done in FAS.

Candidate Template

Introduction

Goal statement:
Past work summary:
Future plans:
Anything else you want to add:

Questionnaire

CLOSED The questions have not been posted. Please wait for the questionnaire wrangler to contact you!

Candidates

Neville A. Cross - YN1V

Nicaraguan, using fedora since FC4, contributor since 2008, power user, zero programming skills, major in business administration, Amateur Radio.

Goal statement: Help mature the LATAM community, so the region will have more contributors able to participate in meanaingful ways to events like FLOCK.
Past work summary: Ambassador since 2008, Mentor (inactive), Freemedia coordinator, Famsco member twice in the past, Fedora Communitic Credit Card holder, organizing Fedora Release parties in Managua since Fedora 11.
Future plans: Raise awareness that LATAM need a different approach for growing collaborator community. Get more small events building contributors skills to grow collaborators number. Raise awareness of the key skills needed to contribute to Fedora Project. Promote the idea of "pet projects" so people can get something concrete for learning how to contribute. Raise awareness of the gap for LATAM possible contributors and look for ways to create bridges.
Anything else you want to add: Having new contributors in Nicaragua have sparked in me to follow more close how people get on board, the why and the obstacle that they have found. As non technical person I would like provide a more or less fresh eyes on how to create ramps to get on board of Fedora Project as contributor. For Beefy Miracle release party we had a hot dog cart.

Haïkel Guémar (number80)

Goal statement: Ensure that Fedora community grows steadily and in a healthy way.
Past work summary:
- Fedora Cloud WG member
- Package maintainer since 2006 (sponsor)
- Active Ambassador since 2006
- Fedora Community Member since 2004
Future Plans:
- Improve our recruiting process: make new contributors feel more welcome, push outreach programs
- Fedora.next is changing the shape of how we build and *think* Fedora, (servant) leadership is needed to make the transition smoother. The board may have to serve as a mediator.
- Collaborate more tightly with our sister community aka CentOS

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+<!--{{admon/tip | VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATES. | Fedora contributors can elect the Fedora Board at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/board-december2012.
+<br />DEADLINE: January 30, 23:59:59 UTC}}-->
-In May/June 2010 there are three seats up for election.  The seats open are currently held by Dennis Gilmore, Mike McGrath, and Tom Callaway.
+The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in January 2014:
-== Name (IRC nickname) ==
+* [[Board_nominations|Fedora Project Board]] (two seats)
+* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (four seats)
+* [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo (Ambassadors)]] (three seats)
-* '''Goal statement''':
+All dates and times noted are UTC time.
-* '''Past work summary''':
-* '''Future plans''':
+= Fedora Board Elections January 2014 =
-* '''Anything else you want to add''':
-== Tom Callaway (spot) ==
+For the last election, please look at [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Board_nominations&oldid=341168 NominationsmayJune2013]
-* '''Goal Statement:''' To help identify areas of long-term improvement
+There are two seats up for elections this period:
+* E1: currently held by [[User:Misc| Michael Scherer]]
+* E2: currently held by [[User:Jreznik|Jaroslav Reznik]]
-* '''Past work summary:''' I have happily served as a twice-elected member of the Fedora Board, and am I asking for your vote for my third term. I am currently employed by Red Hat (since 2001). I am the Fedora Engineering Manager inside Red Hat, leading a team of full-time Fedora contributors working at Red Hat, and acting as a liason between Red Hat and the community. I have been active in Fedora since its inception, serving on FESCo, chairing the Fedora Packaging Committee, and acting as the Fedora Legal point of contact. I've recently been involved with the CLA overhaul efforts, as well as working with the Fedora SPARC Architecture team to get a release out. I have more than 350 packages in Fedora, and I represent Fedora proudly at public events as part of the Fedora Ambassador team. I'm also involved with Fedora release engineering, and general troubleshooting that needs doing.
+More information on board seats history is available [[History_of_Board_seats|here]]
-* '''Future Plans:'''  I think that Fedora is doing a lot of things right, but we still have areas for improvement. I believe strongly in usability, both in the software and in our community. I feel that the Board should be a place where we can set big goals for multiple releases, to inspire and direct our community forward. I plan to encourage Fedora to grow in new areas, while minimizing red-tape. It should be fun to participate in Fedora, and I want to work towards efforts to involve our userbase and give them the chance to become contributors.
+{{admon/note|Eligible Voters|Voting eligibility is determined by a community member's Fedora Account System ([https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ FAS]) memberships.<br/> <br/>To vote for the [[Board|Fedora Project Board]] you must have cla_done in FAS.}}
-* '''Anything else:'''  Turtles. Cute, little turtl... wait. WHO POURED RADIOACTIVE OOZE ALL OVER MY CUTE BABY TURTLES? Now I have to teach them the ways of Ninjitsu. :/
+== Candidate Template ==
+=== Introduction===
-== Stephen Smoogen (smooge) ==
+* '''Goal statement''':
+* '''Past work summary''':
+* '''Future plans''':
+* '''Anything else you want to add''':
-* '''Goal statement''': To make sure that open parts of the board meetings are recorded/reported, and closed things are reported when they can be. To ensure that we great failures with a smile and a laugh and learn what to do better next time.
+=== Questionnaire ===
+{{admon/warning|CLOSED The questions have not been posted. Please wait for the questionnaire wrangler to contact you!}}
+<!--{{admon/important|Questions are up!|The community has submitted the questions that it wants you to answer.}}-->
+<!--{{admon/important|Emails sent!|The election wrangler has sent out emails with the questions. Please contact him/her if you haven't received an email yet!}}-->
+<!--{{admon/warning|CLOSED|The answering period is now closed (after November 18 2359 UTC). Received responses are below:}}-->
+<!--[[F19_elections_questionnaire#Fedora_Project_Board|F19_elections_questionnaire#Fedora_Project_Board]]-->
-* '''Past work summary''': I am what one calls a Red Hat Old-Timer. I worked for Red Hat from 1997 to 2001 in Technical Support, Systems Administration, and Coffee Making. I left in 2001 due to health reasons (too much Coffee Making) and went to work for .gov world in early 2002. I worked at Los Alamos National Laboratories in network services, Sandia National Laboratories as a general Unix administrator, and then the University of New Mexico in network services/general Unix administration. During this time I used my spare time on the Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), and also working with the CentOS team on Quality Assurance and other things. I went back to work at Red Hat in 2009, and have been working as Fedora Infrastructure's Pimply Faced Oldguy. In that time I have come to know many of the smaller projects and programs that Fedora has.
+<!--{{admon/warning|Candiates, don't post your answers on the wiki yet|Once the questionnaire period is over, the Elections Wrangler will collect the answers and post them at the same time. This attempts to make things more even and fair for candidates to be open with their answers and not copy from earlier responses.}}-->
-* '''Future plans''': Fedora is in many ways a classic startup and in other ways it is absolutely not. Having worked at multiple startups, Fedora is going through many of the same startup growing pains as people try to identify with what it really means to work with/for/on Fedora versus other things. And yet Fedora is not a startup but also a community that attracts certain people and ideas. What those are change over time which is actually a wonderful thing as only dynamic communities can grow to acquire new ideas and people. All of which boils down to using my experience to help show alternatives and where other groups found dead ends.
+= Candidates =
-* '''Anything else you want to add''': I deeply believe in the statement: “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." by Randy Nelson of Pixar.
+==[[User:Yn1v|Neville A. Cross - YN1V]]==
+Nicaraguan, using fedora since FC4, contributor since 2008, power user, zero programming skills, major in business administration, Amateur Radio.
+* '''Goal statement:''' Help mature the LATAM community, so the region will have more contributors able to participate in meanaingful ways to events like FLOCK.
+* '''Past work summary:''' Ambassador since 2008, Mentor (inactive), Freemedia coordinator, Famsco member twice in the past, Fedora Communitic Credit Card holder, organizing Fedora Release parties in Managua since Fedora 11.
+* '''Future plans:''' Raise awareness that LATAM need a different approach for growing collaborator community. Get more small events building contributors skills to grow collaborators number. Raise awareness of the key skills needed to contribute to Fedora Project. Promote the idea of "pet projects" so people can get something concrete for learning how to contribute. Raise awareness of the gap for LATAM possible contributors and look for ways to create bridges.
+* '''Anything else you want to add:''' Having new contributors in Nicaragua have sparked in me to follow more close how people get on board, the why and the obstacle that they have found. As non technical person I would like provide a more or less fresh eyes on how to create ramps to get on board of Fedora Project as contributor. For Beefy Miracle release party we had a hot dog cart.
+==[[User:Hguemar| Haïkel Guémar (number80)]]==
+* '''Goal statement:''' Ensure that Fedora community grows steadily and in a healthy way.
+* '''Past work summary:'''
+** Fedora Cloud WG member
+** Package maintainer since 2006 (sponsor)
+** Active Ambassador since 2006
+** Fedora Community Member since 2004
+* '''Future Plans:'''
+** Improve our recruiting process: make new contributors feel more welcome, push outreach programs
+** [[Fedora.next]] is changing the shape of how we build and *think* Fedora, (servant) leadership is needed to make the transition smoother. The board may have to serve as a mediator.
+** Collaborate more tightly with our sister community aka CentOS
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