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For the last election, see [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations&oldid=268106 NominationsNovember2011]
The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in January 2015:


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.
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (five seats)
* [[Env_and_Stacks/Nominations|Environment and Stacks Working Group]] (four seats)


== Questionnaire ==
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
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|F18_elections_questionnaire#Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee_.28FESCo.29]]


'''Please do not answer them on the wiki'''. Please email your answers to [[User:ankursinha|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.
= FESCo Elections January 2014 =
As per the [[FESCo_election_policy|FESCo election policy]], the following finish their terms, and the seats are up for re-election:


* [[User:Kevin| Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik) elected for F20/F21 term
* [[User:Thozza| Tomas Hozza]] (thozza) elected for F20/F21 term
* [[User:Kalev|Kalev Lember]] (kalev) elected for F20/F21 term
* [[User:Mattdm|Matthew Miller]] (mattdm) elected for F20/F21 term
* [[User:Tmraz|Tomáš Mráz]] (t8m) elected for F20/F21 term


== [[User:FASUserName|Person Name]] (IRC nickname) ==
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=382151 Nominations July 2014]
 
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= Candidates =
 
== [[User:user1|User1]] (user_1) ==
 
=== Introduction ===
 
* '''Mission Statement:'''
**
 
* '''Past work summary:'''
**
 
* '''Future plans:'''
**
 
== [[User:kevin|Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik) ==
 
=== Introduction ===
 
I've been involved with Fedora for almost 10 years now. I would like to continue to help guide technical decisions and make Fedora the best it can be.
 
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** To provide information and history to keep Fedora on track to being the best.
 
* '''Past work summary:'''
** (co)Maintainer of Xfce packages
** Tons of other packages: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/kevin
** Employed by Red Hat to lead Fedora Infrastructure
** Lots of work with releng tasks helping out where I can.
** I use both Xfce and Gnome3 these days (switching off)
** I help out users in #fedora, fedora-users list and (time permitting) fedora-forum.
 
* '''Future plans:'''
** Keep Fedora 22 on track.
** Rework the non responsive maintainer process (I know, I know, I have said I would before, but it really needs it).
 
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-kevin-fenzi-nirik/ Fedora Magazine interview]
 
== [[User:pnemade|Parag Nemade]] (paragan) ==
 
=== Introduction ===
 
A core Free and Open Source software engineer. I've been using Fedora since its very first release Fedora Core 1.
 
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** To make Fedora the _best_ technology platform for users and developers alike.
 
* '''Past experience:'''
** One of the leading package maintainer & a sponsor for Fedora. [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/pnemade/ (my packages)]
** Active participant in devicing packaging guidelines, doing package reviews, grooming new packagers, fedora-qa, everything related to packages.
** Employed by Red Hat in i18n group.
** Love to help fellow Fedora users on lists and IRC.
 
* '''Future plans:'''
** To sanitise and improve the package base in Fedora.
** Continue to participate in making Fedora the _best_ technology distribution.
 
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-parag-nemade-paragan/ Fedora Magazine interview]
 
== [[User:Ajax|Adam Jackson]] (ajax) ==
 
=== Introduction ===
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8 I've deleted things you people wouldn't believe...]


* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** Fix problems, don't paper over them.
* '''Past work summary:'''
* '''Past work summary:'''
** Fedora and RHEL (co)maintainer for X11 and Mesa for 9+ years
** Casual maintenance for [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/ajax/ a bunch of other stuff]
** Driveby contributions, mass rebuilds, and other broken-window work on pretty much the whole OS
** At least one prior tour of duty on fesco
* '''Future plans:'''
* '''Future plans:'''
** Reconcile the divergent demands of different product streams to mutual benefit
** Identify pain points and bottlenecks in Fedora development and consumption processes (and render them unto the past tense)


== [[User:Pjones|Peter Jones]] (pjones) ==
=== Interview ===
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations/Interviews/AdamJacksonJan15 | Wiki interview]]


* '''Mission Statement:''' I'll continue to work to maintain a high level of technical feasibility and avoid micromanagement in decisions made by FESCo. I'll try to streamline our processes for developers, and to avoid processes that result in unnecessary work, or in duplication of effort.  As I've shown in the past, I'll continue to try to guide our policy decisions to put the power and responsibility in developers hands rather than requiring FESCo's or other committee's intervention and participation at every level.
== [[User:Rishi|Debarshi Ray]] (rishi) ==


* '''Past Work Summary:''' I've worked on Linux for Red Hat for more than a decade in various roles including technical support and engineering. I'm one of the anaconda maintainers as well as the maintainer of (thankfully now deprecated) mkinitrd, and am or have been maintainer Fedora's packages for booty, cdparanoia, dumpet, gnu-efi, grub, python-pyblock, syslinux, and others.  I've worked on many levels of our software stack, including implementing installation and boot support for iSCSI, UEFI, dmraid, from the kernel all the way up through userspace. I'm currently a member of FESCo seeking re-election, and have been serving in this capacity since the winter election of 2009.
=== Introduction ===


* '''Future Plans:''' I'm currently focused on implementing and impoving UEFI support throughout Fedora, as well as supporting various storage technologies.  As a FESCo member I'll continue to help ensure that developers have what they need to implement their features and bug fixes with as little hindrance as possible, and at the same time avoid unnecessary and wasted effort.
I am currently working on Fedora Workstation, and I joined the project in 2007.


== [[User:Sgallagh|Stephen Gallagher]] (sgallagh) ==
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** Make Fedora more usable as an end-user facing (or client-side) operating system.


* '''Mission Statement:''' Make Fedora THE platform for rapidly developing the next generation of free, open-source software.
* '''Past work summary:'''
* '''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
** Back port and issue fixes for various GNOME components.
* '''Future plans:''' Continue to drive Fedora to become the best platform for developing exciting new technologies for the desktop and datacenter.
** Employed by Red Hat to work on Workstation, particularly GNOME.


== [[User:jdulaney|John Dulaney]] (j_dulaney) ==
* '''Future plans:'''
* '''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.
** Try to sanitize our updates process.
* '''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.


== [[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik) ==
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-debarshi-ray-rishi/ Fedora Magazine interview]


* '''Mission Statement:''' To make sure Fedora continues to lead the way.
== [[User:Amigadave|David King]] (amigadave) ==
* '''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.
=== Introduction ===


== [[User:Affix|Keiran Smith]] (Affix) ==
GNOME developer, working on Fedora Workstation.


* '''Mission Statement:''' Make fedora The distrobution of choice for aspiring developers and systems administrators
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''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 
** Ensure smooth communication between working groups and FESCo, enabling a successful Fedora 22 and beyond
* '''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.


== [[User:tmraz|Tomáš Mráz]] (t8m) ==
* '''Past work summary:'''
** GNOME developer for several years, maintaining several modules
** Red Hat employee for just under 2 years, working on Fedora Workstation
** I maintain some GNOME and MinGW packages in Fedora, and help out in the gnome-sig group


* '''Mission Statement:''' Keeping balance between contributors making changes and stability and usability of Fedora as a distribution.
* '''Future plans:'''
* '''Past work summary:''' I've been Red Hat employee and Fedora contributor for more than seven 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.
** Support the activities of Working Groups, especially Workstation
* '''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.).


== [[User:notting|Bill Nottingham]] (notting) ==
=== Interview ===
* '''Mission Statement:''' I plan to represent the Fedora community in FESCo with an eye towards maintaining the quality and standards of the Fedora distribution, including features, testing, stability, release engineering, and so on.
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-david-king-amigadave/ Fedora Magazine interview]


* '''Past work summary:''' Red Hat employee since 1998, developer on Red Hat Linux since 5.1, Fedora contributor since its inception, FESCo member, Fedora board member, Release engineering team member, and assorted other roles.
== [[User:Aruiz|Alberto Ruiz]] (aruiz) ==
=== Introduction ===


* '''Future plans:''' Continue to make Fedora the best freely available distribution anywhere. Work with those that show up to make changes, as, realistically, FESCo does not have a significant amount of resources to direct.
GNOME developer, Fedora Workstation contributor and Fleet Commander maintainer.


== [[User:jwboyer|Josh Boyer]] (jwb) ==
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Mission Statement:''' I plan on helping the Fedora developer community accomplish the tasks and goals it puts effort into, while maintaing a well-balanced process and governing body.
** I would like to ensure
 
* '''Past work summary:'''
** Red Hat employee for about two years as the manager of the desktop apps team, working on Fleet Commander as of now
** Worked for Canonical for two years in the Unity team
** GNOME developer since 2005
** I maintain ino a package for command line Arduino development


* '''Past work summary:''' Linux user/developer since 2001. Fedora kernel team member. Fedora contributor long enough that I forgot when I started, former FESCo, Rel-Eng, and Board member.
* '''Future plans:'''
** I want to make Fedora make the most ofthe new multiple product strategy
** I want to help make Fedora Workstation a great product and a gateway for average users into Fedora and FOSS
** I want to develop a coherent story across products so that by using Workstation users have obvious ways into the other products
** I want to help develop a strategy for Fedora Atomic
 
=== Interview ===
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations/Interviews/AlbertoRuizJan15 | Wiki interview]]
 
== [[User:Thozza|Tomas Hozza]] (thozza) ==
 
=== Introduction ===
 
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** Make Fedora more secure and be pioneers in DNSSEC client side deployment.
 
* '''Past work summary:'''
** Maintainer and contributor to many networking and DNS(SEC) related software (BIND, unbound, dnsmasq, ...).
** Red Hat employee since 2012.
** Co-owner of the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Default_Local_DNS_Resolver Fedora 22 default local DNS resolver feature], [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BIND_9.10 Fedora 22 BIND 9.10 Change]
** Current FESCo member for approx. 1/2 year
 
* '''Future plans:'''
** Support the packaging, processes and testing automation.
*** I would like to integrate a promising tool [https://github.com/phracek/rebase-helper rebase-helper] with Fedora upstream release monitoring to help with package rebases.
** Ensure that Fedora is the leading distribution in enabling DNSSEC on client side.
** Ensure no important changes are made silently without proper discussion.
** Encourage Fedora products diversity to fit users needs.


* '''Future plans:''' Work with community members to ensure Fedora is a rapidly evolving yet high quality distribution.
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-tomas-hozza-thozza/ Fedora Magazine interview]

Revision as of 12:46, 4 February 2015


The following elections will take place in January 2015:

All dates and times noted are UTC time.

FESCo Elections January 2014

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 Nominations July 2014

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Eligible Voters
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.

Candidates

User1 (user_1)

Introduction

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

Kevin Fenzi (nirik)

Introduction

I've been involved with Fedora for almost 10 years now. I would like to continue to help guide technical decisions and make Fedora the best it can be.

  • Mission Statement:
    • To provide information and history to keep Fedora on track to being the best.
  • Past work summary:
    • (co)Maintainer of Xfce packages
    • Tons of other packages: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/kevin
    • Employed by Red Hat to lead Fedora Infrastructure
    • Lots of work with releng tasks helping out where I can.
    • I use both Xfce and Gnome3 these days (switching off)
    • I help out users in #fedora, fedora-users list and (time permitting) fedora-forum.
  • Future plans:
    • Keep Fedora 22 on track.
    • Rework the non responsive maintainer process (I know, I know, I have said I would before, but it really needs it).

Interview

Parag Nemade (paragan)

Introduction

A core Free and Open Source software engineer. I've been using Fedora since its very first release Fedora Core 1.

  • Mission Statement:
    • To make Fedora the _best_ technology platform for users and developers alike.
  • Past experience:
    • One of the leading package maintainer & a sponsor for Fedora. (my packages)
    • Active participant in devicing packaging guidelines, doing package reviews, grooming new packagers, fedora-qa, everything related to packages.
    • Employed by Red Hat in i18n group.
    • Love to help fellow Fedora users on lists and IRC.
  • Future plans:
    • To sanitise and improve the package base in Fedora.
    • Continue to participate in making Fedora the _best_ technology distribution.

Interview

Adam Jackson (ajax)

Introduction

I've deleted things you people wouldn't believe...

  • Mission Statement:
    • Fix problems, don't paper over them.
  • Past work summary:
    • Fedora and RHEL (co)maintainer for X11 and Mesa for 9+ years
    • Casual maintenance for a bunch of other stuff
    • Driveby contributions, mass rebuilds, and other broken-window work on pretty much the whole OS
    • At least one prior tour of duty on fesco
  • Future plans:
    • Reconcile the divergent demands of different product streams to mutual benefit
    • Identify pain points and bottlenecks in Fedora development and consumption processes (and render them unto the past tense)

Interview

Debarshi Ray (rishi)

Introduction

I am currently working on Fedora Workstation, and I joined the project in 2007.

  • Mission Statement:
    • Make Fedora more usable as an end-user facing (or client-side) operating system.
  • Past work summary:
    • Back port and issue fixes for various GNOME components.
    • Employed by Red Hat to work on Workstation, particularly GNOME.
  • Future plans:
    • Try to sanitize our updates process.

Interview

David King (amigadave)

Introduction

GNOME developer, working on Fedora Workstation.

  • Mission Statement:
    • Ensure smooth communication between working groups and FESCo, enabling a successful Fedora 22 and beyond
  • Past work summary:
    • GNOME developer for several years, maintaining several modules
    • Red Hat employee for just under 2 years, working on Fedora Workstation
    • I maintain some GNOME and MinGW packages in Fedora, and help out in the gnome-sig group
  • Future plans:
    • Support the activities of Working Groups, especially Workstation

Interview

Alberto Ruiz (aruiz)

Introduction

GNOME developer, Fedora Workstation contributor and Fleet Commander maintainer.

  • Mission Statement:
    • I would like to ensure
  • Past work summary:
    • Red Hat employee for about two years as the manager of the desktop apps team, working on Fleet Commander as of now
    • Worked for Canonical for two years in the Unity team
    • GNOME developer since 2005
    • I maintain ino a package for command line Arduino development
  • Future plans:
    • I want to make Fedora make the most ofthe new multiple product strategy
    • I want to help make Fedora Workstation a great product and a gateway for average users into Fedora and FOSS
    • I want to develop a coherent story across products so that by using Workstation users have obvious ways into the other products
    • I want to help develop a strategy for Fedora Atomic

Interview

Tomas Hozza (thozza)

Introduction

  • Mission Statement:
    • Make Fedora more secure and be pioneers in DNSSEC client side deployment.
  • Future plans:
    • Support the packaging, processes and testing automation.
      • I would like to integrate a promising tool rebase-helper with Fedora upstream release monitoring to help with package rebases.
    • Ensure that Fedora is the leading distribution in enabling DNSSEC on client side.
    • Ensure no important changes are made silently without proper discussion.
    • Encourage Fedora products diversity to fit users needs.

Interview

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