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The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in January 2015:
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (five seats)
* [[Env_and_Stacks/Nominations|Environment and Stacks Working Group]] (four seats)
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
= 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
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:'''
** 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 [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:'''
** 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 ===
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations/Interviews/AdamJacksonJan15 | Wiki interview]]
 
== [[User:Rishi|Debarshi Ray]] (rishi) ==


=== Introduction ===


The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in November/December 2012:
I am currently working on Fedora Workstation, and I joined the project in 2007.


* [[Board/Elections/Nominations|Fedora Project Board]] (two seats)
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (four seats)
** Make Fedora more usable as an end-user facing (or client-side) operating system.
* [[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.
* '''Past work summary:'''
** Back port and issue fixes for various GNOME components.
** Employed by Red Hat to work on Workstation, particularly GNOME.


= FESCo Elections November/December 2012 =
* '''Future plans:'''
** Try to sanitize our updates process.


These members were elected in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/fescof18? last elections]:
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-debarshi-ray-rishi/ Fedora Magazine interview]


* [[User:Kevin| Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik)
== [[User:Amigadave|David King]] (amigadave) ==
* [[User:Notting| Bill Nottingham]] (notting)
* [[User:Pjones|Peter Jones]] (pjones)
=== Introduction ===
* [[User:jwboyer|Josh Boyer]] (jwb)
* [[User:Tmraz|Tomáš Mráz]] (t8m)


GNOME developer, working on Fedora Workstation.


As per the [[FESCo_election_policy|FESCo election policy]], the following finish their terms, and the seats are up for re-election:
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* [[User:Mitr| Miloslav Trmač]] (mitr)
** Ensure smooth communication between working groups and FESCo, enabling a successful Fedora 22 and beyond
* [[User:Limb| Jon Ciesla]] (limburgher)
* [[User:Mjg59| Matthew Garrett]] (mjg59)
* [[User:Mmaslano|Marcela Mašláňová]] (mmaslano)


More information at the FESCo [[Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee|wiki page]].
* '''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


<!--{{admon/important|The nomination period is CLOSED. The nomination period ended at 23:59:59 UTC on May 15, 2012.}}-->
* '''Future plans:'''
** Support the activities of Working Groups, especially Workstation


For the last election, see [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations&oldid=290360 NominationsMayJune2011]
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-david-king-amigadave/ Fedora Magazine interview]


{{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 [[Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee|FESCo]] you must have cla_done + one other "non-cla" group in FAS.}}
== [[User:Aruiz|Alberto Ruiz]] (aruiz) ==
=== Introduction ===


== Introductions ==
GNOME developer, Fedora Workstation contributor and Fleet Commander maintainer.


* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** I would like to ensure
* '''Past work summary:'''
* '''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:'''
* '''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


== Questionnaire ==
=== Interview ===
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* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations/Interviews/AlbertoRuizJan15 | Wiki interview]]


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== [[User:Thozza|Tomas Hozza]] (thozza) ==


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=== Introduction ===


= Candidates =
* '''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.
 
=== 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

Note.png
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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