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The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in January 2015:


The following [[Elections|elections]] will take place in November/December 2012:
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (five seats)
* [[Env_and_Stacks/Nominations|Environment and Stacks Working Group]] (four seats)


* [[Board/Elections/Nominations|Fedora Project Board]] (two seats)
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (four seats)
 
* [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo (Ambassadors)]] (three seats)
= FESCo Elections January 2014 =
* [[Name suggestions for Fedora 19|Fedora 19 Name]] (separate schedule from the committee elections)
As per the [[FESCo_election_policy|FESCo election policy]], the following finish their terms, and the seats are up for re-election:


All dates and times noted are UTC time.
* [[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]


= FESCo Elections November/December 2012 =
{{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.}}


These members were elected in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/fescof18? last elections]:
= Candidates =


* [[User:Kevin| Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik)
== [[User:user1|User1]] (user_1) ==
* [[User:Notting| Bill Nottingham]] (notting)
* [[User:Pjones|Peter Jones]] (pjones)
* [[User:jwboyer|Josh Boyer]] (jwb)
* [[User:Tmraz|Tomáš Mráz]] (t8m)


=== Introduction ===


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)
**  
* [[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:'''
**


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* '''Future plans:'''
**


For the last election, see [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations&oldid=290360 NominationsMayJune2012]
== [[User:kevin|Kevin Fenzi]] (nirik) ==


{{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.}}
=== Introduction ===


== Candidate template ==
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.
=== Introductions ===


* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** To provide information and history to keep Fedora on track to being the best.
* '''Past work summary:'''
* '''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:'''
* '''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]


=== Questionnaire ===
== [[User:pnemade|Parag Nemade]] (paragan) ==
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=== Introduction ===
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A core Free and Open Source software engineer. I've been using Fedora since its very first release Fedora Core 1.


* What skills do you bring for FESCo?
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* Where do you see Fedora in the next year?
** To make Fedora the _best_ technology platform for users and developers alike.
* Where do you see the Fedora Project in five years?
* What is your priority for Fedora?
* What are your thoughts on the Feature process?
* What will you be able to accomplish if elected, that you couldn't as an unelected contributor?


= Candidates =
* '''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:Sgallagh|Stephen Gallagher]] (sgallagh) ==
== [[User:Ajax|Adam Jackson]] (ajax) ==


=== Introduction ===
=== Introduction ===
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8 I've deleted things you people wouldn't believe...]


* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** Make Fedora THE platform for rapidly developing the next generation of free, open-source software.
** Fix problems, don't paper over them.


* '''Past work summary:'''
* '''Past work summary:'''
** Red Hat employee since 2008, developed the System Security Services Daemon, participant in the FreeIPA project. Currently advising the OpenLMI project and working on packaging Node.JS and its dependencies. Fedora Hosted admin maintaining ReviewBoard. Working with the OpenShift developers to host tools for use with Fedora such as Gerrit. Former FESCo member from June 2011 - 2012. Currently employed as the BaseOS Architect at Red Hat.
** 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:'''
** Continue to drive Fedora to become the best platform for developing exciting new technologies for the desktop and datacenter.
** 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:Limb|Jon Ciesla]] (limb) ==
=== Interview ===
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations/Interviews/AdamJacksonJan15 | Wiki interview]]
 
== [[User:Rishi|Debarshi Ray]] (rishi) ==


=== Introduction ===
=== 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.


* '''Mission Statement:''' To further the goals of the project and Free Software in general by helping enable contributors to bring the highest quality and most diverse collection of software to the distribution.  I'm fully committed to the goals of Free Software, for ideological, but also primarily technical reasons.
* '''Future plans:'''
* '''Past work summary:''' I've been a Fedora user since RHL 7.1, and an active packager since 2007, as well as a sponsor and member of FESCO and the FPC.  I initially focused on games and php applications, but have expanded to other things over time.  I also encounter and deal with many of the issues we encounter as a project in the course of my day job.
** Try to sanitize our updates process.
* '''Future plans:''' Ideally, I'd like to find ways to encourage and educate new contributors.  I've sponsored a few new packagers, but would like to help shorten the time from first interest to active packager, and can only do so much on my own.  I also have ideas and opinions on many areas FESCO addresses, including the Feature process, and would like to continue to contribute what experience I have to those conversations.  I'm also very much interested in helping ARM achieve Primary architecture status, and have been doing a bit of work towards that goal.


== [[User:mjg59|Matthew Garrett]] (mjg59) ==
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-debarshi-ray-rishi/ Fedora Magazine interview]


== [[User:Amigadave|David King]] (amigadave) ==
=== Introduction ===
=== Introduction ===


GNOME developer, working on Fedora Workstation.


* '''Mission Statement:''' To help Fedora developers get their work done in such a way that we ship a distribution that benefits our users.
* '''Mission Statement:'''
* '''Past work summary:''' I'm a former Red Hat employee keen on continuing to contribute to Fedora. I've worked on various power management and ACPI features, and have been leading the Secure Boot implementation that's been adopted by most significant Linux distributions. I've recently been spending time on helping with the remaining Anaconda and upgrade issues for Fedora 18.
** Ensure smooth communication between working groups and FESCo, enabling a successful Fedora 22 and beyond
* '''Future plans:''' FESCo exists to enable Fedora contributors to get their work done, providing that that work doesn't adversely affect other contributions  or the goals of the distribution. That isn't how it's always been treated recently. I want to focus on returning FESCo to being an enabling group, while simultaneously engaging the community in discussions to fix the various infrastructural and policy flaws that stand in the way of developers.


== [[Miloslav Trmač]] (mitr) ==
* '''Past work summary:'''
=== Introduction ===
** 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:''' Make Fedora work better for its primary purpose as a distribution - to turn various differing upstreams into a consistent and well-integrated whole.
* '''Future plans:'''
* '''Past work summary:''' Contributor since RHL times, worked on many things including a tcsh internals rewrite, initscripts, pyrpm, switch from MD5 to SHA-256 hashes in RPM and other places, audit work from the kernel to GUI layers, volume_key, encrypted disk support in libvirt, kernel's crypto interface, and the Fedora signing server. Used to be a heavy-duty translator into Czech. 
** Support the activities of Working Groups, especially Workstation
* '''Future plans:''' Fedora is often the place where packages affected by changes other packages first interact, and handling this well is critical for fulfilling the above-mentioned primary purpose of a distribution.  To that end, I plan to work on improving the Feature process, and otherwise improving the handling of changes that affect other packages and ensuring distribution-wide consistency - while making it possible to make successful transitions faster, not slowing change down in bureaucracy.  I also generally favor policies that allow quick bug->fix turnaround time and allow more enhancements into released versions of Fedora.  Outside of FESCo my interest is in improving security of Fedora.


== [[User:toshio|Toshio Kuratomi]] (abadger1999) ==
=== Interview ===
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-david-king-amigadave/ Fedora Magazine interview]


== [[User:Aruiz|Alberto Ruiz]] (aruiz) ==
=== Introduction ===
=== Introduction ===


* '''Mission Statement:''' To refine existing FESCo procedures in light of problems we've encountered.
GNOME developer, Fedora Workstation contributor and Fleet Commander maintainer.
* '''Past work summary:''' I've contributed to Fedora since the fedora.us days and was a member of FESCo during the merge of Core and Extras.  Recently I've been an active member of the Fedora Infrastructure Team working on FAS, PackageDB, and general scripting and bugfixing, worked on Packaging Guidelines as a member of the Fedora Packaging Committee, and have just returned from a stint on the Board.  Around alpha release, I can often be seen to step in to get python packages building or work on bugs that have hit the community's radar but aren't important enough to hit a blocker list.
 
* '''Future plans:''' Past FESCo's have streamlined many policies including the updates policy, a fast track for nonresponsive maintainers, and how FPC guidelines are approved.  The current and next FESCo are likely going to be tackling an update of the Feature Process.  There's been a lot of work around this already.  Many packagers have contributed to the [[Fixing_features]] wiki page. FESCo has been discussing issues on the [https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/896| Refining Features] ticket.  I'd like to help organize the identified problems and suggested solutions and incrementally improve pieces of the policy.  If we finish that work, it may be time to take another look at improving the non-responsive maintainer policy.
* '''Mission Statement:'''
** I would like to ensure


== [[User:mmaslano|Marcela Mašláňová]] (mmaslano) ==
* '''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


=== Introduction ===
* '''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


* '''Mission Statement''': Fedora should be opened for new projects, but we need to work more on inclusion of changes. Features or changes of default shouldn't lead to breakage of rest of the system.
=== Interview ===
* '''Past work summary''': Red Hat employee since 2006. I started as a maintainer of small utilities in Base group and become a Perl maintainer. Currently, I'm working as a supervisor of Languages group. I have almost finished second term in FESCo. My current project is Software Collections, which are able to provide more versions of the same software in a single distribution release.
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations/Interviews/AlbertoRuizJan15 | Wiki interview]]
* '''Future plans''': Fedora should provide environment stable enough for development of new features. I'd like to work in FESCo on review of new features and help to communicate between group of developers so the lack of communication does not bring surprises late in the development cycle of release.


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


=== Introduction ===
=== 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.


* '''Mission Statement:''' Make sure the distribution stays modular and adaptable to the needs of many different user groups
=== Interview ===
* '''Past work summary:''' I have been a linux user since 1999, starting with Red Hat 7.1 and moving through different distributions including Linux From Scratch to the current Fedora 17. I also co-started a local annual linux conference for beginners and intermediate users in 2006 and have led the organization team for the last 5 years. Since 2007 I have also worked for Red Hat in Brno, mostly focusing on the anaconda internals, text mode and driver loading subsystems.
* [http://fedoramagazine.org/fesco-elections-interview-with-tomas-hozza-thozza/ Fedora Magazine interview]
* '''Future plans:''' We have some places in the distribution which affect very large number of other packages and environments. Some of those were even adopted by other distributions and people are working on making the learning curve for converts smooth. Unfortunately, sometimes we forget the motto of one tool doing one thing, but doing it properly. When that happens, we loose the ability to replace packages easily, integrate them in different environments and also to test them in isolation. But all those points are important from the engineering and QA point of view and make it easier for other desktop environments and distributions to integrate the tools. So I would like to help tweak the Feature process to take this into account and work with the community to make sure Fedora parts are more easily reusable by others.

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