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= Election Questionnaire =
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== Questions ==
The following elections will take place in June 2015:
# What do you see as Fedora's greatest strength, and what will you do to improve upon that?
 
# What do you see as Fedora's greatest weakness, and what will you do to improve upon that?
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (four seats)
# Which processes have worked best in Fedora, and which processes need to be improved (details, please) ?
* [[Council|Council]] (one seat)
# Who is Fedora for?
<!--* [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo (Ambassadors)]] (three seats)-->
# What is Fedora's place in the larger community with respect to other distributions?
 
# If you could single-handedly change any one thing about Fedora, what would it be and why?
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
# If elected, how will Fedora as a project be better as a result of your leadership?
 
# What strengths will you bring to the Fedora board that are currently missing?
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# Please give three examples of other boards or communities you have participated in and the positive differences you made there.
 
# What would you do to cleanup and organize the Fedora project packaging guidelines, rules and other wiki pages to make it more consistent and easier for new contributors?
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# The Fedora Project suffers from a lack of communication. In 2009 for 8 out of 21 FESCo meetings no meeting minutes were sent to the lists. What would you do to improve communication between the different groups in Fedora and especially between FESCo, Board and the community?
 
# [[User:Kanarip|Jeroen van Meeuwen]]: How or to what extent would you say are Fedora's governance bodies responsible for protecting volunteers and volunteer based efforts against interference from within Red Hat by either person or policy?
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# [[User:ixs|Andreas Thienemann]]: What do you consider to be Fedora's raison d'etre? In the past the focus of Fedora has shifted from release to release. Do you see a long-term goal or a "target audience" Fedora should strive for? How do you define your role in helping the project reaching that goal?
 
# There is a proposal out there to moderate fedora-devel.  What should be disallowed? Racist or sexist speech?  Profanity?  At what point does a complaint against a small project become a personal attack? ie "Your idea is utterly stupid." Should we disallow trolls or posts likely to start flamewars? Who will decide the difference between intelligent debate and flaming?
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# Simple question: Among the two, do you prefer Gnome or KDE?
 
# [[User:thl|Thorsten Leemhuis]]: What steps should be taken to make sure releases don't get as much last minute delays as in the past?
== [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] ==
# [[User: sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]]: What are you going to be doing in the Fedora Board that you cannot do outside of it or how would being in board help in what you want to accomplish?
=== What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now? ===
# [[User: sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]]: Do you think a Fedora Foundation is still worth pursuing?
=== Do you think Fedora should be time based or more feature driven distribution? Or compromise? ===
=== What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today (from engineering POV)? What should we do about them? ===
=== What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role? ===
=== Anything else voters should know? ===
=== How can FESCo do a better job communicating with the rest of the Fedora community, or do you feel that FESCo is already doing well here? ===
=== What can you accomplish as part of FESCo that you couldn't accomplish as a contributor to Fedora without sitting on FESCo? ===
=== With the advent of Fedora Council now, what do you see as the significance of FESCO in Fedora project? ===
 
=== Do you think FESCo can help with the reduction of the backlog of >400 packages awaiting review? ===
 
=== Next questions here ===
 
== [[Council/Nominations|Council]] ==
=== What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now? ===
=== What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today? What should we do about them? ===
=== What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role? ===
=== Anything else voters should know? ===
=== How do you plan to facilitate solid communication between the WGs? ===
=== What can the council do to attract more packagers and other contributors? How should Fedora change in this regard? ===
 
=== Next questions here ===
 
== [[Env_and_Stacks/Nominations|Env and Stacks]] ==
=== What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now? ===
=== What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role? ===
=== What are your Future plans ? Is there anything what you can consider as "Mission Statement" in this role ===
=== What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today? What should we do about them? ===
=== What interests you from Env and Stacks, and which projects would you contribute to? ===
 
=== Next questions here ===
 
== History ==
Questions from previous elections can be found here:
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Elections/Questionnaire&oldid=401892| Fedora 22 elections questionnaire]
* [[F19_elections_questionnaire| Fedora 19 elections questionnaire]]
* [[F18_elections_questionnaire| Fedora 18 elections questionnaire]]
* [[F17_elections_questionnaire| Fedora 17 elections questionnaire]]
* [[F16_elections_questionnaire| Fedora 16 elections questionnaire]]
* [[F15_elections_questionnaire| Fedora 15 elections questionnaire]]
* [[F14_elections_questionnaire| Fedora 14 elections questionnaire]]
* [[Elections/F13_Questionnaire| Fedora 13 elections questionnaire]]
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Elections/Questionnaire&oldid=108236 Fedora 12 elections questionnaire]

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The following elections will take place in June 2015:

All dates and times noted are UTC time.

Please add questions you'd like to see asked to this page.



FESCo (Engineering)

What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?

Do you think Fedora should be time based or more feature driven distribution? Or compromise?

What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today (from engineering POV)? What should we do about them?

What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role?

Anything else voters should know?

How can FESCo do a better job communicating with the rest of the Fedora community, or do you feel that FESCo is already doing well here?

What can you accomplish as part of FESCo that you couldn't accomplish as a contributor to Fedora without sitting on FESCo?

With the advent of Fedora Council now, what do you see as the significance of FESCO in Fedora project?

Do you think FESCo can help with the reduction of the backlog of >400 packages awaiting review?

Next questions here

Council

What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?

What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today? What should we do about them?

What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role?

Anything else voters should know?

How do you plan to facilitate solid communication between the WGs?

What can the council do to attract more packagers and other contributors? How should Fedora change in this regard?

Next questions here

Env and Stacks

What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?

What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role?

What are your Future plans ? Is there anything what you can consider as "Mission Statement" in this role

What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today? What should we do about them?

What interests you from Env and Stacks, and which projects would you contribute to?

Next questions here

History

Questions from previous elections can be found here: