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Please place questions you would like to see candidates for the various offices answer. If your question is specific to one office (such as the Board or FESCo), please indicate that.
The following elections will take place in November/December 2015:


== Questions ==
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (5 seats)
* [[Council/Nominations|Fedora Council]] (1 seat)
* [[Env_and_Stacks/Nominations|Env and Stacks]] (4 seats)
* [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo]] (7 seats)


# What do you see as Fedora's greatest strength, and what will you do to improve upon that?
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# What do you see as Fedora's greatest weakness, and what will you do to improve upon that?
 
# Which processes have worked best in Fedora, and which processes need to be improved (details, please) ?
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# Who is Fedora for?
 
# What is Fedora's place in the larger community with respect to other distributions?
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# If you could single-handedly change any one thing about Fedora, what would it be and why?
 
# If elected, how will Fedora as a project be better as a result of your leadership?
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# What strengths will you bring to the Fedora board that are currently missing?
 
# Please give three examples of other boards or communities you have participated in and the positive differences you made there.
== [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] ==
# 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?
=== What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now? ===
# 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?
=== Do you think Fedora should be time based or more feature driven distribution? Or compromise? ===
# [[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?
=== What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today (from engineering POV)? What should we do about them? ===
# [[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?
=== What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role? ===
# 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?
=== Anything else voters should know about you? ===
# Simple question: Among the two, do you prefer Gnome or KDE?
=== 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? ===
# [[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?
=== What can you accomplish as part of FESCo that you couldn't accomplish as a contributor to Fedora without sitting on FESCo? ===
# [[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?
=== With the advent of Fedora Council now, what do you see as the significance of FESCO in Fedora project? ===
# [[User: sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]]: Do you think a Fedora Foundation is still worth pursuing? Why or Why not?
=== Do you think FESCo can help with the reduction of the backlog of >400 packages awaiting review? ===
# [[User: sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]]: What are your unique strengths and what are your weaknesses?
 
# [[User: till | Till Maas]]: Should kernel module packages be allowed in Fedora?
=== What's your point of view about library bundling in packages? ===
# [[User: till | Till Maas]]: How will you make the work for in Fedora easier, e.g. for Fedora packagers?
=== 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 about you? ===
=== 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? ===
=== What's the area where you would most like to see improved collaboration among the Linux distributions? What would you do to help increase collaboration? ===
 
=== 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 ===
 
== [[FAmSCo_nominations|FAmSCo]] ==
 
=== 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 the most pressing issues facing the Fedora ambassadors today? What should we do about them? ===
 
=== Interest in traditional Linux events seem to be stagnating or even declining. How should the ambassadors respond to this change? ===
 
=== What are your future plans? Is there anything you can consider a "Mission Statement" in this role? ===
 
=== What is your take on the recent governance reorganization (council, working groups, budget, etc.)? ===
 
=== It seems the Ambassador activities are disconnected to the rest of the project; what is your way for fixing the issue? ===
 
=== What kind of information should be exchanged between ambassadors and the other Project groups? ===
 
=== Are Ambassadors really up to date with new features of the releases? If not, what are you planning to do to keep them up to date? ===
 
=== Next questions here ===
 
== History ==
Questions from previous elections can be found here:
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Elections/Questionnaire&oldid=415561| Fedora June 2015 elections questionnaire]
* [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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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 about you?

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?

What's your point of view about library bundling in packages?

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 about you?

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?

What's the area where you would most like to see improved collaboration among the Linux distributions? What would you do to help increase collaboration?

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

FAmSCo

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

Interest in traditional Linux events seem to be stagnating or even declining. How should the ambassadors respond to this change?

What are your future plans? Is there anything you can consider a "Mission Statement" in this role?

What is your take on the recent governance reorganization (council, working groups, budget, etc.)?

It seems the Ambassador activities are disconnected to the rest of the project; what is your way for fixing the issue?

What kind of information should be exchanged between ambassadors and the other Project groups?

Are Ambassadors really up to date with new features of the releases? If not, what are you planning to do to keep them up to date?

Next questions here

History

Questions from previous elections can be found here:

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