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= Election Questionnaire =
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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.


== Questions ==
The following [[Elections|elections]] take place from [https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-26/f-26-elections.html July 2017 to August 2017]:


# What do you see as Fedora's greatest strength, and what will you do to improve upon that?
* [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] (4 seats)
# What do you see as Fedora's greatest weakness, and what will you do to improve upon that?
* [[Council/Nominations|Fedora Council]] (1 seat)
# Which processes have worked best in Fedora, and which processes need to be improved (details, please) ?
* [[FAmSCo_nominations|Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)]] (3 seats)
# 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.
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# 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?
 
# 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?
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# [[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?
 
# [[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?
 
# Simple question: Among the two, do you prefer Gnome or KDE?
== [[Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations|FESCo (Engineering)]] ==
# [[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?
 
# [[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 engineering?
# [[User: sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]]: Do you think a Fedora Foundation is still worth pursuing? Why or Why not?
# Why do you want to be a member of FESCo?
[[User: sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]]: What are your unique strengths and what are your weaknesses?
# Describe some of the important technical issues you foresee affecting the Fedora community. What insight do you bring to these issues?
# [[User: till | Till Maas]]: Should kernel module packages be allowed in Fedora?
# What are three personal qualities that you feel would benefit FESCo if you are elected?
# [[User: till | Till Maas]]: How will you make the work for in Fedora easier, e.g. for Fedora packagers?
# What is your strongest point as a candidate? What is your weakest point?
# Currently, how do you contribute to Fedora? How does that contribution benefit the community?
# What objectives or goals should FESCo focus on to help keep Fedora on the cutting edge of open source development?
# If a past member of FESCo, identify a negative factor you noticed while serving in FESCo. How would you propose to improve on that for the next cycle?
# Do you believe the [https://docs.pagure.org/modularity/ Modularity] objective is important to Fedora's success? Is there anything you wish to bring to the modularity efforts?
# The Linux ecosystem of today is not the ecosystem of five years ago. Do you think Fedora should innovate further or "steady the boat" with the existing initiatives in the project? Why?
# What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
 
 
== [[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 is your strongest point as a candidate? What is your weakest point?
# 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 you can consider a "Mission Statement" as a candidate?
# What should the Council do to help improve communication and openness across Fedora sub-projects, teams, and SIGs?
# What can the Council do to attract more packagers and other contributors? How should Fedora change in this regard?
# What can the Council do to attract more people to non-technical roles? Does Fedora need to adapt or improve in this regard?
# The Council has members involved in different areas of the project. What would you say your "area of expertise" is?
 
 
== [[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 the Fedora Ambassadors today? What should we do about them?
# What are three personal qualities that you feel would benefit FAmSCo if you are elected?
# What is your strongest point as a candidate? What is your weakest point?
# What are your future plans? Is there anything you can consider a "Mission Statement" as a candidate?
# Is there a specific task or issue you think that FAmSCo should address this term?
# Are the Ambassadors disconnected to the rest of the project? If so, what is your solution to fix the issue?
# What kind of information should be exchanged between Ambassadors and other groups / sub-projects?
# If a past member of FAmSCo, identify a negative factor you noticed while serving. How would you suggest improving on that for the next cycle?
# The past term, FAmSCo did not have any representatives from NA or APAC. If a region isn't represented this term, how do you hope to help include and support a region without representation?
 
 
== History ==
 
Questions from previous elections can be found here:
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Elections/Questionnaire&oldid=482838 Fedora December 2016 elections questionnaire]
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Elections/Questionnaire&oldid=470979 Fedora July 2016 elections questionnaire]
* [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Elections/Questionnaire&oldid=429095| Fedora Nov/Dec 2016 elections questionnaire]
* [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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The following elections take place from July 2017 to August 2017:

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




FESCo (Engineering)

  1. What is your background in engineering?
  2. Why do you want to be a member of FESCo?
  3. Describe some of the important technical issues you foresee affecting the Fedora community. What insight do you bring to these issues?
  4. What are three personal qualities that you feel would benefit FESCo if you are elected?
  5. What is your strongest point as a candidate? What is your weakest point?
  6. Currently, how do you contribute to Fedora? How does that contribution benefit the community?
  7. What objectives or goals should FESCo focus on to help keep Fedora on the cutting edge of open source development?
  8. If a past member of FESCo, identify a negative factor you noticed while serving in FESCo. How would you propose to improve on that for the next cycle?
  9. Do you believe the Modularity objective is important to Fedora's success? Is there anything you wish to bring to the modularity efforts?
  10. The Linux ecosystem of today is not the ecosystem of five years ago. Do you think Fedora should innovate further or "steady the boat" with the existing initiatives in the project? Why?
  11. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?


Council

  1. What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?
  2. What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today? What should we do about them?
  3. What is your strongest point as a candidate? What is your weakest point?
  4. What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role?
  5. What are your future plans? Is there anything you can consider a "Mission Statement" as a candidate?
  6. What should the Council do to help improve communication and openness across Fedora sub-projects, teams, and SIGs?
  7. What can the Council do to attract more packagers and other contributors? How should Fedora change in this regard?
  8. What can the Council do to attract more people to non-technical roles? Does Fedora need to adapt or improve in this regard?
  9. The Council has members involved in different areas of the project. What would you say your "area of expertise" is?


FAmSCo

  1. What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?
  2. What are the most pressing issues facing the Fedora Ambassadors today? What should we do about them?
  3. What are three personal qualities that you feel would benefit FAmSCo if you are elected?
  4. What is your strongest point as a candidate? What is your weakest point?
  5. What are your future plans? Is there anything you can consider a "Mission Statement" as a candidate?
  6. Is there a specific task or issue you think that FAmSCo should address this term?
  7. Are the Ambassadors disconnected to the rest of the project? If so, what is your solution to fix the issue?
  8. What kind of information should be exchanged between Ambassadors and other groups / sub-projects?
  9. If a past member of FAmSCo, identify a negative factor you noticed while serving. How would you suggest improving on that for the next cycle?
  10. The past term, FAmSCo did not have any representatives from NA or APAC. If a region isn't represented this term, how do you hope to help include and support a region without representation?


History

Questions from previous elections can be found here: