From Fedora Project Wiki

(Redirected from MatthewMiller)

Mattdm-2014-fedora10y-small.jpg

Matthew Miller

I've been involved in Fedora since 2004. I helped organize the first official Fedora conferences at Boston University, worked on the original Fedora Legacy project, hacked on Anaconda for Boston University's remix, and some other stuff (including maintaining a few packages). Now I work for Red Hat and am paid to care about Fedora full time, as Fedora Project Leader. I serve as chair of the Fedora Council, our top-level leadership and governance body.

Previously, I worked on the Fedora Cloud Image and the Cloud SIG. I've been a member of FESCo (the Fedora technical steering committee), and written for Fedora Magazine. For a while, I did a series called Five Things in Fedora This Week, with the intention of helping to improve communication across the project as a whole. (The magazine has really taken off since then, so 5tFTW is on hiatus.)

I like logic models. They're a simple tool to connect what we are doing to what we want to accomplish, and can be used for both planning and execution. Russ Allbery, over at Debian, once described free software distribution development as a process of "tepid change for the somewhat better." It's hard work and can feel very slow and it's sometimes hard to make all the connections, so it's good to have a map.

I am interested in anything and everything related to Fedora's success (so, correspondingly, please feel free to complain to me about anything). The best place to talk about Fedora strategy and direction is the Fedora Council discussion list.




I have some badges. Shiny! Looking to get involved — to collect badges, to help the project, to fix an issue that bugs you, or to make a name for yourself in the open source world? Check out What Can I Do For Fedora?

  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Secretary General  Speak Up!  Junior Editor  Senior Editor  Associate Editor  Fedora 20 Change Accepted  Master Editor  Flock 2013 Attendee  Junior Tagger (Tagger I)  Involvement  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Tanked!  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I)  Mugshot  Ambassador  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I)  Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Bona Fide  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Flock 2013 Speaker  Embryo  Mirror, Mirror on the Wall  Egg  Tadpole  Froglet  Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I)  Tadpole with Legs  No Longer a Ronin  Package Tagger (Package Tagger II)  DevConf 2014 Speaker  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  DevConf 2014 Attendee  Baby Badger  FOSDEM 2014 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Extra!  Extra!  Heartbleed Buster  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  The Blessing of the FPL  Vacation  Apex  It still works!  Let's do lunch!  Your call may be monitored for quality assurance  Crypto Panda  Flock 2014 Speaker  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Flock 2014 Attendee  Take this and call me in the morning  Consolation Prize  Fedora 21 Change Accepted  Chief Editor  Party Pirate  Readiness  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Shellshocked  Common Bugs Contributor  Grandmaster Editor  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Binary Star  Partners in Crime  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  What goes around comes around (Karma II)  Fedora at RH Summit, 2015  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Flock 2015 Speaker  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  FOSDEM 2015 Attendee  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf 2015 Speaker  Delivery  What goes up... (Koji Failure II)  Macaron (Cookie I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Origin  Missed the Train  Adult Frog  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Let Me Introduce Myself  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  White Hat  Top 100  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  Badge Muse (Badges Released II)  Prolific!  Badge Muse (Badges Released I)  Corporate Drone  DevConf 2016 Attendee  Top 500  DevConf 2016 Speaker  Master Badger (Badger III)  Black and White (Cookie III)  Nuancier F24  LISA16  Red Hat Summit 2016  Flock 2016 Attendee  Flock 2016 Speaker  Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III)  DevConf 2017 Attendee  Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora IV)  Community Messenger I  Red Hat Summit 2017  OSCON 2017 Attendee  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  DevConf 2017 Speaker  Old Yeller  Steampunk Arcade  Council Member  DevConf 2018 Attendee  Board Member  Flock 2017 Organizer  Flock 2017 Attendee  It's a Cake Thing  Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018  Red Hat Summit 2018  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  Fedora Docs FAD 2018  Top 25  Fedora 29 Change Accepted  Flock 2018 Attendee  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Helping Hand  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Parselmouth I  LISA18  You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV)  DevConf 2019 Attendee  Fedora 30 Change Accepted  Nuancier F30  You’re on a boat!  Community Messenger III  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Flock 2019 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 31  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  The Panda Is In  nest-attendee-2020  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Social Panda  I converted to btrfs!  I Voted: Fedora 32  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Diversity & Inclusion Virtual Team Meetup  I Voted: Fedora 33  NYE Party Panda  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Packager Sponsor  Fedora 35 Change Accepted  GUADEC 2021  Red Hat Summit 2021  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Community Messenger IV  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Nest Attendee 2021  Museum Visitor  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  I Voted: Fedora 35  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 36  Fedora 39 Change Accepted  Fedora 38 Change Accepted  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Lets have a party Fedora 37  FOSDEM 2023 Attendee  Called to Action  Red Hat Summit 2023