Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting reminder 2010-01-07 UTC 1700
To fill the final open seat on the Board for the next two releases, I am appointing Colin Walters. Colin has spent several years developing technology and community in the GNOME Project and around the varied landscape of Fedora's desktop. He brings to the Board a constructive, positive spirit to solving problems in Fedora and upstream. His recent work on advancing ideas and code for a unique but highly usable personality for the free desktop is also very exciting. After getting the chance to meet and talk with him at FUDCon, I am sure he will be an excellent addition to the Board. I hope the Fedora community will join me in welcoming Colin, where he joins Chris Tyler as our other new member for this cycle. The new Board will meet for the first time tomorrow in a public IRC meeting, on Thursday 7 January 2010, at 1700 UTC (12:00 noon US-Eastern). Departing, current, and new Board members are all expected at the meeting. Details about joining the IRC meeting are found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/IRC As I've written before, the Board always welcomes community input. Please feel free to join the fedora-advisory-board mailing list to start a discussion if needed, or you may email us at any time with questions or issues. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Board appointment
I am pleased to announce that Christopher Aillon will continue in his appointed seat on the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora 14, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Christopher's presence on the Board has helped our discussions on a number of subjects over the past year, and I look forward to having him continue that relationship. Apologies for making this announcement slightly after the beginning of elections, due to the schedule change of elections and the intervening FUDCon activity. The remaining Board appointment will be made after the close of the Board elections. -- Paul W. Frields -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting
I'm very pleased to announce that Josh Boyer has been selected to fill the final seat on the Fedora Project Board. Josh is well known around the Fedora community for his work with release engineering and many other development-oriented groups, as well as his past work with FESCo and as a maintainer of Fedora on PPC architecture. I hope the community will join me in welcoming him to the Board where we hope he can help achieve some of the goals put forward during the town hall meetings earlier this month. As a reminder, the final appointment is made by the FPL in part to balance the Board's composition, but mainly to ensure the best possible Board representation. In this particular case, Josh narrowly missed election by a few votes, but his appointment owes only to his leadership in the community and the way he represents himself reguarly in the Project. The new Board will meet for the first time later this week, on Thursday, July 2, 2009, at an IRC public meeting. I speak for the whole Board when I say that we look forward to serving the community and that your input is always welcome. Please feel free to join the fedora-advisory-board mailing list to start a discussion if needed, or you may email us. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/IRC -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Board appointment
I am pleased to announce that John Poelstra is our first appointment to the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora 13, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Many of our contributors know John from his work in many capacities around the Project, from work with the Fedora Bug Zappers, maintaining our release schedule, and facilitating meetings for many of our community teams. He will bring a unique perspective and experience to our team. Please join me in welcoming John to the Board! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Board appointment
I'm very pleased to announce that Dimitris Glezos has been selected to fill the final seat on the Fedora Project Board. Many of you may know Dimitris from his tireless work in the Fedora Localization (L10n/translation) team, as part of its steering committee, his past work on Documentation including its steering committee, and additional work with Websites, Marketing, Ambassadors, and other groups. He is also the upstream creator of Transifex, a web-based application for enabling free and open source, cross-project translation services. Dimitris has extensive history and experience in growing FOSS contribution, breaking down barriers across all boundaries (including those of language and locale), vigorously collaborating with people throughout the Fedora Project, and working tirelessly in an open and transparent way that encourages trust, respect, and positivity. I hope the whole Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board. The new Board will meet for the first time next week, on Tuesday 13 January 2008. Dimitris will join Bill Nottingham and Matt Domsch, who are returning as community-elected members, and fellow appointee Christopher Aillon. I speak for the whole Board when I say that we look forward to serving the community and that your input is always welcome. Please feel free to join the fedora-advisory-board mailing list to start a discussion if needed, or you may email us. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug pgpFdWRUPl6Yp.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Board appointment
During this election season, there are two (2) appointed seats and two (2) community-elected seats open on the Fedora Board. This cycle, Bill Nottingham, Karsten Wade, Matt Domsch, and Jef Spaleta are turning over their seats. These folks have given very generously of their time over the last year -- and in some cases years -- and helped with a great deal of heavy lifting. Thank you, each and every one; the community and I are in your debt! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations As you'll see from the URLs above, there is an incredible slate of worthy candidates up for election, and I'm very excited to see people who are interested and passionate in helping drive Fedora forward by helping the Board remove barriers to contribution. Those barriers get reduced steadily over time, but there is always more to do. The elections will begin on 7 December, after a set of town hall meetings where community members can ask the nominees questions. Check the general elections wiki page above for the schedule and details. We have set these meetings up in response to community requests and encourage you to attend as many as you like. You should also feel free to write to individual nominees directly to ask questions that are important to you. The two appointed seats on the Board are nominated by Red Hat and chosen by the FPL. One appointment is held back until after the elections so that the Board's composition can be balanced as needed. The balance of the appointments are announced before elections.[1] For this cycle, Chris Aillon will return to the Board as an appointee. Chris is a long-time Fedora contributor and member of the Red Hat Desktop team, and among other responsibilities he is the maintainer of the ever-popular Mozilla Firefox and related packages in Fedora and in RHEL. Chris served on the Board previously for approximately a year, from summer 2007 to summer 2008.[2] The Board and I welcome him back, and look forward to working with him again. = = = [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug pgpvz1yRPcs0U.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
