You’ve only got until May 26th to vote in the Fedora elections: elections are open now. This election we are voting on new members of the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. Before you vote, you’ll want to read up a bit on the elections to make sure you’re making an informed choice. Here’s a cheatsheet for you.
Fedora Board Election
About the Fedora Project Board
Like any board of directors, the Fedora Project Board advises Fedora leadership and helps the project pursue broad goals. The Board does not generally implement practices, but instead relies on the recognized community leadership to do so.
There are nine Board members: five elected by the community and four appointed by Red Hat. This Board is ultimately accountable for the Fedora Project, and in that sense is responsible for guiding all of the Project’s operational decisions. However, the Board strives at all times to invest decision-making power in the community wherever possible.
The issues discussed by the Board generally fall into these categories:
- Issues escalated from a committee or other subgroup in the Fedora Project that has reached an impasse but requires a decision by informed consensus;
- Issues concerning oversight of subprojects that are not under FESCo purview;
- Issues that does not fall into the purview of any of the established committees or other subgroups, but requires a decision by informed consensus;
- Issues of strategic, as opposed to tactical, importance for Fedora that require leadership and vision from above the team or subproject level to achieve; or,
- Sensitive legal or personnel issues which require research and discussion to protect the interests of the Fedora Project or its sponsor(s).
(Information above from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board)
About this Board election
Three Fedora Board seats are up for grabs this election, currently held by Dennis Gilmore, Mike McGrath, and Tom Callaway. There are six candidates:
- Tom ‘spot’ Callaway
- IRC Nick: spot
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Stephen Smoogen
- IRC Nick: smooge
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Máirín Duffy
- IRC Nick: mizmo
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Larry Cafiero
- IRC Nick: lcafiero
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Rex Dieter
- IRC Nick: rdieter
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- John McDonough
- IRC Nick: jjmcd
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
Candidate positions on Fedora community concerns
- There has been an email-based Board candidate questionnaire (coordinated by Paul Mellors and Larry Cafiero) which is a good read for an overview of the candidates’ positions issue-by-issue.
- The first IRC townhall meeting with the Board candidates was held on May 17th (moderated by Neville Cross.) Read the logs.
- The second IRC townhall meeting with the Board candidates was held on May 17th (moderated by Susmit Shannigrahi.) Read the logs.
Vote now for the Fedora Project Board!
To vote, you must have an active Fedora project account, you must have signed the Contributor License Agreement, and you must be a member of at least one non-CLA group in the account system. For more information about voting eligibility, see the Fedora Elections Guide section on voting eligibility.
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) Election
About the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
FESCo handles the process of accepting new features, the acceptance of new packaging sponsors, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and SIG Oversight, the packaging process, handling and enforcement of maintainer issues and other technical matters related to the distribution and its construction. FESCo has enacted engineering-related policies in Fedora such as the package maintainer responsibilities policy, Packager sponsor responsibilities policy, Policy for nonresponsive package maintainers, and the provenpackager policy.
(Information above from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO)
About this FESCo election
Five Fedora Engineering Steering Committee seats are up for grabs this election, currently held by Kevin Fenzi (Chair), Dennis Gilmore, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, and Kevin Kofler. There are seven candidates:
- Matthias Clasen
- IRC Nick: mclasen
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Kevin Fenzi
- IRC Nick: nirik
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Justin Forbes
- IRC Nick: jforbes
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Kyle McMartin
- IRC Nick: kylem
- Statement of candidacy
- Candidate’s blog
- Bill Nottingham
- IRC Nick: notting
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Stephen M. Parrish
- IRC Nick: SMParrish
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
- Candidate’s blog
- Bruno Wolff III
- IRC Nick: brunowolff
- Statement of candidacy
- Fedora wiki user page
Candidate positions on Fedora community concerns
- There has been an email-based candidate questionnaire (coordinated by Paul Mellors and Larry Cafiero) which is a good read for an overview of the candidates’ positions issue-by-issue.
- The first IRC townhall meeting with the FESCo candidates was held on May 14th (moderated by James Findley.) Read the logs.
- The second IRC townhall meeting with the Board candidates was held on May 19th (moderated by Robyn Bergeron.) Read the logs.
Vote now for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee!
To vote, you must have an active Fedora project account, you must have signed the Contributor License Agreement, and you must be a member of at least one non-CLA group in the account system. For more information about voting eligibility, see the Fedora Elections Guide section on voting eligibility.
