Change in Board composition (original) (raw)

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 22:09:28 UTC 2008

Since the Fedora Board originally formed in 2006, the Fedora Project has changed quite a bit. We now have about two-thirds of our packages maintained by volunteer community members. Our technical steering committee, FESCo, is made up of a roughly even mix of volunteers and Red Hat employees. This community has developed and enforced its own high standards and done it in an open and transparent fashion in the best tradition of open source.

And through all of these efforts, we've helped build a community of contributors -- not just people who use Fedora, but people who give back to the open source ecosystem, and their fellow human beings.

I'm very pleased to report that with the post-Fedora 9 election, the Board composition will be a better reflection of the strides our community has made in self-organization and self-governance, and of our healthy partnership with Red Hat. Starting with this election, the Board will move to a composition of five (5) community-elected seats and four (4) Red Hat-appointed seats. This is an issue I've been advocating over the past couple of weeks, and I'm delighted to be able to make this change following my first release as Fedora Project Leader. I look at this as a significant step in the evolution of the Board and Fedora's governance overall.

The rest of the Board and I look forward to the elections, and to the continued opportunity to serve everyone in the Fedora community. We appreciate the support and the trust you give us, and will always work hard to earn it. Thanks for reading!

-- Paul W. Frields http://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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/attachments/20080421/04f43561/attachment.sig>

More information about the fedora-announce-list mailing list