Both volunteer contributors and Red Hat employees can run for the upcoming Fedora Projct Board election, and Red Hat is free to appoint an employee or a volunteer contributor to a Board seat. (It's always up to an appointee whether to serve, of course.) According to the order of operations shown at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning , one appointment is held back until after the elections. This allows the Board seats to be fairly balanced to be as representative of the whole Fedora Project as possible. It ensures that we have a good cross-section of the different skill groups in Fedora. For example, having the Board lean too heavily toward packagers, at the expense of developers or collateral content creators, would make the Board less effective at considering different sides of an issue. The Board will announce Red Hat's appointments around the week of May 19th. Nominations will not close, nor will voting begin, until well after the appointments are announced. If the entire process of appointments and elections were to result in a Board that is made up of a heavy majority of Red Hat employees, I would recommend that Red Hat balance this with an appointment of a community member. Nevertheless, I'd recommend that any interested community members run for the Board, regardless of their employment status or length of time working in the Fedora Project, and be confident about their record of getting things done. Being a Board member doesn't require any special qualifications -- other than tenacity and dedication, perhaps. :-) A healthy turnout of nominees *AND* voters is very important to this process! -- 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
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