On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Absolutely agreed. You could always campaign as the political > outsider! ;-) Well, with what Paul said, I may as well announce my candidacy as well. I'm a relatively new contributor to Fedora, however, I am a long time user of Fedora (at least from FC2 onwards). I think that I can bring a lot to the table, in terms of past experience, both in Fedora and in th Real World(TM). Part of what I do for my job is to develop an IT transformation strategy for a wide variety of clients. This involves taking a detailed look at where you are today, and where you want to be. Then my job is to develop a strategy to get you from point A to point B, both at a tactical (how do I confront the challenges that I'm faced with today), as well as a strategic (what do I need to do in the long term to avoid being where I'm at today again?) level. This sounds an awful lot like what the mission of the Fedora Board is, and it's what I do daily and what I enjoy to do. Along the way, I face many thorny issues, sometimes due to people that are opposed to change, and sometimes, there are really deep technical issues that require a thorough understanding in order to resolve. Is it always a pleasure to do these things? Absolutely not. However, someone has to do them.=, and I think I do a fairly good job of balancing the needs of all parties involved in such a decision. Now onto my Fedora contributions. I successfully (I think, you be the judge) relaunched the bug triage process, and we have a number of community contributors in that space today, including myself. I'm very active in QA, and I now maintain a few packages as well (nothing major). I'm also a Fedora Ambassador, though I have not really done any formal events to date, though I give impromptu talks occasionally. I'm also going to lend an encouraging hand (though not play an "active" role, because I don't have a creative bone in my body for websites) in the relaunch of the websites group, drawing on my experience in reviving another fledgling group :). One of the most important issues that I would champion should I be elected is building community around "non-traditional" contributors to Fedora. This includes having subject-matter experts in the area of marketing (I really like how this is going), artwork, websites, documentation, bug triage, etc. There are a number of opportunities and needs within Fedora that cannot be served by the typical developer/sysadmin that we generally attract that are needing people to get involved. I think that the one of the reasons that we've been somewhat less than successful in this area is that the potential contributors would love to get involved, they simply don't that Fedora exists and needs these people, or they do, and are not sure where to start. This is a critical growth area for Fedora, in my opinion. Now that all the heavy "who am i and what are my qualifications" stuff is out of the way, the lighter side: Seth, you need to add "yum make-me-some-stlouis-bbq". I miss that here in NYC. The permissions on that shouldn't be relaxed, as significant damage can come from non-root users operating the grill. I will ride the New York City Subway in a suit tomorrow, but I'll just blend in with everyone else. I will not have Fedora handwork in easy camera framing range, however, my work laptop (which, in the interest of full disclosure, runs Windows due to corporate standards) has a Shadowman sticker covering the Dell logo. Does that count? Dennis, make Fedora work on my toaster as a secondary arch! I want a koji.toaster.fedoraproject.org up ASAP! :) Thanks for taking the time to lead this long mail :) -Jon _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
