Hi! I'm proud to announce that the Fedora Extras Steering Committee (created on the first FUDCon back in February 2005) plans an election to let all Extras packagers vote the new members for the next FESCo working period. 17 people nominated themselves for the job: 1. Andreas Bierfert (awjb) 2. Tom "spot" Callaway (spot) 3. Rex Dieter (rdieter) 4. Kevin Fenzi (nirik) 5. Dennis Gilmore (ausil) irc (dgilmore) 6. Christian Iseli (c4chris) 7. Jeremy Katz (jeremy) 8. Michael J. Knox (mjk) 9. Toshio Kuratomi (abadger1999) 10. Thorsten Leemhuis (thl) 11. Jose-Pedro Oliviera (jpo) 12. Brian Pepple (bpepple) 13. Michael Schwendt (mschwendt) 14. Ville Skyttä (scop) 15. Jason Tibbitts (tibbs) 16. Warren Togami (wtogami) 17. Seth Vidal (skvidal) For details and some future plans of these fine people see: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Nominations You are a Fedora Extras Packager and want to be in the next FESCo? Well, then hurry up and nominate yourself until Tuesday, 20 June 23:59 UTC by adding yourself to above wiki page. For some details on the nominations and the background of the decision to actually make it one see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-May/msg00026.html The actual election will start on Thursday, 22 June 0:01 UTC and will last until Sunday, 02 July 23:59 UTC. The results will be posted to this list. The first meeting of the "new" FESCo will be on Thursday, June 06 2006 on #fedora-extras at 17:00 UTC. A new chair will be elected there by the new members. The actual voting will happen in the accounts system. Toshio Kuratomi was so helpful and created a framework for it, see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-June/msg00676.html for details. Thanks for your great work Toshio! I hope I didn't miss any important information. If I did: Just ask. CU thl P.S.: Sorry for cross-posting, but I think that okay for this kind of mail. Follow-up-to fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx only please. tia! -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>