As everyone probably knows, the Fedora Board is moving into an election season due to the release of another Fedora. In advance of the election, Red Hat appoints one seat, and the final seat is appointed afterward to make sure the Board is fairly balanced to represent the Board's many constituents. In addition, to fix our scheduling so that only half the Board is turning over at each election cycle, Red Hat has agreed to extend one appointment by a single release of Fedora (or about six months). Karsten Wade will remain in his current seat on the Fedora Board until just after Fedora 10. At that point, Red Hat has the option to appoint someone else to his seat. Red Hat has named Harald Hoyer, a Senior Software Engineer in Red Hat's Stuttgart office, to occupy one of the two open appointed seats. Harald brings with him a wealth of experience as a maintainer of everything from the CD and DVD toolsets to the Bluetooth stack and udev. I'm sure the entire Fedora community will join me in welcoming Harald to the Board. Harald -- good to have you aboard! Harald and the rest of the new Board will join us for their first meeting around July 1st. Furthermore, I'd like to say how great it's been to work with Steve Dickson and Seth Vidal, both appointed Board members who are vacating their seats this cycle. They've been invaluable in helping the Board consider policy and guidance issues for Fedora, some of them subtle and controversial. The work is sometimes thankless, but these guys make it much more pleasant through their can-do attitudes (and frequent good humor). I'd also like to point out that they are both free to run in elections like any Fedora community member, and I hope they will both consider doing so. -- 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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