The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm happy to announce that Toshio Kuratomi has accepted the responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Toshio is a great contributor to open source in general, and has been actively collaborating with people throughout the Fedora Project for many years. I have no doubt that he'll work tirelessly to increase the level of trust, transparency, communication, and innovation within the Fedora community. I thank Toshio for his willingness to serve, and I hope the whole Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board. Toshio will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Colin Walters. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Colin for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board. Elections for the two open elected seats on the Board (as well as FAmSCo and FESCo elections) will begin on November 20th at UTC 0001, as shown on the Fedora wiki's Elections page[3]. All community members are encouraged to cast their vote until the elections close at the end of the day on November 28th. After the end of elections, another appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A2). * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader -- announce mailing list announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
