2008/7/25 Oybek Nuriddinov <oybekfedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello everybody! > > I have a few questions for you, if you know please fill it. These questions are pretty off-topic for this list. However, I'm happy to answer them. > 1.How many decision makers does Fedora have? This is a very difficult question. In general, there are two main governance bodies in Fedora - the Fedora Board, and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). Each of these bodies consist of nine people, and there can be overlap between the two (there is currently one person serving on both FESCo and the Board). The Board consists of 4 seats which are appointed by Red Hat, and 5 elected by the community. FESCo is entirely elected by the community. There is also a Fedora Project Leader (FPL) who serves as chairman of the board, and is required to be a full-time Red Hat employee. This position is currently held by Paul Frields. The mission of the board is to decide strategic direction for Fedora, and the mission of FESCo is to decide technical direction of Fedora. More information about the Board can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board while more information about FESCo can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee Also, various projects within Fedora have their own internal governance models, for example the Ambassadors, have their own elected steering committees. > 2. By whom is Fedora funded? The majority of Fedora's funding comes from Red Hat. However, there are donations of hardware (IBM, Dell), hosting (ServerBeach, Tummy.com to name a few), and other various goods and services. Also, our mirrors are an indirect source of funding by saving Red Hat the bandwidth costs that would otherwise be required in order to distribute Fedora. > 3. How many members of Fedora I'm not sure how you define "members" of Fedora, however, as of the last FESCo election there were approximately 1800 people that had completed the Fedora Contributor License agreement and belonged to at least one other group in the Fedora account system. > 4. Is desktop environment in KDE or in GNOME? The default desktop is GNOME, however there are a large contingent of KDE and Xfce users, and active SIG's around both of those desktop environments. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
