Fedora Election and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2023

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 elections voting now open

  Voting in the Fedora Linux 38 elections is now open. Go to the Elections app to cast your vote.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 FESCo election: Interview with Tom Stellard

  I have a background in compilers and toolchains, and I would like to use some of the knowledge I’ve gained over the years of building and troubleshooting applications to help make Fedora better. Specifically, I’m interested in helping packagers avoid making common mistakes through standardized macros and packaging practices and also by increasing the reliance on CI.

  I’m currently one of the maintainers of the LLVM packages in Fedora which is a set of 15 packages that provide a C/C++/Fortran compilers as well as a set of reusable compiler libraries that are used for developing other languages and for developer tools, like IDEs.

  I’ve also worked on two system wide change requests to help standardize the use of make within Fedora packages. These changes helped to make spec files more consistent across all of Fedora and also made it possible to remove make from the default buildroot.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 FESCo election: Interview with Major Hayden

  This is a part of the Elections Interviews series for Fedora Linux 38. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Monday, 29 May and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, 11 June.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 FESCo election: Interview with Stephen Gallagher

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 Mindshare election: Interview with David Duncan

  What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?

  I have been participating in Fedora community for a number of years. I started as one of the Fedora Ambassadors. I settled in working on Cloud a few years back and then found a job that really supported that work. Now I spend a lot of time working on the Cloud efforts.

  Please elaborate on the personal “Why” which motivates you to be a candidate for Mindshare.

  I had the opportunity to serve on the Mindshare committee last year after one of the members found it necessary to focus their efforts elsewhere. I found it very fulfilling to work with the team. There are a lot of challenges around building a strong community and I have always enjoyed being a part of that efforts. I think that I can continue that work again.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 Mindshare election: Interview with Luis Bazan

  I have already been a Fedora contributor for 12 years, I have worked in different teams, I am in the LATAM region.

  I have always tried to do my best within the Fedora community and I would like to join the Mindshare team to share my ideas for creating tasks that help the community continue to grow as we always have.

  Currently we need to do more events or anything that joins the LATAM region that is a bit neglected. We require more activities, not only national, we also want some international activities and this problem dates back to before the pandemic that affected us all.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 FESCo election: Interview with Benjamin Beasley

  As a Fedora Linux, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux user for well over a decade, and as a contributor to the Fedora community for the last several years, I find that wise and steady technical leadership has been one of the Fedora project’s great strengths. In my one term on FESCo, I think I have made a useful contribution to this tradition.

  It’s my practice to listen more than I speak; respect different people’s perspectives and styles of communication; and remember that idealism and pragmatism can exist in complementary rather than adversarial opposition.

  I directly maintain around 170 rather diverse packages. A few of my particular interests are scientific/technical and mathematical packages, font-related software, and the Python ecosystem. I also co-maintain or contribute to a variety of packages via the neuro-sig and python-packagers-sig packaging groups, and I regularly contribute fixes to other packages and to upstream projects.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 FESCo election: Interview with Neal Gompa

  As a long-time member of the Fedora community as a user and a contributor, I have benefited from the excellent work of many FESCo members before me to ensure Fedora continues to evolve as an amazing platform for innovation. For the past few years, I have had the wonderful privilege of serving as a member of FESCo for the first time, and I enjoyed my time serving to steer Fedora into the future, and I wish to continue to contribute my expertise to help analyze and make good decisions on evolving the Fedora platform.

  The bulk of my contributions to Fedora lately are on the desktop side of things. In the last year, I’ve been working steadily on improving Fedora’s multimedia capabilities, which included bringing in FFmpeg into Fedora and enabling a new range of applications, libraries, and services to be packaged and hosted on Fedora Linux. This even leads to enabling creative professional work for video and making video streaming possible with software shipped in Fedora. Most recently, I helped kickstart the Budgie SIG and assisted with bootstrapping the Fedora Budgie spin and Fedora Onyx. Finally, my newest effort is around the bringup of the Fedora Asahi Remix by the Asahi SIG to support Fedora Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. This is being done in close collaboration with the upstream Asahi Linux community and members of that community are now part of the Fedora community too.

  Beyond the desktop and more into the clouds, I have been engaging with folks at AWS to bring them more into the Fedora community in a similar vein to how I helped bring Facebook into the Fedora community. This has also led to a proper revival of the Fedora Cloud Working Group and the Fedora Cloud Edition for Fedora Linux 37. We’re currently working on expanding our coverage of Fedora Cloud Edition in public cloud platforms, as well.

• Fedora Community Blog: F38 Council election: Interview with Sumantro Mukherjee

  I hail from APAC (India) and would like to focus on bringing in more non-US perspectives, which includes bringing in more contributors from diverse backgrounds.

  Efficient utilization of our brand-new design assets which are now in multiple languages to onboard a variety of users (general and power-users) to the Fedora community as contributor either to functional sides (QA, packaging..etc) and/or outreach.

  Giving suggestions and bringing new perspectives from technical and outreach are my primary motivators.

• The moment for AI [Ed: Red Hat CEO is promoting phony trends or buzzwords that help Microsoft distract from mass layoffs, product closures, and other crises; if Red Hat becomes a caricature company or a 'meme', it won't manage to retain -- let alone gain -- truly technical people]