Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 03, 2025,
updated Apr 03, 2025

Quoting: Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta - Fedora Magazine —

A little while ago, I announced that it’s time for a change of hats. I’m going to be moving on to new things (still close to Fedora, of course). Today, I’m happy to announce that we’ve selected my successor: long-time Fedora friend Jef Spaleta.

Some of you may remember Jef’s passionate voice in the early Fedora community. He got involved all the way back in the days of fedora.us, before Red Hat got involved. Jef served on the Fedora Board from July 2007 through the end of 2008. This was the critical time after Fedora Extras and Fedora Core merged into one Fedora Linux where, with the launch of the “Features” process, Fedora became a truly community-led project.

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Update

Now in LWN:

• Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta

  Outgoing Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller has announced his successor, Jef Spaleta.

RedHat.com:

• Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta

  Jef was an early contributor to fedora.us and the Fedora Project. He was elected to the Fedora Board as a community representative at-large before living in Alaska and Antarctica for several years while studying aurora activity. During the early years of Fedora, Jef was actively involved in shaping the project and was known as an ever-present voice in Fedora’s IRC channels and mailing lists, helping users get started with Fedora, as well as contributing project maintenance work. Now that Jef has returned from his cold-weather adventures, he’s picked up his Fedora contributions where he left off.