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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS

Paul W. Frields announced that elections for the Fedora Board, FESCo and FAmSCo would be extended one day, now ending at 2009-12-16 UTC 2359.

As a reminder:

All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method

Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at . If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at .

Fedora Board Election:

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This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members.

Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos.

The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:

• Chris Tyler (ctyler)
• Colin Walters (walters)
• Matt Domsch (mdomsch)
• Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish)

To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).

Vote Here:

Town Hall Logs:

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:

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For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee.

Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse.

The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:

• Adam Jackson (ajax)
• Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
• Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)
• Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
• Peter Jones (pjones)
• Richard June (rjune)
• Robert Scheck (rsc)

To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group.

Vote Here:

Town Hall Logs:

Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election:

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This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee.

These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi.

The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:

• David Nalley
• Jean-Francois Saucier
• Joerg Simon
• Luca Foppiano
• Maria Gracia Leandro
• Max Spevack
• Robert Scheck
• Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
• Sandro Mathys
• Scott Seiersen
• Shakthi Kannan
• Susmit Shannigrahi

To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System.

Vote Here:

Townhall Log:

I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election:

"I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project.

This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it."

This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections.

Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.”

FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Fedora 10 final updates cutoff: December 11

Josh Boyer reminded the community on the fedora-devel-announce list that December 11 would be the final day for any remaining Fedora 10 updates:

"Just a friendly reminder that Dec 11 00:00:00 UTC is the cutoff for F10 updates submission. Ideally these would just be the final stable updates, as pushes to updates-testing would basically be stuck there forever.

Please take a few moments to review your pending requests, add any final stable updates you'd like pushed, and clear out any update requests that don't make much sense for a soon to be EOL'd distro."

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