One of the things I like most about Fedora is the orderly way in which people are able to move in and out of leadership positions within our community. Each development cycle, we have a set of elections for the steering committees and for the Fedora Board. The next election cycle is nearly upon us, so I'd like to take this opportunity to share the details of the upcoming elections with you.
As quick reminder, the nomination period for this election cycle will open on 25 October 2011, and will close promptly on 5 November 2011 at 23:59:59 UTC. The full elections schedule, along with more details about the elections, can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
I strongly encourage you to consider running for an open position in one of the elections. This is one way to serve your fellow community members and help move Fedora forward at the same time. Additionally, I'm looking for a few volunteers to help with the coordination of the candidate questionnaires and town hall meetings. If you're willing to help, please let me know.
== Fedora Board == This election cycle will fill two elected seats for the Board (seats E1 and E2). Prior to the election I will also announce the first of two appointed seat in this cycle (seats A1 and A2), with the second appointment announcement to follow after the election. For more information on nominations, and the process refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_nominations https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
== FESCo == This cycle will also see four candidates elected to open seats in the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. For information on the nominations and elections: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
== FAmSCo == This election cycle will also see candidates elected to fill all all seven seats on the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. For more information, refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_elections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2011_nominations
== Candidate Questionnaire and Town Hall meetings == Additionally, the nomination period also serves as the time for the community to present questions to be posed to candidates. If you wish to ask questions to be answered by candidates, you can add them at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_elections_questionnaire. Candidates will have the questions posed to them and responses made available to the community before the voting period begins.
As we get closer to the elections, we will try to schedule several Town Hall Meetings in IRC to help you get to know the candidates better, and to ask them additional questions.
As always, I'm thankful to those who have given their time, talents, and abilities to serve the Fedora community.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
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