Fedora Board election results

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 15:34:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:04 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:54 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:25 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The results of the Fedora Project Board elections are in:  Tom Callaway,
> > > > Jesse Keating and Seth Vidal have been elected to full two-release
> > > > terms, and Jef Spaleta is re-elected to a one-release term.
> > > >
> > > > Red Hat will announce its final appointment to the Board within the next
> > > > couple of days, completing this cycle.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Just an observation (not a complaint or anything) but it is funny that the
> > > first election where Red Hat has the fewest appointed seats has resulted
> > > in Red Hat employees holding the most seats.
> > 
> > Actually, not necessarily -- we've had 6 Red Hat employees as Board
> > members before, and that very well may end up being the final count this
> > time also.  Remember that Red Hat isn't required to tap employees for
> > appointed seats... ;-)
> 
> Is there any sort of criteria they use to pick the last seat?  I'm just
> curious.

The last seat is picked with the goal of balancing the background of the
other seats on the Board.

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