Fedora Board election results

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Jun 25 16:50:13 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> Or in people's cases like mine, I'm paid by Red Hat, with the basic
> mandate of "Go forth and make Fedora successful, as defined by Fedora".
> I tell RH what I'm doing, not the other way around.  I'm accountable to
> the Fedora community, and if at any time the Fedora community looses
> their confidence in me, then my paycheck would be in jeopardy.

This is a very important distinction to make.  If Red Hat were 
controlling things like some people in this thread say, half the board 
would be involved with Red Hat's products and core business (as the 
Board was intended to be).  As it is, almost none of the @redhat.com 
people now on the board have involvement with RHEL, JBoss, etc.

Honestly, I strongly think the current board makeup hurts Red Hat more 
than it hurts Fedora, because there really isn't much insight into RHEL, 
or JBoss, etc. on the board.  It's completely Fedora dominated, which is 
not fair to the people that pay the bills...




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