We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Fedora’s upcoming election will take place without all of the controversies that surrounded Open Source Initiative’s recent board election.
With Fedora 42 out the door, the folks at at the project are turning their attention to the upcoming election… er, elections — there are four of them. Up for grabs are two seats on the Fedora Council, four seats on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, four seats on the Fedora Mindshare Committee, and three seats on the EPEL Steering Committee.
From now through May 8, which is two weeks away, the election is in its nominating stage, and you can nominate yourself or someone you know (as long as you get that person to agree to be nominated) for one or more of the open positions by clicking on the appropriate link above. Whether you’re nominating yourself or someone else, you won’t need to complete an interview at this stage of the game. Interviews comes later and will follow this schedule.
In light of the recent brouhaha around nominating times during the recent Open Source Initiative election, which saw one potential candidate’s nomination refused, I think I should probably point out that although Fedora’s schedule makes no mention of the time of day on May 8 when nominations will close, all other processes in this election are clearly marked as happening at at the end of the day in UTC.
A Board of Directors by Any Other Name
The Fedora Council, which pretty much serves as the organizations board of directors, is mostly an appointed body controlled by Red Hat, which appoints the council’s Fedora Project Leader and other council roles that it has created. Also, FESCo and the Mindshare Committee each appoint a member each, and there’s also an appointed DEI advisor, who’s evidently focused entirely on community efforts to be inclusive.
The two seats that will be determined in this election are the only elective seats on the council.
Fedora Committees
Here’s an overview of the other committees that will have their leadership decided by this election:
- Fedora Engineering Steering Committee: FESCo is a fully community-elected body that provides technical leadership for the Fedora Project. Its primary mission is to oversee and manage the technical aspects of Fedora’s development and distribution.
- Fedora Mindshare Committee: This committee is the main outreach body within Fedora, and is focused on working with contributor communities and unifying communications across teams. Its primary responsibilities include coordinating regional event support, recognizing contributor efforts, and optimizing outreach processes.
- EPEL Steering Committee: The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux project provides high-quality add-on packages for CentOS Stream, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and eventually for downstream RHEL clones such as Rocky and AlmaLinux. These are based on Fedora packages but are specifically built for Enterprise Linux environments.
The elected seats on Fedora Council, the FESCo seats, and two of the four Mindshare seats are for a two-release term, or for about 12 months. The other two elected Mindshare seats are for 6-month terms, and the EPEL Steering Committee seats are for a two year term.
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