FAmSCo nominations

The nomination period is CLOSED. The nomination period ended at 23:59:59 UTC on November 13, 2012.

The following elections will take place in November/December 2012:

• Fedora Project Board (two seats)
• FESCo (Engineering) (four seats)
• FAmSCo (Ambassadors) (three seats)
• Fedora 19 Name (separate schedule from the committee elections)

All dates and times noted are UTC time.

FAmSCo elections November/December 2012

Current members of FamSCo are:

• Christoph Wickert
• Jiri Eischmann
• Clint Savage
• Nick Bebout
• Alejandro Perez
• Daniel Bruno
• Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera

As per the FAmSCo_election_rules, these members finish their term and their seats are up for re-election:

• Alejandro Perez
• Daniel Bruno
• Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera

For the last election, please see FAmSCo elections May/June 2012

Candidates must be a member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure that FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors, but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.

Ambassadors will be following the Fedora election timeline.

You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time.

Eligible Voters
Voting eligibility is determined by a community member's Fedora Account System (FAS) memberships.

To vote for FAmSCo you must have cla_done + one other "non-cla" group in FAS.

Candidate template

Introduction

• Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
• Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
• What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
• What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
• What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?

Questionnaire

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Candidates

Truong Anh Tuan (tuanta)

Introduction

• Please briefly describe your history with Fedora:
  • Fedora User since the first Fedora Core released (Red Hat Linux user, before that).
  • Fedora Contributor since 2009.
  • Initialized and maintained the first Fedora mirror in Vietnam: http://virror.hanoilug.org/#fedora since 2009.
  • Organized a lot of Fedora Release Parties around the country since Fedora 11 (that's also one of three best Fedora 11 release parties worldwide: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-August/msg00151.html).
  • Founded Fedora Vietnam community with dedicated community website and mailing list since 2010.
  • Co-chaired/Co-organized Fedora Ambassadors APAC bi-weekly meeting since 2010.
  • Fedora package maintainer for two years.
  • Present Fedora at a lot of FOSS and Tech events.

• Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?:
  • Improve collaboration inside Ambassadors group as well as between Ambassadors and others, following things like these: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-October/018319.html .

• What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?:
  • Coordinate ambassadors in regions and countries.
  • Support ambassadors to run their own events and other activities.
  • Coordinate with Fedora leadership and CommArch for budget and reimbursement.

• What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?:
  • Connect ambassadors among countries and regions better; support local ambassadors to make regional meetings more effective (e.g. more people involved, more effective discussions, faster from thoughts to actions, etc.).
  • Make budget budget/fund review, approval, usage and reimbursement faster and more effective.

• What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?:
  • Run more FADs, Fedora release parties, etc. to introduce more about Fedora to people and to share knowledge and experience among Fedora users and contributors as well.

Alejandro Pérez (Aeperezt)

Introduction

• Please briefly describe your history with Fedora:

• • Fedora User since Fedora Core , Linux User since 1994, Slackware, Red Hat and others
  • Fedora Contributor since 2009
  • Organize Fedora Panama Community
  • Fedora Translator
  • Fedora Packager
  • Ruby SIG
  • FudCon Panama main organizer 2011
  • Member of Floss-pa, Panamá foss community

• What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?:

• • Improve swags distribution on Latam
  • Organize a budged and it uses in Latam
  • Make budget distribution on Latam reach all ambassador that need it
  • Collaborate with other regions, share experience and learn from them

• What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?:
  • We need to improve mentoring to teach new ambassadors how to organize and use Fedora resources
  • FAD to improve Latam contribution to Fedora.

Elad Alassa (elad)

Introduction

• Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
  • Started using Linux around 4 years ago, Fedora was my first distribution of choice and I found it better than any other.
  • I'm a packager, translator, designer, website team member and ambassador. Apart from that I also triage bugs with my free time, submit patches to upstream projects now and then, and I try to make Fedora as easy to use as possible, wherever I can influence that.
• Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?
  • I want Fedora to be better, and to do that we need good collaboration between the different teams in the project and make sure everything will run as smoothly as possible. I hope that by being a member of FAmSCo I could help achieve this goal.
• What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?
  • Coordinate the different groups and make sure everything is running as smoothly as possible.
• What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
  • Make it easier for new ambassadors to join, mostly by making more responsible people sponsors, so that the waiting time to get sponsored into the Ambassadors project will be lower.
• What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?
  • Mostly, I would like to have a Fedora Events web app for ambassadors to use to organize events (incl. swag and budget requests, list of volunteers, and information for users).

Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera (bckurera)

Introduction

• Please briefly describe your history with Fedora:
  • I started with Free Media group and then joined with the Ambassador group. Since then I am contributing to Design Team, Marketing Team, News,Summer coding and Localization work as well.
  • Locally, I have organized some events including release parties and fedora events. I represent the Fedora project in events and initiated the fedora local communityLK_Community.
  • I expanded the Fedora project in University level locally, that makes the local community stronger and also working with APAC ambassadors towards a strong community by assisting them.
  • I manage APAC Bi-weekly meetings with David and Tuan.
  • I wrangle fedora-apac trac and facilitate fellow FAms in the region.
  • Elected as a member of FAmSCo for F18 cycle.

• Why do you want to be a member of FAmSCo?:

I hope I did manage F18 term in FAmSCo and I would like to keep it up by trying to achieve following vision;

• • FAmSCo is playing a major role with in the Ambassador Group, indeed they set the path to proceed.
  • First, the main aim is to support the Ambassador Group.
  • I need to provide a dedicated, effective support which Ambassadors need.
  • I would like to be a part of the team and be an active part of decision making process which lead shaping the project.
  • Further I want to make the FAmSCo, a place which is more attentive, sensitive, responsive and assisted to ambassadors and their needs.

• What is the proper role for FAmSCo in a global project like Ambassadors?:
  • The main role of the FAmSCo is to provide the support that Ambassadors seek. The support should be fast and it should be effective. Such a support keeps the global ambassador effect active and useful. Therefore FAmSCo as the hub, should provide assistant and resources and ensure the ambassadors are getting what they need, when they need. Being align with the team is another very important role that FAmSCo should play. FAmSCo should be very sensitive with the ambassadors. Should identify their needs, ideas, thoughts and try to facilitate, encourage and even try to get novel ideas to shape the team and as well as the project. FAmSCo govern the ambassador team and as well as act as the central hub which connects other entities as well.

• What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?:
  • As a candidate it is easier for you if I mention my vision clearly, that shows mainly How I see and What I ll do as a member of the FAmSCo if I am elected.
  • FAmSCo should be responsive/ sensitive to needs and issues with in FAms.
  • FAmSCo should be attentive.
  • FAmSCo should be motivational.
  • Develop the regions country wise.

• What would you change about the way Ambassadors is run?:
  • Overall the ambassador group is running well. There are few things we need to make up.
  • More interaction is needed with in the group, so that we can encourage the ambassadors to participate to meetings and the FAmSCo can help them to make the meeting successful being actively engaging with those.
  • It is required to develop and make strong the fedora communities countrywide, it is possible to use FADs (more FADs) for that and later when we have strong communities so we can have FUDCons in various countries with in regions covering most of the parts.
  • Increase quality on FAm activities (events, funding, reporting, guidelines, active participation, encourage FAms, more goal oriented..)