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This past week's press focused on the appointment of Jared Smith as the new Fedora Project leader. Several postings follow.
Continuing from the recent announcement of new Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, this past week saw one more story in the trade press on this. from PC World.


=== New Fedora Project Leader appointed (The H Online) ===
=== Fedora Gets New Leader (PC World) ===


Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013200.html</ref> a brief posting about Jared Smith's appointment:
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013206.html</ref> a brief posting about Jared Smith's appointment in PC World:


"[[User:Jsmith|Jared Smith]]  will be the new Project Leader of the Fedora Project. This is the second non-Red Hat employee Red Hat has hired and appointed as Fedora Project Leader, after previous Project Leader Paul W. Frields."
"The Fedora Project will be getting a new leader next month, as Jared
Smith takes over the helm from current head Paul Frields, Frields
announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002832.html</ref> Tuesday on the Fedora mailing list.


The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/New-Fedora-Project-Leader-appointed-1031113.html</ref>.
Smith<ref>http://www.jaredsmith.net</ref>, who will become a Red Hat employee next month, has participated in the Fedora community since 2007,
primarily devoting time to the project's infrastructure and
documentation teams. He also helped build a free Voice Over IP-based
audio conference system for Fedora developers, called Fedora Talk<ref>http://talk.fedoraproject.org</ref>, and participated in Fedora-themed conferences."


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The full post is available<ref>http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/200210/fedora_gets_new_leader.html</ref>
 
=== New project leader wears the Fedora (The Register UK) ===
 
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013199.html</ref> a posting covering Fedora 13 from a blog from 2010-06-16:
 
"Paul Frields, who has been getting his paycheck from Red Hat to run the
Fedora development Linux variant since 2008, is moving back inside the
company to work on Enterprise Linux, and an outsider named Jared Smith
is being brought in as the new Fedora Project Leader.
 
Frields joined Red Hat in February 2008, replacing Max Spevack, another
Red Hat employee who ran the open source Linux development product from
February 2006 until Frields took over. Smith will take over the FPL
position (which is a full-time job with a Red Hat paycheck) to steer the
development of Fedora 14, something that Frields already got the ball
rolling on."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/new_fedora_project_leader/</ref>
 
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=== Red Hat names new Fedora Project Leader (Internetnews.com) ===
 
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013193.html</ref> a posting from Internetnews.com:
 
"I'm a huge fan of the work and the leadership that current Fedora
Project Leader Paul Frields has done since 2008. Frields has always been
one of the most articulate, honest and insightful Linux community
leaders that I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
 
. . .
 
The process of how Fedora's leadership is chosen is different than other
distributions. It's not a totally democratic process like the one that
Debian has. On the other hand it's not totally autocratic like Ubuntu.
In a mailing list posting announcing the transition, Frields explained
the process.
"One of the hallmarks of Fedora leadership is that it's open to change,"
Frields wrote. "The FPL is not a semi-benevolent dictator for life, but
rather a position to which new people can regularly bring their passion
for making Fedora better...The FPL job is a salaried position at Red
Hat, and the Fedora Board members as well as many other stakeholders
have been informed and involved with the process of selecting a new
FPL."
The full post is available<ref>http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/red-hat-names-new-fedora-proje.html</ref>


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Revision as of 16:33, 7 July 2010

Fedora In the News

In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Continuing from the recent announcement of new Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, this past week saw one more story in the trade press on this. from PC World.

Fedora Gets New Leader (PC World)

Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a brief posting about Jared Smith's appointment in PC World:

"The Fedora Project will be getting a new leader next month, as Jared Smith takes over the helm from current head Paul Frields, Frields announced[2] Tuesday on the Fedora mailing list.

Smith[3], who will become a Red Hat employee next month, has participated in the Fedora community since 2007, primarily devoting time to the project's infrastructure and documentation teams. He also helped build a free Voice Over IP-based audio conference system for Fedora developers, called Fedora Talk[4], and participated in Fedora-themed conferences."

The full post is available[5]