Yeah, so I haven't blogged much lately, and I'm really kicking myself for it.

So what has been happening? Mainly I've moved to Brisbane (Australia) and after 5 weeks I love the place, and I love working for Red Hat.

But that's not all that's happened.

For those that follow the Fedora Infrastructure mailing list, I recently got added to the group known as 'sysadmin-main', and as a result have become the first non American member of the core Infrastructure Team, (Eugene was technically the first but he was a temporary appointment).

The Fedora Board elections are coming up, and I'm excited (no, I'm not on the ballot, but I kinda wish I was - I should have put my name down when I had a chance). I guess I will have to in 6 months time (oh well).

The good news is, I will be blogging a bit more frequently now, so watch out.

Tags: board, brisbane, fedora, infrastructure, life, red hat

This post covers areas that I've already posted to the likes of fedora-advisory-board list, but covers some new topics.

The slip of Fedora 11 introduces a rather interesting problem, all of our elections end up scheduled very close to Christmas, this used to be a problem in the past when all elections were held one at a time.  Of course, this isn't a problem for us any more, we could technically hold 2000 elections/votes at once without any problems, the new problem is, no one has said "let's do them all at once, what do you think?"  Well that's what I'm doing, most of our steering committees look have a "before Release date + x weeks" condition in their clauses for holding elections, with Christmas, this limits us to a 1-2 week period to hold them (if, god forbid, the release doesn't slip again).

Now, there is a little bit of work that I need to do ahead of the elections on the voting system, I'm reworking some of the databases in the hope that I can fix many of the issues that we've had behind the scenes, I'm also working on some new features, one of which requested by Jef, "Q&A Election candidates", I've got a fairly good idea of how I'm going to implement this and I might have a prototype ready by this time next week if all goes well.

Another feature I plan on adding, is creating a nomination form, so when elections are created ahead of time instead of an hour before, candidates can nominate themselves, or other people, mainly to get rid of the wiki based system, but also to simply the process 10-fold.

My request now, is if there is ANY features you'd like to see in the elections software, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE file a request at http://fedorahosted.org/elections I'd sooner know now than just before it all kicks off.

Tags: board, elections, fedora, fesco

Now that Paul has "let the cat out of the bag" I can talk openly about the board elections again :)

All I really have to say is...

Congratulations, to: Tom Callaway, Jesse Keating, Seth Vidal and Jef Spaleta who from 1st July 2008 will be slaves^Wmembers of the Fedora Board.

I'd also like to say that while they have not become members of the board, Dennis Gilmore, Jon Stanley, Josh Boyer and Jonathan Roberts should all be pretty proud and happy, the fact they did not get elected, they are still EXCELLENT members of the Fedora Community, nothing can change that.

The turn out was, lets just say, disappointing, 250 out of 4069 people who have signed the CLA... that's not good enough.

However, the December 07 Board Election only saw 128 voters, so it has actually still improved somewhat.

I'm planning on holding an "Anatomy/Post-Mortem/Autospy" of the election, and the election software sometime soon (I'll note here if/when that'll be, in the mean time, you can send ideas/thoughts through to "dev -at- nigelj -dot- com" and I'll collate them etc).

One final acknowledgment... I'd like to thank Ryan Lerch for creating such an awesome "I Voted" image. Having it every 10 or so posts on Fedora Planet was great for getting the punters in.

Tags: board, elections, fedora

"Hello and welcome to CNN, I'm Wolf Blitzer"

We have some initial data for the Fedora Board Primaries coming in showing that all seven candidates have performed extremely well all attaining some sort of vote from 100% of voters.

Our computers have generated the following very colourful map showing the vote distribution and the winners of several of the precincts. Unfortunately our computers are so "state-of-the-art" (just look at this fancy touchscreen here that displays porn for us during the commercial breaks) that we don't know WHO actually won...



Hopefully official results will be out shortly...

P.S. Please take this in the spirit intended... A joke/parody... REAL voting data will be available shortly...

Tags: board, elections, fedora, joke, linux
Current Mood: excited

There is 11 hours to end of voting, SO MAKE SURE YOU VOTE!

Tags: board, elections, fedora