Fedora Board election results

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:34 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:04 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:54 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:25 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > The results of the Fedora Project Board elections are in:  Tom Callaway,
> > > > > Jesse Keating and Seth Vidal have been elected to full two-release
> > > > > terms, and Jef Spaleta is re-elected to a one-release term.
> > > > >
> > > > > Red Hat will announce its final appointment to the Board within the next
> > > > > couple of days, completing this cycle.
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > Just an observation (not a complaint or anything) but it is funny that the
> > > > first election where Red Hat has the fewest appointed seats has resulted
> > > > in Red Hat employees holding the most seats.
> > > 
> > > Actually, not necessarily -- we've had 6 Red Hat employees as Board
> > > members before, and that very well may end up being the final count this
> > > time also.  Remember that Red Hat isn't required to tap employees for
> > > appointed seats... ;-)
> > 
> > Is there any sort of criteria they use to pick the last seat?  I'm just
> > curious.
> 
> The last seat is picked with the goal of balancing the background of the
> other seats on the Board.

Interesting.  Given the prevalence of FPC/Rel-Eng/FESCo members now on
the new Board, I'd recommend picking someone that has nothing to do with
those at all.  Jon Roberts might be a good pick there.

Not that my suggestion makes a difference, but it might be worth noting.

josh