Fedora Board election results

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:50 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Or in people's cases like mine, I'm paid by Red Hat, with the basic
> > mandate of "Go forth and make Fedora successful, as defined by Fedora".
> > I tell RH what I'm doing, not the other way around.  I'm accountable to
> > the Fedora community, and if at any time the Fedora community looses
> > their confidence in me, then my paycheck would be in jeopardy.
> 
> This is a very important distinction to make.  If Red Hat were 
> controlling things like some people in this thread say, half the board 
> would be involved with Red Hat's products and core business (as the 
> Board was intended to be).  As it is, almost none of the @redhat.com 
> people now on the board have involvement with RHEL, JBoss, etc.
> 
> Honestly, I strongly think the current board makeup hurts Red Hat more 
> than it hurts Fedora, because there really isn't much insight into RHEL, 
> or JBoss, etc. on the board.  It's completely Fedora dominated, which is 
> not fair to the people that pay the bills...

That's why RH has appointed seats.  So if they aren't appointing people
to lookout for their business interests, there's not much Fedora can do
about it...

josh