introducing our new fedora infrastructure leader

[Max Spevack]

My fellow Fedorans,

I'm very pleased to announce that Red Hat has hired Mike McGrath to be the 
Fedora Infrastructure Leader, as first mentioned on this list back in 
December.  Those of you who are active contributors to Fedora already know 
Mike, and are familiar with his work.

Mike has been a contributor to the Fedora Project for quite a while now, 
especially the Fedora Infrastructure group, and I'm personally very glad 
that we were able to hire from within for this job.  There are never as 
many job openings as I wish there were, but when we do have openings in 
Fedora it is my intention that we will look to fill them from within our 
community first.

Mike won't be starting 100% until February, but in the sense that he is 
already involved deeply in Fedora Infrastructure, and it's just a matter 
of him ramping up his time over the next few weeks.

I won't take up a lot of space on fedora-announce-list with the goals and 
plans for Fedora Infrastructure (I'll let Mike lead that conversation on 
the infrastructure list), but I just wanted to announce his hiring here 
for the rest of the Fedora community to know about it.

At a high level, I'm going to hold Mike accountable for several things:

(1) The technical priorities and implementation of them, for Fedora 
Infrastructure and system administration.

(2) The expansion of the Fedora Infrastructure community, and the 
continued health, contributions, and empowerment of the current 
contributors.

(3) Leadership and fairness.  The Benevolent Dictator of Fedora 
Infrastructure and System Administration.

 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure

(4) Being the point person for Fedora<->Red Hat network/sysadmin issues.

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Mike will be leading the Fedora Infrastructure Hackfest at FUDCon during 
February 2-4.

http://barcamp.org/FudconBoston2007#HACKFEST

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Congratulations, Mike!

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