This is a part of the Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 8 December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 21 December.

Interview with Kevin Fenzi

• Fedora Account: Kevin
• IRC/Nick: nirik
• Matrix Channels typically found in: #fedora-admin/admin, #fedora-noc/noc, #fedora-releng/releng, #fedora-devel/devel
• Fedora User Wiki Page

Why do you want to be a member of FESCo and how do you expect to help steer the direction of Fedora?

I wish to continue to serve the fedora community on FESCo to provide history and help make today’s decisions based on yesterdays learning.

How do you currently contribute to Fedora? How does that contribution benefit the community?

I currently am lucky to be employed by Red Hat working full time on Fedora Infrastructure. But outside of that ‘day job’ I try and do as many things as I can to help the fedora community: Maintaining packages, providing feedback on plans or ideas, doing release engineering tasks (often in non ‘work’ times).

How do you handle disagreements when working as part of a team?

I try and reach consensus until it becomes clear thats not possible. However, it almost always is possible, you just need to look at things from other perspectives and consider what solution would work for everyone. This is not foolproof, but helps to handle disagreements when they happen.

What else should community members know about you or your positions?

I’m happy to talk to anyone from the community anytime about fedora items. Feel free to contact me on matrix or irc or email. I’m human and make mistakes, but I like to think I learn from them and do better over time. 🙂

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-with-kevin-fenzi-2/

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This is a part of the Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 8 December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 21 December.

Interview with Tomas Hckra

• Fedora Account: Tomas Hckra
• IRC/Nick: jednorozec/humaton
• Matrix Channels typically found in: fedora-releng, #fedora-devel, #fedora-devel, #fedora-noc
• Fedora User Wiki Page

Why do you want to be a member of FESCo and how do you expect to help steer the direction of Fedora?

I believe that my perspective as a fedora release engineer can bring some new opinions into the steering process. My focus is mostly on user/contributor self-service where possible so we can remove obstacles for new people coming into the Fedora project.

How do you currently contribute to Fedora? How does that contribution benefit the community?

Over the last decade, I went through package maintenance and app development. Currently, I am part of the release engineering team, helping out with releases and related infrastructure work. Right now I am working on dropping the Product Definition Center from our workflows so we can reduce the complexity in our package-related processes and tooling.

How do you handle disagreements when working as part of a team?

Most of the team disagreements I was part of were caused by communication issues and misunderstanding of one or the other side. So I strongly believe that most problems are resolvable by listening, considering the other side, and communicating about the disagreement clearly. The next step is building consensus keeping in mind all the viewpoints that caused the conflict in the first place.

What else should community members know about you or your positions?

I am a full-on open-source nerd, everything in my house is running open-source SW. I am not shy of public speaking you can find some of my talks on YouTube like this one about opensource home automation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUhHaHnzhYA

Two main ideas that define my approach to technology:
“I want all things open and all sources shown”
“Where is a serial console there is a way”

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-with-tomas-hckra/

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Today we are starting the nomination & campaign period during which we accept nominations to the “steering bodies” of the following teams:

• FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats)
• Fedora Council (1 seat)
• Mindshare (1 seat)

This period is open until 2023-11-27 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Candidates may self-nominate. If you nominate someone else, please check with them to ensure that they are willing to be nominated before submitting their name.

The steering bodies are currently selecting interview questions for the candidates.

Nominees submit their questionnaire answers via a private Pagure issue. The Election Wrangler or their backup will publish the interviews to the Community Blog before the start of the voting period.

Please note that the interview is mandatory for all nominees. Nominees not having their interview ready by end of the Interview period (2023-05-17) will be disqualified and removed from the election.

As part of the campaign people may also ask questions to specific candidates on the appropriate mailing list.

The full schedule of the elections is available on the Elections schedule. For more information about the elections, process see the Elections docs.

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f39-elections-now-open/

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