During Max’s days in Athens, we had quite a few opportunities to engage in some really interesting discussions about Fedora and the open source ecosystem in general. Whether it was while walking on Acropolis, strolling through the market streets of Monastiraki, or eating a souvlaki, we talked about a bunch of topics like community architecture, Fedora’s image to external users and developers, FUDCons, contribution locality and universality, and sponsoring.

A week later, Max nominated me for the Fedora Board. So it seems my ideas might not be completely absurd after all. There is also the possibility that Max had a drink or two from his big Ouzo bottle before considering it.

Having participated in the decision-making cogs of the Localization and Documentation Projects, I experienced first-hand the change one can make in Fedora, should one want to improve something. Like, for example, moving software development from an internal server to Fedora systems, building a new translation platform, and forming a team to steer one of Fedora’s biggest sub-projects.

With these in mind, I decided to do something with my ideas and energy to improve our project on a global scale, and run for Fedora’s top-level decision team. I put down on the wiki page a number of reasons one could support my candidacy.

If you have any questions about me, my ideas (be it plans, thoughts on what we’re doing right or wrong, etc) or how you too could get your hands on some Ouzo, don’t hesitate to fire away an email, instant message, or find me on IRC.

Sailing boats on Ydra island October 2009