Fedora Goes to a Community-Dominated Board | Linux Today

Fedora Goes to a Community-Dominated Board

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 22, 2008

“Since the Fedora Board originally formed in 2006, the Fedora
Project has changed quite a bit. We now have about two-thirds of
our packages maintained by volunteer community members. Our
technical steering committee, FESCo, is made up of a roughly even
mix of volunteers and Red Hat employees. This community has
developed and enforced its own high standards and done it in an
open and transparent fashion in the best tradition of open
source.

“And through all of these efforts, we’ve helped build a
community of contributors — not just people who *use* Fedora, but
people who *give back* to the open source ecosystem, and their
fellow human beings…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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