[CentOS-devel] Welcome Thomas and Patrick to CentOS Project Governing Board

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 9:56 AM Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   The CentOS Governing Board of Directors is pleased to appoint two new
> Directors to be added to the Governing Board, effective 8th April 2020:
> Thomas Oulevey [1] and Patrick Riehecky [2]. The community will
> instantly recognise both from their long standing and well established
> support for the CentOS Project over the years, initially as consumers
> and community participants, and in more recent times as active across
> various initiatives in and around the project space.
>
>   Over the last sixteen years the CentOS project has established itself
> as a critical component in the open source ecosystem online. In order to
> maintain this leading role and help drive success for the wider open
> source ecosystem, we are moving to a more contributor-centric model. A
> key part of enabling this goal is to evolve our transparent governance.
> Pat and Thomas have shown keen interest in participating in this
> specific endeavour, and we are excited to welcome them to the team,
> helping us get there.
>
>   Thomas (alphacc) works in the Controls group within the CERN Beams
> department [3]. He has contributed to the CentOS Project since 2012, as
> a member of the infrastructure team. He helped to bootstrap a few
> Special Interest Groups, helped the QA team with reports, and now mainly
> designs and improves the Community Build Service [4]. Thomas’s sponsor
> on the Board is Mike McLean, who will help oversee his transition to
> project leadership.
>
>   Patrick (jcpunk) works at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [5].
> He is part of the Scientific Linux team [6] and works on systems that
> perform Data Acquisition for various experiments at Fermilab. Although a
> long time member of the community, formally Pat began working with the
> CentOS Community when Fermilab decided to use CentOS 8 [7] as its
> EL8-base platform. Pat’s sponsor is Johnny Hughes, who will help oversee
> his transition to project leadership.
>
> Please join me in welcoming them to the team,
>
> Regards
>
> Karanbir Singh
> Project Lead, The CentOS Project
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.centos.org/ThomasOulevey
> [2] https://wiki.centos.org/PatrickRiehecky
> [3] https://beams.cern
> [4] https://cbs.centos.org
> [5] https://beams.cern
> [6] https://www.scientificlinux.org/about/who-makes-scientific-linux/
> [7]
> https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE;11d6001.1904
>

Welcome and congratulations.
I am so excited to hear that you both will be on the CentOS Board of Directors.

Troy Dawson