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