Thank you Karsten for being part of the board. Even more, thank you for not running for one of the community seats. Following the last election it became very obvious to many Red Hat’s presence and some say influence in the community by the number of “community” seats filled by Red Hat employees on top of the Red Hat appointed seats. The community needs to have a responsibility to itself and to Fedora as a whole, I do not think this can be achieved with out community members that are not Red Hat employees on the board.

The above may sound like I do not appreciate the community members that are also Red Hat employees. The truth is I think their value to our community is minimized by some and this is not right. These are hard working individuals that in many or most cases do work on Fedora on their time on top of work hours. They need to be applauded equally with anyone else that contributes sweat equity to Linux and Fedora.

Bob