After we discovered, along with our pals from the Linux Foundation, that the Fedora Project didn’t have any one to represent Fedora on a community contributions panel at the Collaboration Summit, the right folks at LF got together with us and sorted out what we needed to do. I volunteered to represent Fedora, and got my confirmation a week ago.
Today an updated press release includes more details about the community panel:
A panel on community contributions and participation will be presented with speakers that include Jono Bacon, community manager at Ubuntu; James Bottomley, kernel developer at Novell; Joe Brockmeier, community manager, openSUSE; Dan Frye, vice president, open systems development, IBM Systems and Technology Group; and Karsten Wade, Fedora Project.
I’m supposing my title got dropped because no one knew quite what to do with “Sr. Community Gardener” in this context. :) (For one event, my title slide identified me as “Community Mangler”, which at least Jono loved, but I find that even more confusing. Besides, I really try to unmangle.)