New Fedora Project Leader appointed

Jared Smith will be the new Project Leader of the Fedora Project. This is the second non-Red Hat employee Red Hat has hired and appointed as Fedora Project Leader, after previous Project Leader Paul W. Frields.

Smith previously worked for Asterisk specialist Digium. He has contributed to Fedora Docs and helped implement Fedora Talk, which is used for VoIP by the Fedora community. Further background information about Smith and the responsibilities of his new job can be found in the announcement by Red Hat and in a post to Fedora's announce mailing list by Frields.

See also:

• Rock it - What's new in Fedora 13, a feature from The H.
• Fedora 14 to be named Laughlin, a report from The H.
• Fedora Project Leader stepping down, a report from The H.

(crve)