Originally published at: Fedora Council Elections: Interview with Aleksandra Fedorova (bookwar) – Fedora Community Blog
This is a part of the Fedora Council Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Tuesday 20th May and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Monday, 2 June 2025.
Interview with Aleksandra Fedorova
- FAS ID: bookwar
- Matrix Rooms: fedora-ci, fedora-council
Questions
Why are you running for Fedora Council?
I’d like to help the Fedora Project to continue to be a supportive diverse international FOSS community. I want to support the non-US perspective in Council discussions and to help deal with existing or future issues, which may appear.
The Fedora Strategy guiding star is that the project is going to double its contributor base by 2028. As a council member, how would you try to help the project delivering on that goal’?
One of the projects I have been thinking for a while is bringing the GitOps ideas to the distribution building (see https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/rfc-new-community-initiative-gitops-for-fedora-packaging/146990 )
I’d like make the overall process of making a distribution to become more accessible and more open to new contributors, beyond just the packager role.
How can we best measure Fedora’s success?
I would like to see Fedora as a first choice for upstream projects to try and test the new features and integration scenarios.
What do you see as Fedora’s place in the universe?
I see the goal of the Fedora Project to integrate the variety of FOSS tools and applications into a platform which can be presented to a user as a unified experience or can be used to build other higher level services.
And as such, the project needs not just tools and services for building and testing code, but also a communication platform and the community which can handle the discussions and arguments around that code and its integration issues.
The Fedora Council is intended to be an active working body. How will you make room for Council work?
Tough question. I will do my best 🙂