Corporation BAC: Election for Distributions’ Delegate
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Select the Distributions’ Delegate for the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the OpenSSL Corporation. This advisory is important in enhancing our governance structure, ensuring that decisions reflect the diverse stakeholders involved and that our Mission and Values remain aligned with the community’s needs.
Only one vote per distribution will be counted, regardless of the number of individuals participating. If multiple votes are cast by a distribution for different candidates, the candidate with the highest number of votes will be deemed the distribution’s choice. This approach ensures equal representation across all groups and fairness in the decision-making process.
Your participation is essential in shaping OpenSSL’s future and ensuring that the voice of the distributions is effectively represented.
Poll Created Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:22PM
Corporation BAC Distributions' Election Closed Sun 15 Dec 2024 11:00PM
Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent election. We’re pleased to announce that Jaroslav Reznik (Red Hat) has been elected to a Distributions seat in the OpenSSL Corporation BAC.
The result was normalized in accordance with this community election policy, ensuring fairness and equal representation across all distributions: only one vote per distribution was counted, regardless of the number of individuals participating.
Below is a table with the adjusted results:
Option |
% of points |
Voters |
Jaroslav Reznik - Red Hat |
60% |
3 |
John Haxby - Oracle |
40% |
2 |
None of the Above |
0% |
0 |
Congratulations to Jaroslav!
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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Jaroslav Reznik - Red Hat | 55.6% | 5 | |||
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John Haxby - Oracle | 44.4% | 4 | |||
| None of the Above | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
| Undecided | 0% | 12 |
9 of 21 people have participated (42%)
Election Committee Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:23PM
Nominee: John Haxby
Statement
I have been involved with the Oracle Linux distribution since early 2008. My early involvement with OpenSSL was backporting fixes to the distro's version of the openssl package and I've long been, and continue to be, concerned with how openssl fits in with the distro eco-system.
I'm often the "go to" person for anything to do with Linux and my colleagues at Oracle saw me as the natural choice to represent the Oracle Linux distribution. Beyond that, I've been a developer on Unix and Linux for over four decades and my wide-ranging operating system and distro knowledge provides a solid background in the distro eco-system.
Election Committee · Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:23PM
Nominee: Jaroslav Reznik
Statement
I’m Jaroslav Reznik, long time Red Hatter and open source enthusiast, currently working as Compliance Program Manager in Red Hat’s Product Security Compliance team.
I believe I can provide value to the OpenSSL Corporation Business Advisory Committee as Red Hat is well known OpenSSL community member, I have experience with FIPS 140 and other cybersecurity regulations important for OpenSSL and I believe sharing the same goal can benefit both OpenSSL and Red Hat. In my background, I have a lot of experience in the distribution ecosystems, mainly in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora - from engineering work (packaging, bringing up a new architecture), through release management, security updates handling to compliance.
Even though I don't have a direct OpenSSL community experience yet ;-), I have a deep open source community background as I was Fedora Program Manager in the past for four years and I was on Fedora Board (as an elected member) and Fedora Council (as an appointed member). This gave me an unique experience of being a person between community and corporate entities and help shaping the Foundation and the Corporation cooperation.