2025-06-05 –, Plenary
As during every Flock, we'll hold a session with FESCo members to introduce themselves and say a few words about our plans for the next year. The majority of time will be spent on questions from the audience.
In addition to being a consultant at Velocity Limitless, Neal Gompa is a developer for and contributor to Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, and openSUSE. Neal focuses primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management, and desktop Linux. He's a big believer in upstream first, which has led him all over the open source world.
Fabio "decathorpe" Valentini has been a contributor to the Fedora project for more than a decade and is involved in many different areas of the project. He is currently "the Rust guy", a member of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC), and on top of the leaderboard of packagers who submit the most package updates.
Long time employee at Red Hat working on Fedora Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and now CentOS Stream. Member of FESCo and the Fedora Council.
Stephen Gallagher (He/Him) is a long-time member of the Fedora community. He has served on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee since 2011 and has been employed by Red Hat since 2008. He lives and breathes open source.
I work in Red Hat, in the team maintaining systemd. I'm a packager and member of FESCo.
Fabio Alessandro “Fale” Locati is an EMEA Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat, public speaker, author, and Open Source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale started working in IT in 2004, giving him many years of experience, with many of them spent consulting for many companies, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of the books Practical Ansible, Practical Ansible 2, Learning Ansible 2, Learning Ansible 2.7, and OpenStack Cloud Security. In his spare time, he helps in the Ansible, Fedora, Kubernetes, and OpenStreetMap communities, as well as in many smaller projects on GitHub and similar platforms.
Currently Fale is serving as FESCo member.
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Infrastructure cat herder.