* What is your background in Fedora? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?

I'm a long-time fedora contributor, packaging mostly.  I have served on the Project Board (several times), FESCo, and Packaging Committee.
Currently I'm an active member of the KDE SIG and generally try to help out anywhere I can.


* What does it mean for Fedora to be successful? What is "winning" for our project?

For me, it's simple.  Success means Fedora continuing to grow into a thriving, even more active community.  Winning means continuing to be an ideal incubator for our vision of free culture and collaboration.


* What are the most pressing issues facing Fedora today? What should we do about them?

I think it important to continue to empower those doing the hard work within the project, and to tear down barriers that get in the way of getting that valuable work done.


* What are your interests and experience outside of Fedora? What of those things will help you in this role?

I work as system administrator in the Mathematics department at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.  I also contribute occasionally to other (upstream) projects, including KDE and xdg-utils.  I believe my experience in administration/deployment and upstream development give me some valuable and unique perspectives.


* Care to share a screenshot of your Fedora desktop?

https://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/rdieter-screenie.png


* Have you used Fedora in a cloud or server context?

I currently use fedora to power several web-based application servers (as part of my dayjob).


* Anything else voters should know?

I'm an avid baseball fan, go Cubs and Astros (an odd pairing of favorite teams, but there you have it).