From 467b39d73d7f692b950cd539c2e82cc9792a533c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jef Spaleta Date: Dec 05 2025 19:02:44 +0000 Subject: Update council/modules/ROOT/pages/fpl.adoc with jeffpl bio adding jeffpl bio. --- diff --git a/council/modules/ROOT/pages/fpl.adoc b/council/modules/ROOT/pages/fpl.adoc index 879ffa2..abe52e1 100644 --- a/council/modules/ROOT/pages/fpl.adoc +++ b/council/modules/ROOT/pages/fpl.adoc @@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ The FPL chairs the xref:index.adoc[{team_name}]. link:{url_wiki}/User:Jspaleta[Jef Spaleta] is the current Fedora Project Leader. +Jef has more than a decade of experience in the technology industry; as software engineer, open source contributor, IoT hardware developer, operations, and developer advocate. +Prior to entering the technology industry as a paid professional, he was a plasma physics researcher. First in a Princeton lab work with fusion energy relevant experiments in New Jersey as a graduate student, and then pretty much everywhere but a lab building radars studying ionospheric plasmas as part of the SuperDARN international collaboration while living in Alaska. +During his period as an academic researcher, he also was involved in the fedora.us repository as a contributor, which susequently merged with Red Hat's effort to build what became the Fedora Project. Jef was even an elected Fedora Board member (the thing that pre-dated the Council) briefly before his trips to Antartica and elsewhere made it impossible for him to continue actively contributing to Fedora. +Now he's back serving the Fedora community after some time away. + +He also curls..something he picked up in Alaska as a way to stay sane in the long winters there. [[previous]] == Previous Fedora Project Leaders