Government meetings. I worked there for 61 2 years until last november to start working on my own software idea. I have also been active in the open Source Software community throughout that time. In addition to my software work, i have been active in election and voting integrity issues for over 10 years. While living in davis, i advised the city appointed body called the davis Governance Task force and was recommended by them for my valuable contributions. ~ on election issues. In San Francisco i have been appointed [speaker not understood] inspector two times starting in the june 2006 election. I have attended many Election Commission meeting over the years here. Iest mate over a dozen. I have provided advice to the commission on things how we can improve manual audits and how we can improve the [speaker not understood] results. [speaker not understood] procedures on multiple occasions in San Francisco and i have written software to analyze San Franciscos rank Choice Voting data. Sa
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Red Hat and CentOS
When Red Hat took over the CentOS project back in 2014, there was a mixed, but mostly positive reaction. The CentOS maintainers were sometimes having a hard time keeping up with upstream changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and major releases like version 7 and 8 were challenging due to the required architecture changes.
So Red Hat s willingness to come in and backstop CentOS was generally a good thing for a time.
Last month, Red Hat dropped a bombshell: CentOS users who had started adopting CentOS 8 and expected support for stable releases until the end of the 2020s would get just one year of support.