One Person's Take on Jef Spaleta, the New Fedora Project Leader
Some days ago IBM announced that another man had been put in charge of Fedora. Remember that IBM sacked some prior Fedora leaders or shuffled them around to leave the project leaderless, e.g. [1, 2].
What is the stance of the new leader on monopolies like GAFAM? One reader did some digging and wrote the following summary for us:
Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta- https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta/
"Community advocate at Isovalent"
"Jef Spaleta has more than a decade of experience in the technology industry; as software engineer, open source contributor, IoT hardware developer, operations, and most recently as a community advocate at Isovalent."
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/presentation/spaleta
A Repost of another's news which mentions Microsoft
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jspaleta_azure-cni-with-cilium-most-scalable-and-activity-7084971229207568384-EPeL
"Microsoft and Isovalent bring eBPF-based Networking and Security to Azure"
"Today, we are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The partnership brings the extensive eBPF-based capabilities of Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium to Azure and AKS. We have been hard at work together with Microsoft"
- https://isovalent.com/blog/post/microsoft-and-isovalent-bring-ebpf-based-networking-to-azure/
"Announcing Azure CNI Powered by Cilium"
"We are excited to announce the availability of Azure CNI powered by Cilium. This new dataplane comes out of a collaboration of Microsoft and Isovalent and combines Cilium with the existing control plane of Azure CNI to bring a high-performance eBPF-based dataplane with extensive security and observability capabilities to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)."
- https://isovalent.com/blog/post/azure-cni-cilium/
"Jef is a technical community advocate at Isovalent.com."
- https://isovalent.com/blog/post/announcing-the-ebeedex/
"Prior to joining Isovalent, he was the Principal Developer Advocate at Sensu Inc."
- https://blog.container-solutions.com/author/jef-spaleta
"At the easy end of the spectrum are the public cloud providers, including Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google’s Google Cloud Platform. They have offerings you can use to get up and running quickly."
- https://sensu.io/blog/kubernetes-101
The person who wrote this added:
"With a little searching, I wonder what else may be found regarding Microsoft."
IBM would not put a Free software stickler (or "activist") in charge of anything. █