The table of Fedora Leadership Group Nominees below will be used for the upcoming election. After nominations are verified with the nominee they will be added to this page along with the nominee's personal statement.

Bronze Members

Name	Organization	Title/Role	Personal Statement
Joanna DiPasquale	Vassar College Libraries	Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services

Silver Members

Name	Organization	Title/Role	Personal Statement
Chris Awre	University of Hull	Head of Information Services	As a long-term adopter of Fedora (since 2005), and lead advocate for its use in the UK, I have championed the benefits of Fedora as a digital repository platform and supported those exploring its use for a variety of different purposes. I believe in the repository platform being considered as infrastructure rather than application, and seek to refresh how repositories are viewed institutionally to better establish them in this way. Fedora offers the only platform that enables this. I am also a founder member of the Hydra Project in 2008 and recognise the important link between Fedora and the services making use of it to exploit its capabilities as a key element of the future of Fedora. In continuing with a role on the Leadership Group I would look to better understand the specific needs of silver level supporters and represent these as part of the broad Fedora community of users.
Stefano Cossu	Art Institute of Chicago	Director of Application Services, Collections
Andy Weidner	University of Houston Libraries	Metadata Services Coordinator	In my role as project manager for the Bayou City DAMS project, I am leading a multi-year, cross-departmental effort to implement a Fedora/Hydra repository for the University of Houston Libraries based on Hydra-in-a-Box (Hyku). As an active and founding member of the relatively new South Central States Fedora Users Group, I am excited about contributing to the Fedora community and championing its use in our region. If elected, I will work to represent the interests of new and potential Fedora adopters.

Gold Members

Name	Organization	Title/Role	Personal Statement
Aaron Choate	University of Texas Libraries	Interim Assistant Director for Technology Innovation & Strategy
Sayeed Choudhury	Johns Hopkins University	Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Dan Davis	Smithsonian Institution	Technical Manager
Philip Konomos	Arizona State University Library	Associate University Library and CTO
Rosalyn Metz	Emory University Libraries	Director of Library Technology and Digital Strategies	I am the Director of Library Technology and Digital Strategies at Emory University in Atlanta. I lead a diverse cross-functional team at the university on a multi-year effort to implement a Fedora/Hydra based repository. Ultimately, we seek to preserve content for all of the libraries, archives, and museums on campus. I have been involved in digital repositories and digital preservation in various roles throughout my career -- in project, product, and service management, operations and infrastructure management, and through my work with DPN. Fedora's extensible architecture and support for linked data make it a key component of digital repositories and digital libraries. Therefore, I believe it is up to us, the cultural heritage institutions that support Fedora, to ensure its long-term stewardship and continued success well into the future.
Tom Murphy	University of Michigan - ICPSR	Director of Computing & Network Services
Tim Shearer	UNC Chapel Hill - University Libraries	Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and IT	UNC Libraries have been using Fedora as the core technology in the Carolina Digital Library since 2010. At UNC we are moving actively from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4, adopting PCDM as part of this move, and exploring Hyrax as the new front end to our institutional repository. In addition to being DuraSpace members, we have been engaged in the community and contributed developer time to Fedora 4. Carolina is poised to become a Hydra member in 2017. UNC's commitment to DuraSpace, Fedora, and the Hydra community will only grow with the relatively recent adoption of an Open Access policy for the campus. Tim Shearer is Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and IT and is ultimately responsible for repository development at Carolina.

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2017 Fedora Leadership Group Election - Nominations

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