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= The Fedora Project Leader
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The _Fedora Project Leader_ (or _FPL_) is ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora and in particular is responsible for maintaining Red Hat's relationship with Fedora and vice versa.
They are Fedora's President, CEO, Chair, Fearless Leader, whatever-you-want-to-call-it.
However the project leader is not a dictator, benevolent or otherwise.
The FPL chairs the xref:index.adoc[{team_name}].

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https://mattdm.org[Matthew Miller] is the current Fedora Project Leader.
He led the Fedora.next initiative for a strategic approach to Fedora's second decade, as well as the transition from the Fedora Board to the current {team_name} governance model.
Matthew created the BU Linux distribution for Boston University in 1999 and maintained that through 2008, when he moved to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to work on high performance computing and this up-and-coming “cloud” thing.
He has been at Red Hat since 2012, first working on Fedora Cloud and becoming FPL in June 2014.

Contact Matthew as https://matrix.to/#/@mattdm:fedora.im[@mattdm:fedora.im] on Matrix, https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/u/mattdm/[mattdm] on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/[Fedora Discussion], or https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm[@mattdm@hachyderm.io] on Mastodon.


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== Previous Fedora Project Leaders

link:{FWIKI}/User:Rbergero[Robyn Bergeron]::
  February 2012 – June 2014 (Fedora 17 – 21)

link:{FWIKI}/User:Jsmith[Jared Smith]::
  July 2010 – February 2012 (Fedora 14 – 16)

link:{FWIKI}/User:Pfrields[Paul W. Frields]::
  February 2008 – July 2010 (Fedora 9 – 14)

link:{FWIKI}/User:Mspevack[Max Spevack]::
  February 2006 – February 2008 (Fedora Core 5 – Fedora 9)

link:{FWIKI}/User:Gdk[Greg DeKoenigsberg]::
  August 2005 – February 2006 (Fedora Core 4 & 5)

Cristian Gafton::
  January 2004 – August 2005 (Fedora Core 2, 3, & 4)

Michael Johnson::
  July 2003 – January 2004 (Fedora Core 1)
