As Fedora folk know, the Fedora Board Election is currently taking place. What people might not all be aware of is that the election software has been completely rewritten by one of our all-star contributors, Nigel Jones. Since I wrote the former election software, I'm well aware of its shortcomings: a manual process for setting up an election, no confirmation pages, limited styles of voting, only a single election at a time, and it just plain looked ugly. Nigel looked at all the problems and wrote a new app in TurboGears that fixed them. Not only does it solve all the problems we had before but it gives us a much more flexible framework for further enhancements. If we want new styles of voting or a new Fedora theme, it will be much easier to implement that with the new code.

So if you're on one of the Fedora IRC channels, give a warm thank-you to "G" for the excellent work he's done!