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Recent­ly the FPA have had numer­ous open posi­tions avail­able, and we are incred­i­bly pleased to announce that all these posi­tions have now been filled.

First up, we can announce that Brad Col­lete (slip­ton­ic) is the suc­cess­ful appli­cant for the FreeCAD Pro­fes­sion­al Net­work (FPN) Lead role. You can view the job descrip­tion for this role on the link above, but it will include cre­at­ing and curat­ing a reg­is­ter of pro­fes­sion­als using FreeCAD either as cre­ators, com­pa­nies or as educators. 

Addi­tion­al­ly there’s lots of activ­i­ty in this role around cre­at­ing newslet­ters, blog con­tent and oth­er mate­ri­als for FPN mem­bers and the wider com­mu­ni­ty. We look for­ward to see this net­work devel­op over the next year.

Kurt Kremitz­ki (kkremitz­ki) takes on the Infra­struc­ture Main­te­nance Leader role. Cov­er­ing the web­site, forums, wiki, and the add on cache this role will keep every­thing run­ning as smooth­ly as pos­si­ble. Kurt has a long his­to­ry run­ning much of this infra­struc­ture already, and we are real­ly pleased to con­sol­i­date this role.

John (Phone­Droid) takes on the Addon Ecosys­tem Coor­di­na­tor role. This role pri­mar­i­ly works with add on devel­op­ers to sup­port mov­ing add ons towards com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with future releases. 

With Phone­Droid tak­ing care of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and coor­di­na­tion with those devel­op­ers, a vote was held and the FPA approved to cre­ate an addi­tion­al Addon Ecosys­tem Tech­ni­cal Lead. Frank Mar­tinez (mne­sar­co) will fill this role and will also focus on the tech­ni­cal sup­port of devel­op­ers and the devel­op­ment of doc­u­men­ta­tion and oth­er sup­port materials. 

With some over­lap in these roles it’s felt the sup­port of devel­op­ers will be increased, lead­ing to improve­ments and sta­bil­i­ty in add ons.

Final­ly, the FPA Accoun­tant Role will be tak­en by Turan Furkan Topak (Reqre­fu­sion). Turan is an FPA mem­ber and a ful­ly trained accoun­tant. We wel­come the oppor­tu­ni­ty to have some­one in this role who is so famil­iar with open-source soft­ware and open governance.

We’d also like to wish every­one all the best in their new roles. We look for­ward to post­ing updates here and else­where on the work they under­take help­ing us move for­ward with FreeCAD.