 We are here today to Tell your fedora story now the session name might not be Super obvious, so I am going to hide us in we'll see you soon So I'm going to talk a little bit about the idea behind the session and what we're doing for the fedora week of diversity so the Fedora week of diversity is a Transformation of Fedora Women's Day. I think it's about four or five year long running event that we've done and You know women What was the first very obvious place to focus our D&I efforts? As we have not very many women or nine very ordinary folks in tech There's a lot more men in this industry So it seemed like an obvious first place, but as we've grown as a culture a community And society overall especially with the things that we've learned in the last two years We've decided to move this event to the Fedora week of diversity So this is to be even further inclusive and we're not not celebrating women. We're still celebrating women and all of the other Intersections of diversity that has so that's what fedora week of diversity is Yonah the bull and I are leading up an effort to make this happen and The concept behind the fedora week of fedora Fedora week of diversity is telling Fedora stories so we're not trying to Display some sort of ingenuous disingenuous Kind of display of what we want fedora diversity to be or what we think it should be instead we're looking to The community to say hey we want to hear your fedora story and those are the stories that are Meaningful to folks that They're probably going through the types of things that Bound you to fedora like your identity as a fedora and so The idea behind this is I Don't know if Grayson is going to join us. He was supposed to be here, but it's Saturday morning. So maybe not I See him in the people section there. So he's okay. Hi Grayson. So we're also Partnering with the podcast. Hey Grayson. Thanks for joining us If you wanted me in here yet, I want you. Yes, come on. So anyway, so we're partnering with the Fedora podcast to record some content here today, so we thought this would be a great chance to catch a bunch of fedorans all at once and Be able to converse with you about your fedora story. So How it's going to work is Grayson has set up a recording room for us Meanwhile, we will just chat and you know explain to newcomers who are coming in what we're doing here Meanwhile, we also can record and happen. This is being recorded right now. So if we have some Chat or conversation in here, we can use that as well. So we're gonna have like two places We're basically telling stories and doing recordings So we have some prompts if I don't have anyone has that hack and be up The ball, you know, I can look for it real quick. I'm having some pipe wire issues So I'm gonna reboot and be fast as there'll be back as fast as possible Sounds good So right so we have two different space. So we're gonna have prompts for people. So questions. So I'll just Get the pumps primed here. So This is like I mentioned We want to hear a story about your fedora experience. So for example Who is your fedora mentor and what have you learned from them? What was your aha or transformative moment Like to solidify you as a fedora contributor What was the most fun you've had Contributing to fedora or being a part of the community So these types of questions So as folks Are feeling comfortable to Tell their fedora story. We're gonna invite them up onto the screen and then once they're done, they're going to Leave the screen and we're going to have somebody else come up. The reason for this is the more People we have up on the screen the smaller and smaller our video Our faces get on the recording So and also we want to give people that chance to tell their story without a lot of interruptions so We won't Grayson comes back. We'll get a volunteer to Join him in his recording room and I'm sure he'll drop a link for us for now What we can do is Have somebody come up and talk to us about their fedora story Paul would like to tell his fedora story Okay, let's do that. Oh You actually I don't see you on the moderation panel. I did it. Okay, cool. Hello. Uh, am I ready? You are hi Paul. How are you today? Good? Hello? I am Paul Flaherty. I have autism and ADHD. I am I Have been using Linux ever since 2015 I've Discovered Linux somebody told me my father told me that Linux is this OS for computer geeks Me being very curious in the Linux operating system. I just started exploring and I have an old image of me on an Ubuntu live CD I was using Ubuntu 14.04. That's how I started then I discovered Fedora Um, I discovered Fedora and I was like, wow, this is cool. I can get this It looks like well, and it has all the new gnome features gnome features and just want to get the gnome community to I'm gonna say it proper. Good gnome. So You know have the good new network option seeing environment. So I am just uh, I I was um, I just discovered during the pandemic my summer camp program closed down so I was thinking there was nothing to do so I thought oh, I could contribute to Fedora and Gnome and I went to conferences and I Go to Linux conventions and now I'm running Linux on my machine that can't run Linux I'm also running Fedora on my laptop. So and and then I went to Gwadek and I met Ricard and Andi who are really great and I'm so happy to input advice and Fedora, it's a great project to work with You guys I Like you guys you're very inclusive your help assist people you value freedom and free software You're kind of your as value you have that value as much as Debbie and us Which is pretty interesting for a corporate sponsored distro and I'm so happy that you guys are I'm so happy that you guys actually embraced freedom which is good because I know that where the OS I used to use I'm not naming it had a lot of Spying problems, you know windows Right, can I ask you something Paul? Yes? What's your favorite Fedora moment so far? Yeah, when you were laughing during the You are not not laughing. I was being I was at the conference The the cake thing and I was talking to the people about red hat and rattle And I was laughing because they were like there was Debbie in and then there was a We're talking about how red hat was just so hard to manage back in the day And not red hat was so hard, but not red hat. Oh, not red hat Debbie in was so hard to manage so people use red hat Yeah, so I just I'm wondering so how did you um so I'm so happy that the community is very excited to Bring people on and I'm looking someday. Maybe after I go to college to actually work for red hat Cool, that's an awesome goal. Well, thank you so much Paul for coming up and telling your story So let's somebody else join the screen. Yeah. Thank you Right next we have a card. Hi, Ricardo. Are you there with us? I can't hear the sound. Is it me? I Can't hear it as well Yes, don't know sound record. Sorry Maybe try refreshing Marie you are muted. Just realize that Well, we went for record to come back Is there anyone else who is interested in telling their fedora story this? Paul so What we're going to do with this content is we're going to edit it into a series for a fedora week of diversity So it will be published throughout the week Of diversity and that's the second week of october, I believe And you'll see things on youtube and you'll see things on the community blog and a couple other places No Is it a pipe wire issue? Still nothing from your card Yeah, they just mentioned they'll try from a different computer Uh Yeah technology Uh, yeah, there's a test your audio video session under the sessions tab if you Need to try to figure all that out All right, so I'm gonna ask vipo then Vipo, who was your fedora mentor? And tell us one story about working with them So in 2000 early 2016 I had a broken foot and I made this person working fedora qa We all know him suman through and He introduced me to do things around fedora qa and I he said oh come in the meeting tonight on irc And I'll introduce you to adam williamson and I was so excited. Oh, yes, it would be great. And then the way I was introduced and the welcome. I just loved it After that I started doing a bunch of things in qa then I met yona in flock. That was fun She was doing a lot of things around minted project and she was doing outreachy and fedora some of Google summer of code things Where we were talking about happiness packet if I remember correctly addressed him Right, so that was also fun and obviously oh so many i'm just trying to think I also have been I have so many mentors throughout the time But yeah suman through was the original one. I'll say that And still is we talk a lot of the times and we discuss how things are with our infrastructure side qa side how we can work together I have a question Now that like you've been involved in fedora for so long and you're on cpe like do you see still see suman through as your mentor? I always consider him as one. He was the one to introduce me to fedora and I knew off linux. I had used a little bit, but the day I met him I ended up installing operating system that I had at that time and install fedora directly jumped in it And after that he taught me a bunch of things. So yes, definitely. I do consider him my mentor even Cool I'm gonna ask yona If you feel comfortable, would you like to tell us about your fedora mentor and One thing about them or a story of how they helped you Yeah, sure. So For me it was yanis He's part of the Fedora greek community. He's not active now, but at the time he was very active and actually I saw him at old sky the first conference that we did in tirana. He gave a talk about fedora and I remember that after his talk I went at the fedora booth So I took a dvd. So he convinced me to you know, install fedora on my computer And since then I kept contact with him him and also ardian from the fedora community in kosovo They were like very helpful and they helped me to become an ambassador and so on And yeah, I really enjoyed learning about fedora from both of them and Favorite moments. Well, usually I would say especially flock Um, and my first one was in krakow in poland And it was really great that you know the people that you work through the whole year finally you are meeting them in person And it was like really really great. So you especially when it's the time for flock that we can Meet each other in person or now, you know online It's it's really great We have so many great memories and That's why yeah, my favorite thing in fedora. It's um, the community the people And what about I'm getting a little I'm getting a little little feels Oh, yeah, meet people and hug them. It's one of the things that I miss a lot Yes, um, my mentor. So my mentor is no duffy People know mo as nizmo online Or duffy I think too. Um, so mo is the fedora design team leader And I was connected to mo through an outreach internship Uh in 2013 working on fedora badges Since then mo has Encouraged me and supported me like literally every step of the way Mo wrote me the recommendation For the fedora community action and impact coordinator Position and when I read the letter that she wrote me I literally cried That I don't want to say that's my favorite moment with my mentor, but It just showed How much mo was ready to support? Other women in this industry, which is super important and an inspiration to me I'm part of why I now mentor for outreach II right. I realize Impact that it had on me and my career in my life um Not just my career confidence, right? there's like attributes that I've learned from being a part of fedora that uh Effect and improve my life across the board. So Mo was just instrumental in my entire fedora story And now I get to work with her on like a weekly basis basically on something or another I'm gonna say my favorite or my The moment that I think of a lot or often is I was going to um It was a design fad. So a fad is a fator activity day where the folks In the audience. I don't know what a fad is um So I was at a design fad and I was talking to mo about Badges, right? So I had started doing the internship and I was like Still maintaining it and doing work there and it'd been like maybe a year or so like continued engagement after my internship So I'm asking her like hey. I want to do this thing with badges Or I want to make this decision about badges and she just looked at me and said You run badges Why are you asking me about making this decision, right? It's one of the most powerful moments For me with mo was her empowering me To to to lead in that way, right and getting the signal from my mentor to lead something was Huge for me at the time. Uh, it was a huge boost in my confidence and my Uh, you know, even my fedora identity, right? Like being a leader In this even for a sub project um Was was pretty impactful for me. Okay, rickard. I see that you're ready. Please come up and join us except That's it. Are you hearing me now? Are you hearing me now? Yeah, we can No, no, it's it's the thing. I I've never been able to solve this problem. It it was the same problem in guatec too that I I don't know why my firefox browser and my ubuntu home share the audio, but anyway, I rebooted to windows. It's over Well, this thing we've we've diversity and inclusion is it's always difficult I started using Linux in the late 90s uh friend In in in a class and we we bought We bought like a cd set and then we burned it and I think That he was a little bit more tech sad savvy than what I I was and and I think he went with slack where and I went with red hat Then to to and and at that time I was not part of of the linux community though In 2001 and 2002 I was unemployed. So then I I had as a hobby to build a small linux cluster using I used pvm And then then I was like on a bay wolf mailing list I won't say if I if that was to be a part of the linux community or not, but That I did and then let's forward on to the the the present door or where my new diversity story starts I was in a school where Where let's say I won't name the school, but let's just say that these students had a problem with people being different and also Teachers not to their liking And it happened to neuro typical teachers also that If they didn't like a person they would go and complain and that was when I hit the wall and then I started to think about Is it good to disclose the diagnosis or not and it has causes me this was roughly six years ago and it has caused me both pros and cons but but that's when my to the present when my neurodiversity journey or thoughts to be open or not in a diagnosis was considered and then I had many problems with Swedish authorities in the year 2017 and on so that was also a thing but then I started to thinking about it And and it's a great good thing. Actually sap in it's a german Software company that does business systems. They had a neurodiversity program as early as 2015 no, 2014, but then there's the problem that They only looked for top top programmers And and I'm not the top programmer I would be able to teach a high school class or a basic college level class on how to program java 101 or c101 or things like that But and that's also what's one of the other reasons I hit the wall that I'm not very good at web programming so for me, I think accommodations of Of like a cognitive kind To have work that I that I can do and perhaps a slower working pace or working Less hours than full-time or good accommodations And some people might need no accommodations on the spectrum. So All people are different and in the EU in sweden the employer the swedish public employment office can pay An employer for accommodations. I know that there are such systems also in other european countries but That is something and there's something also called the european social fund where one can see Money for such things like accommodation, but then I won't I don't know what the us and what's the check and so on but And and to finish off my talk then The and then I wrote this article on on neurodiversity and I'm happy to to for the reception and and I'm I'm I'm and I also think it's This thing with accessibility that I've also talked with paul had if other other Community members of the linux community want to contribute to the work of making linux more accessible That would also be interesting for to me and other neurodiverse people. So thanks for letting me join I So what is your experience so far in the fedora community been like In regards to some of the issues and topics that you were talking about No, I think it's been good And I also really liked that that is welcoming and that you invite people and and that you and that the other session Was was also good. And and I I also had It was it was announced that we talked in guana. So that my experience has been very good Awesome, I'm so glad to hear that Bye You know, I missed a totally crucial part of this which is there is a fedora badge to earn If you come up and tell your fedora story Really, it's for anyone who's involved in organizing or being part of the fedora week of diversity at all. It's not specific to nest so Please, uh, if badges motivate you Join us zippo. Go ahead Yeah, I was just saying to all those folks who have already been here. Can you please share your Fast side directly in my message section there or you can on the chat if you're comfortable and I'll award you guys right away So Grayson is on screen. I wonder if you would be willing to tell us a little bit about your fedora mentor and How that experience has been for you and do you have like a favorite memory or a ha moment working with your mentor? um well I never really like followed the The correct path. I guess for how to get into fedora. I kind of just made it up Uh, if I had picking someone who kind of mentored me into fedora that would definitely be neil gampa gampa he um I was he actually was the one who originally convinced me to use fedora and then slowly dragged me into contributing and uh Nick bebout was also really helpful. He got me into fedora badges um, so I Got into fedora badges started helping with pushing that pushing those badges doing the sysadmin end of things and just kind of looking around and then I um I knew that I didn't really want to do programming that has never really interested me and yeah and so I found the fedora marketing team which at that point was semi defunct It was pretty much just edward and reached out to him and we talked about Well, what what needs to be done? There's a massive pile of things that need to be done And he gave me this list of like different areas in fedora where marketing is needed And I decided to reject all of them And asked about so what's the status on that podcast and he was like well i'm working on it, but You know, it's it's a lot of work for one guy. So I um started helping out with that and did that but Yeah, that's very fedora like yeah, all those things are nice, but I have an idea and I'm I have something I want to do that. I think will be beneficial for it Cool. Um, okay. So I've never really had one person. It's kind of just been I ask everyone all the questions Yeah, we chat about stuff all the time Grayson. So, um Unfortunately, I have to exit the session Vipple and Yona are going to continue on without me. I'm in so many different sessions that it was kind of impossible Not to have some things overlap, especially with time zones things because most folks want it in the morning for me. So Thank you for everybody. Yes. Thank you for everybody came. Sorry. I have to dip out a little bit Yeah, uh, someone says we need to find a way to fork marie for conferences. I was back at that All right. Yes. Thanks. Ever. Thanks again. I'm sure Marie could use help of another Marie Yes Bye Bye. Thank you so So there's someone else wants to jump and share the fedora story Also, Ricard, can you please share your facet so I can award you the badge And lince is here So hello, I don't want to steal the stage because I think I'm in almost every imaginable way Person who belongs to the majority of something Neurotypical I'm white. I'm male. I'm relatively old. I'm a developer. So for open source free software projects like This is where the majority is right What what I like about about participating in fedora very much is to Come into contact with and collaborate with people who are not like myself Which is very available to me to also sometimes get get out of the comfort zone um To like to try to Understand Someone someone else says situation or point of view and also appreciate that Like we've been doing this for a for a long time, but uh in in in the early fedora days, it was it was really something to Uh that I had to wrap around my Head about if that makes sense That not just developers can contribute to this This is so valuable like, um Design team Outreaching that that stuff that it's not something that comes naturally to me But other for other folks do that and this is so Like any any piece of that that's missing Fedora would be less for it, right? so I think this sums up In some way my my fedora story Just give us one second. Let me pull something out We have been we have a script that we try to do and we did it in Last in-person vlog as well and created a very beautiful video. So Do you see this in chat? I'll pin this Okay, um Then let's go back to hi. My name is neils. I'm from uh from germany from the southwest part of it I am what I am I I'm I'm a developer by trade. Um Been doing that for Well 20 plus years now, so I use the predecessors of fedora redhead linux back to I think redhead linux folded over some time around the late 1990s, so I'm old folk and I speak, um German which is my mother language. I speak english fluently I speak French and Italian a bit and um, let's not get into programming languages We also want to make kind of like a um A co like a co collage of people saying I am fedora. I didn't see that See, um, yeah, okay. Shall we do it again? I mean, I'm gonna bore you guys Let's let's make joke. Hi. My name is neils. I'm from germany. I'm a developer and I speak german and english For the most part I am fedora Thank you And neils if you can share your fast id in the chat or in direct message. I'll be awarding you that Yeah, and we have In after this So luna if you can start sharing your audience video we can accept you So should we start with the script part or day one? Yeah, let's start with your story first luna and then we can in the end we can wrap up this script. All right, yeah Yeah, my story is I translate a lot of open source and been doing that for a couple of years and then in the GNOME them lights the translation system that knomes uses there is a free desktop other projects link And there I found the translates that fedora project at org site with fedora web late So I signed up there about one and a half a year ago and started hoping out a bit And then at nest last year I started hoping about a bit with the q8 testing as well and And there I got officially a fedora contributor. So being that's for about a year now That's about that. I think and my name is luna jernberg. I'm from sweden And I'm a localizer And a tester and I speak swanska. That's swedish in swedish And I am fedora And I identify as non binary Thank you No problem You know, do you think the script is okay and then we can start back get back to this session Yeah I think it's great So there you wanted to share your story, right? Are you interested in that now? And rika just one thing I'm trying to award you the badge, but you have not logged into badges dot fedora project dot org You need to do that before I can award you a badge, which means you have to create an account there using your fast id I think My pronouns are she and her I'm from india. I am heterosexual And I speak hindi english and I'd like to believe I can speak some friends as well And I am fedora. I'm actually I think Pretty fresh contributor like I'm currently an outreach a intern And I'm working with the design team. My project is creating designs for the community outreach revamp So I think I'm probably one of the like freshest contributors here And I got involved with fedora through outreach and for me, it's been like an amazing experience so far I got to speak to a lot a lot of people. I got involved with a lot of people like Like being like for example Seeing something that I've made we shared or Be created like Like if something like swag Is Actually printed out and created. I feel like that is an amazing feeling something that I hadn't really Experienced before so it's been amazing. My mentor is miri and she's obviously been a very strong supporter figure like I didn't look up to my mentor and Like it's been an amazing experience for me I think this conscience would probably go down as like one of my best memories because I think one of the things is that I got to work on the museum map and like it was really nice seeing so many people on there And so many people sharing it and speaking about it. So that felt amazing And apart from that I got to speak and present like I got to talk and that felt really good as well So women in tech like in india sometimes it's there's a lot of This feeling like you're in I think it's called imposter syndrome. So you can get a lot of that. So I gained a lot of confidence by contributing to open source And I'll definitely become like continuing after my internship. We deserve it That's about me Thank you for sharing and welcome. You're not new Relatively it's I have no I've known you for a while and thank you for being here Thank you for sharing your story and you just share your fast side in the chat So who else wants to join? I see we have many people around so we would love to hear some more stories. Yes, sure you can join. Yeah To join just click on share audio video on your right hand side of the screen Where you see us And I'll let you in I think can you give that a try again? I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing the wrong wrong name. There you go Oh, so Oh good. Oh So my english is not that great. So pardon me if I make mistake So my name is Dilik. I'm from indonesia. I'm a man and I speak indonesian and english Oh, I am fedora Uh It's been a year ago since I contribute to fedora But I think I started to engage with fedora people when I found some bugs in docs fp.io .o and fix it in pagore In our like correcting some strings and sutra. So simple, right? Uh, and then which brings me to this point I started to create a package back then so It was just a simple bus script that I make myself. So I'm asking about packaging that To fedora join. I can renew back then. So I was helped by uncle sinha And now he is my sponsor and my mentor to learn more about packaging. Also, it ends up only at fedora copper but I'm still really glad for the help. I started my journey to learn more about floss since then I thought um Also, it already one year from that point Uh I'm A packageer now. So I don't know what's my favorite things with my mentor But I would say the experience of working with him through irc network is good so far So that's all thank you Thank you You can also leave in the chat your face id so we can uh award you the badge All right, uh good point names. Yeah When we say fast is fedora account system and fast id we mean your username that you use in fedora for almost everything Hi Can you see and hear me? Yes, we can Yeah, that's a great format So I'll I'll do the intro Um, hi, my name is marina my pronouns as she and her I am from kimbridge messachusetts in united states I work on diversity equity and inclusion and free and open source software and i'm a co-organizer of outreachy I speak russian and english I'm fedora and Yeah, i've been using fedora for 15 years ever since I joined red hat And uh, I worked on gnome desktop as a developer then um, I was involved was um, I started organizing gnome outreach for women that became outreachy And I got involved with diversity equity and inclusion and free and open source software I've attended many flocks. I was like happy to see Yeah, one of my Happiest moment was today when I logged in into fedora badges and so that I have 27 fedora badges Um, I love that project and I'm motivated by badges. This is why I'm doing this intro um, I'll have to let marino and Oh yay 28 my batch exactly and Yeah, and I also um Worked was brian axelbeard in the early days of Preparing the new code of conduct and I was so happy to see marine marie Brings us Over the finish line Yeah, thank you so much. You have done a lot. Oh my god, which was the first fedora was and you came around Yeah, 15 years of core. It was still had core in the name. I guess Probably yeah, like no, I don't remember what the new version it was that I started was That's that's quite a long time. Thanks a lot and great work with outreachy as well. Thank you. Thanks Yeah, just share your fast ideas so that I can make it 28. I'll do that um Just a quick update. I have made a poll in this session about How welcoming have you found the fedora community and I'd be interested in what the results are from that So if you want to you can go into the polls tab and answer that And just I'm going to say something extra if the answer has been anything other than very And if you have any ideas on how we can fix or improve the experience I would be more than happy to stock in private or how whatever your medium of conversation you want to be That so Do reach out to us medium army grace in or marie would be even better person for this and we would love to make it more A better scenario Hey Can you hear me? Okay, so my audio wasn't available. So I wasn't sure um My story, uh, I'll do the tagline first or I'll forget. Um, hi. My name is braggly davis Pronouns he and him I am from the united states I am a man and I speak english. I am fedora Um, my story. I think it's kind of like graces like I don't know. I don't have an official mentor I started linux and probably mid 2000s always ran into snag something. I needed always kind of fall back to the evil windows In about 2017. Um, I was in a job where I could listen to podcasts. I found destination linux um, and That was where you know, I to watch that show evolve and um, they always kept You know, you should give back you should give back and i'm like, well, i'm not a developer You know, and then they had always encouraged. There's other ways to give back and uh I was in a telegram group last year and someone Invited me to nest just in a generic and invite and i'm like, oh, what's this kind of clicked on it? and then started down the rabbit trail of Becoming fedora and getting involved and part of the reason why I never gave back is I was distro hopper I was trying to find the next thing or or whatever and um, and since I've installed fedora. I've been running fedora for a year Probably the most known person I've connected with in the fedora community is like grace and said neil gampa Him and michael tunnell and I have been in several long conversations after Like twill or or destination linux. Um, but they've been really encouraged me to engage And um, I do really enjoy like everyone has said it's very inclusive You don't feel like because you're not a developer. You don't understand something like, you know, you get to go read the manual Or there's none of that. It's like everybody seems to be very welcoming want to help and and very encouraging so That's my story. Thank you Thank you for sharing it. Thanks And as usual your fast id in the chat would be really helpful for me Hello Hi, my name's jens. Um, I'm in singapore. Um, my pronouns are he him Um, my speaks several languages, but english, uh, danish, japanese um I'm a developer And i'm fedora Yeah I've been yeah, so I've worked for redhead and I've been involved in fedora since the beginning I guess and mostly my main work is on internationalization, so Yeah, I'm also involved in workstation and high school packaging and other things Yeah, it's very great to be here. Thank you very much Thank you very much. Uh, you do great things everywhere So as I said, I'm sure so many people have been inspired and mentored by you Pleasure Yuna and gressin till someone clicks join do you want to do the script? I can if you want Okay Hi, I'm gressin my pronouns are he him and I'm from the united states I am a fedora contributor who works on the fedora podcast and I speak english. I am fedora People, uh, do you want to do it next? Sure, uh Let's just come here. Yes. So she's out in turn and And she's been doing amazing work Hey Um Before star I'm going to start first with this great. Um, hi My name is joselyn pardon. Oh my pronouns are she him hers? I am from caracas, Venezuela And I am a developer. I speak in spanish and english. I am fedora Okay, uh to share my story I just like the hero that here. Yeah, I am a freshman who start from outreach program this summer Uh, I'm working in uh in out of my out of my design The Contributor in metrics project alongside with a matthew miller um Yeah, he was my mentor during my internship He was great for me. Um Yeah My english is not very good. Sorry I'm looking for a Go after after my internship I would like to join continue as a developer contributor. Uh, I am really interested in the website An apps a grip. I would like to join more often to the to the meetings. Um, yeah, this is pretty much my story Thank you Yeah, would you like to go next? sure Hi, my name is jan pronouns are he and him. I am from Finland And I speak english and finnish and swedish and some other languages. I am fedora I've been working with web team and I've been translating fedora And the film programming and other stuff as well and documenting you may have seen me around Who was the first person you met when you came to fedora? I am With met, you know what I mean? I RC I remember I did not see Matthew or maybe it was pen I see I probably both talked with pen about the Documentation I didn't like it or I didn't mind what I was looking for so Thank you for sharing your story and Yeah, if anyone else wants to join feel free to request to share your audio and video and we'll accept you here Hi, my name is Pronouns are he and him. I'm from Indonesia I can speak english and indonesian of course And I am fedora Okay, so my story with fedora Starts and I can say it's not starting from fedora exactly. I started Or I can say I restarted my linux journey In 2020 when the pandemic hits and I need reliability with my hardware so um The one certain proprietary operating operating system that I ran Was crashing my GPU and yeah Yeah, kernel panic happened on that operating system. So I went to Santos um because I saw it Like it's stable And it's based on rel And I know rel is very stable And yeah, I used sentos for a while. I um Like I installed many stuff on it and As you may expect Over time I turned the system into a frankenstein because you know Like a lot of stuff in there are Like quote-unquote obsolete. So I had to like compile stuff and You know, I even like compiled pipe wire 0.3 from rohe to sentos to try like Oh, it's fun. Uh I'm just going to do rpm build and yeah, it it works. Uh, yeah, I I did Make to I didn't manage to get pipe wired 0.3 with the audio and video sharing on sentos 8 that's yeah that like I did experiment a lot with sentos and um Like as a desktop user, uh, like not intended maybe as Like as many people use sentos for uh Like for servers and for The enterprise workstations or for enterprise VMs. I used it for desktop and experimentation. I experimented it a lot. I Hey jacked it with if you know it bad rock linux, it's a one method distribution That allows you to mix and match packages from other distributions. And yeah, um At the end of the day system d breaks and I had to install it 32 bit first you know system d to make my system boot again, so yeah Like I managed to break system d on that system. So uh, like I caved in and I realized I need to use something that updates often so so Yeah, I went to fedora in february 2021 uh, and I've been loving it ever since I started with fedora territory workstation with gnome and uh, I jumped to the 34 beta and Yeah, now with fedora 34 and looking forward to Use the future versions of fedora. Um, and My involvement in fedora well I can say I'm not really I'm not I'm just An outsider I'm I observe from the outside. Uh, I managed Some copper packages. Uh, if you happen to know, uh, some kernels, uh Like kernels and one I I I used it on my previous Ubuntu install and I think oh this should be ported into fedora. So I started a copper repository I set it up, uh, like with integrations and stuff and I built it and I built all the variants of it. I built the like six variants and Yeah, it's fedora is a really good, uh, like As a whole, uh fedora It's a really good learning experience And it's not just the distro. It's it's the community too. Uh, I'm I'm I'm somewhat active in the fedora Linux discord, uh I assist people and yeah, they are very friendly Uh There are some laughs too. There are some discussions That's You know fedora as a community is great And other than that I really love fedora for its openness and transparency Because the infrastructure on fedora is openly big And you can see everything like koji builds body or like others like The sources and everything Yeah, it's it's been really great to Be inside the fedora community Uh, a bit. I don't Really I'm not a contributor of the Project. Yeah, I've been really loving it And that's my story. Thanks. I'm sorry for making it too long perhaps I think we don't have more time now. Um, but I want to thanks everyone for joining us And feel free to join us for the fedora week of diversity We will have also, um An article very soon posted so you can Share more stories that we can, um Share with the the rest of the community. Uh, we will follow up Later on after next So thanks everyone and see you in october Bye Um Yeah, bye. This is also going to be a video soon. I'm going to start working on that Probably Week or so after this is all done. Thank you. Thank you everyone who shared your story and again If I did not award you the badge find me hunt me down. Uh, you can find me on irc telegram central Places Twitter and I'll award you the badge. Thanks a lot and Have a good one. Enjoy the rest of the next