 Okay, I'm Matthew Miller. I work for Red Hat and I am the Fedora project leader. My name is Jonathan Dieter I am a system administrator for a school in Beirut, Lebanon My name is Shimantro. I work for Red Hat for Fedora QA team and yeah, I am a quality engineer All right, my name is Mike DePaolo. I contribute to Fedora in my free time. I'm a packageer and ambassador I'm also contributing a little bit to modularity and to diversity. Okay, so I'm Yonah And I'm part of the Albanian local community because I come from Albania So my name is Pravin Satpute. I'm from India So I'm Mike McGrath. I work for the platform engineering team as a manager I'm Ralph Bean and I have been coming to Flock for five or six years now I used to work on the Fedora engineering team at Red Hat So it was my full-time job to work on Fedora and come to Flock and work with the community So my name is Kanika and I'm from India I've been contributing to Fedora for two years now. My name is Justin Flory I've been a contributor to Fedora since November 2015 or so. His name is Ricky Elrod I am on the floor engineering team at Red Hat. My name is Brian Exelbeard I work for Red Hat as the Fedora community action and impact coordinator They're basically there's a technology technology side and a people side I think they're both very strong. I think Fedora, you know, we do really try and follow the leading edge of open-source technology and commitment to the open-source part of that and It's not just in not just that it's the bleeding edge But we try to make sure we're following the leading edge of it and exciting stuff But also getting it to people in a useful way. So I think that's appealing It's kind of fun stuff to work on at the operating system level. So that that's neat But also, this is a really amazing group of people and you know, we've got thousands of people who contribute every year Two three thousand people to some level and a core group of you know, maybe four or five hundred people who are working every week on the project And they're really great generous people who have a real passion for the things we're working on So I think that's pretty appealing too. It's fun. I Happily install most of the any of the non-violent games in the Fedora repository or on our systems and I'm like have at it The major part of error is what I love about it is it's a bleeding edge So I get the latest and the greatest of whatever that I want. So be it building Bleeding edge stuff on IOT or bait big data I have whatever tools that I require in to make sure my project is up and running One of the things that I think is critical about Fedora that we are doing a better and better job messaging on is The Fedora community is way more than the production of the operating system There's a lot of things to do and you can get involved in them, you know There isn't like territorialism like you can't contribute to this component only be contributed to this component. I Think Fedora value the contributor The thing that I think is really important about Fedora is we provide a Facility for people to do what they want to do and they can get a lot of support from their fellow community members Because we bring the right kinds of people together And I think the the the amazing thing for me is not just how many old faces I still see that are here, but how many new faces I see and How important it is to the community to get people involved and get out of their way? And I think there's not just that common sense of shared purpose towards building Fedora the operating system and the distribution Making sure that our users are are happy, but there's this short. There's a shared understanding that we're all people We're all flawed. We all have something to bring to the table And so let's let's come and talk and figure out, you know, what needs to happen what we can do and You know everybody sees everybody else has important I think it's a very unique a very unique experience. Everybody's kind of at the same level here. It's great The community by far. I mean people are The people I work with are some of the smartest people I know They're very resourceful. They're they're nice. I mean, I just I can't say enough about it I just I love the community. It's like a family Fedora, I will say Like anyone who is coming to the Fedora, so he will not feel that there is not for him anything So there is For everyone there is something in Fedora, so It's it's it's passionate, but very friendly and you see that especially at flock I mean, it's a really a really tight-knit group of people that like working together and love working on what they work on And it's a fun place to be. It's it's what I Could easily see how passionate people were not just about the work that they were doing but also about supporting each other as Like a empowering and inclusive community to build better software together Let's say the community. It's one of the main reasons why I'm still part of it Because they are really friendly. They're they are really Friendly to the newcomers especially so you feel really welcome at the community Because you know when you go to a community to a new community And you want to be part of it first of all you are afraid that someone might say Okay, but you don't know this question But not at all. They will be really friendly with you. They they will support you for everything that you might need and They will show you even the right direction where to go And which teams you can be a part large community of people who kind of use open source as an excuse to change the world Which that's an easy thing to say, but we do it a lot through non-code contributions. We have a huge outreach program We have huge marketing opportunities writing opportunities There's ways for people to become involved in the ideals of open source Even if they choose not to actually commit a line of what we as engineers would call source