 So, hi everyone. My name is Mariana. I'm a fedora contributor. I joined the community in 2017, I think, if I'm not mistaken. And on my day job, I am a product owner. Sumancho? Hey, I'm Sumancho. I work for a QB team specifically. And other than that, I help out with communities, events, and so much more. Cool. Sumancho, your sound is a little bit low, so maybe you could bump yours up a little bit. Cool. Alright. So, let us kick this off. I'm going to go through this part quickly. We used to spend more time on this when we first started two years ago. But now we've done so much that we have more other things to share with you. But really quickly, let's just talk a little bit about how we got to the community outreach revamp. So, this is focused on all the different outreach teams that are in fedora, specifically the ambassadors. So, the ambassador program is like a 15 plus year program that had showed great success for many, many years. But a couple things happened, right, as time went along. The program kind of grew without scaling. There were changes in leadership. There were changes in ways in how finances were dealt with. There was a lack of understanding of, like, how those new processes were working and how they came to be. And there was not the best communication about how those changes went about. There was also kind of a feeling of burnout. People were kind of having a lack of new purpose. There was also personal differences, which we see in every open source community, really in every single place ever where there are people. And there was some feelings of, you know, not really being recognized and what was unsure of the importance of the work. And last but not least, there was a shortage of mentors and folks who are willing to be mentors. So, I put together a proposal to the community based on, well, inspired by a book that I read called Switch had a change when it changes hard, I think. And I was inspired to kind of try to make a change here around Fedora's community outreach freedom. So, I wrote up a proposal and brought it to several groups in Fedora and eventually it got elevated to objective status. And that's how we brought on Marianne and Simantro as co-leads. And we decided to really get into this effort. So, next slide, Marianne. Yeah, it's my turn. So, as Marie said, after her proposal, our team was formed and we started taking our first actions towards the revamp. The first thing we do, so we take, we have meetings every week and we document everything that we talk about, we discuss the decisions that we make. So, we have a list of public notes that you can have a look if you want. The first thing that we decided to do was a community outreach survey. So, we started the revamp but we wanted to know where the community was standing at that point. So, we surveyed current community members and we asked them how they contribute, what they feel that is being done good, what's wrong, what we could improve, suggestion, et cetera. So, we received some very interesting feedback from the survey and as I have mentioned in my presentation, what I loved about the survey is that we found out that there are a lot of people who love to self-organize, which means that they do not report back to the mind chair or they don't write blog posts, et cetera. So, they just, you know, hold events, et cetera. So, there is a lot more Fedora activity out there than we actually know, which would be great to find out more. After that, we did the mind chair team interviews where we interviewed every mind chair team member. We obtained the status of an objective. We were a non-technical Fedora objective. We still are. Then we helped the council with the community engagement survey questions. So, we tried to apply what we learned from our first survey and we added a few more questions to the community engagement survey, which is meant to be an annual survey to get a feeling of how the community is doing. The old handbooks are part of our documentation, which I will talk a little bit later, more in detail. So, the old handbooks were basically documentation, but we're trying to phrase things a little bit more from the perspective of the person that will read this instead of, you know, ambassadors do this and marketing team does that. So, we're trying to kind of phrase it of how would it be to be an ambassador or how would it be to be in a certain role within a certain team. Next, so last year, last summer, we had an outreach intern, design intern. We had Daria. She designed some very beautiful materials for us for the different teams, the different team logos and some very nice badges. That we're still using. So, yeah, I mentioned the meeting notes in the beginning, but we are trying to publish monthly community blogs. We have not done that as much as we wanted, but we are having also these presentations quite often. So, to share our progress with you. And next slide would be Sumantrao. So, much like this event, we had a lot of other events we represented. So, this presentation, literally this exact presentation was made memory and we just reiterated this over a long period of time. And this included a presentation side. The next four things that we tried to nest, the nest 21 and upcoming problem as well. And then what we did with this was to gain a bunch of awareness from people, let people know what we were doing, what was our objective, make the vision very clear to the community. And as a result, we caught some of the very initial stuff by community members. And that was we created a bunch of these things called sprints. And now these were mostly doc strips, but then we have done a lot of creating HackMV pages, transfer of big pages to HackMVs. And then avoiding a lot of badges for the first time, a lot of community members. And then that was the presence that we had at multiple events, other than our own work sessions. So, one thing that was very important as we went ahead and as this became a project was to kind of talk about progress as we go on. And since this is not at all going to ever be a very complete process, we wanted to go very progressive. We wanted to show the growth, we wanted to show the progress as we went on. So, first thing first we went ahead and reformed what exactly the people at Mindshare would do. And when there's a Mindshare rep to the council, what would be the role of that kind of person, what would they be interested in. We kind of also went down and talked a lot about role handbooks in our internal sessions. And we understood that Fedora is a very big community. And which means there are a lot of people who do not speak English as their primary language. So, we needed this role handbook so we can multiple languages and we took this five to eight languages where we wanted to put this role handbook. We kind of also wanted to understand the pulse and the heartbeat of the community. So, we kind of proposed this thing as informal service and we kept doing this informal service. We gathered some idea about what's going on, you know, if people are actually aware of what's going on. If they are not, can we give them some context of what's going on. If they are more involved, can we get them to have sessions with us and get something more. And as a result we kind of had multiple of these sessions and it was very good. Today, as we stand, we have done one ambassador kickoff. And that was as a call which we did where we talked about what's the next steps, how we want to make things happen. And the way we are progressing with this is we are going to end up computing our role handbooks. As I said, it's a progressive thing, so we are going to complete those. It's almost completed, it's just little tiny bits here and there that we are doing. We will complete those and then there would be translations into those languages that we want to get them into. And that would be where we are here with the community. Taking values in from community. So the updated documentation currently can be found out in the next slide. Cool, I can move to the next slide. I did want to point out there that we had one thing wrong. On that one we have not completed the translations. Somehow they were on the left side. They should be on the right side, but we are getting to it. Okay, I will continue the documentation. So the documentation is currently working for us. We have worked for it for like this is our ongoing project for 2022. Mostly we have organized two or three hour springs to get it done. Our main goal was to collect the documentation and bring it in one place for anything. Community outreach and ambassador related topics or questions that people might have. The way that we did this is that we visited the old wicket pages. We discovered so much information there that some of that was updated. Some of that could be reused. Some of that was created from scratch from us and we tried to bring that in one place where Marie is showing us right now. We tried to structure this in a way that it can be digestible easily for the readers of this page. As you can see there is a lot of information there, but we still call this work in progress. And there isn't being that we still have not added links or the formatting in some pages may not be consistent to other ones. Or some of these pages are empty because as so much for mentioned in the beginning we put together Hagen-D's files in order to be easily editable from us. Because when we started putting the documentation actually in production we realized that updating that would take a little more time. And we had also help from other community members that are a little bit more experts when it comes to documentation and would complete some of these tasks faster than us. We have this very interesting site template and we have tried to cover most of the topics that the community would be interested at. If you have suggestions we would be more than happy to hear that. Or if you would like to help us get this done faster we would be also more than happy to have you there. We're having a spring next week, so yeah. I don't have something else to add here. I'm next, I'm just kind of getting this set back up here. That's what I wanted to do. So yeah, the docs are looking great, definitely a work in progress. And I was doing like commits last night. The goal was doing some key artists this morning. I mean it's very much actively something we're working on. So the next steps, what are the next steps for Fedora ambassadors and Fedora's outreach. It's going to be working on making a schedule for those informal polls, wrapping up our loose ends as far as the documentation. But we're continuing to focus on like as we finish up the docs, we still have a few more pieces to work out. So we're continuing to focus on the things that really brought us have guided us the whole time, right? Like sustainability, accessibility, empowering individuals to do what they want to do on their own with as little process as possible. Trying to build in recognition into the different processes and listening to people's feedback as we go along. We're just three people trying to, you know, make it make an effort to improve the situation. But without folks using those processes, using those documentations, like we don't know if they're going to truly work, right? So we definitely want people to jump in there and say, hey, this could be improved. Also, we're going to be at different events in the upcoming year. I'm sure we'll be at NAPS with Fedora. Hopefully maybe if we can make to one of these Fedora hatches, we'll be talking a little bit about it there or just being there as ambassadors ourselves. And also marketing. We see Edward in the channel talking here about marketing and this is definitely something we hope more people will pitch in with, right? We have all different ways to market. And if you think about ambassadorships with COVID and the pandemic coming into our lives, like digital ambassadorship is absolutely a valid way to do outreach for Fedora. So marketing is totally within that scope. And if you're interested in doing promotion, if you're like a Twitter person, an Instagram person, massive person, I know we have like all different places to be. So if you're there and you want to talk about Fedora, totally connect with the marketing people and see what kind of resources are available for you. Check out the commerce documentation and see what kind of resources are available for you there. And also, we invite ambassadors to kind of get back into some of these things. We're starting to see import person events, such as hatches, we have, I think, seven or eight proposed hatches all across the world. So if you're an ambassador, you want to get involved in that, reach out to me, Sumatra, Mariana, go to the block for your repo and just say, Hey, I'm interested in being a part of this. And you're welcome to start, you know, other conferences are starting to kick off in person. You're totally welcome to run boots. We also have a weekly Fedora social that anyone interested in Fedora outreach should come and hang out and learn about the Fedora community. So I think that is it. We honestly did great right at 20 minutes. And we'll have time for some Q&A. So I'm going to start at the top here. Let's see how I can do. Keeping a note on the virtual meeting fatigue that people are likely to have. How does the team plan on doing outreach on a more offline basis? So I'll take this one. So our goal in the beginning was to actually see what is going wrong on the way people do outreach. Our goal was to identify what was wrong and try to fix that and create new documentation and new processes for people and make their life easier on how they can do offline Fedora outreach. So we have the documentation there. If you're interested in organizing an event in your local area or have a university meetup or join another conference and bring Fedora there, have a presentation, etc. So we're trying to bring all these resources and make them available for anybody that wishes to do Fedora outreach outside of the virtual goal world. And you know, have swag, etc. I don't know if I answered the question as you have imagined it. Let's go on to the next. If there's a follow up question, we can get to that. Make sure to add it into here. So this person asked, how to become an ambassador for Fedora? That's actually fairly simple. I mean, at this point, there is a very clear process that we have established. We want this thing to be as easy as you can get. So there is a repo that we can do. As we speak, 10 minutes before our session started, there was a email on the ambassador's list where someone said he is a digital lawyer and he wants to contribute as an ambassador. So literally, just reach out to the ambassador's list. I do want you are interested. I'm going to have a follow up to that. There is a meeting next week for ambassadors. And please do join, right? Like, you won't just immediately get put into the ambassador group. There is a process there. You know, we want to provide some mentorship and some education about how Fedora works. So there's a little bit to it, right? But you can get involved in the meeting right away. And that's really the way to becoming an ambassador, right? Like, to come to the meetings, to be active and to stick around for some period of time. So I hope that helps answer that question. Okay. Here's another one. How to get more involved in mindshare, participate? I'm not sure what this word is. I also share some responsibilities. So I can take this one as I work with mindshare every day. The way to get involved with mindshare is to show up to a meeting. Again, you can also run to be on the mindshare committee and the nomination period for a 37 or the next cycle is open right now. And you're absolutely looking for more people to run for mindshare. Not everyone really knows or understands what mindshare does in Fedora. So we have some videos and some blog posts that kind of talk about what mindshare does. And we do these quarterly reports now that kind of discuss with all the different teams and what the mindshare community has been specifically working on. So I'll say this, the mindshare committee is an elective body, but we have other people joining our meetings all the time. So you're welcome to come give your perspective on whatever we're working on, chat about that with us, and just learn more about how to get involved and ask questions to us specifically. If you're looking for more, you're welcome to run to actually join the committee. So I hope that helps answer your question there. Here's the next one. Is your progress shared in the Fedora magazine? So Fedora magazine is mostly a place where we cover the news, what's happening in the Linux cycle. So Fedora project is very big. Fedora Linux is a part of this. And Fedora magazine covers a lot about what's happening in the visual level and things, which are always being tested, things like, you know, what's the gaming status on Fedora, how is it, how does it work and stuff like that. But the progress is usually shared in something called community work, which is specifically dedicated for such activities. And we regularly try to post updates on community cloud, and that gets cross posted to discussion start Fedora project, which is where you can comment on those threads as a part of that. And we can comment and share your views on how things are. Cool. Thank you. Okay, here's the next question. We are getting through these. All right. Is there any plan to unify the communication channels for the community teams? A newcomer may get lost easily between the forums, matrix, IRC, telegram, etc. I could take this one if you want. Okay. So yes and no, I think is the answer. So kind of slowly but surely. No, I'm going to rewind. So telegram, because Fedora community on telegram kind of grew naturally right like no one in Fedora leadership was like, let's make a telegram presence. And the distributor said, we're on telegram and this is where we want to chat, right. And it kind of was like the natural split from IRC because, well, IRC is a little bit of an older method of chatting and not everyone understands or cares to learn how to use IRC. They want apps. They want apps on their phone. They want to be able to look at and go with the app and send emojis and all of that stuff, right. So, telegram kind of naturally happens, right. And so, at some point, the Fedora council slash mind share, you know, said, we actually don't like that this is sponsoring in this way and we want to do it in an open source way. So Matthew and myself took it upon ourselves to bring on element matrix as an official Fedora platform. That's why you can go there and use your Fedora account login to get into element. We haven't like discouraged telegram at all. But since we brought element on, I want to say I've seen at least four telegram channels that have retired. Because we now have element. You can put element onto your phone as an application. Now, I am not a person who is like, no, you know, close source software. I have telegram on my phone. I've used it for years. And so I don't want anyone to think that we're saying there's anything wrong with being there. You can be there. But slowly but surely we'd love to see, you know, all Fedora using element matrix and that is bridge to IRC. So whether you're on the IRC side, or you're on the element matrix side, you should be getting all of the messages and communications that are there. At one point there were telegram bridges as well. Some of them might still be hooked up. But the maintainers behind those bridges have moved on to new things, a lot of them. So you're, you know, slowly but surely it's kind of going to go downhill unless somebody says, I really want to do this thing. Right. So it comes down to people being willing to work on those bridges. There's definitely not an exclusion factor, but there's pieces to it that need regular maintenance. Okay, that one took a while. So I'm going to move on to the next one. I hope that answered your question and gave some background on like, why that is what it is. So someone asked any dates chosen for the sprint next week. This is something that you've, oh, Marianna, do you want to go? No, I was meant to say that is next Thursday. I will just have to calculate what time is it in UTC. Okay, cool. But it's around this time, I think. Yeah, actually it is. So it's around right at 11. So all of our meetings, all of our meetings have been around this time right now, when our class went for minus because we tried to choose a time that would best fit for most of the people at most parts of the world. So, yeah, and also the ambassadors call the heavens around this time. Okay, let's take one last question and then we got to get out of the way for the next round. The last question which I want to mantra to answer is what experience does the Dora have in outreach at university. So, yeah, there is a lot of experience that we actually try to provide when we reach out to outreach at universities. So, we kind of help more universities get the next hands on. Now, in India, if I look at the percentage of universities having a technical club and not at the university is just too much. So, you know, we try to bridge that gap. Fedora Installer, Fedora UI has improved over significantly. So it's no longer that you have to do a lot of hacks to get augmented with the operating system. We have IoT, we have a bunch of this cutting edge technologies as a product Fedora, which as a university student you can play around or build your projects on top. As we say in our mission statement is Fedora acts as this reference block on top of which you can create almost anything, which means you can take the software, you can take the cloud, you can take OOS, you can take IoT, you can create whatever you want to create. But there's a last question that somebody asked about being moved to our universities. Yeah, I was just going to pipe it up because we need to get out of the way for these people. So, thank you Mariana and Simaancho.