 Hi everybody, I am Matthew Miller and this is a Fedora council video meeting as I say every time the Fedora council tries to conduct our business You know Asynchronously on mailing lists on our discussion forum those kind of places a chat We have an awesome new Experiment coming up where we're going to be using matrix element for our chat instead of IRC. So That's going to be cool But once a month we try to have kind of a high band with discussion Where we focus on some aspect of the project that is you know interesting going well sometimes not going so well And figure out you know what we can learn from that and what we can do to help So today we have Alex Alberto and Efron from Fedora, Mexico And they're going to talk about initiatives there and hopefully again, we can learn some things and Figure out how we can help. So welcome everybody. Thank you, man Hello As I understand it there is a presentation with slides and this time We've been asked for a few questions till the end So I'm happy to absorb the presentation and I'm sure we'll all have lots of questions. So take it away Let me thank you much And you see my screen now Yep Yes, awesome Hello, everybody. I'm Alberto. He is Alex and a friend. We are from Mexico At this time we Will talk about the Mexican Fedora community How we rebuild the local community from Well, you know our story about how we are building this community in Mexico So will we start with the next slide please Alex Okay, this is a image image from the Or one of our release parties are most People in the Red Hat Mexican Office What we have here We are focused on only Many things in the negatives, but we had a lot of stories from From the our community by example that we have a friend a friend was on one of the of the most Famous ambassadors in Mexico. He's always in the best events from open source so he started from many years ago and is used from two years Since two years ago when we we are Building this community even if more or worse are doing a lot of work Alone But we are now a team from advisers advocates Packagers translators Fedora fans users a All together in our community next slide please Alex so Who do we do it? Okay, we have a lot of communities from in Mexico, you know a docker python rules Open stack a Lot of communities are from the all the plus Open source Communities and we say hey what happened with Fedora we need Fedora community here, so What about those we need create a community first we are a lot of Of people both working alone now we It creates some Some channels of communication first the telegram group is is an strong group a We invade Local experts of grad quality We organize meetings a Every month he Of course, we are a healthy community. We respect each other So is part of who we are doing this? this evidence The second was the Meta growth a Meta was the the fall standard for communities in many sites We can find a Linux user groups another communities and other technologies groups so We start with the met up and with the meetings we agree that Do it monthly and the Presentations are selected by consents so these make us a Feel part of the community and take decisions About the presentations It's different Hi My name is a friend. I have a vessel for Fedora project And Find the best speaks on the tips of the general interest We have to take care to present the best speak with the most current topics step Okay, the end and top man for example in in addition to offering widens of How to participate in the project and how to maintain the package step three Participation in the community events or next step What's the celebrate of the local events release party and federal women's day in addition to participating in national community events such has the please all three free software Installation festivals and first national community community to its For example cause in Guadalajara Okay We organize it or second federal Grumman's Day with the participation of many very talent guards include the international participation of the Tateka from Venezuela and Susie for Guadalajara And even when we are very proud and Off and have to replicate again when possible We have worked it. They have very hard to have this but we Steals up To do I'm Alex and so who can be really better Yeah We try to build the intercommunity bridges as a community Of course, we know that we are immersed in a more complex ecosystem And we need to start to interact with another project like like belated. It's a community from of woman's in Python developers and growth in Mexico with all participation from some developers of trust and of course a Local universities we want to do some events in all universities as possible And take these workshops today to the other people that we can Maybe proof that can see skills in our community. We start with some Presentation or worship about how we can do Maintain package maintainer and something like that But we need a maybe implemented an adoption of package program we have an idea that Do some program about a Increase the maintaining of the package with all the community members and Where we are looking for liking impact this package We are looking for help wanted activities and make it in an event. Maybe a qa test days or relation is print to have involved or community in this event and Increase the participation of in the project directly and well We don't know if the right formula to convert the peddler uses to a peddler contributors, but we are researching it as My partner and friend a friend says we do a hard work but We still need to do much more And That's that's our presentation. I don't know if you have some Questions or comments Thank you that that's great. I particularly like the screen full of all the different I guess YouTube things and events. That's an impressive array of things. So that's that's awesome to see I Have a quick question just kind of going backwards of the test a thing you just mentioned Would that be participating in existing test days or are you thinking of setting up like local area focused like Mexico? Group test days, which would also be fine. What what kind of thing are you looking for there? Yeah maybe We have an event that we do some test some test day in one day in one location What when pandemic allows right? Yeah? We're planning hits and maybe do some worship of universities something like that we start with Worship about the maintain package, you know, how the RPMs are building how you can be a maintainer of package and Maybe in this same format we can do the same in in the universities too I don't know maybe enable some some guys students to do the same and participate and I don't know they They like these activities Alberto you raised your hand We also have Insider in the QA team is Sumato he Passes the date of the next the QA day days this days and And and at this moment we are looking for make Evans the summary it's the same date of the test day to make this for the global community Running it in a local With the local people so we can get more people for more use case from a lot of people from the community and Help the QA team from the test day and in general Okay, so it sounds like you already have that connection So I don't I don't I don't need to make a to-do item to do that. So That's good to hear I guess my other question was actually kind of touched on here the pandemic How are you keeping things going and it seems like a lot of this is focused on local meet-ups Which is which is awesome because those personal connections are good How are you keeping this going through you know lockdowns and quarantines and everything else? Yes, since maybe March or May I think What's what The last March they think March. Yeah, maybe from April or Something like that We partnered with some friends that work in in a magazine a software guru, you know This magazine Improved the the streaming here in Mexico and they help us to to a streaming to Yeah From his channel to all the world, you know in YouTube Twitch and Facebook They record or meeting were written meeting and then We have some repository. It's just a couple of links where you can see all the the meetings and they record and give us the link and We put in the repository to be able to all the all the community Yeah, even today we have our last Virtual meeting of the year. We have a Christmas meeting Talking about the same article in the federal magazine about the LVM So It was a very Help us this to partner with this magazine the software guru. We are appreciate a lot Of course the key of all Making the meetings in the pandemics and this back them in pandemics time was the communication from inside of nor telegram growth from The met up for publishing our events and This magazine software guru canvas with the streaming making it available for everyone and Also publish it with professional Editing and a lot of things about like that This is helping use for maintaining the interest in the group and also communicate all the questions all the Big ideas from the group and Maintain the community rolling out No matters the pandemic or no is Is here What so what was what is the name of this magazine because I'm gonna type it in the chat so I can see it written software guru Okay, it's a local magazine He has the events from all the flows communities in Mexico and also Promoting a lot the open source Free software in Mexico Latin America That that sounds awesome. It sounds like they deserve some special. Thanks from us for that. So that's cool Yeah Even of that That allows for to have some international guests like my best friend Edward Lucerna that is present here. Hi and Some other people that if we don't use this this help, I don't know how we can do that A friend told about in the federal women's day. We have participated from Tatica from Venezuela and very talented guru in EA Susie from Germany and that's that's what's awesome from the students. Yeah in the federal ones. They I Think we have a heat a very heat. It's a we are very proud about this this event As you should be yeah, it's awesome I've got lots more questions, but I want to give room for somebody else to ask some Don't I'll speak at once though. I I Matthew you got you got my first question about coved, but I said I had a question just one What advice would you give to other local organizers who want to start or? Restart a community in another country or another local community Okay, I think the key of the success of the That was a success of the community in Mexico was we are working together. We are a team We are no more working alone Sometimes sometimes I go a friend by example make a lot of evidence a lot of events alone Yeah That evidence don't have the impact that we have now building this rebuilding this community from a team of contributors from the project and We are trying to Make the people feel part of the Fedora project not only the Fedora Mexico communities, you know All might be very part of the failure the Fedora project in general the global project is Is part of work don't work alone work on teams with another contributors of your country And make the people feel part of the Fedora project be part of 17 something More than the local community work in the community post both point to Contribute to contribute in the Fedora project in general Yeah, a friend mr. Kraken as we know it here. It's a very famous people in the community in Mexico All the the famous people in Mexico about the IT they know it and know his work and so it's just Come on and bring together all the See Okay, I muted them I I don't know what they were saying there because I do not speak Spanish I Kind of picked up bits and pieces that but I was very confused what it had to do with this if that needs to be censored from the video Let me know yeah, I Think he's watching TV or something like that Okay, so yeah If I miss very famous in here in Mexico and it's just easy to say hey come on come with me and do a group And this effort be bring together and make a team and we see in the in the slides in the presentation We take some basic steps first step come come together all the famous people like that likes Fedora Join us and and then we start to the meetings and then we create some events there is We're still working on that we we know that We need to do more participation Not just for the community not just for the shared knowledge even Do a contribution contribute more to the project This does the whole world that the Fedora user in Mexico Be a contributor in the in the Fedora project So I guess I hear three things overall to work work as a team To make feel people feel like they're part of the project and like part of Fedora and part of the team and then Find some celebrities if you can Yeah, the last one might be hard I wonder what what things we can do as Fedora overall and Fedora Council to make people feel like they're more Part of the project are the things we could do better or do differently that would help that more I don't think so I think you are You do a great great an excellent job in the in the past events the the next and the release parties have some We know that we have some celebrities in the world and We know that They use Fedora as you know Even Linus Torval says I'm used Fedora So maybe Here in Mexico we are So proud to to say I'm touched with that guy. I'm know it maybe by email, you know But we we know it yesterday a friend Participate in a in a local Streaming that is very important here in Mexico and they have the one of the creators of genome project that Who is Mexican? You know a genome project was created by Miguel de casa and the Federico Mena and they And yesterday they have a sim bit in the In this streaming and that's what's awesome all people in Mexico about a committee of It is watching this this this streaming it's awesome And and and these guys Talk about red hat and talk about fedora and talk about all world Project and and very it's very interesting. Maybe You know, you know, we have some celebrities here in fedora project And I like and I love so much Having touched with them You know, maybe of you are these people and Another I don't know. I'm I'm very fan of of the watch, you know Yes And I like so much having touched with with them Awesome. I I'll make sure Dan sees this Marie had written Yeah, you guys mentioned both And the release parties So, you know, those were obviously global events um What do you guys feel about creating a last-hand specific conference using hopin Um, that's something you would be interested in doing something is that way we could help? um Like foster the local community there because I can coordinate that with you guys and the mind share committee can support it as well Yeah, very thanks. We are Very happy to participate in a lot of events like federal women's day release parties uh, the next We Are very proud to talk about the community about your work in a lot of place And also to learn from other people from other parts of the work In that in that kind of events. We are very happy and always we treat we We want to participate in every event from the federal project the global federal project Because we are looking Make or or Fellows Be part of the project feel part of the of the project Uh, and also we are very happy with with the help from the mean share coming commenting Because we have black we have The possibility to make the Meetups They are helping a lot from where get a lot of help from The mean share and the project the federal project in general Would it be cool interesting to have a good Oh, so to say like cool. Would it be interesting to like would it be good to have like something specific? To mexico or latin america and then like, you know, like math you can come and speak specifically to To that community and I come and talk about community stuff and you know, we could have Some of these people that you might want to get like a Better connection with or learn from we can invite more people as well But I think it would be something that would help foster the local community to grow or to even just Sustain and and stay healthy like during this time. I guess I'm trying to say we have even more to give you To use to make it awesome. So of course we want you to participate in everything we're doing But we also want to give you the option To create your own thing thinking think of something like, you know Fudcons that used to exist. I think that would be like An example, right of what what i'm kind of thinking of But like virtual Possibly something with us with maybe primarily spanish speaking Um, I am limited in that but I could I would be happy to do a talk Maybe with the real-time translator for example and have my slides, you know two languages and then have Somebody are repeating repeating after me in spanish if that would help. I know I don't know All of you here speaking English wonderfully So that that is easy, but i'm sure that's not the case for everybody who could be in fedora Yeah, that's a lovely idea we we In the in the past we talked with some guys in in the fedora latam group To do the same the maybe A food con or maybe a meet a virtual meeting with all the latam-american guys that we are Very talented people like my friend net worth or tattica or louise louise basana, you know Or or all the brasilian guys We we planning that even if In this in these days we we planning Oh, if we can do in mexico, it's Good idea or maybe more in latin america, you know, maybe a middle middle country that I don't know a that was an idea to to be the former food con and now in virtual in virtual stage and We love that that idea. I think it's it's because First uh here in mexico, you know, we do some logo with the with the Monument representative from mexico city And we say we are fedora mexico not not just only Mexico city, you know We have a lot of states here in mexico and we say we are fedora mexico not just from mexico city and we We want to bring together all the states on all the people in the north in the south of the country, but Beyond of that We like to do the same Think in latin america, you know, we have maybe in touch with the brasilian guys with the brasilian teams With edward with tattica with louise with all these incredible people And we like to to do the same Effort in in in cross latin america and that kind of events I think Is maybe do an statement day. We are here We are together and we are a big team Strong, you know I like some of that idea Edward you had your hand up Yeah, uh Well, uh, first place I went to congratulate all the mexican team I remember like Maybe two years two years and a half ago Mr. Kraken write to me by telegram. Hey, I have this little telegram group all mexican You can help me modding that like you're modding the the international group and say yeah, I can help there are like Five to ten members. Maybe something like that. I say yes, I can help I was helping like two weeks and I Totally disconnected for a while when I went back. They have a whole structure Method meetings a whole team admin the group and say hey, they grow very fast and very strong It was very impressive and very proud of the mexican community that having Able to pull this community of this local community is is is very strong And I think it's a except a very great example to all the latin community to To show how they can do a strong community a strong local community and I was thinking a little bit that was mary was saying about having kind of a Latin america event globally in hopping and Even when I really agreed about it, I think It should be great for you to start with a mexican event Sponsored by the federal project in hopping What I mean is that I think that a part that is really important for this community growth Was to be To felt part of the community the third part of the project Not only the local community but part of the global project And I think that having a local event but sponsored by the whole project to be A great step for them, you know And my question now is for the mexican guys Is How are you working in the project now that the ambassadors is kind of Spars in time and place and we have a An effort Leaded by mary and the manager community to revamp the whole ambassador community Okay We're very We have a more or less Five or seven ambassadors active Mostly are here in the community. This is good and We are working together the telegram group help us help us for make the communication easy a To organize events in every part of Mexico We go need to meet the people face to face And coordinate all the work the ribbon really Make us I think a thing a lot about how We are doing our work and if we can Help to revamp the revamp initiative to You know As an example of who we what we need to do the ambassadors now For the world project. We are thinking an ambassador need to create local communities an advocate can do Evidence in every part of the country the local communities would at part of the team so ambassadors need to foster new communities or local communities and here I think is the new the new The new best work for the ambassadors make local communities grown healthy and afford contributors to the world project is is Our vision of the what an ambassador need to do he I think this is part of the revamp Who are under the umbrella of the combs looking for you know a Make together going together at the the effort or for to Get new contributors to so a I think The revamp head was The music and community we are not affected because we are mostly at beefs In all the aspects and we are very happy because we have a Contributor say like packages like translators that help us to See another part of the of the project not only the ambassador part part of the May the work the community works also the technical words, so we have A variety of the contributors in our community. This is important because You know the advocate is a fedora contributors in In in any part of the project and want to make Even make to to make a talk about the fedora project those This is great for us make a And the coming in Mexican community is looking A the results of the revamp. We are thinking is there the right path Because Is a reflect of the work we're doing in our community cool And neil you had your hand up as well Yeah Give me a second if I remember my question now. Oh, yeah It's it's been a long 72 hours But so something that Occurred to me while we were talking about events and and things about bringing people together and then talking about You know idols and and and celebrities and all this sort of thing I Don't and this might be my ignorance because I'm not too plugged into the Spanish speaking community. I I used to know a little bit of Spanish. I'm not very good at it anymore right now, but you know um Where are the Spanish speaking podcasts and and and? And and youtubers and all those people who tend to do you know talk about linux and technology and that sort of thing You know are those Have we talked about maybe having some kind of broader strategy of engaging with those? To broaden the reach of the door with the Spanish speaking community Of course in latin america, but also the broader, you know I I think it's a fair question to say like the broader Spanish speaking world Because like I tend to jump in like in english speaking podcasts And and youtube shows and stuff like that every once in a while as a guest Uh But like I personally i'm unaware of any such situation where we're doing this for spanish speaking ones And I'm this also goes to all the language other for other non-english language Technology consumption news stuff I don't actually have a word for what you media technology media. There we go. I have a word They came back to me for that It's been a very long couple of days But yeah, so like that's the sort of thing that it's like I haven't really heard too much about this and it feels like this is one of those avenues where we tend to get a lot of understated breath and mind share and and and reputation Gains across the board When when we have engagement in those particular areas So is there anything that sort of thing that the project can help with or at least maybe there's some kind of thing that we can do to To help support that kind of thing or even maybe even start a spanish speaking podcast or something I don't know like What do Yeah, it's it's very curious because Even in Mexico, we don't have the maybe all the impact about the podcast you say Here in Mexico, we are more maybe Graphical or you know, if you Have a twitter account for example Yeah, and you post some code or some github repository or something like that you have some Gain some famous or be in the middle of the the it community guys, you know in the In the meetups All the this This talks on this presentation was about 10 technical things how you how you can do that. How do you be The best programmer or or best coding. I don't know It's very curious because here in Mexico the maybe the thing that is Very important is shared knowledge You know, maybe not just for for talk It's okay. You have a you are a Linux guru Show me like a like linus says, you know a here in Mexico, we have some Quotes about that and a they say I'm sorry about this quote this translation, but we say Fuck noots Send me your code Sorry, sorry about that But this is you know, this is the the main one of the famous the quotes of of linus torbats You can say all that you want but show me your code Yeah, and that was maybe the the the thoughts here in Mexico You are something in it from your code and show me your your job and And So the people who who have some famous like or mr. Kraken here in Mexico, they have a Lot of histories in in twitter about how he Go to the food con at nicaragua by right, you know He he he puts in the in the highway and say oh come on. I'm go to the to the nicaragua about Five or ten thousand miles to Mexico City and go just with his backpack and he Go to the food con in nicaragua and take pictures and say and he says I do it I can do it and if I can do it Or we can do it That's one thing One thing I want to highlight there is that what we're saying show me the code doesn't necessarily literally mean programming code, right? And that in that story it was it was driving 5 000 miles and taking photographs like that show me the code as well Right, so it's not just programming. There's lots of other ways to Show your receipt Right, exactly Yeah, and and that's what Mr. Kraken is our hero or personal hero because he made these things alone By himself and I don't know. We are proud of happening in this group and we Always follow his I don't know He's a he's a great person. I think cool And maybe to to continue a little bit with a question that that Neil does In Spanish it's hard to follow in the In the technology side because fine at the end you Do end up in a english speaking podcast or show or youtube channel There are some maybe Little niche that have some reputation But at the end you are You are going to going to end in destination linux or in linux and plaque or or in something In english at the end you can start like a little bit, but there is no There is hard to follow something Specific in spanish at the end they are going to you are going to end in the in the english speaking shows And in terms of media at least Something maybe there's opportunity there as well If there's energy to match the opportunity Yeah, for sure. We we we saw last night with this talk with Federico Mena They told about how genome starts and everything and they have many 100 or 200 people at the same time in the streaming. It's a freaking I think yeah, maybe 100 or 200 For four is for four hours For four hours. Wow The one the one cup And two cups Three hours Yeah, what's what's yours? Um, I don't know how many views up What I love Yeah, good good good be concurrent viewers like 200 or 100 200. It's Yeah, my release Okay, um Marie and I have a meeting with some lawyers about the fedora logo Progress soon coming up. So we need to we need to wrap this up But I do have some yeah, you know, don't face fault too hard But I I have a couple things to add which are that So we do have some money in the fedora budget to help support you So don't be afraid to help to make requests. I mean we can't do everything But like if there are things that you do that like help people feel like part of fedora like swag is obviously an easy thing I see your awesome fedora ambassador shirts like if we need more stuff like that. Let's let's talk about it and then also Marie hooked us up with some pretty awesome team building things earlier this year where we did some fun events as part of Nest stuff and just for the fedora council and things If there are like team building activities that would be helpful for your group I am totally in favor of those kind of things even if they cost a little bit of money to do some sort of like some kind of fun online Event just just you know for the core group of people or for a bigger group of people to try and Just make it feel you know Like a like a team and friends where we're totally down to provide those kind of things You don't need to think of them right now, but feel free to ask us more about that Thanks a lot Thank you Does anybody else have some last comments here? Oh, go ahead. Justin. I just wanted I just wanted yeah I just had a maybe a closing question to ask to each of you What's something for the fedora mexico community that you are excited for for 2021? vaccines Yeah, yeah, we we miss a lot be together, you know, it's a very chemical maybe a reaction we that we add together and you see in the pictures or federally release party was incredible with pigs and cupcakes and Yeah, the it's That's what's magic. Yeah for sure. We miss that and we hope Very soon as possible. We have back again these meetings Yeah Yeah in person meetings will be great also had events in in another parts of mexico invite new new Look for new speakers in another spot in another parts of latin america Banya or another parts of the world we can do some effort for translation More or less, but and also we can we will will will be great a Make some It's for some speakers for fedora prog it events Like I don't know a roll man or some like like that or Show show to the world the keynote tells we have in the mexican community And because I think by example we can look a local Similarities and maybe ground and other communities from I don't know a It's fine or or germany And another part of the work you can benefit from our experience Absolutely But did you have a great talent in the kubernetes part? I was seeing the talk they had do about kubernetes and was Very very awesome Yeah, we have a very talented people that Uh, we like to show to the world. They are mexican too Yeah, absolutely that that local pride is cool as well. Yeah Um, all right. This was really interesting. I'm I'm glad we did this Thanks for sharing with us and I think there is a lot people can learn from this and it was very inspiring and like I said anything You need for help. Uh, we're here for you So, yeah, uh, thank you very much and we'll get this online for everybody else to see as soon as possible Bye everybody All right, that is adios