 Cool. So here we are. Welcome to our annual virtual contributor conference, Nest with Fedora. This is our third nest. Kind of unbelievable. Yeah, we thought it was gonna be like a one-off temporary thing and now it's definitely it's an institution now. Yes, I think we're all kind of hopefully most of us are used to hop in at this point, but I'm super excited for this year's conference. There is a ton of awesome content and people who are going to be presenting and hanging out with us. I guess we should do a little introduction. Just for those who don't know us, I know a lot of people do know us, so you can ignore this part, but I am Marie Norton. I am Fedora's community action and impact coordinator. I started a bit less than three years ago now in November of 2019 and I have been happily supporting the Fedora community since then. And I am Matthew Miller. I am the Fedora project leader. I've been doing this since 2014 and have been involved in Fedora for the decade before that, so yeah, I hope that you know who I am, but it's okay if you don't. I am around. Feel free to chat. I love to talk to everybody. I don't have enough time in the day to do all that that that I love to, but yeah, don't be strangers. I'm Ben Cotton. I'm the Fedora program manager. You probably recognize me from all of the email I send on a endless basis. I've been in the role for gosh over four years now and as we were talking, I realized now that NEST has started, I've officially been to more NESTs than flocks in my my decade plus of Fedora contribution, so that's kind of weird. That's a good poll. We should make that a poll. Action be gone. We have a bunch of polls prepared. None are in Hoppin yet, but definitely keep an eye out on the poll section. We have some fun stuff planned. So what are we drinking polls there already? Nice. All right. Are we ready to get into some some things? Get into some things. Let's do things. Okay, here we go. All right, so it's to start out. It's a reminder, hopefully you all know this already, but the Code of Conduct does apply to all interactions in at NEST and elsewhere in the community. If you're not familiar with the Code of Conduct, that QR code on your screen will take you to it. During NEST, if you have any issues that need addressed, email code of conduct at fedoroproject.org or send Matthew and Marie a direct message through Hoppin. We have several moderators who will be keeping an eye on things, and I don't expect there to be any issues because this is a wonderful community, but this is our Code of Conduct and we will enforce it. If you haven't seen the schedule yet, that's available as well. It's also there in Hoppin. You can just show up and go to all the sessions you want, or if there are particular sessions, that was a good time to check and make sure that you can actually get to them. If you're not able to attend because the first rule of conference club is that there are always two talks that you want to see at the same time. Replay will be available. You'll get an email at the end of the event that shows you how to come re-watch the videos. As soon as possible, so don't worry. People don't need to email us about when will the videos be there. They will be there soon. Yeah, the replays will be available, I believe immediately and for three months through Hoppin, and then we will have them on our YouTube channel by the end of this year. Excellent. Good goal setting. I did notice that Hoppin has this new add to agenda feature. So if there's a button at the top that says schedule, and I think you can do it there or through the reception page, there's a schedule and that also has an add. I haven't tried the add to agenda because I'm just going to be here constantly, but let me try it out. Let us know how it goes. And one cool thing about virtual sessions is you could just open two browsers and be in two sessions at once if you're that kind of person who can take in multiple streams like that or you think you can. Don't forget to claim your badge. I already got mine when I tested the link, so yay. But yeah, badges are fun and you should definitely get your badge. If you're not familiar with Fedora badges, they're a way to mark various activities that you've done in and for the community. It's just a really good way to sort of gamify your participation. And as you explore the badges, you will probably find things like, oh, I could do that just to get a badge. And that's totally cool because you're still doing useful, awesome things in the project, so don't feel guilty. And of course, it's not too late to invite your friends or your enemies or strangers that you pass on the street or on social media or wherever. The registration is free, as you hopefully know, and it remains open until the end of the event, so it's never too late to join. And we would love to see as many Fedorans as possible come and participate. Just a quick sidebar here. We have 750 registrations right now, which is definitely higher than we had at the beginning of the event last year. And we had 905 total registrations. So I am like confident we are going to hit 1,000 this year and we can't exactly. We can just use your help by sharing that link around into your Fedora channels, networks, and definitely invite your friends as well. If people miss that badges link, where can they find it again? It's in the reception and I also pinned it at the top of the event chat. So we'll have that will kind of change as the day goes on. But it's in the reception mainly. And that also is the case is the badges service happens to be down when you try and clean your link. That's actually a help wanted item. So we'll talk about that some other point. But, yeah, announcements. Actually, these announcements are mostly there are surveys. We did a big contributor survey last year and this year again, user and contributor survey. There's a session about that and I'll talk about a little bit about that in my state of Fedora as well. But we have additional more specific surveys on different things. This one is about extra packages for Enterprise Linux or Apple or Apple if you prefer a E kind of sound. This is a really important and very popular part of the project that makes a lot of the software that we package up in Fedora available on CentOS, Almalenix, REL, Rocky, those kind of the downstream distributions from us. But it is hugely popular. And so this we're investing some more in that. And this is a survey about that. You should Apple says Ben. No, that one is wrong. I'm sorry, Apple or Apple, those are your choices. You can say it every one. I don't care. And then we also have one on documentation, which is another area that we are putting some focus into. The pal. No, no. And yeah, so Marie is moving on to a new job, which is bittersweet. It's going to be good for her, but she's been so awesome in this role. We are interviewing some people now. We've got some applicants for this already, but the job is still open until filled. So if you know somebody or are somebody who would like to help Fedora in a very involved way, this job is for you, maybe. So follow the link and there's some more information. Talk to any of the three of us or actually anybody, Fedora Council, anybody in Fedora about this. And yeah, we hope I don't know if we'll find someone who is as awesome as Marie, but I hope we'll find someone who is awesome in their own different way to bring Fedora into the next next step of things. Cool. So I am going to talk about the socials. And in the chat, Dan reminded me that there is a Minecraft server up. So there is a portal session, which actually just provides you with link to how to get there because Minecraft is not integrated with Hoppin. But there's a whole bunch of instructions and how to do that. And Dan, Sir Mac, is the one who is running that. So if you have any questions, make sure to tag him, chat him, maybe in the nest, flock to Fedora element chat, and find out some more details about that because it's going to be a lot of fun. It's not yet integrated. Also, I hope that whoever is hanging out over there takes some sweet screenshots and shares them with us so we can see what's happening. I'm not personally a Minecraft person, but I like the aesthetic and I'll be happy and excited to see what y'all are doing over there. Cool. So, oh, go ahead. Oh, I just wanted to say, I know Alexandra would like me to say something about MindTest, which is an open source Minecraft-like project that, I don't know, Minecraft is cool, but you know, it's not open source. And, hey, this, again, my continual shout out to Microsoft. Come on, if you're serious about open source, open source Minecraft. That's what that's what we need. But there's also, you know, a community driven project. And it would be cool to see some of that for the next Fedora event. Cool. Sorry about that. Oh, no worries. So we're going to be hanging out in the Fedora Museum again this year. There is a portal session that will pop up whenever the social times are happening. So if you would like to come check out this super cool 8-bit map that a former intern, Darya Chowdhury, has designed for us. It is super cute, super Fedora themed with Badger and Panda art and wallpapers and cookies and all of your favorite Fedora things. And of course, people will be there. So if you want to socialize and hang out in between the sets of sessions, definitely go check out the Fedora Museum. So last year we skipped this. This year we want to do it again. Today's social is a Nest group photo. So all you have to do is come into the session. Join us on camera, smile, wave, frown, make an angry face. Do whatever you want. And I will later then grab your screenshot and add it to a group photo just like this one and we'll publish it and have it all around for people to, you know, share and check out as they want to. Super excited about making a group photo. Makes me miss our like flock group photo. We were all like standing super close together, which now I can't even imagine doing without many people. But I hope you stop by. It is hosted by the I team, people like Zippo, Ashlyn, Luna, people we know and enjoy. So definitely come by and say hi and get included in this year's group photo. Tomorrow's social is going to be the infamous pub quiz with IFA and myself. We're going to host. Thanks to Ben and Matthew for working on the trivia question. So we made a little less hard for IFA. And also if the answers are wrong, we get to blame with that. And Matthew and not IFA. We promise it is not right. Yeah, IFA was like she likes it, but was tired of being told that she was wrong every time after putting so much work into it. So and as someone who has told IFA she was wrong about her pub quiz before, I was very sorry. So volunteered to help make the things this time. So this time when something's wrong, blame me as is proper. And just to be clear, I don't promise that it's not rigged. All right. OK, so for Saturday, the social is going to be tried and true, all-time favorite, Pictionary. And also you can play in your cake with the F cake badge. You can bring snacks or drinks or something. You don't have to, but it's a chance to earn another badge if you don't have it yet. Cool. I think we're on to the next section here. Yes, sponsors. Thank you very much for making, you know, this event possible and a lot of Fedora possible. Obviously, Red Hat, my dear employer. Thank you. We appreciate it, as always. And other gold sponsors here, Lenovo. You can buy laptops with Fedora pre-installed. That's awesome. Alma Linux, a downstream project to make a freely available enterprise Linux. Real like operating system available to everybody. Also, thank you for your help. OpenSusa, one of our friendly dystro alternatives, if other ways to put together a Fedora distribution. It's good that we are all kind of working together on the same, same overall thing. So it's, hello to our friends there. And Datto, which is generously sponsored a couple of times here. And GitLab also, I think they're, are they new as a sponsor this year? They sponsored last year's sponsor. Well, thank you, GitLab. And GitLab is also providing us free access to their GitLab hosted service. So we've got some stuff running there. And then also DOS keyboard with their very cool Fedora keycaps here that they made for us. We still need to get them to open source their keyboard control software. So let's talk to them. But they make really, really great keyboards. And also some other partnerships here. KDE, we are working with them that just like GNOME, these are desktop environments that are really important to our experience of Fedora as the operating system we interact with right in front of us. OpenSource.com, that's a Red Hat sponsored thing to just kind of talk about open source in a wide way. I think Ben's participated in that a lot and they are... It's a nice thing that... Wow, cool. That is also very community driven to talk about open source. Should put Fedora magazine up here sometime because that's our own thing too. But it's this one is more general open source stuff. And then Tux Digital, who is helping with the Fedora podcast and also some awesome friendly people over there. You know, it's a nice thing to say about Fedora recently. So thank you everybody. One last on about that one. This is the destination Linux network that is now rebranded as Tux Digital. So they were also here with us last year, but just thought I'd spread the awareness on their name change and branding change. And I see how everybody is on fiend with blue as the color there just coming around. I did notice that as well. And you know, Fedora has a blue logo. I think it might be, I don't know, a tech thing and open source thing. We're all about the blue. It's a nice color. It's very soothing. Cool. So let's talk about swag. There is a nest with Fedora swag pack that is going to be available. Here is where you can sign up for your nest swag pack. Different than last year, we are not going through the cool stuff store this time. Working with a different vendor to kit up our swag packs. We're making 500. There's more than 500 people here. So if you don't sign up in time, you're still going to get swag, but it'll be something else. We have a swag, a small swag bundle. We have a t-shirt. We have a couple of other things we can send out. So make sure to sign up. Yes, there is a link other than the QR code. We can get that into the chat momentarily. Maybe if Zipple is around, oh, there he goes. He got it for us. Cool, thank you, Zipple. So definitely sign up for a swag pack. There's lots of fun stuff in there. There's a surprise item with our new mascot on it. There's stuff from our vendors. There's a couple items from last year, but not too many repeats. So, you know, sign up and also please be patient with us. There is a lot of delays and different requirements and things around global shipping. And we know it can be very frustrating when people in the US or the EU are getting their swag very quickly and then in other places like APAC, it takes a while. And I do apologize for that. We do our very, very best to get you this swag in a timely manner, but there's a lot out of our control. Go ahead. Z-Survey comments from the general survey was a thank you for getting swag to Cambodia. They said they were happy to get it, even though it was, I don't know, eight months or something to get there. But I don't think, I think they were genuine, not passive aggressive about it. But yeah, it can take some time, but we're doing our best. Zipple says he's gonna enjoy seeing it in 2024. So yeah, I totally understand the frustration, but there are some things that are out of our control as no matter how many times I email the vendor, there's really nothing that I can do. So enjoy and also please be patient with us. Cool, so some of you might know that we have a trademark allowance for Hullotucks, partnership I guess, okay? With Hullotucks and they offer t-shirts and polos with the Fedora logo. I think they also have like a hoodie and maybe a zip up hoodie and there is a promo code there for you to use if you would like to purchase one of those. We also have a collection up in the Cool Stuff store. Yes, we know you have to log in and yes, we agree it's not an ideal solution. I've actually recently told that we're going to change the solution again. So there will be more updates on what that will be, but I'm super hoping that a login is not a part of that solution. And Maria's also hoping it will be the next FKX problem. Well, it's still my thing to at least start and figuring out. I'm meeting, doing some meetings about it now to kind of see what will happen with that. But for now, you can use the Cool Stuff store and I think there's seven items plus t-shirts in there for you to check out and purchase if you so choose. Cool. So basically this part is a big thank you. It's a thank you to everyone who submitted talks and sessions for those who are accepted. Thank you for doing all the preparation to make a great experience for everyone here. Participating at Nest, we really appreciate you and appreciate all of the effort and just heart that you put into Fedora and making it an awesome community. And of course, special thank you to Marie for all of the work on putting together Nest. She did a huge amount. And also, were we gonna bring her up on the stage? Yes, I actually talked. So, Issa asked to join the screen right now. I think you have to like click. There, there she is. Hi. So Issa has been working with me as community engagement intern. I've been so happy to have someone to help me with events and Issa has done a tremendous amount to make this event a huge success. I'm gonna let her introduce herself and say a couple words while you're up here. Thank you. Hi, everyone, I'm Issa. I've been the community architect intern working with Marie and community projects since May. This is my first Nest with Fedora event and I'm very excited to see all the hard work kind of come to life. I hope that you all enjoy the next three days that we have planned and that you can all participate as much as possible. And thank you to Ben, Matthew, and Marie for allowing me to join you guys in working for Nest. Of course. If we could allow more people to, we would. So thank you, Issa. Go ahead. We can allow more people. If you'd like to help next time with other events, talk to Issa or Marie or me about the other events that we do because we definitely could always use volunteers to help with these things. Yes. We have people coordinating socials, coordinating the hop-in platform, like setting everything up. We have artists who work on different designs, the different things you see all over the hop-in platform, like a reception and for the sessions and for promotions and all that kind of stuff. We need people who write. We need all kinds of people to help out and we've also, you know, not just Issa helped me out, there was a whole group of people who did various things, just the bull. I know I'm gonna forget people, so please don't get offended, but a ton of people helped out with this, with the planning and the setup and so much thanks to all of you for doing that and we hope that, oh, go ahead. Neil mentions the Hatch events in the chat as well, so we wanted to be able to do this in person, but it really felt like it wasn't ready yet in the world, but we wanted to kind of, you know, not quite still be in our nests so much of this time, so we had something called Hatch events, kind of like, you know, keeping with the bird theme there where we had some local meetups around the world and people organized those. There was one in Rochester, New York that Marie and I went to. It was, yeah, it was nice to have that and actually see people again and so, yeah, thank you for everybody around the world for organizing those things and as we go forward into whatever happens next year, I don't know what we'll do again. I really do hope to have Flock in person, but I think we'll have some virtual thing as well. We'll see what it looks like. Yeah, we had eight hatches all over the world. And there's one in the Czech Republic or Czechia, if you like, coming up next week. I think it's August 11th. Yeah, it's August 11th and that is organized by Fran. Oh, there he is. And also, I know Dorke is putting a lot of work into that, so I hope it's a great time. Definitely take pictures. I can't wait to see how it goes, but we are like pretty much out of time. We thought we were gonna have some time next. It's you. Oh yeah, all right.