 Okay, thanks, Justin. I think probably we can start. Okay, so hello everyone. Thanks a lot for joining the session. Today we wanted to share a bit more about the Dora Mentor Summit, how we did this year with the event, what things we can improve and so on. So I'm Yonah. I'm part of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team and currently I'm also the DI advisor. I've been with the team for quite a while now and some of the things that we are so very excited. This year that we have organized is the Dora Mentor Summit and also the Dora Appreciation Week that is still happening. So if you haven't joined already, would love to see some more contributor stories there or some favorite memories you have with the community. And Akash, do you want to also introduce? Thanks Yonah. I'm Akash Deepthal. I have been contributing to Fedora Project for around four years now. I started off as a volunteer but I'm now working in the Red Hat community platform and training team. That has not been, I'm not volunteering of course. I have been behind things like Fedora Website Snaps team and like Yonah mentioned a bunch about mentorship and that is something that we will be talking about over to you Yonah. Thanks. So Fedora Mentor Summit this year was the second year that we organized it actually but it was the first one that we made it to have it in person. For those of you that don't know about the event Fedora Mentor Summit started last year as a virtual event as a way that we wanted to work a bit more on the mentorship culture. It's not that we haven't done you know other things regarding this in the community because we have the ambassadors program, we have the joint SIG and many other initiatives but we wanted to work a bit more on it since we see it as a very fundamental part of Fedora's culture and also connected to the Fedora Council objectives that we will also get a bit to it later. So this year it was the first one that we did in person and it was together with Glock so it happened in Cork, Ireland and this is the group photo actually of the whole conference that we did. So when we gathered with the team to work on this year's event we wanted to know to check again the goals that we had for the event, why we are doing it and so on and of course that we headed basically connected with Fedora's Council strategy that if you haven't already checked I definitely suggested to check it out and it's connected to the objective where in Fedora basically everyone has a mentor and everyone is a mentor. So we wanted to work a bit more on basically supporting and fostering the mentorship culture in our community and not only as a way to basically have more mentors in Fedora but more to work also improve ourselves you know but of course that we can do both to be hand in hand together but also when we share the experiences with each other we can get better on it and as I mentioned also before because since it's a very important part of our culture we wanted to know to work a bit more around that. So this was basically the main goal that we had for the event and we tried when working on the agenda or finding speakers and so on to have it connected to this goal. So as I mentioned we headed as part of FLOC which was really great because it helped us to get also more people on board that could join and share their experiences. We started with a keynote on the last day of FLOC to have it basically to kick off the event and to reflect on mentoring in Fedora community so how we have done like previously how we are doing with it and what are some of the things that we want to focus a bit more. Then we continued with the panel discussion where we had different mentors in Fedora community sharing some best practices how basically mentoring has worked for them and especially focused a bit more on mentor projects that are like Google Summer of Code or outreach and so on but not only. We followed with some more hands-on activities as well focused on DI. These ones were not recorded because it was like more hands-on activities that people could could do in person with the participants which helped also to know each other better because you know in this way it helps with collaboration in the community. Then we had the talk from Amy why you should join the community basically going a bit more deep on the reasons why communities are important how you can be part of it and why someone should join. And the last one was another interactive activity that we had the story stitch which was also another very great way to know about each other a bit more and get a bit more closer with the people that we work in the community. So this was kind of like some overview of the sessions that we decided to have for this year and basically we had eight sessions in total and 11 speakers that could join us about it. And now I will pass it to Akash. Thank you now. So these are the glimpses of the phenomenal Summit 2020. Our first in-person occurrence of this event and second overall occurrence of this event. We definitely plan on having more of that and this time around we had not only things about mentorship but we had people from other communities participate here as well which includes folks from Rocky Linux from CentOS project and Ansible apart from those of course from the Fedora project community. On the top left side you see a panel discussion happening with folks from QA team from Fedora design from Fedora infrastructure who have been longtime contributors in the community sharing their experiences about how mentorship has changed their careers their lives and how they would like to you know promote for certain practices the best practices that they would like to set us for that. Then the next we see is the diversity equity and inclusion workshops around things like unconscious bias, happiness packets. We took our time to actually write some appreciation notes for folks who were there and also for the folks who were not and it's I think a great exercise because sometimes all we need to do is be thankful for all the help that we get and that in turns makes us want to help others in turn. And finally we have a talk about joining a community by Amy and it was an interesting one because sometimes your projects need a community to back it up and there can be magic that can be brought about when people are with you. Next slide please. So here are some retrospective observations on the things that work just fine with this occurrence of Fedora Mentor Summit. As it worked we would like to continue doing them so the first is of course to organize this as being a satellite event to a major one. We have had troubles with bringing people together in the past and the best way to make sure that people come together is to make sure that events are organized in a continuous fashion in a group. So this time around we decided to have it with the clock to Fedora Greenway 3 and that was a good decision because we had a great participation of folks from across various communities participating here. So we'd definitely like to do something of that kind again and the next thing is to of course have more panel discussions. You can't imagine how important opinions people can have regarding mentorship and we'd like to hear to every single one of them if we get the chance. So definitely more panel discussions with a varied set of people from across communities if we get the chance. And finally to celebrate more social activities like I said about the ones that we did for diversity, equity and inclusion like happiness packets, discussion about anecdotes for unconscious bias. These things were not recorded but if you would have been there you would have understood how important these events were to understand the human nature of contribution as well as mentorship. The next slide please. Oh yeah the previous one the things that would work yeah there you go. Yeah so these are the things that would work down the line if we start doing it. So of course to stream more sessions live we would really like to have as many people as we can on board with our well events in the Fedora Mentor Summit. So live streaming definitely seems to be the best choice here for a hybrid participation. Then leading by example as much as talks and discussions can be a good sub-event we would like to have things like role-based where people are given a certain case study to enact and the best way of making it is by faking it to begin with. So if you're not a mentor or a mentee yet chances are that if you like to act like one to begin with given a circumstances you'd love becoming one down the road and then enabling hybrid participation just like the first point not only streaming things from our side but also taking your inputs from the ones who could not join us in person and you know using them as being the content for our event as well as you know making them feel like asset there with us in the room where the event is actually happening. And finally inviting attendees early this is an effect because we of course we try to invite people as early as we can but as the logistics go sometimes it's not possible to get things in hand as soon as possible but we'd like to we'd like to increase the capacity and we'd like to invite people early so as to make sure that we have not only more participants as attendees but more participants as organizers as well. So that is something that we're looking forward to and then developing on the feedback in some time from now we would be reaching out to you folks especially the ones who participated in the Fedora Mentor Summit 2023 to understand how you felt like participating in an event like this and what would you like to see improved down the road and we would really like to hear your thoughts about it and improve upon it as we go on and finally connecting to other communities. Sure we did that this time around but we'd like to do more of that and in a grand scale so assuming that we have speakers from places like our preachy or Google Summer of Code we'd like to hear their thoughts about mentorship. Next slide please. And finally here again this is a nitpick one of the reasons why I think that we could have gotten more attendees when we organize Fedora Mentor Summit is because we were competing for attendance with other exciting places other exciting events that I would definitely recommend people going to but I'm a biased person I would like people to be in Fedora Mentor Summit. So it might help us to have this a bit before flock I don't know but definitely deciding for some time where we would have most participation because even if you're not a mentor or a mentee you'd love to become one and you'd love to be a part of events like this which is open for everyone regardless of who you are. Next slide please. Yeah but that's all about the retrospect of the current Fedora Mentor Summit the one that happened in 2023. What about the one that will happen in 2024? So I'm gonna let that question be answered by Yona here so Yona over to you. Thanks a lot and before going to the next year event I also want to say a big thank you to everyone that helped with the event so the organizing team because I know it it was like a really big work that we had to go through and think about how to you know have it in the best way so it could bring some valuable knowledge to everyone but also to the speakers that could join us because it was from the feedback that we heard from 101s when being at flock it was like really great experience that they shared what worked for them and so on and all the participants so hearing you know all the I think the positive feedback that we got also from this year made us think that we should now work on actually Fedora Mentor Summit 2024. We already actually started thinking and having the first meetings about it when we had the Fedora DI meeting this week we started talking about that we want to repeat it again so we will have another Fedora Mentor Summit next year we don't know like specific details when and so on but of course you know based on the feedback that also Akash was mentioning until now yeah most probably it will be again as part of flock so in person and Mexico and if you would like to help us with it either to become a part of the organizing team or to give us some feedback what things we can improve how we can make it even better for next year here you have the link of our GitLab issue that we have open about it so we would love to hear you know some feedback and some ideas there so thanks a lot also for for joining and for listening to us we will be also checking the chat now in case you have any feedback that you want to give us like directly now but otherwise please do so in the in the link that Akash can you maybe also paste the link in the chat so we can have it handy yeah for sure and also folks if you have not opened up the fourth section we have some mentorship related course so please feel take them it really helps us to understand how we can improve on different events as well as how we can make the next event better but here's the link to the QR code if you don't have a phone handy or basically you're on a desktop device I think we most of us are on a federal devices and we can also check I see we have one question actually on the Q&A tab did you both have a personal favorite session or part of the mentor summit that's a good question it's like personally for me it's hard to choose to be honest because like one of the things that we were mentioning now was the also in the chat was the happiness packets which we also wrote it handy so maybe I will highlight that and why I liked it also because for me personally one of the things that why we also organize the the appreciation week is the gratitude part which you know expressing a bit more and saying thank you more to the people that we work so closely it's very nice it's a nice way how we can also make their day and why we also headed as part of the mentor summit because also having it written you know giving to that person one of the things that I really enjoy since some of them were also anonymous so I had the papers and I was giving it to people so when I gave the paper to the person that it was about just the smile in their face was like really really nice so there you know you see the impact of the things that you do and how much it helps someone else also to continue doing a great job on the things that they are doing and also you know after flock they can also have it for example in their working desk and sometime when you are having not a very nice day maybe you can also you know read that and it helps bring a bit more positiveness so maybe I would highlight this part the the happiness package that session that it was one of the things we had at the mentor summit but also the the panel discussion I would say because it brought so like many different tips that I think people could use in any of the things that they do in their job community or when talking to someone and what about you Akash thanks Yona um yeah so I can provide you with an unbiased perspective on this because mostly I had the boots on the ground operations role in this pedometer summit so the happiness package is sure as hell my favorite one but I'm going to talk about a couple more that are closely on the second and third position or probably you know tying on the second position basically story stitch and the unconscious bias discussion so yeah the story stitch literally helped people open up to people that they probably were interacting for the first time in an in-person event so um you know these stories can be you know sharing their vulnerabilities or sharing one of their happiest moments of their lives or about one of those times that they think that they were dealt with a bad hand but it really helped people connect like it never does you know sharing your stories with people about the things that you're thankful for as well as the things that um you think that could happen better um of course that happened at the end of the event so I