 Hey, what's up everyone? This is Akash Teepthar, Toxicoder and I'm accompanied here with Alberto, btco.ninja and we are going to talk about how to join Fedora. Before we get started though, I want to thank Murray, Vipul, uncle for their support in making this presentation happen and Adik Shah because basically we would be speaking what she wrote. Who will delve into things Fedora Joint SIG has been up to and what we do to make sure that the newcomers come, they see and they conquer and they become valuable contributors to the community. I will now pass it on to Alberto who would talk about the things the newcomers would like to know about and the exciting sub-projects, SIG teams and everything else in between that they would want to know. Over to you Alberto. What is Fedora? Fedora is a community from a lot of parts of the world and we had, you know, a vision to create the vision to the world-wide benefits from the free and open source software built on inclusive and welcome and open-minded communities. Our mission was to create an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, containers and enable software developers and another users and the community members to be toilets the solutions for their users. So this is Fedora. Fedora was organized in three big bodies of leadership. Fedora Council, FESCO is a technical committee, means it represents the old-age leadership leadership in Fedora. So what we are looking for are new contributors. Well, we look for potential, not to polish skills. You know, we want to learn together from technologies, from design, from a lot of topics. So we encourage prospect contributors in communication with existing contributors. We provide self-contained and well-documented issues for newbies to feel better, feel safe. So we will give to help prospective contributors to turn in on successful ones. You know, we want to provide a comfortable communication from Seinell, from prospective contributors. You know, we are looking to present a healthy community to the new contributors. And yes, we are well-welcome for any one to contribute. How do I join for the community? It's very simple. We need first, you need our FESCO, Fedora Council System, KEPSTRAFT, Fedora Project Contributors, projects to work on. So use a grand authentication, authorization for various, for many components. These give us identity in the project, you know. So we'll use it in many places. And we'll give you a welcome ticket. These welcome ticket help us to track the advance under the community, help you and look in place for switch to your interest, ticker help us money for track, you know, advances, projects, and many other things. So what do a new contributor when starting the project? Well, the first thing is make a sale introduction, start the exploration of the project, look in places for contribute, and interact with another contributors. By example, here in the release party, in another, in another place less nests or flock, or using the ERC channels or Telegram. So at the end, we are part of the community and can help another contributors to onboard in the project. Well, this is very important. We have the four FESCO for the community. We are looking for freedom, friends, fitters, and fears. You know, freedom is very important. We are advancing of the free software and content. Examples of content are by example, if the com blog, the community blog, or the Fedora magazine, there are examples of the free content and free software. You know, everything we package is free software. Friends, we are looking for create and maintain and carrying a healthy community, inclusive community, where we can advance together from the free software, no bother, no matter the age, the skill, and many other things, no. The features, we are looking for innovation and make Linux powerful and flexible and useful for many users. And the first, the first is one of the five words is we're committed with innovation, no? We provide the latest, stable, and robust, and powerful free software in Fedora. It's great. So where do I can start contributing? Well, we have many technical projects. By example, in top, we have the Fedora engineering and setting committee, which is an elected body for representing the technical leadership of Fedora. They do the decisions about the technical innovation we are adding in the project. Fedora modularity is an optional repository for additional versions of software and independent life circles. This means we can have multiple versions of some software for, and this form, the developers can start three, maintaining software from versions, from different versions. This is important. We have the Fedora containers. It's about the discussion usage and maintenance development of Fedora-based containers. Neuro Fedora, I love Neuro Fedora. Neuro Fedora is an initiative that provides a rate to use Fedora-based free and open source tools for neuroscience. It's great. We have the Taylor IRC SIG. It's a voluntary group to create the bridges between Telegram, IRC, and another channel of communication. We have Fedora CI making sure that operating system is always ready for continued building and testing in set-up package. Fedora websites and apps development and maintenance and administration of websites and applications. The Fedora ELN is composed to emulate the Red Hat Enterprise Linux functionality. It's an important one. The Fedora minimization objective is maintainers to try to maintain size optimization content from the lower amount of effort. We have the Fedora QA. The world is continually improving the quality of the Fedora relays and updates with continued testing. The community platform engineering, the CPA, is a team dedicated to support the Fedora and Corus project infrastructure and release engineering. Also, the Fedora I3-SIG, the goal is to produce a Fedora E3-based Fedora Spinware E3-SIG. It's an E1-based Windows Manager. Sorry for the bad English. Thank you, Alberto. Talking about non-technical part of things of the community, we have Fesco. The MindSphere community is just like Fesco. It fosters interaction and communication inside the community and takes care of the community's happiness, sustainability, operational strategies, stuff like that. Outreach revamp, if I remember correctly, is one of the exciting things that MindSphere helped to start. Then we have community operations or comops, like the way we call it, which helps provide tools, resources, utilities for different sub-projects like the ones that Alberto just talked about across the Fedora universe to improve effective communication. Up next, we have Fedora documentation, wiki pages, quick docs, contributed guidelines, Santora. You name it and you'd find that this team is behind every documentation task in the community. Then we have, this is my personal favorite, that the badges. It takes inspiration from Mozilla's achievements and it helps recognize contributors for all the good stuff that they have been doing inside the community, as well as you get to have the shiny badges too. Next slide. Then we have Jointseg. Like Alberto already mentioned, we are what bridges the contributors, the newcomers with the community. Simply put, we help the prospective contributors to get started with community engagement. Once that takes place, the next thing, what comes up is entirely up to the contributors. Fedora magazine consists of tutorials, information, announcements from everyone. It doesn't matter if you're a user, contributor, developer, sysadmin, package or anything else. You can potentially become an author here if you're interested. Fedora localization aims to bring every single line of Fedora that includes packages, websites, documentation, culture to you and it doesn't matter if English is your first language or not. Fedora localization will make sure it reaches to you. Next slide please. Now that we talked about how the newcomers can join and the things that they can be a part of and the ways that they can contribute, let us talk more about how contributions can be taken up by a notch with simple practices like we suggest. Of course, I do understand that no two contributors have the same way of contributing, but these practices seem fit to most of people, so why not give it a try? Time commitment. We do understand that there are things to take care of in personal life, bills to pay, works to finish and there's day job. So we want the contributors to be very, very sure about how many hours they would like to be able to dedicate to Fedora. The next thing is to see if they're permitted by the work and if there are any rules related to work which does not allow them to do a contributions beyond their work time and if you're allowed a bioavailability from your folks for the time that you spend with us. Volunteering is rewarding, yes, but it should not come at a cost, should it? Joining just for the sake of contributing is one of the biggest mistakes most new contributors make. We at Fedora are much more than lines of coach, documentations and graphics. We are friends. So newcomers are appreciated to take some time out, interact with folks, make friends. We love to meet new people and to answer questions. Now if you have found something to work on and if you feel that it's just right, it is something that you want to work on down the line, I would suggest to hold on and observe first before jumping right in. You need to see how things are done and you need to understand why things are done the way they are. Moving on. There is no assignment of work in Fedora, quote-unquote assignment because we believe that if you pick what you want to work on and if you contribute in your own way, that would be the best possible contribution for the community and for you as well. So grab something to work on that would be fun or something that you're interested to work and I believe that you'd have lots of fun in contributing. Picking something difficult to work on right away can be overwhelming and there would be lots of chances of failure when you do that. So newcomers should always try to pick something easy to start with and then if they feel like that yes, this is something they would want to work on, then with the help of mentors, they can go to the deeper end. Talking about mentors, finding contributors who have been a part of the community since some time now, it's very important for you to become a successful contributor yourself. Like there are stuff in packaging where you require sponsoring in order to become a package or it's very important because mentors help you to do things in the right way and finally keep yourself busy. Like I always see that every contribution should end with that easy line in the movies that it always ends up with. You must have a piece when they say that this war is far from over. This is just a beginning. Such should be the nature of the contributions as well. So if one contribution is over, pat yourself on the back that yes, I've done something of value and move on to the next one. Moving on. Being contributors from various places across the globe, coming from different walks of life, doing different things in day jobs. Federalized diverse and it is something to be proud of. It is something I call one of our biggest strengths. But yeah, there can be disconnects here and there. There can be miscommunications, misunderstandings and happiness which might creep and you never know. It comes down to us contributors, every single one of us to ensure that it is kept to a minimum. The best case scenario is well to make sure that doesn't happen. But we have some ground rules that we cover on the next slide. So these are the natures that we try to live up to. Do not see them as obligations, but rather as responsibilities that yeah, I should live up to it if I'm a contributor. The first one is being considerate about what possible consequences can be for certain actions. In Fedora, every task is open and the task for documentation, corrections and translations, commit and figure, be it anything, it might be used as a base for somebody else's work. At the same time, you can be using somebody else's work and proceeding on. So do take into account how your action can cause ripples and the consequences can be. So that's what being considerate is all about. The second one is what it goes without saying, disagreements are okay. They might happen day in and day out. But understanding that discussions should never turn into arguments, targeting opinions should never turn into targeting people. Being respectful is all about that. I mean, we face frustrations and they can be frustrating. But we should never let that turn into a personal attack. Finally, we did take some time out, didn't we? No, this slide is fine. The thank you slide. Yeah. Here's hoping that you went bold. Albert to the final slide. Yeah, thanks. We wouldn't keep you here for longer. I would like to thank you all for your attention and the links that you see displayed on the slides can be found in the link that Wipple just pinned, as well as in the chat section. So feel free to reach out to us if you're interested to contribute to Fedora. And I would like to thank you again for being with us. Thank you for joining us and we are open to questions. Don't seem to have questions as of now. We'll wait for some more. And then I think we can close this. What do you say, Alberto? Matthew seems to have a question. If other people want to learn to give this presentation and to share the knowledge of how to get involved, how should they start? Well, to start with, yeah, so we did not cover how they can, you know, reach the place where they can provide presentations, did we? We covered everything else. But yes, joining the community, getting to know people would definitely be one of the first things to do, knowing how things are done and to be able to justify why they are done in the first place. And then I believe that this all comes under community operations because in order to make sure that the community thrives, it has the strategies that it requires. So getting in touch with them can be one of the things that we would want to do if we are to come over here. And definitely, the slides do have a CC by a 4.0 international license. So please feel free to share these slides and reuse them as you see fit. So I believe we can close this presentation by in a minute if we don't have any more questions. So Matthew, I don't think, oh, yeah, I think we have gone past the one minute time. So I think we can close. Thank you, everyone, for being here, for listening to our ramblings. I believe that you can drop us a drop right at the federal joint chats, be it on metrics on Discord or on Telegram. Feel free to join right there and we can continue our conversations there. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.