 All right, everybody, we'll do a quick round of introductions and then we'll get into it. My name is Marie Norden. I am Fedora's Community Action and Impact Coordinator. But I've been involved in Fedora way before I was the F-cake working on Fedora badges, as Ben mentioned. And a part of the design team went to all the flocks and stuff like that. I've eventually made my way here supporting the lovely Fedora community. Anurabh, would you go ahead? Thank you, Marie. Hello, everybody. My name is Anurabh. I'm from Fedora Mindshare Elected Members. I'm also working with Fedora KVAC as well. I'm also a member over 10 years. I'm doing a lot of different contributions, various contributions around Fedora. And so, they're hopefully going to talk about how to join Fedora and contribute Fedora as well. Thank you. Cool. So, we are definitely just winging this, as you might have heard. One of our presenters couldn't make it today, which is very sad. Some airport plane, you know, all that stuff. So, I've done this presentation before but me and Anurabh haven't shared it. So, we're going to go back and forth a little bit, our best to make it as coordinated as possible. And Anurabh, if there's something I'm missing you want to add in, just feel free to interrupt and I'll kind of go the same. Sure, sure. I'll try to convey your sentences at the finishing. Cool. So, what are we talking about today? We're going to talk about who and what Fedora is, how Fedora is organized, how to join Fedora, how to start contributing, and a couple of tips on becoming a successful contributor. We hope that there's also questions that we can answer for people. So, don't be shy. Use the Q and A tab and we will get to those at the end. So, first we're going to talk about who and what is Fedora. So, we are a huge global community. We're from all over the world and we come together to develop tools, software, and materials to promote free and open source software and very specifically our operating system, Fedora. Here's a nice picture from the before times of all of us at Flock. I think this was Poland. Poland's correct. I have my side note. I was just behind in the picture to picture closely. We were together in that picture. So, I'll say something. Anaralp and I didn't meet until we went COVID times and we were like, we're at the same event. How did we not meet? And we are in the same, we are even together in that picture. It's quite possible to go to these conferences and not even meet everybody. All right. So, the vision, this is our vision statement and the Fedora council puts together the vision for Fedora. And what they have drafted is the Fedora project envisions a world where everyone benefits and free and open source software built by inclusive, welcoming, and open-minded communities. So, we truly try to walk that talk every day in the decisions that we get, we make as a community together and the work that we do together. And next is our mission. So, vision, big picture, missions like the very concrete, this is what we do. So, Fedora creates an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enable software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users. Cool. So, do you want to talk about the four foundations? Anaralp? Of course. Our foundation is actually one of my oldest knowledge about Fedora as well because when you join Fedora, four things you see if you get into the website, when you try to explore what is Fedora, you will see four foundations, which is one of our four foundations. Because we are not just an operation system, we are not just a distribution, we are also a community. And community means people. And it's also about technologies and the futures we bring into the Fedora and we try to do also as first as possible as we can. And this four foundation is freedom, which is we are open source and open community and open minded. We discuss everything openly and freely in a friendly environment. And friends is about being a community doesn't mean we just have to work and do the work and do just coding or designing. No, no, no. It's also about making friends. And when I joined Fedora, I have many friends, like even Marie mentioned, we got this COVID situation now become a good friends as well. And we talk each other, then I joined MindShare thanks to her. So this is also one of the outcomes. And one of the good outcomes is just a tiny memory as well I would like to share. Some of the people from Europe also visited me in Turkey and I have shown them around. They are trusting me as a friend, as a further contributor to share our culture, to share our values as well. So it just, as I said, doesn't mean just a distribution. It's about being friends, being in the team and feeling you have another family. You have to be welcome and help you out every steps. And if we talk about futures, it's about always about bringing the latest and stable releases of every single Fedora releases as you may know. And when it comes up, we got a new GNOME desktop distribution. GNOME desktop has been landed. And we have new cool features from PDA. We have another cool features from the back scene and all kinds of other stuff. And we also bring so many new futures like pipe fire, valence, and all kinds of stuff is also about our future. And next addition to that, we are also trying to do it as a first distribution, trying to put it in stable and a good environment and be shared with the people, get their feedback and harness them and make it even better. That's why our foundation is very core of the Fedora and very important to everyone. You want to take this slide too? Yeah, yeah, of course. Well, when it comes to Fedora deliverables, I see many pins or alternative into the Fedora. Of course, when you get into the website, as you can see, Fedora Workstation on the main page, but we are not just the workstation, we are also a server IoT or always silver blue. And recently, you know, I also has been released PDA variant of silver blue. And we have also scenes and last one, thank you Neil, we have also clouds on that list as well. And Fedora has, if I remember correctly, approximately 39 different desktops and a lot of them also have become, really become a spince as well. And if you check the list in here, you see EDA, XFC, LXQT, MADE, Cinnamon and more. And some of them is just as a specific target in Fedora. For example, Neuro is about Neuro technology. For design suite is about designing and also drawing and all kinds of stuff. When it comes to gaming, you can choose games as well. And this is all kinds of different options that exist in Fedora. So you can, based on your selection and choices, you can make your desktop or server even better. Cool. So I just want to follow up on that and say, there's groups behind each one of these deliver, or these additions, the spins and labs. So if you're interested in a specific one, you can get involved with that, what we call special interest group to start contributing. And it could just be, you know, bugs with your reporting bugs, or it could be, hey, I would really like to see this feature because of XYZ reason, or you could suggest another piece of software to add to one of the spins or labs. I'm not sure which one that's appropriate for, but you can get involved and kind of help to shape what these deliverables are. Exactly. All right. So I'll take this one. So there are a ton of benefits to contributing to Fedora. Personally, I've grown so much from being a part of the Fedora community. It really opened my eyes to so many different things, but I'm from the US. I hadn't really had friends internationally before I got involved in Fedora. And that really just opened my mind to how the world works in a bigger way. Sometimes we just kind of live in our own little boxes. But being a part of Fedora, you connect with people, you learn new things, you expand your network professionally, or just friends-wise. It can give you a sense of fulfillment, giving back to your community. It's something you can put on your resume. You know, if you're trying to get ahead or just, you know, get that job that you really want, putting, putting contributions to open source communities can take you a very long way there. And obviously just for fun. I hope everyone's having fun at this release party. And I hope that, you know, working on Fedora stuff brings you joy. It has always brought me an immense amount of joy. So that's one of the reasons I'm also involved. And I was talking about this earlier in the wallpaper session. Part of my background is a designer. And I'll keep it short. In my experience in art school, it was like very competitive, right? But when I came into the open source design world, it was not that. It was like accepting and we're all doing this together and we're handing back and forth files, which if you know about competitive graphic design or the art world, that's not something that happens a lot. So you have a chance to collaborate and learn from people with all different experience levels. And of course, swag. People love swag. Yeah, people love swag. And there's no shame in coming and hanging out to get some swag because, hey, it just promotes Fedora even more. Cool. So we can move on to our next section here. How is Fedora organized? So I'll talk a little bit. And on a rope, if you want to add in, you can too. Yeah, sure, sure. You take the sound and I'll take some slides. Cool. So Fedora is huge. And this map here might seem a little overwhelming. But I promise that all of these people who are running these teams are accessible to you. So right in the middle there, you have the Fedora Council. The Fedora Council is making high level decisions for the project. And then coming off of that, you have Mindshare, Tesco, objectives, and the diversity and inclusion. So those are all very much connected to the council. And I guess you would say that they're the next level below the council, right? So Mindshare focuses on Fedora's promotion, marketing. Everything that's not coding pretty much goes onto the Mindshare side of Fedora. So you're going to see over there are commops, which is ambassadors, the joint SIG, advocates, marketing. Then you also have like mentor projects. You have our internationalization efforts. You have the podcast, the community blog, the magazine, all these different places. These are all places for non coders to get involved. And I'll say this, we need you so much. We need people who are coders, obviously, we're always looking for more people to do development and packaging and all that stuff. But not a lot of people like it's slowly, but surely coming to light that we need more than just those technical contributors. We need every part of an organization, a regular organization, we also need that Fedora. I'll also point out that diversity and inclusion team, we're actually rebranded to diversity, equity, and inclusion. So this doesn't need an update. And those groups are focused on a couple of different events that we do yearly. There's Fedora Week of Diversity, Fedora Women's Day, we just kicked off and did our first Fedora Mentor Summit. And they also support some of the mentor projects as well. And then I'm going to leave the objectives and fest go to you. Hey, well, objectives are basically is what are we going to do in next releases and years in Fedora. It's not just about technologies we would like to think about to bring it in. It's about also bringing about which contributors and other federal community objectives you would like to target of that as well. So it's also very important that these objectives are is basically is coming from federal contributors. And based based on collective idea, we would like to basically put it out there and get the feedback from the community. And based on that action, it also harness it and make it better. And also try to do it and complete the task. And it's also definitely feels good, because once we got an objective and completed, and when you become a federal contributor, it definitely feels good to do that objective as well. About fest go is for the engineering. Living committee is about is federal technical side of the war. So when it's come about federal release releases, changes is like if something's going to be definitely critical in Fedora, that's required for training committee statement. And it's also about packages that is if you're active or inactive on all kinds of technical side of the federal situations goes over there. And you can even run for federal engineering steering committee as well and become part of it. And if you want to have an agenda, have a better idea, you want to put it out there, put your words, or you can do it as well. Any federal contributor can become test member as well if they wanted to run for it, of course. Being a physical has a lot of responsibility. It's not just doing some coding, you have to also do a lot of work around people as well and decisions is also very important. It's all connected in main point in federal council and which is the all basically one giant community. Awesome. As I said, don't forget to put any questions in the Q&A. We're definitely open to them. So we talked a little bit about them on the last slide. We don't need to go too deep into this one, but it is good to just reiterate these are the governing bodies in Fedora, right? So if you're like, I think something that I think Fedora should be focused on this as a whole, you would go to the Fedora council and say, hey, I have this idea and I think it should be something that you keep in mind. Say you want to put something into a Fedora, like the next Fedora release, right? You would go to the Fedora engineering steering committee and change to them. And then say you might want to run an event or get them swag for your local Linux user group, right? You would go to the mindshare committee to ask for something like that. So, right, these groups are accessible to you and you are welcome to come to them and ask for things for Fedora. And I hope that people feel comfortable doing that. Also, just one side point I would like to add is if any committee you ask if your question could be on top topic or something unrelated, don't afraid. Just got any part of the member will try to point you the right direction as well. Every question doesn't have to be true. We understand you. It's a big community. You have to understand a lot of stuff. We won't judge you. We was trying to point to the right direction. Don't be afraid. We'll always be here for you. Yes, absolutely. Cool. So how do I join the Fedora community? So we have this awesome team called Fedora Join and they are there just to greet newcomers. So they're just hanging out on a channel hoping and waiting for new contributors or interested people to show up. And they're going to help you do a couple of things, right? They're going to help you get your Fedora account. They're going to help you like introduce you to documentation in your areas of interest. They're going to potentially help you find a mentor to, you know, someone kind of directly to ask questions to because it can be a little overwhelming asking questions and just like a public channel. So sometimes it's nice to have a mentor. And then just a channel that's just for newbies. So that's like the ask any question you need support with channel. There's no wrong questions anywhere like on or off the thing. But this is the place specifically for newcomers to ask those beginner questions that all of us have. So next. Okay. So we're looking for potential not polished. You don't have to come with a lot of skills to Fedora. Like you can just say, Hey, this this community inspires me. The foundations behind this community inspires me someone I met inspires me to be here. And you don't have to come with like, you know, I can code in these 10 languages. And I, you know, I'm familiar with all this software for design or editing or whatever, like you can just come as you are. And, and we can help you find a place. So if you think this sounds great, what are the next steps? Alright, so the first thing you want to do is make a Fedora account. I bet a lot of people here already have Fedora accounts. But I hope that for the badges. I hope that people see this on YouTube later too. So first step is to make a Fedora account. You can do that at you can just search Fedora accounts. And it should pop right up for you. And that's used to, you know, you can log into all the Fedora sites with that Fedora account, you know, discussion and element now chat, pejor the wiki. So that's, that's your key to get into all of these Fedora platforms. And after you have a Fedora account, you can go speak with the joint team. And the joint dig will open a ticket for you to basically kind of have your introduction, right? So you can ask questions on that ticket. They're going to give you links to documentation. You know, that's kind of a great place to just have a starting base, right? And after a little bit, they will actually check in with you and say, how's it going? Is there anything we can help you with? So yep, that's kind of what I was just saying. I didn't realize this was coming up next. But yes, we do the introduction. We help you do the exploration. We check in, see how it's going. If you need some more support or information, happy to give that to you. So from there, what happens? So there's all kinds of roles in Fedora. So this is broken out into coding roles and non-coding roles. Arnold, do you want to take the coding roles? Go for it. Of course, the coding roles is about for the, for example, we have further packaging. Packager is basically bringing the source application of Fedora. Sorry. We'd like to say you have found an application that doesn't exist in Fedora and you would like to bring it in into the Fedora. What you can do is you can make an RPM package in Fedora in certain roles and you can basically package it for us and you can submit a review. And one of the experienced packages is going to be reviewed for you. Once your review is complete, you have to also find the sponsor. Once you've got the sponsor, you can ask in around the development list. Another list, basically, you can bring it in Fedora. I think we need a brief description just because we won't get, there's like 16 of these. So go ahead. Go ahead, Arnold. Okay, I will handle that. Once you complete your all kind of steps, you will basically have a package in Fedora. You have to maintain it. So let me encrypt some pieces. What is in packages? Packagers are basically a person who's responsible of the package you bring in in the Fedora. And the proven packages is basically an experience package. It has a more power for all the Fedora packages. And submit, sorry, reviews is basically you have to go to the certain websites in Fedora, in Vaxilla, and you have to open it in certain format to submit your package. There are a lot of details about it. If you're going to cover them all, it's going to be an entire talk. So I will not go into much of a detail. This is just a brief explanation of the packaging. And the list engineering is basically about is how to maintain different tools, the utilities, also checking packages stability and upstream situations and all kinds of technical technical topics. Quality assurance is basically one of our key points in Fedora. When we do every single releases, we also have to test every federal releases. And also we have to check, we have also certain packages, has to work properly, and has to be a stable state. If we don't stabilize it, we are basically delaying releases. But in the same time, we're trying to fix that problem, if possible, internally, not internally in Fedora, or we go to the upstream, try to fix it. So once we complete this certain box and problems, Fedora will be released. And as you, some people may notice that this release is slightly delayed because we have a certain box, we have to fix it before presented to people because we want have the best and clean experience in Fedora so everyone can basically install it without any problem or upgrade without any problem. Marie, do you want me to take this one as well? Sure, but I give a little bit less background. We've got to get, we're, we have six minutes left. Sure. Fedora infrastructure is basically about Fedora servers. If you want to helping on that, you can go there. If you want to make our websites maintain, and in front-end or back-end, we have website and app development, if you want to translate application or certain Fedora tools or beyond that, you can join Fedora internalization team and help about it to translate the language is basically. Cool. So I'll do that. Yep, absolutely. So we're talking about internationalization, which works with bloodlates. We also have translation. So that's just, you know, folks going to our documentation and translating it into their, into a language that they know. So it's less to do with the operating system, more to do with our documentation and all of the stuff that surrounds the community. We also have community outreach and there's multiple teams that work on that. But off the top of my head, ambassadors is the number one outreach team. And then we have advocates who run small events, and we have the community operations team, which kind of supports all of those. We have the diversity, equity and inclusion team. As I mentioned, they work a lot on events, but we also try to help influence how Fedora is basically moving. And we want to make sure that accessibility and inclusion are something that we're always keeping in mind. We also have very strong graphic design team. And we also have more and more folks showing up who are interested in doing UI, UX work, that's front-end development websites. We have a podcast team. We have the Fedora magazine. So if you're into writing, we have the magazine. And then we also have the community blog. So you they're kind of like user focused is the magazine. And then community focused is the comp blog. We have a documentation team. That's more of the technical writing and updating documentation. We have a program management team run by our lovely program manager, Ben Cotton. And they come and help assist with projects or initiatives that you might be working on. We have a great mentorship program. We're actually looking for more other programs to be involved in. But in the past, we've done GSOC and we've done outreach for, I don't know, like 20 sessions in a row. We really do well with outreach programs. So, right. So those are a general overview of the non-coding and coding roles. But if you saw something you're interested in that wasn't there, those are just the overviews. Those are like the most common ones. So if you have something you want to do in Fedora, don't be shy, ask where those people are doing that. All right. So how do I become a successful contributor? So we all started as volunteers. We all started as newbies at one point, whether it was 20 years ago, like some of us or six months ago or two months ago. And so all it takes is practice and observation, right? So there's going to be a time commitment that's involved if you, you know, decide to commit to being a part of Fedora and contributing. You know, something that makes a community great is the trust that we build with each other. And part of that trust is saying, hey, I'm going to do this thing and then doing it, right? So there is some of a somewhat of a time commitment there. Also, observation. How do the team, how do the teams work? What's the team communication style? And if you ever run into a problem, there is a code of conduct, just want to point that out. So you're seeing things that you don't think should be happening. There is a way to report that. But hopefully everything observed will be good. So but it's good to know how a team works, how they communicate together. And also, you want to pick something that's important to you, right? So something that's going to excite you, something that's going to bring you joy. You want to pick something that's going to make you happy and motivated, right? So don't try to jump into the deep end by picking up like a huge task, right? That's not, that's kind of a way to ask, to sign up for failure. Try something small to start, right? And then from there, you can kind of build and grow upon that. You want to potentially look for a mentor or a sponsor. Someone you can ask questions to in a like a very non-mental or at least a more private venue where you can ask these questions and then try to stay busy, you know, hang out, come to our events, hang out in the chat channels and stay involved. So, right. Oh yeah, go for it. Go for it. Also, keep it in mind a couple of stuff. Don't burn out yourself. Don't be afraid from making a mistake. Everybody can make a mistake. Experience contributors will definitely help you out. And don't be afraid. Say your mistake if you do something wrong or slightly think it could be wrong or of course you can do it through correct as well. That's, that's of course also awesome. But that doesn't mean we're going to make you feel forced or not good. As Dan said, experience is also about experience. Making mistakes also gives you more experience and more talents based on the knowledge you want to learn about it. Ben's coming on screen to tell us we're almost at a time. But since the next one's in AMA with a little bit longer. But I will say I just reiterate on our own point, don't let yourself be burnt out. There's nothing in Fedora that is more important than your health, both mentally and physically. Also, if you don't have a time, if you think something doesn't going to finish at the time you think, try to stay it. Try to pass on your team contributor because we will just basically doing an all free time, doing on our time. It doesn't mean you have to finish it. I understand people have a life as well. Don't afraid of it. So right, we pointed out the code of conduct already, but because we're from all over the world, we have all different cultures, backgrounds, beliefs, and beliefs about free software as well. You know, sometimes conflicts happen. It's inevitable and it comes down to each of us to make sure that we keep our community happy and healthy. So how do we do this? Be considerate and be respectful. You know, you don't know what kind of day someone's having. You don't know how much work someone put into something. You don't know what's going on in somebody's life behind the scenes. So just try to approach with consideration and respect for your fellow contributors. And thank you so much for listening. I know we're just slightly over time and I don't see any Q&A. So if there's none, we could wrap it up. We did the best talk done. We can absolutely share links to the slides. I think we're going to add them into the wiki. This does need to, so apparently we need to do some updates here. Oh, Fredo's not here. It's on Libra chat. We shared everything properly. All right. I hope everyone had learned a lot or was just like nostalgic the whole time because you've been a part of the door for so long. And thanks again for listening.