 So My name is Saurabh. I'm from Red Hat. I'm working at Red Hat from almost more than one and a half year now So I was a internet Red Hat and I got converted in Red Hat before six months now. So yeah, so Today I will be covering about how we can grow Fedora's a little community And locally or to globally all the corners So this is not the thing that I'm giving some mantras to you that we can do this and we can grow the community But I can share some things that I have faced in my college days in my joint time that we can Improve those things and we can go ahead with those things So I'll share my story with you first that how I get to know about Fedora and Fedora community so So when I was in my second year, there is no not many people know about open source community so some of my One of my senior was working for open source community and he was engaged in open source community So from there, I got to know about open source community. So from that time, I went ahead I like the open source What online I like the open source thing. So open source was I Got attracted to open source at that time because open source was like Come collaboration was there. So collaboration is the thing that got me attracted to open source Because so many people are coming together. They are planning. They're Giving their Information they're sharing the information at that time. So I went ahead. I went to open source community I went then somehow I get to know about Fedora Fedora community then in my third year. I've I Started you're going for test days the Fedora test days and I contributed to Fedora 26 by raising a bug over there So someone passed that bug and so many comments are going on that bug So I got very inspired from them that I'm if I'm doing something someone is recognizing my work So I got inspired and then I started working with it and then fortunately I got get into Mozilla as well So I got I had a I was a Mozilla campus ambassador at my college then from that I saw people The students were struggling to get into this community or to get into open source community because they knew that We need to go and we need to do something that people are not doing we need to do something that is out of box But they are lagging out of What we can do like you out of the path that how we can do that so The human mentality is that we need someone to be our leader We need someone to lead us to the path where we wanted to go We are very lazy to do something on my own on us on our own. So what I thought I Went ahead I created a club in college. I went my principal I asked him that can I create a club in college here? He was yeah, absolutely fine. So I created a club there or coding club Where I was used to take classes on Saturday Sunday in colleges regarding open source communities Regarding github regarding Fedora. What is red hat? How is red hat? How is Fedora? What are all other communities which student can go and contribute? So yeah, that time it worked very well. I got so many Participation from students and the teachers as well. So people were so many where we are attracted to this thing So then I thought okay cool. It's going very good. People are contributing to these things people are interesting to do this because What happens nowadays institutions organizations are looking for the opportunities for their students to make them look out of box because every institution has doing the same thing right now following the same academic rules Following the lectures following all our things. So they are looking for the things that that make their student look out of box so what we can do here in Colleges so we have federal campus ambassador thing but when I was in my third year I tried for it, but I felt because for a federal camp federal federal campus ambassador You need to have some good experience with it the thing Would experience you need to have more than one year experience in federal community I think because I had I had faced this issue when applying to this federal campus I got rejected because of this thing that you are not that experience. You don't have that much of knowledge of Fedora So I think what we can do we can create a local club at colleges Like federal silver blue club where people where students can come and where students can contribute to federal silver view where student can get to know about federal silver view there so Creating that club will give you a possibility to get into touch with students how they feel about federal silver view Because as we are calling federal silver blue as a next-generation federal workstation So I think we should treat it as a separate entity or we should show it as a separate entity to people that this is Thing we are working on and we want to make this thing happens. So yeah So I I was organized at day one before I guess one week So I made brand profit there. So we were talking about that what we can do to leverage this community So we so I I came to know that only 25 percent of creditors are contributing to Fedora Not not not more than 25 percent of creditors. So I Thought we can start it from redhead as well. So what we can do we can also Create a club in redhead. So I went ahead. I went ahead. I Made my colleagues in red hat. I made some of people from red hat Which are who are interested in contributing to red hat or contributing to Fedora. So they were like We are ready to contribute to Fedora because it will make them out of look out of the box Like it will give them opportunities to make new connections also So they are like we are but we don't know how we can do it like they are They know Fedora. Okay. They use Fedora, but they know how they don't know how to contribute to Fedora Fedora So they do because they don't have any path to do that even if we have all the videos even if we are all the content show all the Things available on the internet so that they can come and they can see and they can contribute But we need a leader there We need something that people can come and people can listen to and people can go and and do the things So I think we can start from our own offices so So we should have Like local offices from a local red hat if we are targeting India or any reason So we should have a single office single club or single group in One single office so we can have so many people there So we can people can come here and we can share the knowledge of federal civil review Yeah So So so best practices. I think it includes creating a local club in colleges or So right now federal civil review if you can see Twitter handle of federal civil review. It is going very good People are like liking it and we are continuously updating the civil review page on Twitter but if you think of social marketing marketing and Facebook we are not that active for silver blue thing or if you go for Instagram, we are not that active So I think this there are some areas which we should work So that people could know about this federal civil that what is federal civil because if you go if I go to ask someone That what is federal civil they are like it's in software That's it someone is like I don't know what is federal civil so they need to Google it and they'll get to know so I Think we should have some social night waking in So this is more of discussion because I'm Planning I'm this is my starting phase in federal civil community where I can grow this community and what state should I take in or take in My region to grow it and in the all over the corners or from my local Region to all the world So I'm here to discuss you with these guys that what are your plans or what are your opinions about it that what should we do Or what should we not do to this so so that's So Matthew Because So So I told you earlier that universities and Organizations are looking for the things which make the student look out of box because If you're planning to so what is the goal of the student learning and engineering college? They wanted to place in good companies, right? So to be placing good companies They need to have something more or extra than academics things so this thing Contributing to open source contributing to Fedora will make them look make out of box so that people can So companies can take a look out of them that this guy is doing something different than the regular academic things So yeah, so I I had the same doubt as you have So I went to some college at my region. I asked them that this is my plan like I'm so in mostly India in mostly Colleges India The principal the institutions are looking for the people for the guest lectures Which can come to our college and use some lectures on other things other Technologies what going on because no one from college students Want to attend a lecture from his teacher in the college because we are doing that the same the daily So yeah, so if we can go and if we can talk to universities and colleges, they are very welcoming like I have seen this so Yeah, because so many institutions are also the Red Hat Academy. So using Red Hat Academy we can Target the institutions from there because so many people from different colleges are in Red Hat Academy Or there are some institution which provides that certifications also. So every people are looking forward to house. Yeah Our community has been around for over 10 years. We have like a little more of a established base So we're probably at a different point than trying to start from the bottom But I think I do you think it'd be more helpful to have like informational resources that would help Help you explain or like Introduce these topics to people or like what kind of interactive resources would be more useful Yeah, you you like told well that we have the base Created before and we have some meetups over there in each and every city if we If I remember it's an ever city. We have some meetups for open source meetup So where people come and people try to get some any any information that they want so what we can do we can using social networking so The people who are attracted to open source the people who wanted to be Wanted to contribute to open source are really liking this Facebook Facebook Fedora page we can post it there that we are having this is things or So it depends like if it depends in the cities, I guess because at some Some of the cities some of the region there are active Communities already as well. So what we can do we can reach out to them or if there is not active community We can go and build one from the college So what if you build one community in a new community in the college so that what will happen? It is a long process. It won't Do it in like one month two months because it needs time, right? Because if you gonna create a community so it would take time to have if we are creating community in college So if people are in fourth year, so they know the community because they have created it and they know it But fever people from first year. They won't know it because they are a new to community so it will take some time to regulate those community in college Ground up Yeah, right I thought the same at the first time but if you think if we are going to Ask people about being and be in this community if for a meet-up thing like so it will only have If the radar is going to some college and giving talks about Federal silver view or telling people that we have this day So it will be only limited to that station only so what if the speaker goes out and after a week? What what will happen because people is not that communicated with the college? So there is no thing that we have there is no communication medium between us and college that time So to fix that medium. I'm thinking to build a group in college locally so that we can Contact to that leader which is in college. We are which is talking about Fedora silver brew so we can contact the leader and so leader can contact us and That would go because if the case lecture or the meet-up. We are talking about it will only Be limited to that span of time Student leader because yeah, yeah, so we can what we can we can not run a campaign So there are different like like Mozilla do so like Hacker earth to I was a hacker earth compensator campus ambassador as well So we should So we can run a campaign in Fedora like we are giving this box to students Which are going to be a community leader here because it will also give some feather on their Top that students is doing something good something different than this We only just have to show people that the whoever person is handling this thing is like have some good communication thing It's very good at your public speaking. He has some good knowledge of technicality So we can do that so you're saying Fedora site social networking. We should start from there because That is I guess Yeah, so yeah so as So I was telling him of the local Fedora group, right? So using that silver blue group what we can do we can create some hackathons over there Also, we can have some hackathons there. We can have some guest lectures from Red Haters We can have some guest lecture for students also the students who are working at this Learning at the same college. So they can do the same thing. I guess, you know But that is good for online online community or online communities. Obviously, they are just we are not Just with anyone offline in that community So people I have seen people not doing their work regularly an online community because they don't have That liability they don't have responsibility to do this and if you if you're facing some facing someone offline I think that would be like more good thing that people would go ahead and contribute to things because they know if I go face this person at Personally so here will ask me that what did you do so what I what should I tell you because I didn't do anything Community Nothing anyone has anything on it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you guys