 So good morning everyone. Thank you very much for coming here today in the morning after the game night I hope everybody enjoyed the game night last night So it took us while to set this up thing now it is all done. We can kick this thing off Today we are here for the Fedora mentorship summit track This is our first ever in-person Fedora mentorship summit And we have been planning it for like last six months Initially, we thought we will have it separately But then because of the logic sticks reason and because we thought we will have a lovely audience like you here at Fedora So we clubbed it together Last year we did it virtually. I would like to say thank you to all the organizers of Of Fedora mentorship summit who have been I have been working with them for last six months and Because of them it is possible that we are doing it here today So it's Yona Aziz. You will see her you can wave your hand stand up and You you will hear from her a lot more stories about mentorship later today. We have Akash Deep Our second organizer, then we have Sumantro Mukherjee here Of course this name Everybody knows by now Justin Justin Florey we have Two people two other people also contributed and helped us in organizing this who are not here because of the visa reasons or some other reasons I but I'll still code their name because they truly helped us Vipul Siddharth and Samira With that I'll move forward So here we would like to dedicate this track to Marina She is not among us here, but we are here to celebrate her life and legacy I can go on and on through the list of contributions and the difference. She has made so far She was a community engagement lead at Red Hat She was the board member at Ganon Foundation God. It is making me so emotional right now She also was one of the founder of Eda initiative She core organized the force outreach program We used her experience without reach to contribute from to get the contribution and support Many underrepresented group. I I will not hesitate to say that if I'm standing here today Even after being at Red Hat for the last 12 years There is a huge hand and support from Marina There are many stories. I can tell about her but we are here to celebrate her life and To take her legacy forward. I would like to invite Justin here to quote a Story about Marina and then we will kick start this track with help of Yona. Thank you everyone I just wanted to share some, you know Context about Marina and the impact that she's had both in the open-source space and also here in the fedora community Just last month I came wearing my my outreach t-shirt from the 1,000 Intern celebration that took place in multiple locations all over the world last month in Nigeria in in India in Portland in Fosse and a handful of other locations as well and That was a huge milestone because Marina was also a she was one of the original founders of what was originally the GNOME GNOME outreach outreach project for women which then later became Outreachy and she was a huge driving force for making that that program grow and scale to Reaching that 1,000 intern milestone last year in the fedora community as well eight years ago are the fedora council added a diversity advisor seat to the fedora council and Marina was also an advisory part of voice to the fedora leadership at that time to help us Make more space for these kind of conversations in the community and in 2016 we had our first We do hack fests or pre-covid We did a lot of hack fests in the community where we get small teams together for a week and get people to do team building and work on a specific project or task and Seven years ago Marina was also one of the big Driving forces for us building the what was then the diversity team and has now evolved to the the DEI team in fedora so I just wanted to acknowledge both her presence and her her The legacy that she leaves behind both for Outreachy and her impact on that program and all the interns that have come through that through Outreachy but also in fedora project in our own community where she helped be a driving force for Making these spaces in our community and supporting the team to empower them to Build a team around that diversity advisor role that was added in 2018 That was just a seat on the council, but we didn't know at the time that it's like Oh, this is actually really hard work and we need a group of people to help support that person there So we just wanted to make that space for Marina because she she passed away last year from breast cancer this is a very still very fresh loss in the community and we just wanted to Make that acknowledgement in space for Marina and her life and the impact that she's had both in fedora and the wider open-source space, so Really sad that we're Still sad that we're missing her I would have loved that I think this is the kind of event that she would have loved to be at But I think the best thing we can do is you know honor her memory and her impact in the community and keep doing all The things that we're doing because I think that's what in the in the DEI space for fedora Because I think that's what she would have wanted us to continue doing so I'll pass it back over to our mcs, but Just wanted to Share that impact that she's had both broadly and in the fedora community as well So let's share a bit how we started with the idea with the idea of having fedora mentor summit Why it was important for us Um, so a mentor is someone with experience and knowledge in some area that can help someone else learn and grow So how this works in fedora until now? Uh, we have the fedora ambassadors project where they have their mentors So fedora mentors help new people to be ambassadors in the project to be the face of fedora in different events or their local communities Another way we have the fedora mentor project which Consists in helping with Let's say official internships or project like g-sol google summer of code Outreachy google summer of dogs and so on Um, and another one is the fedora adjoin sick Which the mentors there are helping new people to with the onboarding to start their first steps in the project But we also have what can I do for fedora, which is more like Something that you can do yourself that you can check on the website based on the skill set Which team you would like to join? You know to check more about the team page and so on but This way it's a bit more difficult because usually when uh, you are just joining a community You need a bit more guidance how to move forward. Um, what are the teams how you can join them? Are they doing meetings what tools they're using and so on? Um, so you need a bit more Let's say persistence to move forward and to do that first step to become a contributor in the project and then to become Later long-term contributor and so on But of course the mentorship itself is important because you know, we need the continuation We need uh to have more new people joining the project So we can pass the knowledge the expertise So in this way we can also avoid having bottleneck or Having burnout in the teams which We have seen like in different teams for example happening. So in this way we could avoid these small problems And since is you know, um quite important For the project itself, uh, we wanted to focus more on this mentorship part. So in this way we could Share the experience that we have with each other to make it as a let's say a better experience So we are we are already doing stuff As we can see, you know, it's not that this project started now. It's been quite a while in the community itself But we just wanted, you know, to um improve this experience more and to build on that Since is very fundamental part of the federalist culture Uh, so here I put it, um I was checking some Let's say stories that I could find from the community How mentorship was important for them in 2018. We had the fedora appreciation week and One of the ways how people could say thank you to the contributors in the community Was to write a contributor story Um, and there you can find like a lot of stories how having someone in in the community really impacted their experience in the project how helpful it was for them having someone that could guide them around could tell them Um, how the teams are working. Um, how they can get more involved It really made like a difference for for them in their, um journey in fedora Which also makes me realize that maybe we should repeat that again, actually So four years ago after the council hackfest that we had, um, I was chatting with begs and metho about it So we were like, okay, let's organize the federal mentor summit It took us a while to do it actually So one year ago we did the first edition of the federal mentor summit Which was online and virtually and Some of the numbers that I can share from last year So we had 93 attendees that joined us and the attendee score was 8.7 So that's the rate that we got from the participants how much they liked and enjoyed the event itself The top countries that joined us were uh, india us brazil germany and others and so Because in the beginning, you know, we were not very sure what should be Um, the event type the style how we should do it. So we did it more like kind of unconference style We did have Some sessions with presentations about mentoring how much it helps and so on but we also have Different panel discussions So we had like different fedora Mentors that were sharing their experience. We had also panel discussion with fedora mentis And another one that I really liked we invited different open source projects Like open susse, libre office And gnome to share how Mentorship was working in their communities. What were some difficulties that they were facing? Um, and some things that working were working well for them So we could you know share the experience with them and see how we could help each other Which I hope that because this year it was a bit tough to do something similar But maybe the next addition to invite, you know, more also other projects That could join the fedora mentor summit So when we were thinking about putting the goal For us for this year fedora mentor summit We decided that the best would be To foster the culture of mentorship and support the fedora project council strategy Around establishing a community Where everyone has a mentor in fedora and everyone in fedora is a mentor So basically let's make mentorship a fundamental part of fedora's culture So what we will have in the agenda today After this session we will have a panel discussion About mentoring and mentorship best practices in fedora Then after the break we will have some DEI workshops and different activities It will be Not livestream because it will be more like hands-on. We will be in different groups So it could help us to know each other better And then after the lunch break we will have The talk from Emmy why you should join a community And the last one will be the story stage game So when we were organizing this event we organized it with the idea of improving conversation and To heavily depend on participation So please join in conversation ask questions discuss your ideas and basically let's take something out of it And please don't forget to abide by our code of conduct And that's all from my side in the end We will also ask for some feedback and suggestion how we can improve it and make it better. Thank you