 Welcome everyone to contributing to Fedora as a teenager here is how you can do so let me share my screen okay it is sharing so let's present so the thing is I'm having a little connection at my side so whoever whoever is the moderator here if I disconnect by any mistake so can you kindly like speak about disconnected yeah so that's great so let's start welcome everyone to contributing to Fedora as a teenager here is how you can do I am Nasir Hussain I am a 15 years old Fedora user Floss enthusiasts and from Pakistan and I'm also contributing to the Fedora project on Fedora course the I3 window managers a special interest group the joint special interest group and some other teams like mind share and diversity and inclusion etc. I am a Python Easter and a gopher so I also work on Python and go Python at my day job I work at I work as an engineering intern at sasta ticket Pakistan so here's my Twitter handle it's at the rate and score Nasir HMS score so let's move so what we are going to be talking about today is about my journey in Fedora project and how I started with contributing because I started out as a Google code in participants so I'm going to be talking about a little bit about that and life after Google code in then a little bit about the why diversity and inclusion matters in Foss and Fedora and the Fedora DNI team diversity and inclusion and then here's how you can contribute so if anyone here is a Fedora beginner I'm going to introduce you to Fedora Jointseq and you can come and chat with us at our communication channels in order to become a in order to get onboarded with Fedora so let's start my Fedora journey so it started out around in 2019 when I was around 14 and when I I wanted to install Linux on my laptop and I installed Fedora because I had used a lot of distros and did a lot of distro hopping in the beginning like I have used almost all the major Linux distributions from Debian and Debian ones to Red Hat ones so I thought to try out Fedora at that time on my laptops and what I did was Google code in was announced at that time and Fedora was an organization there so I was pretty sure that it is Fedora and then I made some my first steps in Fedora world like creation of your Fedora account system ID and the figure account it was actually a task in Google code in by Alisha Mohante Vicky Motul so she was the one who created a task about fast ID and that's where I got started to know that this is what fast is and services like figure which is a get her get get forge for Fedora so this was like pretty early steps in Fedora I knew how everything works what is a Linux distro I always thought that Linux distros are more like just the installer keyword is changed in Fedora it's DNF in the Debian or going to world is APT so I always thought both are similar but after understanding that how Linux distros work now I know how things work inside and life after cool Google code in was pretty interesting because once I knew how things work a little bit in Fedora and then I got to know that Fedora 31 is also released and Fedora has something called release parties in which you organize a local release party about a Fedora release what's new for outreach for Fedora so I organized my first Fedora 31 release party in Karachi Pakistan after that I saw a lot of newcomers there who wanted to become a part of Fedora and the best way was to point them towards Fedora join sick so this is what I did and then I joined the Fedora join sick as a member to improve the newcomer experience and everything and after that when I had when I joined the join sick I was able to gain a lot of experience with working with different teams and six in Fedora that how the infrastructure works was a distro how a distro creation works and everything so I started exploring different teams and tried to contribute back so it was first of all I started with the documentation then mind share committee then some like writing tasks for mind share committee or documentation then a little bit of community operations work and then I started eventually as I got familiar with the in friend code side I started with my little code patches in course and other parts contribute and then I after some time I am currently working in the diversity and inclusion team as well along with the ITV sick I am maintaining the ITV sick respin currently and a little bit of tutorials section of the Fedora core site so this is how what my journey looks like I was a Google code in participant and then I tried to get involved within Fedora organize a Fedora release party I even gave a talk about Fedora and force in the release party and then I tried to explore different teams in Fedora and selected some teams which I would like to get started to work on and I work with join sake my diversity and inclusion team ITV sick and Fedora core as now so as you can see the journey was pretty long like it was around it was around like six or eight months now but what made the journey fun because if the journey isn't fun then I believe you or anyone won't continue for that period of time so in the at the time of GCI I was able to have some awesome mentors and who later became friends within Fedora so this is what the most important aspect about federalize it's all about it's mostly about the people that we have and the community we have in Fedora and the second thing that made the journey fun and exciting was you always have some good first issues available and they are like well documented to easily fix them in order to get you familiar with the code base because those developers who are maintaining that project they can easily fix that but they try to well document that so we can have more contributors and more people getting started with that project so you can one thing in Fedora you would find is that we have very well documented easy fixes and there's always something exciting for you to work on so Fedora is true when I started out I felt like Fedora is too big and it is and as it's too big there's all they would always be something exciting for you to work on so you just have to explore different aspects of Fedora different teams and you would find something that you'd like to work so this is what made my journey fun and exciting some awesome friends and mentors good first issues and there's something exciting for you to work on and this was my journey within Fedora how I got started and what I currently do so I'm gonna be talking about a little diversity and inclusion why it matters in the context of free and open source along with Fedora so why diversity matters like when we have a non diverse group of people working on the same project we all kind of have the same thoughts are the same way of thinking but when we get a help or get involvement from different from a diverse buyer from from people who are from diverse backgrounds we can improve our projects by getting new ideas and and like there there's a whole amount of research on diverse teams that function better than non diverse teams just because they have a lot of ways to think and everyone can everyone bring something new to the table and a new ways to solve problems new ways to think about problems it can be anything and we can learn a lot like we can learn a lot from the ideas and perspectives and what they think about some with some people who are like us and who are different from us in many ways like if they are from diverse backgrounds they would have different ideas different perspectives and different ways of thinking so you can learn about that and improve yourself as well and so in order to improve diversity and inclusion and foster diversity and inclusion within Fedora community we have a Fedora diversity and inclusion team which works on like here you can see we organize Fedora Women's Day every year we try to organize a speaker non-linglish language session or we generate video content to spread awareness about diversity in Fedora and like we try to connect people with different backgrounds and we talk about different things and here's the image if you can see this one that Fedora unites us all with open source like these are people from very diverse backgrounds very diverse ways of working and thinking and they all work together within Fedora so the work that I do within Fedora is about documentation and organizing things in the issue tracker so what things are we working on which needs to be focused at the moment and which we think we can work on later and managing all that stuff and why do I work with Fedora diversity and inclusion team is like I can I get to meet a lot of people from diverse backgrounds and whom I wouldn't meet in my day-to-day job so if you would like to chat with us you can join us at hashtag Fedora minus diversity on FreeNode and we also bridge with Telegram at the Fedora diversity and that's a bridge between IOC and Telegram so this is the work that I do within the Fedora diversity and inclusion team and this is the work that Fedora D and I do this is an awesome infographic that was created by Smela Goyal who is an outreach intern about from for the Fedora design team she was having a exciting sessions later do visit that you're gonna learn a lot about Fedora design and badges design so let's say it's like this is this was the work that I was doing within Fedora how I started the work that I do now I'm going to be talking about how you can get started with Fedora so there we have a special interest group or a team in Fedora that works on improving the newcomer experience and trying to structure as the process how we can onboard newcomers and direct them towards the things they want to work on so the Fedora joint stage is like a special the interest group which maintains like chance to engage newcomers within the community you can chat with us at Fedora join on Pinoad and join Fedora on Telegram so the work that I do here is like the only thing that I work mostly I work on is the finding ways to improve the newcomer experience in Fedora because what we have is we have a process to formally introduce people within Fedora and I'm I work on improving that experience for newcomers and making it more engaging more fun and I help with onboarding newcomers I run and help in organizing classrooms so in the past year we have conducted six classrooms on containers container images creating Fedora badges Fedora silver blue localization 101 and latex so these are all available on the Fedora YouTube channel do visit that you're gonna learn a lot from them as well so I try to run the classrooms and help in organizing them and I maintain some docs within the Fedora joint stick as well with the welcome side of things so why I work with the joint stick because after code Google code in I didn't get to go through the process that we currently have and that was a little hard for me to get started with Fedora without that so I was a newcomer too and I faced some hurdles which I would like that the newcomers who are coming within the Fedora community they shouldn't face that so we are working on a welcome process we have a welcome process and I try to we are working on improving that and how can we make it more fun and exciting so let's take an example of a Fedora contributor here's a badger who thinks that they would like to contribute to the Fedora project and when you would see the Fedora organization chart which provides you the overview of the things that we do so you are gonna find things like operating system developer translation web development content writing are your people's person your designer and for me it was like I can work with most of these things so where to get started like even I was confused that we have all of these things in Fedora and where should I get started so we have a Fedora join-sig here what you can do is you can talk to us we provide like we have someone we have we mostly have someone present on the channel so to help you and make to help you understand each things and you can provide your introduction there and we can point you towards the things that you would that you could be interested in working on so this is our welcome process that we are currently working on so if you're confused talk to us within the join-sig we are gonna create a welcome to Fedora ticket for you to keep track of your progress and have some progress checks on you that if you that did you find something interesting to work on every bi-weekly or tri-weekly you can chat with us or post your introduction on the mailing list and we can follow up on the conversation there so we have a mailing list within the Fedora join at list.fedoraproject.org here's the URL on if you are on ILC it's Fedora join on FreeNode on telegram it's join Fedora it's based with an ILC channel if you are using matrix or element or any matrix client it's FreeNode and square Fedora join it at matrix home server dot matrix dot org so this is how you can get started with Fedora if you are confused you can talk to us here and we are gonna formally introduce you to Fedora and provide you some pointers where you could be interested to work on so this was all from my side thank you very much for attending. Does anyone have any questions? Hey Dusty thank you welcome so does anyone have any questions no questions for me thank you Dusty thank you Jose so what I'm gonna do is post the links here with of the mailing list and the communication channels along with my slides so if anyone would like to follow so Dusty we do we do get contributors from like a wide variety of locations even from locations which I haven't heard names of before so it's more like we tend to get a lot of people get introduced with the welcome to Fedora project and it's not it's from for certain regions it's mostly it's nowadays mostly from India but or the Asia Pacific region but I'm not sure on that one it's mostly a pack region or the America's are of things mostly so I'm gonna be posting links and I have any blog post so we do have a blog post about welcome to Fedora so it tells you about the process that we have within Fedora like how can you get introduced how can you create your fast ID the your figure account which is a good force for Fedora and we can like move on with the formal ticket creation of you and keep your following you up so hello I'm back sorry there was a little internet issue at my side because we don't have power there are some power issues at my side so yeah so with the link that Dusty shared what can I do for Fedora is a good one but we have a lot of abstract things there if you would like to have a harsh for your question we have a blog post on welcome to Fedora about defining the process on how we introduce people to Fedora so I'm gonna just find that and paste the link here so here it is welcome this is our workflow yep this one so this is the post that I would like to share it's it's about the welcome to Fedora process that we have within Fedora and how can you get started with that where you can join where you can join the joint sake so plus one to Alberto for the comment about contributing is a personal experience and the the best thing that we can do is like direct the newcomers to the joint sake and the joint sake will like take care of the rest by introducing them to the things that they would like to work on harsh I've dropped the link there so I believe we are almost out of time thank you very much everyone for joining