 Well, not going too far from the topic of Fedora Badges. We have our next two sessions are going to be contributor stories, which is part of the Fedora Appreciation Week event that we're running this week. So as part of the 20th anniversary, we've asked a few folks to come up and share their Fedora story, their Fedora journey in the community. So this is just a personal overview when we leave it to them to share their stories. Up first for the, we have three of them scheduled in for today. This first one is from who just came up in the last presentation, Chris Sedoko, who is one of the outreach interns who worked on the Fedora Badges project this past earlier this year over the summer. So I see he was in the moderation queue. Chris, I think you should be able to share your audio video now. Hello. Can you, you can hear me. Can hear and see you perfectly. Okay. Thank you very much. So let me start by introducing myself. My name is Chris and I'm from Nigeria. I'm always happy to tell stories because it's always a way we can always connect and entertain ourselves. So this is also my first hopping talk session. So let's get into it. So firstly, if I started my journey, my journey started with my participation in outreach. So I was a participant of outreach May 2023 cohort. That is where I started my federal journey. I interned under the federal Badges design team with the mentorship of Maria Marinodin and Semergo. So I've always been having the responsibilities of transferring ads to the new template and improving ads in any way we can. This took us several months and weeks of work, but it was very, very amazing at the end of it. So during my time in Fedora, I wanted to notice more, apart from my participation in Badges, where there was the friendship and the communication and the way people respond to themselves in the Fedora community. It was always something that was very intriguing for me, not seeing how friendly people were with themselves, how they interact with each other, from different walks of life, working as if they have known each other since birth. It was always something that was very fascinating to me and it's something that will always keep me around because it's a very good experience. So my favorite memory of being in Fedora, I think it was during the flock event, although I didn't make it to flock, I was supposed to be a sponsor traveler to flock, but I attended virtually anyways. So I loved the whole part of it, the most interesting part of it was the build up to the event. So I noticed how people were trying to get to flock. So somebody says, I don't come with an adapter that is not for the UK, that doesn't fit the UK type of adapter. This works for Ireland also, somebody comes in and say, oh, I'm at the airport, I'm testing the airport food, I'm bringing in things for the game nights. All those build up to the event was more, I think was very interesting for me, even apart from the event, I attended the event virtually and was also very interesting for me. So having my time in RGT, I've been mentored by a lot of, a few, let me not say a lot, I've mentored by a few. And my favorite mentor has to be Marie Nordin, she has always been with me from the start of my journey in Fedora, right from my participation in RGT now, I've been in Fedora for a few months and I plan to stay as long as I can. She always has a very unique way of responding to me and my teammate Roland, I think we spent a lot of time mostly on our calls and communication within our channel, our means of communication. So she responds in a very, it's not a criticizing manner, but she wants to give you a feedback. You love the feedback more than whatever you have done, so like you've made a mistake, the way she gives you feedback is more important to you than even the art you've made. I always liked the way she interacts with people and apart from learning and going in budget design, there are several things I also take from her. I also take her, I try to take her way of speech and the way of response she makes. That's always something fascinating for me. So having all the time here, I've been helped by a lot of people, I would say, because I'm breaking into sections of how I've been. I think the person that has helped me the most, I have to say, is Justin, we all know him as a community architect. He wasn't a direct mentor to me, in several ways, he just even helped me at the moment right now. It was always somebody I could always switch out if I check my element chart, I think he's the person I've had the most conversation with, messaging me on the night, sometimes when I do messaging, I always ask, I'm sure I'm not disturbing because it's so difficult to keep track to people, when so many people are talking to you at the same time. He has always been a very great and amazing guy and I always appreciate him for a very long time and as long as I'm in Fedora and even outside it. So my first time of hearing from Fedora, I always heard about it once in a while, I didn't pay so much attention or understand it most. I think I was opportune to really be part of it after my internship or during the process of landing my internship in the Fedora community. I think that being in it now, I don't think there would have been a better time than now. So the people in it, the friendships, the communications, the network you get and love and help you get from everybody, it's more important to me as a community member than just being around and just doing some work. So it's not my first open source project I've heard of, but this is the one I feel most attached to the most and I always be grateful and happy to be a contributor here at Fedora. I'm still contributing to the budget design team, so I still respond to tickets from time to time and I'm hoping to do that for a very long time. Another thing I've also liked about the Fedora community is always a place for learning. You can always learn several other things. So apart from bad design, you meet people of different walks of life. There's always a space for you in anything you want to do. So I always, if anybody is here, I always encourage you to join the Fedora team. Be part of something, take part in something. There's always something for you to do and hopefully we will have more participants from my zone. I'm from Nigeria, so I'm hoping to get more participants in from Nigeria for design and several aspects of work. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions for me? Hey, Chris. Yeah. Was I able to go through the process? I thought that was a great one, you know, and Christian was talking about just like Fedora is a learning place is what I was commenting. I thought that was a really great thing. It's also for me having Fedora always been a place where I've been able to learn skills, too. But, you know, one question I had was for you. If there's or actually, let me look in the Q&A tab here. I see we'll start. We'll start with the Q&A tab first. So I have one here from Marie Norton about what was the biggest design skill you learned during your internship? OK, so I will say there's no one, but I will pick two. So the biggest design skill I learned was how to interact with colours. There's a way you use colours that make them one shouty compared to the other. There's a visual, there's a way you have a visual hierarchy with colours. And there was also a time I spent, I think a day or two with Marie on perspectives and how art is viewed. So art being on the same scale, like how close they are to each other and art being far apart and how they interact with their background. I think those are the most important part of it to me. Art being on the same level and the way I interact with colours. So some colours are more relaxed on the eyes. Some colours are more shouty, so colours have more vibrations with each other. I think those are things that have been very helpful to me throughout my whole design time. Another question from Marie on what was your favourite badge design that you created and why was it your favourite? My favourite badge is the Combox Contributor badge. She's saying this, she will be laughing at it now, because I've enjoyed my stay of the internship, I've probably been trying to make several iterations of the badge. It was a proper example, if I think it's even in my next presentation for tomorrow. It has a very large increase in let's say quality of the design and the badge looks very happy there. I would like you all to see it tomorrow. I think it's my best badge, Combox Contributor badge. Then I also made a badge for the release party. I think a lot of people must have claimed that now. It's also a very good badge of mine. If you have not claimed yours, I think you should claim it now, you will like it. Yeah, you are one of our, you are our lead person on the badge for this event too. And if you didn't catch that tomorrow, Chris is also going to be presenting together with his co-intern roll-end on the Fedora badges design from this summer. So you'll get a more deeper dive on that tomorrow at 1400 UTC or 9am US Eastern. So Chris, I had a question for you. During your internship experience, was there, did you have like a very memorable moment or some, some like part that stood out to you? Is there a way to bring that experience during this summer? I think during my internship, almost every part of it was a, was a very good part to pick a singular part and say this was better than the other, a sprinkler time. So this was better than the other was, would be, wouldn't be a really good thing to say. But I think the most enjoyable part of it was during our session. So we, we have call sections like call checking sessions. We discuss the progress so far, the badges we have made and how we need to improve on them. So getting direct feedback instead of through a text or something, that was a very good experience for me. And that is where I started, I started having to even speak on calls like this and speaking public. It has improved me several, my communication and several aspects of life. I also, OK, I also tried to imitate Marisa all the time when I hear her speak. She has a very nice way of speaking. If there was an award for investment or she always have my votes like an award party, I think we should do something like that too. I can also confirm that Maria is an excellent, excellent mentor. So she is one of one of the great folks in the community who's got a good skill for that. Well, Chris, I'm glad. Thanks for coming up and sharing your contributor story with us today. And we're looking forward to catching your session tomorrow at 1400 UTC on all the deep dive on the badges design work from this past hour. Thank you. Bye.