 Welcome everybody to this year's Fedora event, Nest with Fedora. I am really glad that you all were able to take the time to come here. I see 136 people online by the little indicator. That's very exciting. I know it's strange times. And we started this fairly early on the East Coast. And if you're like me, time has lost all meaning and you may not even be on a normal schedule. So I really appreciate you joining here. I saw in the polls here that this is the first Fedora event for about half of people. So a special welcome to the newcomers here. I hope that you enjoy this and find this a great welcoming introduction to the craziness that is our project. I am broadcasting here from corner of my bedroom, which is the place I do video calls from. It's not the nicest background. Adam Williamson the other day suggested that it might be a murder attic. It is kind of an attic, but as far as I know, there have been no murders here for at least two and a half years. So it's fine. It is very weird though, because unlike a real conference where I would be talking to an audience, I am just sitting in the corner here, literally talking to myself. So very strange, but I'll try and do that. We are doing this. You may have noticed we're calling this nest instead of virtual flock. That's because Fedora is basically every day of the year, all year long, the thing that most people wish their virtual conferences would be as good as. We have collaboration, we have fun, we have technical things, we make decisions, we talk together. So like Fedora is basically constantly a ongoing virtual event. And the whole point of flock is to actually get people face to face in physical real world to see each other and make connections and do high bandwidth kind of things that are easier that way. But mostly really to bring our community together in a literal way. And obviously it's weird to then make that back to virtual again. So this is nest, it's not flock, it's something different. But one thing I particularly want to emphasize is that connection making and the having fun is really going to be the important part of this. So please, if you have to decide if you're going to see a technical talk or go to a social thing, do the social thing, because the technical talks will be there. I'm not saying you shouldn't go to the technical talks, but if you have to, if you're picking, that's the thing. I see a comment that says there's no stage fright. Actually, I am much, I hate this much more. I'd much rather be up on stage seeing my friends in the audience and talking rather than talking to the void here. But anyways, here we go, presentation beginning. Oh, wait. Awesome slide mess up. All right. So the purpose of this slide is to show you that I actually put some thought and organization into what's going to come afterwards because it's going to seem like a bunch of stream of consciousness talking and there is an organization to it. I am noticing here that I actually reordered it and didn't reorder my bullets. So that's that's very on brand for me here. The important part is, yes, I planned this. And the other important part is questions. I am not going to be following the chat here and I hope to leave some time for questions at the end. Address your questions to Marie and she is going to collect them for me and then ask them at the end part of the talk. So here's where I make the silent green joke every year and I guess I'll do it again because it's a good joke. Fedora is made of people. That's really what the project is. I know it's kind of a windmill tilting exercise, but I really like if you talk about Fedora, what should come first to your mind is the people in this picture and the people who couldn't be at that picture and the rest of the community, like we are Fedora. Fedora is not an operating system. Fedora workstation, Fedora server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora IoT, Fedora KDE, Fedora Monte Confuse, whatever all the things. Those are those are things we make, but Fedora is is us. I had a friend who in college would call Microsoft word Microsoft and it drove me crazy. I hope to instill in everybody that same little twitch if someone just calls the operating system Fedora, because it's really important that this is a human person driven project and is not just not just the technology. So, obviously this year, we are not going to be able to take a group photo quite like this. And again, speaking of twitchy, I'm seeing a shocking lack of social distancing and no masks in this photo. It's kind of making me feel nervous. So, Marie is working on a plan to actually collect people's photos to make a collage picture of the Nest attendance group photo. So we'll have more details about that later. Yes, Fedora is people. And this is a new org chart that was done with open source software because I had previously drawn one using a web service that was not open source and everybody rightly said, come on, we can't have that. So here's a nice new one. All the people in Fedora are all organized into all of these different groups. And it's kind of big and confusing and crazy. Although, if I saw some people been at flood cons and flocks for a long time, if you were at the first flock in Prague, we drew on a whiteboard, the organization of Fedora at that time. And it was just as crazy as this, but there was no organization or pattern to it. So I hope that over the last few years we've kind of made it easier to get involved in Fedora by making this flow more clear. And I hope that helps. If you're new to Fedora and are looking how things all fit together, this can be kind of intimidating. But I'll talk a little bit later about the Fedora Join SIG that can kind of help steer you to where you need to go. This is a big project. It's kind of great. And I am just always impressed with all the different parts of it and how well they all work. Of course, Fedora is discussion. This is, we do a lot of talking. I talked about how we are a ongoing virtual conference. There are hundreds, approaching thousands of meetings every year that basically make the decision making and kind of the meat of making Fedora go. That and the Fedora Development mailing list on which we've had a lot of good exciting discussions lately. Some about some technical changes. And my favorite about changing the default text editor to a simpler one really actually was an interesting discussion with a lot of passion and a lot of people interested in how we can make Fedora useful and better for all audiences. Not just a specific niche and not just the newbie case as well. How do we go about making Fedora's operating systems best for everybody? So I love this slide. I probably posted it on Twitter somewhere. Also, please do take the poll in chat about which is your favorite text editor. Thank you. The other thing I forgot to mention is I don't have speaker notes because of the way my setup is here. I couldn't figure out a good way to make speaker notes and not share them. So there's some aspect of slideshow karaoke going on here. A slide will come up and then I will talk about it. There's probably going to be some important things that I forget to say. So when I get to the part where I'm talking about like you're part of the project and I totally miss something, I'm sorry in advance. You can feel free to call me out on it. Anyways, this is a metric slide I've been doing for a while, I guess, that uses our Fedora messaging data bus to kind of get a picture of people's activity in the project. And not all things are hooked up to that message bus. And in particular, this actually just looks at three things, which is changes to packages, QA feedback in Bode and Wiki edits. And it's a graph of basically involvement in the project every week. And the blue line is people who have been lightly involved in the last year but have done something that week. And then the solid areas are people who basically are involved all the time in Fedora doing at least some little thing every week. And you can see we have a pretty solid core of about 200 people. And I talked about this before. The yellow line is people who are kind of new to the project and the green is newcomers who are now solidly involved. They're not just doing one or two things. And I would love to see those lines be thicker. But as we can also see, looking back over the past five years, it's pretty healthy. The one thing you may notice, it seems like there's a slight downward trend here. This is actually a data source problem because as we switched from emphasizing the Wiki to emphasizing the docs.FedoraProject.org, Wiki edits. And also we had to make Wiki editing harder to keep spammers away. Wiki edits are way down. So that kind of makes a slight downward trend overall. Actually, it's all pretty flat. I would like to see this growing. But I think overall it's pretty healthy. But we can certainly work on getting new people in there. And over the next year, one of my background projects in my free time is to update this with more data sources and kind of hook up to some of our new things that we have to see about other information I can get into here. Yeah, some other things that kind of show interest in Fedora is growing. This is the Fedora Magazine page views. We're well on track to have four million visitors or page views and visitors this next year, which is an amazingly huge number. Like when we started doing the Fedora Magazine and it was just me posting a sad article once a week, I never imagined it would become so popular. And this is really nice because for a while we had basically paid red headers devoting a portion of their time to making sure that the magazine was on track. And it has largely been self operating and self running from the magazine team by itself for a while now and continues to be really high quality and increase in popularity. So it's a great kind of user outreach sort of thing that we have. Pause for a drink. It's water. Yeah, and another nice aspect kind of shows our community health. This is from Ask Fedora, which is a discussion forum basically for getting help and it's very end user focused here. You can see also this is pretty healthy stats across the board here and we're actually kind of solidly in the middle of the enterprise level service we're paying for here. This is an open source hosted platform that we are very happy to have somebody else run for us and help support some other open source. The engagement is pretty good and it continues to grow and as a really good resource for getting help. If you have a technical problem, even if you are a Fedora contributor, Ask Fedora is a great place to go. And if you are someone who's knowledgeable about things and have a couple minutes to spare every day, look there for things that people need help and offer your assistance. Because it's an easy way to give back and help build up the community and get involved. I know I've done some user support questions. It's a good way to make sure that you know what you're talking about helping other people as well. So it's good for your own growth education as well. I'm really happy how well this is taken off. And this is also another example of something where the community behind Ask Fedora kind of came and said, okay, we're going to do this and took it on and made it very successful. So thank you Ask Fedora people. This is great. So there's some good things. This is our code of conduct situation this year. It's been a tough time since basically since coronavirus hit. We've had just an onslaught of code of conduct tickets. I don't think it's necessarily that people in the community are behaving badly, although it's things seem a little more on edge. And we've been getting a lot of these requests and it's a little sometimes hard on those requests go to just Marie and to me. And so we work on trying to deal with those. That system worked fine when we had maybe one code of conduct issue to deal with, you know, every couple months. It's certainly not scaling. We're going to need to come up with a better solution for this. I think some of it also is that, you know, people are seeing that we're taking this seriously. And I do, if you do see something, please, please don't hesitate to file a request and we'll see what we can do. But I also encourage everybody to be charitable with each other, be loving, be friendly and assume the best intentions and work together to resolve differences before it gets to the level of needing to be a code of conduct ticket. We really want Fedora to be a welcoming place for everybody. And, you know, it's without that we can't work. Along those lines, BEX before Marie and Marie have been working with Red Hat Legal on an update to our code of conduct, a pretty substantial basically replacing the code of conduct with one which has a lot more detail and a lot more tools for action and a lot more clarity about what kind of things are and are not violations of the code of conduct. I know it might seem like in the climate of the world that this is kind of a reactive, oh, they're doing a code of conduct thing at Fedora, blah, blah, blah. It's actually something that's been in the works for several years because this is really important to making Fedora a successful community. And so watch for that coming up. We're going to want community impact and input and feedback into the update on code of conduct as it comes out. So that'll become not too long from now. This slide is just a segue because we're going from a code of conduct to happier talk things. I also like that the screen got dark when I did that. Did you see that? That's because I switched and my lighting is mostly coming from my screen. That's awesome, awesome. Talking to myself things. All right, so back in the days before coronavirus, some eternity ago, but actually not that long ago. The Fedora council had an in-person meeting in Prague where we got together in close proximity and worked through a number of things. It go to the Fedora community blog and you can see our update from all of those things. But one of the things we did was write a vision statement. We've been working as a council on strategy and mission and things for a while. And we didn't really have this part of it, which is kind of a what's our high level? Like what are we trying to do with all this? Not just what are we making, but what's the impact we want to have? Like where are we really going? And this is what we came up with. I think it's pretty good. And I think it's a pretty good flag for what we're aiming for. I kind of thought we'd have something a little more grandiose than this. But I think it captures what we're going for, especially in the context of the Fedora foundations and the mission and so on. And speaking of that, this is from previous years, the Fedora mission statement, which I will not read aloud because you can read it. And then also the previous year, we came up with this. That's basically the Fedora strategy for delivering on that mission. And one of the things that I think is important to highlight here. This is a refinement of the Fedora next strategy, which we launched like five years ago, where we decided that our focus was going to be on three Fedora additions. And then kind of everything else on the separate, separate site. And that was a very successful strategy. I've seen my in my slides like when we started that Fedora growth really took off. So that was a good approach. But partly in line with our mission, we want to make sure that we're also doing a good job to support the things that are not those main additions. It doesn't mean we're getting rid of the additions at all. But the other the other things that people make are actually very important to what Fedora is as a project. And we want to make sure those things get the support that they need. So our strategy that we're working on here is to focus Fedora as an overall thing on making sure that we're making the tools and, you know, like sets of packages, technologies, you know, modularity is intended to be a tool that can make, let people make these solutions for their use cases and kind of working on those kind of things. And I think this has been in a lot of ways a success here. This very beautiful slide is something I don't understand at all with audio. It looks very pretty. I like the rainbows. This is the Fedora Jam spin, which a community of people have been making a Fedora based on another another distribution, a audio processing music, handling special purpose distribution and some of the people working on that. You know, looked at Fedora and what we're doing and thought, hey, this is actually like this is a project that set up to enable us to do the things we need to do. And so we now have the Fedora Jam spin had been kind of sitting there for a while. It's one of our oldest things in Fedora, I think actually, but had not really been getting a lot of attention. And so people came in to that and built up a Fedora Jam into a pretty neat thing with some a bunch of audio technology that I was told about and sounded cool, but I don't understand. But if you if you care about these things, check it out. And I think the most important thing is from a project point of view is that we're able to support the development of something like this that's fits that special use case. And another one is neuro Fedora, which is a specialized again, kind of to a very specialized niche. It's made for neuroscience in neuroscience computation with open source and kind of helping to bring open source to that community and making open source accessible to that area of science. And this has been very successful a lot because it is it's not just the couple of people in Fedora who are interested in neuroscience, which we actually we do have some but has brought in other open source volunteers, other other scientists who are interested in that thing and not necessarily in neuroscience per se are working on this and they've packaged hundreds of scientific applications as part of Fedora, which I used to work at a university and I love scientists, and I love scientists who make code, but scientists who make code idea of how to put together a software package is often each each scientist has their own best ideas of how to do that. So the feet of packaging all this stuff into a coherent distribution is actually really useful because it rather than having a bunch of random code in lots of different collections, having that all together is really cool. And this is a great example of how something like this they actually can take this to a neuroscience conference and rather than just going to conferences that are about Linux distributions and talking to other people who already are talking about Linux distributions, we can actually bring Fedora we can bring open source to other places where people might not have that exposure and bring them into the Fedora community and bring them into open source. This is a great way that to support, you know, get us to that vision and I really like again, I appreciate the people working on this and I love it so much. All right. See, this is the chat roulette part of the note the slideshow karaoke that's the one of this talk dinosaurs. This is the thing that shows that I'm going to show some things from our statistics system coming up. I, some of you may know that we have a new with Fedora 32 thing called DNF better counting. Basically, when your system checks for an update, it now sends once a week a thing that says hey, count me, which lets us get better a better picture of how people systems are actually, actually out there under the previous system. If you are at home behind a router and you had 10 systems, we would see the connection coming from that router, but we would have no idea if you had one 10 or 1000 systems behind that router. And also, if you, like, again in the before times when going out was a thing if you went to like five coffee shops a day and did work from all of them, which, you know, sometimes work from home people do stuff like that to get a change of scenery. You might get counted five times. So that would like weird counting. So we have a new system that is meant to count things better. But as the dinosaur shows here, like, it's this is a Brontosaurus, which for many years was. lumped in with the Apatosaurus because of bone confusion because it's hard to just looking digging through dinosaur bones figure out what parts go to what and how things all fit together. Our stat collection is kind of like that we do not do really invasive tracking we do not have like monitoring keystrokes or anything like that Fedora and we never will. So the consequence of that our ability to see what's going on is a little bit more like the dinosaur fossil digging than it is like a controlled experiment. So all that is to say all of the data I'm about to show comes with a bunch of caveats, which we call the dinosaurs and velociraptors and other monsters. But here we go. So this is Fedora 32 from the old counting method where we observe IP addresses. And here is the data from the new counting system for Fedora 32 we only have it for Fedora 32 because that's where we started so I can't go back. You can see right away there are some dinosaur bites out of here that's probably data center move problems where we lost a little bit, but the curve is basically the same going back forward. But one thing I should draw your attention to is the axes over here where on the old one goes up to about 100,000 on the new one it's actually about double, which we went and looked back at the data coming in and will woods thank you very much for doing this. And for setting up the whole system in the back end. And thank you to the DNF team of course for implementing this in DNF. Matthew lost some internet connectivity. I've always wanted to have my cat in Fedora. Here she is. Our new data collection system does not expose personal information. It doesn't even give the IP addresses to me it is and it puts everything into the aggregate but it does include the release name of the operating system from Etsy OS release and also the variant which if you're running Fedora KDE or Fedora workstation or Fedora server it will it will say so, which is what I'm going to show in a little bit for the for the different things I just showed I actually only looked at Fedora. And I'm actually only looking at things that are hitting the Fedora updates released repository. Which I've talked with will woods who help this set this up and actually there's a more complicated way to just actually make sure we're checking. Excuse me all of the Fedora repositories that we are looking at and getting that the maximum value gives us a slightly better number with this one I do the simple approach. Yeah, so I was just looking at Fedora but as we were looking through the data. There are a lot of funny things in here I have highlighted some of them, you know Fedora remix for WSL. It's nice to see that that's being used Fedora someone editing this thing by themselves and typos I guess I think my favorite one might be red hat with no space like you're not fooling anybody. There this that that's that's not red hat. But we also obviously see connections from from rel where people are doing some Fedora probably building packages and those kind of things. But anyways, I thought this was kind of fun. And some of these actually are Fedora remixes and are actually completely legitimate things like I'm not sure which ones to call out but yeah, actual actual Fedora remixes that are part of you know that that mission of making Fedora easy to make make a solution for is actually being shown here in the things that people. So this also lets me look and see what different things people are using like which Fedora outputs are are actually reflected in in people's usage. And here we can see the breakdown here. Well, unfortunately, not all of our spins and labs things are updated to actually have the the release information here. So I have a big unknown check section here that will also in the future people if they do a generic install that is actually not either an addition or a spin will also show up there but that should be a much smaller sliver of things in the future. So we'll get more data as we go. As you can see, Workstation is as expected the pretty big chunk of this. But we've got a sizable serve chunk of people using Fedora as a server here and server and cloud together make up, you know, 12% of this. And notably, this system does not count anything that uses OS tree, which is our kind of new way of putting together an operating system. So that means silver blue, the IOT edition, which we'll talk about in a little bit and CoroS Fedora CoroS are not shown at all in here. And I know that CoroS is there's a lot of CoroS out there, a lot of Fedora CoroS, and there is a lot of Fedora IOT. And I know that I don't know the numbers for silver blue, but I know there's a lot of enthusiasm about it. So there's some missing wedges as well. And we're going to try and figure out how to get those into the same kind of data view. So this is kind of an interesting breakdown here. So here's this view of this. Again, this is just a Fedora 32 and I just looked in June and July for those numbers here. It'll be interesting to see how these things evolve here. If there are worse a couple others that are reported, like there's XFCE shows up in the data, but it's actually much less than 1%. I'm actually not quite sure what's going on there because I think XFCE is more popular than like a tiny fraction of 1%. It might be that XFCE users have been XFCE users for so long that they're all upgrading and are still in the non, they don't have that identity file on their system. I'm not sure. So another thing that this new system does is tell us how old the system is or basically how long since it's been installed. And this is that same total graph with the breakdown of those numbers. And one of the interesting things we can see about this is like a lot of times systems are just transient. Maybe people install it for a test or it's part of a CI system or it's part of a cloud server that doesn't last very long or it is a container. Going back here we can see that container usage is actually up 4% of the systems here. Which is also impressive because that means somebody did something with DNF in a container. You don't normally have a container that's sitting there running doing metadata refreshes of things that would cause the data to hit. So that's pretty significant. But in the future when I have more data I'm going to do some fun things with flow from one version to the next or one cohort here to the next. But for right now I just kind of have this breakdown and what I did is I took this and I just looked at the systems that are not in the just brand new install. But the ones that have been around for at least a week. And so this lets us look at basically if it lasted longer than a week hopefully it's a real install and not something that was just a throw away test or a short lived instance here. And as we can expect the results are about the same but much less cloud and almost no container there. So that's kind of interesting. It's actually almost less interesting than I thought it would be which I guess that's always a good result as well when it comes right down to it. And the other thing I wanted to call it here is this is from five years ago. I did try to do the same kind of estimation using download statistics from get fedora which I don't think are as good as running system statistics because you can download something and never use it and so on. But actually the slices are kind of about the same. The one thing is Monte is way up and XFCE down. But again the overall picture is kind of similar so I thought that was kind of interesting. Since the new system only is for Fedora 32 this is the old data that kind of shows all Fedora that it's reporting and going back to the beginning of time in you know 2007. And this shows the overall upward trend and like I said I think Fedora is very successfully growing. Again I've always told people don't pay much attention to the numbers on the axis there. It's the trend that's interesting. I think the new system will let us pay a little more attention to the numbers even if it isn't complete. But I think you know this shows us that there's probably almost a million Fedora systems running out there which is which is cool. We're having a lot of impact. And speaking of impact Fedora's Apple extra packages to run on CentOS and RHEL and other enterprise distributions continues to also be a monstrous success with basically an exponential growth curve. Very cool. I think we started noticing this somewhere in the middle of the graph like where in 2013-2014 it was like wow this is this is kind of getting to be a big thing. Look how big it's gotten since then. This is an example of where Fedora where you have impact even beyond the Fedora distribution even if making the Fedora distribution is what you care about. The impact you have goes out to all these other systems in the world and it really makes a big difference in getting software out to people. So very cool. Yeah. All right. So again, slides jumping forward. This is kind of a section where we're going to update and do a quick update on some of our different releases and some of the different things we're putting out. Obviously some pretty big news from a workstation where we're actually going to be any day now Lenovo on their regular website where you just go to buy a computer and you choose your operating system right next to your windows options. They will be, I would like this to be shipped with Fedora, which is the first time a vendor this big has shipped a Linux operating system in a way like this because although there have been, you know, you can get rel, you can get Ubuntu as corporate purchases and you can get develop edition, your laptop with Linux. And obviously there's a lot of small vendors who've been doing a great job of supporting Linux on laptops for years. This is the first time you can just go to the commodity consumer page and just be like, yeah, I'd like a Fedora operating system. Yeah. Ben says in the comments there, he hopes it's not any day now. Yeah, I think it will be. Mark has from Lenovo is has a session I think tomorrow will give some more details and hopefully some exciting news there. I do. He said I could share one bit of exciting news. Lenovo is going to extend their employee discount, which I understand to be actually meaningful, not just a little token to all Fedora contributors. So if you are a Fedora contributor and need a new laptop, you will be able to get one at a discount mark. Well, I hopefully have some details of that. So I think that's a pretty nice thing that Lenovo is doing to help give back to the community that's making this operating system. So yeah, that's very cool. I also mentioned before Fedora Core OS. I don't know if everybody has been following this, but Red Hat bought Core OS the company a few years ago. And as part of that, the underlying operating system, some of it got integrated into OpenShift as a feature of OpenShift. That's the product side. But on the open source community side, we have Fedora Core OS. And there's been actually a lot of exciting developments in that recently. And it kind of took a while for it to get off and find its footing. But this is now a really solid container operating system. OKD, the open source upstream for OpenShift now runs on Fedora Core OS. And you can kind of see we have the different stable testing next stream. If you haven't looked at Core OS in a while, it's definitely time to give it a look. There's talks coming up on this. And I mentioned earlier that we didn't have the same statistics for this. But I saw on Twitter that CERN, the scientific computing, where they've got the super collider and all that stuff, they're running over 5,000 instances of Fedora Core OS, which is, yeah, that's pretty exciting. So this is being used in real production used for real science in the real world. Awesome. Fedora IoT is also going into exciting things. We're actually promoting this to addition. This is the first time we've promoted something to an addition, and that wasn't just kind of replacing a previous iteration. And so we are developing a process for that. This is a picture of a Raspberry Pi. I think one of the things is kind of a cry for help here. Peter Robinson does a huge amount personally of the enablement of different ARM devices. And if you are using ARM and it's working, you pretty much have Peter to thank for it, as well as obviously a lot of other people. But Peter has just done a huge amount. And the Raspberry Pi is a constant pain for him. If you are interested in making the Raspberry Pi work, come help Fedora do this better because Peter can use some help, especially as we go to make Fedora IoT an official addition and kind of one of our top-level things, which I'm very excited about because IoT is a great way you can get a hands-on experience with computing and kind of do things that have an actual impact. You can make something that actually connects with the real world, which is kind of computing at its most fun. And I think it's really nice for Fedora to be at the forefront of that. And the Fedora IoT operating system is, again, it uses OS Tree and is, there's really nothing like it out there. And I think it's one of the best operating systems for IoT in the world. And it's really cool to see that coming from Fedora Project. This is a sad puppy. It is Fedora Server. I had mentioned earlier that Fedora IoT is one of the best operating systems for IoT in the world. And I think, as I mentioned earlier, that Fedora Server actually is a pretty significant chunk of our user base. And it kind of, and like the Fedora Cloud, has not been get, like it doesn't have the project interest behind it that I think it deserves because of its use case. So this is something I can talk at length about, but I would really like to see Fedora Server working group get revitalized. And I don't have great ideas for that, but I know a lot of you here are using Fedora in a server capacity. We should talk about how we can make that group functional again and so we can help develop Fedora Server in a way that helps serve the users who are interested in using Fedora that way. Let's make this to be a happy puppy with a loving home rather than a sad lonely puppy. All right, here we go. You might think, wow, Fedora is making a laser tag addition. Now this is, I'm switching from talking about technical things here. This is actually a picture to remind me of a mistake I made as Fedora project leader early on that I think caused a lot of damage and I'm sorry about. And that is the Fedora Ambassadors Group in Europe wanted to have a laser tag event as part of their annual meetup and planning session. And I was very concerned about impact in our budget and I said, whoa, laser tag, that sounds crazy, crazy and not like technical. Why don't you have a nice lunch or something and talk about nerdy stuff and not have fun. And that was very wrong. I think I did a lot of damage with that and I'm sorry. Not just the laser tag in specific, but getting teams together to do fun things has a huge impact and we should do more of it. So if you want your team to do laser tag, please put in a funding request. We will support your fun things because, again, in the future when it doesn't have to be mask socially distanced laser tag, laser tag is a terrible idea right now. Don't do laser tag right now. In the future, so these kind of social events are really like the glue that makes our community work. And as we get back into the world functioning again, I really hope we can do a lot more social events. And I hope that can be feed into the thing that the slide is really supposed to be about, which is Marie and the Mindshare Committee have been working on rebuilding the Fedora Ambassadors, kind of our outreach arm, which had, for the last few years, really been wandering in the wilderness. And I hope that social events and some things with the diversity and inclusion team and the join team can build up the ambassadors again and help spread Fedora to more people and have a lot more fun and community building together. Yeah, I mentioned diversity, inclusion, and the join. These are two groups that are doing awesome work in Fedora. The diversity and inclusion group is working on making Fedora be a welcoming place for everybody. They've run the Fedora Women's Days, which has been a huge success all around the world. A dozen events every year where people get together and learn about Fedora and share and help build community. And kind of another group that makes it easy to get into Fedora, the Join SIG, like I said at the beginning, this is a huge, messy project, and the Join SIG is a friendly place where you can say, I'd like to get involved. I'd like to help, but I don't know what to do. You could have somebody say, welcome, I will help you. I'll show you the beginnings of the ropes. And this is something also that I want to invest more in. I want to invest more in mentoring in Fedora and building up people who are able to support newcomers and support people into the project, because we are a 17-year-old project, and we want to make sure that we continue to be welcoming and continue to grow and continue to have the information that we know passed along to the next generation of Fedora people. And, okay, so this is a picture of fun. Another thing that's been great success over the past few months during coronavirus time, we've been doing Fedora social hours once a week. This is a picture of the Fedora social hour and Mozilla Hubs virtual reality. We're actually having a session of this during this conference. You can come and join me. You can join in your browser, or if you have a VR headset. If people have hands, if you have a VR headset, you get hands, so you get special privileges for actually having the headset. We've been doing this every week, getting together and just chatting, mostly about non-work things. But sometimes we talked about ButterFS. But mostly about non-work things. Wait, I want to go back to the workstation slide because I forgot something which was beyond Lenovo. I got so excited about Lenovo. I wanted to also talk about how excited I am about how the discussion slide at the beginning about compressed swap and text editors and so on actually is a really amazing example of how well that group is working. I'm really excited about all of the features that are coming from that team that are just kind of focusing on what users need and pushing Fedora to be a better experience for Fedora's operating systems, to be a better experience for users and to look at innovation and growing things forward. I'm a little bit scared about this ButterFS change because file system changes are scary, but I think it's exciting and I think it's really neat to see how that discussion went, how it's very community led, community decision on it. I think that's functioning very well. So good job everybody on that and looking forward to seeing how all that plays out into our glorious future. I just put these slides together fairly recently. Marie had promised me pretty pictures and I said, awesome, I'll take you up on that and then I was way too late to get pretty pictures. So when I talk about the future here, we're going to be just looking at words. What we want, back to the vision, where are we trying to go for? So I think that Fedora, our mission is to build this operating system for people, but our vision is that through this operating system we will bring open source to more people and I think that in the next few years we're going to do an amazing job through these different outputs we have and through our building, our growing our community, more open source for everybody, awesome. I really think that we are one of the great communities in the internet and the world. Fedora has been an example of community building and friendship and I hope we can continue, I know we can continue to do that and grow and adapt to new things and adapt to new technologies for communication and just the way the world is, continue to work together in a positive way virtually. I think that we can make a big example for people who now are working from home that are not used to doing this kind of online collaboration. We've been doing it forever, we know what we're doing and we can show the world how to do community. Well, I think that's an amazing thing. I think we'll continue to make this great toolkit for putting together solutions and we'll have better tooling, better features for doing all those things. I think a lot of things with the source disk to get the thing and refined modularity, OS build for putting together different spins, some exciting things we're working on are coming up and that's very cool. I think Fedora will continue to be the go-to for operating system innovation. If you want to do something new with an operating system, if you've got a great new idea, Fedora should be the place to do it first. Of course, the spoiler here is we actually do have some graphics for this because these things that are our future are also our Fedora foundations. I think it's all coming together nicely and I'm very happy with the state of Fedora right now. I'm feeling really optimistic about our project, our people, our community. Fedora is good, everybody should celebrate and here I am talking about it to an empty room. I have no idea what time it is or how much time I've left, very little because of the downtime, but maybe we can do a few questions. Marie? Hey. Hi. Am I on? I think I'm good. I hear you. So there weren't any questions. There's plenty of Fedora plus pluses right now and this discussion, a few impromptu games and I've been making plenty of polls as you've been talking. So if anyone has any questions, now is the time on the state of Fedora. I am watching the chat. Yeah, we got some more Fedora plus plus. I see Justin saying he remembers the 2017 talk where it was dumpster file fires. Yeah, this is a hard time to be optimistic because let's be honest. And so I am actually really glad that Fedora gives me so much to be optimistic about right now. We have a question. Okay, a question. He says so vim or nano. All right. So I'm a systems administrator, so I am familiar with them, but it is not a good writing program. It's a great editor. If you have some like a config file, you want to change a word in or change a bunch of values, excellent. It is not functional. I love you all. What a terrible thing for writing. It's got modes. That is not a good idea. Oh, awful. But I personally, as you may guess from my very unbiased poll, I am a user of Joe. It's a beautiful editor. It's got its quirks, but it does its job very nicely. Cool. So we're actually technically overtime by five minutes, but I'm just going to quickly say the next half an hour is time to hang out in the social area, the chat room, look at the polls. You could suggest some more polls for us to put up if you want to direct message me that. And also the sponsor booth area. So you can go there and some of our sponsors have a couple people showing up to hang out in those rooms. So there's some videos and stuff there too, I think. Go ahead. First of all, I see people taking issue in the chat with my characterization of Vim, which I will admit to being horribly unfair. All editors are great. Everybody loves them. I can use Emacs. I can use Vim. It's okay. Someone also asks about making Fedora server group more functional. I think the basic thing is we had a hard time finding kind of a flagship feature to be exciting about Fedora server. And this has actually been a problem going back to the very first Fedora conference, one of the FUDCONS in Boston, where we talked about making Fedora server and nobody could agree on what the features are for Fedora server and that problem has persisted. But I think also a lot of it just fell on one person on Steven Gallagher. Thank you, Steven, to kind of do that. And it just kind of leads to burnout when it's one person. So kind of having a functional group that meets every couple of weeks to talk about the project and what needs to be done is kind of the baseline of just having a meeting group that multiple people show up to with interest in this to discuss the project. It's kind of the first thing I think that needs to happen. And on another practical note, we made a decision last year to merge Fedora cloud Fedora cloud image with Fedora server because kind of like what Marie is doing with the websites team and the marketing team, when you have two teams where it's just one person feeling desperately alone and not connected, it would be better even if they seem like they're a little bit distinct, it's better to put things into one functioning team with actual teammates than it is to have a lonely person fighting by themselves. But doing that actually takes some work. So that's kind of maybe a first step I would suggest that a revitalized team would take on is to get the cloud and server images together into one Fedora server for clouds or whatever we want to call it thing. Yes, Stephen says in the comments, talking about it is good, but we also actually need people to actually do that actual work of putting the things together. But honestly, let's start with the discussion and then the work can follow. Wow. Cool. I don't see any more questions in the chat for now. Matthew, you ready to wrap up? I guess. I feel like there should be some questions. Come on. I didn't answer everything. Did I? People gather your questions for the closing remarks. Someone asked what the secret F is. What's the skill set for working on the server cloud images? The skill set needed for that. This is probably a better separate discussion, but some packaging ability, knowing how to be assisted men is probably helpful. But packaging ability, maybe knowing some Ansible, those kind of things, knowing Git, there are things you can pick up pretty easily. Are the slides online? These slides will be online when the video goes online, but they are not currently online. Are you using ButterFS yet? No, I'm not using ButterFS yet. I plan to switch to it soon, though, because I... We should make a little... We'll make our own champagne. We'll have to make a spot for Nest slides to hang to live. Yeah. All right. I'm going to run to the next session, which is socializing in the room, and I'm going to chat roulette with the dorms. Click over on the social thing, and I will see you there. Going live, it still says. When will it start? Is it started now already? They don't know. Okay. Live broadcasting from Nest.