 My name is Marie Norden. I am Fedora's community action and impact coordinator I've been a part of Fedora long before that though working on graphic design the design team and the badges project So I think I'm too Mariana Hi, everybody. Good evening for where I come from I am a contributor for the organ to be your base in Albania in Toronto. My day job is the product owner I've been the Fedora community for the past five years a few weeks ago I received the badge for having my account my first again for five years now long time Yeah This is it pretty much for me so mantra So hey guys. Good morning evening Night, but I'm so much. Oh, I hail from India and I am part of the Q18. I Run test days and help out Murray and Mariana on the revamp effort for the project That's that's mostly what it is all about me moving it to Murray now Cool. So we've done this update at a couple different conferences Just want to say we're doing a little bit differently this time. We're gonna try to go through The steps a little bit quicker and focus a bit more on the deliverables and the outcomes of this revamp because we've been working on it for almost a year and a half now and We're getting a lot closer. There's a lot of work, especially for the three of us But I will start a little bit at the beginning, but I'm gonna try to do it quicker than I usually do so a little bit about how we got to the community outreach revamp so The revamp is focused on the Fedora ambassadors program. It's a long-term program in Fedora like 15 plus years and it's had Quite a history. So for a long time, it was just a huge success and it was continuing to build and people were You know sharing the good word of Fedora As things progress though things change processes changed How we're able to do things changed The program kind of continued to grow without really scaling There was some disruptions as far as changes of leadership and some people some key people were feeling burnout so all of that kind of Resulted on a stall of the ambassador program and because of that we had some other kind of outreach efforts and things That kind of resulted from the ambassador stalling. So we had the joint SIG and we had the advocate program and We had some other, you know, we had community operations also Kind of focused on outreach So we had all these different teams and it kind of started to become like a confusing place like where do I go? What do I do? So when I stepped into the FK role, I was able to write up a proposal that kind of talked about how we would Streamline all of that and how we would kind of revamp things to bring it to a better more elevated place and basically bring clarity around these different teams so It's kind of an idea to bring all of the different outreach teams under one umbrella and We want people to understand where the documentation is how they can find it how they're able to get Resources like swag or anything designs made all these types of things so This was The main proposal so I proposed that to the mind share committee They were all about it then became an objective from there because we realized this was going to be quite a bit of work So I think that's a pretty good overview of kind of how we got here and What the proposal was and the goal of it? So on to the next I'll pass the mariana Thanks, Marie So I will briefly mention what we have been doing in the past one year and a half So when the proposal was accepted and we formed our little team We started working on the next steps and how we could make this initial proposal actually something that That we can present to you all the first thing The first few things that we did was actually prepare a list of Questions for the mind share we did the our very first community outreach Survey where we got very very valuable feedback and many of the things that we did next actually were based on the analysis of that Survey one of my One of the most interesting Actually results or results from that survey is that we found out that people do a lot of Fedora Events and activities and etc. Without actually letting the mind share committee know so there is a lot of Fedora David out there and we're not aware of which is both good and bad Later on we became a Fedora objective objectives are Fedora Calls that are meant to be completed in a few releases of time most of the time There are technical objectives, but lately we have been we have seen some Objectives that are mostly community oriented rather than completing certain features We have helped the council formulate the community engagement survey questions I'm not sure if there is a presentation for that during the release party. No, okay But I'm sure there will be a blog post post it in a few days So we did have a yes We did have a session at nest which you can find on YouTube and we do have a blog post in the works Yeah Our working progress thing is the role of handbooks This is one of the greatest and biggest things that we need before we launch the The revamp and make it market as complete because we want to make sure that we have the communication about most processes in the ambassadors Program and also we are trying to come up. Oh Yeah, the logic model. I wonder who requested that I So the role handbooks are basically our documentation that we are currently working on and we have had quite some help from Community members both to help us create the documentation and also publish it We had an outreach intern during summertime working mostly with Marie and try to create some really nice designs about the different outreach group within Fedora and We have been briefing the entire community with monthly we tried to to post monthly blog posts But we lost track of that but we have been in several events Presenting our updates. So I think we have had more events than blog posts actually But that's fine because we have also shared what we've been doing This is it briefly what we have been doing in the past months so extending on the things that we have already been doing for some time we have presented a bunch of events Fedora specific being the nest and Otherwise open source as open source of conference of conferences at us and we would probably be presenting a couple of more The whole idea here is that we try to focus Our at specific events like for example nest we did this two-hour long The dog fest where we went ahead we asked community members to join in Initialize some of these pages that we needed and then moved on ahead So talking about a bit of delivery, this is this is where we see the final outcome of the Jordan now so something that we have able to formalize is the is the Representation is my chair so my chair as you all know is a collection of all teams and they have representatives over there We have been able to document and finalize. What are their responsibilities? How do we look like how what they represent what they bring to the table? Stuff like that as a part of documentation We have extensively done couple of community outreach surveys and I'm in the spoils and we have got these Some good amount of data which helps us understand what we are missing. What are the points that we need to address? Moving on we have something that may have been it that is in works Which is a translation of the role handbooks that Mariana talked about in five to eight key languages which would help more and more community adoption in the coming years and More importantly, we are focusing To make sure that the you know every year we have one of these community health surveys going on and Which would kind of tell us or rather give us a pulse on what's going right? What's not right? What can we do? Some of certain things are working progress and these are some things one of which is coming sometime next week is a Halloween update post when we are way ahead of Halloween There's a Halloween update post coming in which it mentions some of the things which are already in works Almost about to be complete and you may follow that on community blog post other than that we have All most completed the documentation for the role handbooks including com apps the joint-side Advocates and procedures. We are just waiting for Other than that we have also completed a part of the badges the community badges bits Murray had the intern the opportunity to work on the badges Which helped us to kind of make sure that we have those pages up in life and these bad should be pushed on as The time goes by the the thing we are trying to work on extensively is rolling out a marketing plan And this would basically be in conjunction with multiple teams Design the the current marketing team and a lot of community members We could be opening up community revamp the college which You're about in couple of days To a beat time frame in community blog again So we kind of post all of these Goodness and the new hot mess that we have on the community blog. So keep following us. That's mostly where we record most of these purposes Moving on to the night Cool. Thank you Sinandra. Oh, I Notice we had an error. There was the translations was supposed to be in the in progress Well, it's really just dependent on finishing up the documentation, but we want to work with our translations teams to make sure That the documents are Accessible for everyone. So I'm going to talk just a little bit about the next steps and what we're hoping to Accomplish in basically the next three to six months. This is our goal Mariana Sumantra, and I have been doing Doc sprints almost every Friday for a couple hours For I want to say the last two or three months. So we're on these docs There's a lot to get through as far as the All the ambassador documentation goes it's just expensive if you go on one page and you find a bunch more links And you're like, oh gosh, we had a role listen to so I think we have a good idea of where everything is now and That's kind of our chunkiest thing that we're finishing up is that documentation. We had a couple hiccups with the docs pages But I think we've overcome them at this point as Sumantra mentioned We're working on a marketing plan. So that marketing plan is really to help the Dorns understand what we what we've done here and to help them access that new information and Have those community calls. I'll talk a little bit more about but Basically, we want folks to be able to adapt this as Easily as they possibly can and you're there to guide that process. So Moving forward, we would like to start up An outreach call. So it'll be a monthly call Where we Talk about all sorts of things but really the newest outreach initiative that we're trying to do people could come there with requests And I'd like to see it become an active place that people can Do things for for door like you go there and get stuff done. So that's what we're looking for for that outreach call We're gonna want to have people test the documentation We're only three people. So there's probably Some changes and updates and things that might need to happen We probably haven't thought of every single thing so part of those first couple months with our outreach calls and the people Who are there and interested we're gonna want your help on just making sure it's right, right and and Refining it to a place where we have more and more eyes on it We do have to work a bit more on our informal polls these are polls that we want to use on discussion to kind of get an idea of How people are feeling about the revamp do they understand what we've done and then moving forward Thinking about community engagement and outreach in general There's a couple loose ends like just little things like we're We need to check back in with the mind share probably because it's been a year since we did that Hey, who's active who's not? And she probably took a look at the ambassador group again. So there's a couple things we're still still wrapping up there and At the end of our old presentation, we kind of talked about what we're focusing on So I wanted to make sure that we reiterate that here this whole process. We've been focused on Sustainability accessibility and powering individuals having a long-term strategy in place building and recognition to people and And and our process really listening to feedback as we go and adapting so this has been What we've kept in the front of our minds if we continue to work on things so I think That is it for today and I see that we actually have a question here Okay, so First question is This is a difficult question and I have thought of it before but I have no answers as of yet Are there possible ways of involving persons with neurodiversities such as down syndrome? so Absolutely, we hope that folks who are neurodiverse are already feeling comfortable and welcome in the community As far as community outreach and what kinds of ways neurodiverse folks could be involved in that I Think we need to maybe hear from People who are neurodiverse like how can we make this? Documentation a little more accessible or our disease processes Are they working? I? Think You know having Folks who are neurodiverse? Advising is probably like one of the best ways to make like our process better now just outreach in general I think you know just like all of us we all have our networks and most neurodiverse people are connected with other neurodiverse people So I guess I would hope that they would feel comfortable bringing fedora to those places as a potential You know community to get involved in that's welcoming to neurodiverse people But of course we want to make sure that it is indeed welcoming So, you know, it's probably something that needs to be a longer conversation. So Mariana or Sumatra feel free Yeah, I would like to add that I really do agree with Murray here Hi having people from this community actually advising us and telling what we can do to that Direction would have would be amazing because no matter how much we brainstorm into writing Documentation if you're not into somebody's shoes, you do not actually see the problem or the issue from somebody else's perspective and also in order to make people feel welcoming there is a Code of conduct that has been revised recently and it is there to make sure that everybody feels comfortable and Not excluded, but again in case there is something that We can optimize I think everybody's open to suggestions and see what we can we can do better So I will read the next question In case there is anybody to add something. Okay. Are there any initiatives target at making is at making it Smoothing the sponsorship process for new packages so I will take that question and The answer is no so the the way This outreach initiative is aligned is to make sure the outreach teams Which are our commops team the joint team the These teams and the ambassadors of course they get the first priority benefit Of this entire event. Of course if if something needs to be done in the Packager level or the sponsorship towards the back at the level that is supposed to be Let's go to the best of my knowledge if someone is there Thank you so much. All right, we have another question How do we decide when the subjective is complete and successful? What do we do with any aspects which are not finished? so That's kind of what we're trying to show on that last side like these are the things we have complete these are the things we have in progress and Based on how far we actually are in that documentation. I want to say we're like 75 to 80 percent done Mariana and Sumatra maybe thumbs up thumbs down something like that. I think We can call it done like Or closer to done when that documentation is done, right? Like the documentation is Gonna be the basis for moving forward with all of this so I think once the documentation is done, that's really when we can say that it's a success But I don't really think it's gonna be complete I Want to say maybe we will have like a ramping down time So like we'd like to call the objective complete but the three of us still want to go to those outreach calls for like six months at least and then we've kind of written the F cake into that call as You know part of that role being being on that call and being a point of connection so I'll basically always be involved in continuing but I Think there's gonna be some small parts that we might not finish and for example, that's Kind of the marketing area when I say that I mean the marketing team because it's not very active So it's a little bit hard to know where to go With some of that documentation and and what to do. So we've kind of been Having a conversation about that like we definitely want to have that marketing plan to roll things out for the community But the team itself is Has not been active for some time. So Marianna. Did you want to add something there? Yeah, I wanted to add that when it comes to documentation the way that we report so far is by going through the documentation that already exists Keep some parts of it and update it and rewarded and actually come up with new documentation for some new process because some of them are actually very outdated and some processes do not exist anymore Besides creating the documentation and writing it. We had some technical Problems when it comes to publishing it on the dark side So that took us a big step back, but when it comes to marketing the revamp as Complete and finished I would say that even when we launch the the revamp I'm sure that in the upcoming months There will be things that we will change based on the community's feedback Because no matter what we say and set for now If we set in a process, I'm sure that somebody will suggest something else or even The process itself would change without we us realizing so we will see During the first month what works best for people and it's up to that So basically I would say that even when we say that we are ready to launch it a few things We'll still change and we will be there in the first months to to check that everything will run smoothly I don't know Maria or someone who wants to add something Yeah, my thing for us for a second. So let me ensure what was happening. I don't have anything more to add too much or how about you? No, nothing There's some that pretty nice Awesome, so I'm seeing some questions. I think in the chat so Phil is the question how does outreach e help contributors or how does outreach help contributors because outreach e is a thing I'm not sure if you're talking about that um Outreach helps contributors, you know do what they love to do which is be passionate about fedora So it helps them share the news educate other people. So these are all Resources and processes to help people do those things and that's what we're focused on improving and Then I see another question How is the project organizing the transition to contributor fedora join seems Inactive Join is very active. I always see hundreds of messages in that chat channel And I know that the repo is pretty much alive and well So I'm not sure what experience you're having or where you're looking So there's a lot of people in there willing to help out if you have questions or You're wondering what the next step is to become a contributor join is definitely a great place to to hang out and learn about that well, if there are no more questions we went exactly 25 minutes, which is great for me and We'll see everybody online look for updates on the community blog No, oh There's a big message that just came in What's about packaging? All right. Yeah, sorry, Mariana. I interrupted you go ahead No, I just wanted to thank everybody for showing up today and for being part of our session