 Welcome everybody! It is our release party after an interesting release. We got it out the door everyone and it's really nice and solid and we're getting a lot of praise. So congratulations first of all. Thank you everybody for all the work you've put into Fedora Linux 39 and all its different components and like oh fireworks nice and yeah everything into Fedora you know over this whole last 20 years so it's amazing. Thank you again. Shall we get started with the program Justin? We shall. Let me go ahead and go for the share screen. There we go. Is it all visible and clear? It is. All right. Welcome to the party. Dances and everything. Yes that was a cool one from Emma. So a quick introduction of your hosts for today and tomorrow. I'll pass it to Matthew first. Hi it's me. I am Matthew. I am the Fedora project leader. I've done this for almost a decade now. Before that I worked at a couple universities on various things all Linux all the time. I've been running Fedora workstation I think since 20 and then before that I was running mostly XFCE and then before that window maker but I think it's been my exclusive operating system since 2006 I think. So I've been using it for for quite a while. I've been part of the project since before I started at Red Hat and I'm really glad to see a lot of familiar faces from way back and also new people here. It's nice to see the project thriving and growing even after all this time. That's all about me. Yay Eva. Thanks Matthew. Yeah I'm going to paste in how you say my name phonetically into the chat but I kind of answered most things so it's not a problem if you mix it up. But yeah. Am I saying it close to right? Yeah no you're just that on. Okay we've known you for a while so. You're actually now my manager too so I would expect you of all people to get my name. But yeah no I'm Eva Maloney. I have the privilege of joining the Fedora project as the operations architect. I'm in there all just shy of three weeks now or so. It feels like a lifetime because I've always felt very at home with the Fedora projects but it's also very interesting to see kind of the inner workings of the project too. You can see it anyway there's no behind the curtain really but it's it's cool to see how an open source project actually conducts itself and be paid to be a part of that. So I joined the I'm actually I have a slightly different way into the Fedora project than Justin and Matthew. I'm through Fedora from Red Hat so I'm usually we see a lot of people coming from the outside in but I'm actually kind of coming from the inside out instead which is which is interesting. Yeah I've when I joined Red Hat I was the the the Waterford Office coordinator and then I joined the community platform engineering team as just a bits and bobs of everything. Somebody who needed to help organize things. Apparently I am organized but that's when I got to know the Fedora project and I have loved it ever since and like I said I'm just delighted to actually be now working full-time in the project alongside some excellent folks. I think we need to have the airport part in your bio so so relevant. If you saw this airport it's like a garage it's tiny but there's stories but I do have a session tomorrow of the Meet the Operations Architect the spoiler it's going to be a bit of an ask me anything a bit of a chat this session so like feel free to stop by if you're available tomorrow. Yes I will make sure to get some airport stories out of that. I've been plenty of airport ones plenty of horse ones. Go to be here. Very welcome here and I'm Justin I'm the community architect with the Fedora project I've been around in the Fedora community since 2015 I guess so a little bit over eight years and it's also been cool even though I've been around half of that 20-year ish half ish of that 20-year time it's also been cool to see how how the community is always growing and evolving and changing over the top overall this time and it's really an honor to to be here and be a part of the Fedora community as we celebrate this pretty major milestone here after after 20 years. Seeing all the stories that have come in for Fedora Appreciation Week which if you haven't checked that out on the community blog you should definitely go and take a look at the the series we've been running all week with contributor stories and photos from across the 20-year history that folks have been sharing on Fedora discussion. It's been really awesome to see all those stories come in and helps remind me about all those important things about why we do what we do and why we come together and celebrate like this as a community. So I'm happy to be one of your hosts for for this week so before we get too far into the announcements we'll start with the important things first I know many of you are probably ready for the badge so we have the special edition release party and 20th anniversary Fedora badge which you can claim using the QR code or you can also find it on the reception page of Hopin as well but definitely don't miss out on claiming that special edition version of the badge. Thanks to Chris, Marie and Sandro for wrangling the logistics for getting the badge out. Apparently I am in the top 10 of badges now for the first time ever which I'm very proud of but I think there was someone who's like one badge behind me so I'm gonna quick get this to make sure I don't get displaced. You can also find the schedule for today it's also on the Hopin reception you should be able to find it there but you can also find a wiki-ified version of it on the Fedora wiki if that is easier for you to read you can also find the UTC and US Eastern time zones for all of our sessions there today and lastly we also have a code of conduct for all of our virtual and in-person events you can find it here and open up for the full code of conduct. Also wanted to slip in some special thanks for some folks who did some awesome work to help wrangle the event together Emma Kidney and all the design and graphics and images that you're seeing around the release party around Hopin she was a big part of all of that IFA for being with the host but also helping wrangle a lot of the sessions for all of the speakers and folks who are doing topics here uh shout out to our our mark I see Daymar's message in the chat shout out to our marketing team Joseph and Daymar who have also been helping promote this content for the release party and Appreciation Week all week as well as well as some of our other folks there as well on the other channels and lastly a big thanks to all of our amazing lineup of speakers and organizers of our social activities that we have today and tomorrow. Oh I want to make a plug here too which is this is community driven as you see uh I think we would like to have more people involved in the release parties so if this is something that's kind of interesting to you if you're having fun here you know okay I could help um this is a easy way to get more involved in working in the project um you'd be incredibly welcome talk to IFA Justin me um and we'll we'll get you hooked up. So on that topic of socials we will have the hallway track going all week but we'll also have a special session tomorrow on Saturday for an Among Us round uh so that'll be hosted by the Fedora Pride community and you can get some of the details for how to install um if you can you can get it for free on mobile on Android or iOS or you can use Steam and you can also play it on Linux there as well. More instructions you can find on the QR code it'll take you to a wiki page with more instructions. I'm good I won't be there because I can't handle betrayal just too much. Yeah so I definitely hope to see some other folks if not Matthew in the in the ship. I'll be around I just um you know a watch. So a big thanks to our Fedora Pride folks for helping organize and wrangle that social tomorrow. Now on to the announcements uh key updates things that are happening around in the community. Matthew you want to start? Yeah we if I already introduced herself we're doing this a little bit out of order but I do want to give her a special welcome into this new role as operations architect. Basically the job is to help keep all of our organizational stuff actually organized. Um I have some strengths as a Fedora Project leader as I guess all those badges I do some stuff but keeping everything organized is not one of them so we're looking very much forward to having Ifa help us make everything you know go like clockwork and things that are not working as smoothly as they could uh it's her job to make them better so uh I'm looking forward to a lot of a lot of exciting things in the next few years here. Thank you Ifa for joining us and I'm really glad to have you here. Thank you again and please send me feedback whatever I'm I'm an open book I can take it so I'm the good and the bad. So let me tell this story which is the thing that really impressed me about Ifa what I'd met her before as part of her job at CPE but um we had a Fedora Council meeting in in Berneau and this was there were some things were not going so great between the project and CPE and Ifa came in to give a little presentation about stuff in CPE but had kind of no idea what um upset people were under the under the I don't know context is right yeah and so she came in for a friendly little presentation and we came in to give her what for and really just uh it wasn't intentional at all but we I think we were all pretty like a lot of like questions and anger and things and Ifa handled that with such grace and you know we probably could have been a little more gentle from the Fedora side but there was a lot there was a lot and that really both handled that so well and then really helped improve the relationship and made everything you know help help build bridges up and make things be a lot better and I think that's a lot of why we've got a great functional relationship with CPE today so thank you very much for that and yeah she could take it I can't sorry for swearing but my effort is like the world is full of dickheads there is really no need for us to be like that to each other yeah excellent yeah this is this is for me too here um so in Fedora um although some of us have the privilege of being paid full-time on this that is amazing we also want to make sure this stays a community run project it is not something where just red headers get to make all of the decisions and so to do that we've got a community leadership structure which includes some positions which different teams in the community nominate someone as you know some people who are active working in a particular area and then we also have a lot of positions which are elected from the community at large anybody can run and anybody can be elected as long as you're an active Fedora contributor and so we have three bodies that have elections open on Monday one of them is Fesco the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee and as the name kind of suggests that steers technical decisions one of the biggest things is when there are changes people have probably seen the change announcements going by like when those happen Fesco looks at community input looks at the technical thing and weighs whether that's something we should do or shouldn't do so that's a very important role and we've had some big uh controversial things coming up and I'm sure they're in the past um your voice there is really important please make sure that we have good representation on Fesco uh it's not just the change process there are other technical things that Fesco makes decisions about and you know ultimately a lot of the other engineering teams are connected on our art chart which we'll see later in into Fesco the other committee is Mindshare which is in some ways the other side of the chart things that help bring people into the project help people understand what Fedora is help represent Fedora in different ways and I I Mindshare is maybe not the best name but we've tried many times to come up with a better name so that's basically that part of the project and this team also helps oversee budget decisions for a lot of like community travel and community events if you need money for something or money if money could help you do something better for Fedora Mindshare is the group to talk to you um and I think we're going to invest some in as a council in trying to help Mindshare be more active and functional over the next year so uh this is a great time to get involved especially if you've got some energy for that it's a really important they're important leadership area in the project and then finally the Fedora Council that is our top level governance body and leadership body and the main role there really is to set and execute on or make sure that the Fedora strategy so it's something we've been working on strategy 2028 where we want to double the number of contributors who are active every week how are we going to do that we're working on it we could use your help please run for the council if you have ideas there it's both a kind of talking about the plan and and developing that plan but also people on the council will also serve as executive sponsors for different initiatives and making sure that those are going smoothly in actual actual practice rather than just theory so please run again run for council if those kind of things are important to you anything i'm missing here thank you got it all right elections what does this badge go or the qr code go to that goes to the program management docs for page for the election excellent um yeah slim book um we have an a slim book and another slim book announcement coming up soon but i don't think it's today but stay tuned more slim book stuff this is a small company that makes laptops that um are made to run with linux they have a basic commission of making it easier to people to get linux and they came to us and said what if we made a fedora special edition and we said awesome let's do that and it came out very beautifully um and if you are a fedora contributor i believe this is um do you remember the threshold for this i uh if you i think it's done if you have a certain number of fedora badges you qualify for a discount here so uh that uh released party badge is maybe an important step if you haven't collected enough badges yet here no threshold okay sorry uh you need to have a fedora project at our email address which you can get by being an active contributor and being a member of at least one team in the project i believe i like the badges idea though all right this this address is good too they're very generous oh yeah here's a thing um justin i think this one is quick but just an acknowledgement that some of the infrastructure has been a little tricky in the last couple of months so um i think it was probably sometime in august or even september now that uh there was a so many of us were using a bridge to connect from libera chat irc over to matrix but for the last month or two that bridge has been offline uh on the matrix and uh due to some security issues or um i can't remember the exact context there but this this this link will take you to the community blog post that shares more details about that we just wanted to acknowledge it that i know it's been painful for a lot of folks and there's kind of a split in some rooms and some teams but it's something that we're looking at both monitoring the situation and also trying to find ways to make it easier to navigate the chat universe in fedora but just wanted to acknowledge that uh it's something that we're aware of and we're we're monitoring the situation and hope to have more to share soon i would be a little stronger than that we need to at some point soon come up with an official are we going to move everything to matrix or are we going to keep it split or are we gonna do something else um and uh we need we need to pick something um so uh we that's the subtext yeah i want to bring the subtext to the top also am i getting like color bars flashing on my video that's exciting um tv test pattern excellent can i just say before we move off this i just want to say thank you to um to neo greg ryan lurch kevin there's folks that are working on a bot that will make meetings and is making meetings easier to run in matrix should that be the platform of choice too so thank you i know there's a lot of people in a zod bot development chat room working really hard to get that up and running so yeah actually if you like playing with bots and actually this is um this is an interesting easy way to if you noticed a little bit of programming um bots are a fun way to do things that are cool and really can um i don't make a lot of difference in a project really because of the functionality they can bring for example there's a really cool feature where you can give each other cookies if you see somebody doing something that you like you can give them a little cookie reaction in in matrix and the bot will see that and then count up the cookies and gives you more badges so this is a neat little reward system we've got that's all built with badges and are so built with bots in matrix there was an irc as well but uh this has been a pretty neat project need to see people come together to make all this stuff work for matrix pretty quickly once the bridge was broken so this is another great place people can get more involved and that we already see a lot of amazing things in the fedora universe happening this is a good reminder that if you have not yet added your matrix id to your fedora account now is a good time to do so so you can have all the fun with all the cookies and all the bot commands in on matrix if you use your fedora i am like if you log into chat dot fedora project or that should be already set but if you come have a different matrix account you want to use make sure that's hooked up yeah i think you still have to add it for really oh we should fix that i'm going to go make a file ticket so other other updates and announcements this week as part of the 20th anniversary we have been brought back fedora appreciation week from our 15th anniversary but this week it's not too late if you'd like to share a story or photos of other memories in the fedora community or write an appreciation note for someone else you can still get in on the fun we've been running a series in the community blog all week that highlights some of these stories and all the photos that people have been sharing from the last couple of weeks so do take a look and check out the series you'll get a pretty interesting view of of our past 20 year history um and it's not too late to get in on the fun so there'll still be two more days until uh saturday and sunday so check out the qr code for more details on how you can be a part and earn another badge for appreciation week also want to give a shout out to an october we had the fedora design team and the creative freedom summit group run a free tober art challenge uh so across the month every day had a different theme artists could share uh their artwork their daily sketch inspired by each daily prompt uh you can find more details about that and find some of the posts in the discussion thread this qr code links to also a note around the creative freedom summit is the cfp is open right now for the event in january so if you are doing anything with creative free software tools and you want to share your workflow your best practices or just talk about something that's really cool and interesting in the design end of the free software world of tools make sure you get a submission into the uh the cfp before it closes on november 24 and as was foreshadowed earlier about the org chart this isn't exactly new new but uh earlier this year since our in between since our last release party our organization chart which is kind of a big giant map of the fedora community got a major update from marie nordin uh so if you haven't seen that org chart yet do take a look and check it out uh it's really it was beautiful before but now it's even more beautiful and it has a lot more teams and bubbles on there for new and emerging things that have come up in fedora since it was first created back in 2021 so do take a look it's a pretty nice visual actually of looking at the fedora community because it's like a very bird's eye view high level map of everything that happens in fedora and lastly it's not too late to invite your friends along too so if you have anyone that wants to join in and participate in the release party registration is open uh we'll be here uh for the rest of today and for tomorrow as well you can again find the full schedule on hoppin or the fedora wiki page quick note on swag as well we have a really cool swag vendor based a small vendor in hungry uh from hello tux uh there is a special fedora discount if you use fedora five at checkout you will get five percent off your order uh but they have some really nice embroidered shirts like these are the really nice quality things you know they'll survive a few washes it doesn't all wear out after you know like a screen printed thing tends to so they're very high quality uh shirts and merch that they have there so do take a look at that if you want to pick up your own uh ambassador polo or not really ambassador polo but a polo shirt yeah the ambassador polos are special um but or jackets or hoodies i think they have some they've got t-shirts too now um it's i'm going to order one of these t-shirts i don't have that really nice i feel like i need to i need to grab one i've been meaning to do it for a while and there is one more thing before we get into the rest of the agenda for today because i know we're getting close to time but it's related to a flock announcement is that we can confirm that flock will be happening in in mexico next year in august 2024 uh it'll be in person again just like it was uh this year and we hope to have exact dates soon the hope is to have everything announced before the end of the year so just keep an eye out for more official news and updates on that but otherwise we're hoping that we'll get to see some of you in mexico next august yeah this is the first time we've been back to north america in a long time and we've never we've had there's been fudcons but we've never had a flock event in mexico so i'm really looking forward to this i'm at flock in ireland there were some really awesome folks from the mexico fedora community that we are really excited to have on the ground with us for this one so it's going to be amazing and with that thank you all for being here and joining in for the release party today we have our next session that is going to start here in two minutes uh so we will go ahead and hop off the stage here and we will bring up the next speaker for today otherwise enjoy the release party and uh in the 20th anniversary celebration