 Welcome everyone to Fedora Women's Day 2020. This year we are going virtual. My name is Marie Norden. I am Fedora's Community Action and Impact Coordinator, which is a super-committed name for community manager slash supporter. And here today we have the Fedora Project Leader. Go ahead. Hi, I'm Matthew Miller. I am the Fedora Project Leader. And I just want to welcome everybody here. This is an exciting event. I'm glad to see so many people and an amazing lineup of women and non-binary people showing their sharing their stories in Fedora. And I think that it's going to be a great couple days, three days. It's a very awesome. I guess we kind of should call it Fedora Women's Days. Yeah, we've got a tradition in Fedora of calling things that are multiple days day, like we have test day that lasts a week. But we also have a Fedora Activity Day. We need to fix that. That's terrible. Anyways, my point, I was going to say something different from that, which is I'm glad to see everybody here to participate in Fedora. One of the things I've been talking about a lot is why we do Fedora, why people should run Fedora, what's interesting about this. And I saw somebody on Twitter saying running Linux is just so much extra work. Why would you do that? And to me, first of all, it's not that much more work. Come on. There's a lot of things that are great technically about Fedora. But the thing that's really important is this is an operating system that belongs to us. It isn't something that belongs to Apple. It doesn't belong to Google. It doesn't belong to Microsoft. It doesn't belong to Red Hat even. It is us as human beings. This is our operating system. And that's amazing. And the important thing is that you watching this are part of us. By being part of Fedora, you are part of the ownership of this thing. And it's really important on Fedora Women's Day to say, women, non-binary people, everybody, you're all part of us. And this is all our thing. And that's what's exciting. So today, I'm mostly here to support and watch. So I'll stop talking and hand things back over to Marie. But I did want to just say those things. And welcome to everybody. Thanks, Matthew. So I'm just going to say a couple things about the event and what to expect. We have sessions from individuals sharing their stories with us about their tech journey, maybe how they got involved with Fedora. What they do with Fedora now, you know, kind of challenges or victories or successes. They came up against what their area of interest is. So I'm hoping that these stories will inspire you and help you think about women and diversity, inclusion, and open source. I think that there's a lot of like kind of culture wars going on in the world right now. And, you know, women are a part of that. We make up half of this world. And this place, open source, Fedora is full of opportunities for us, for people like us. And the best way to make that happen and promote that is by being supportive of each other and creating a fellowship and a community, you know, a sub community within our community of support. That is really the best way to make this place good for women and good for all people. So I'm really excited to have everyone here and be able to talk with some of my favorite people in Fedora. We have these networking sessions where you can go in and say, I'm ready and you meet up with someone for three minutes and just chat and get to get to know them a little bit. So that's a really cool way to connect with people. There's also a hallway track. There's three hallway tracks that we've set up. One is in English, one is in Spanish, and one is in Hindi. Just in case, you know, there's people from from other speaking other languages. We have many different cultures and languages spoken within Fedora. So we tried to do a little bit of math and look at which ones would make the most sense. So if you would like a hallway track in your language, we can totally set that up for you. You would just request that from one of the organizers. What else? There's a couple of social sessions. So there's a some Pictionary. There's just some some time to hang out. I'm also doing, let's see, oh, cake with the F cake so you can earn a badge and come hang out with me. I'll probably make a cake and you guys can all see it on screen. And there's also a join session. So the join session is going to focus on helping new contributors or people who want to get more involved in Fedora, find a place to get involved. They're going to help you get the right contacts, give you the right links, connect you with the right people. So you're welcome to join the join session or if you know somebody that you think might be involved, maybe they they're not going to sit through a whole conference of content, but they might just want to maybe they've been interested in Fedora. Send them a link to just that session. That session is tomorrow. So that's also happening. I don't know if everyone has seen the video that we made in Budapest at Flock. I don't know, Matthew, maybe you could drop it into the chat for us. So we love this video and we like to play it all the time. It gives me warm, happy feelings. And I remember the the first time that I saw this video, I got like a little tear in my eye was like family. And it highlights all of all these different people speaking different languages and talking about themselves and how Fedora unites us. So we want to make something just like this for Fedora Women's Day. So we've come up with a little script. And at the end of your session, if you're a speaker, I'll be there and I can facilitate that. And I'll just read you exactly what it is so that there's no surprises. And hold on one second. It's right here. Okay, so hi, my name is Marie. I am from the United States. I am a woman and I speak English. We are from different countries. We speak different languages. We are of different cultures. But Fedora unites us with open source. So that is the cool script that we're going to do. So I'm going to, you know, facilitate that during sessions, might set up a session for people just drop by and record with me. I'm not sure. Maybe that makes sense or I might do a poll. So yeah, I think I've like covered a lot of the stuff that we're going to be doing this weekend. I make sure that you take a look at the polls. I'm going to be trying to add like fun ones throughout the weekend. And yeah, welcome. I'm so happy to see everyone here. You'll see some time between the different sessions in which you can just join the networking area, take a break, do whatever you want. Yeah, I think that's all I got. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to amazing weekend. And yeah. Awesome. Let's do this. Let's do it. Welcome guys. Bye.