 Hello, everyone. Welcome to federal joint six next talk. We are a community engagement ninjas who help newcomers feel right at home in the community and we're slowly getting started with contributing to the community as well. I'm Akash Deepad and I'm accompanied with Alberto, Andrea and Ripple. Let's get started with the presentation. Let's talk about what we plan to accomplish with the joint seg and the things that we wish to make happen. Starting with engaging in active communication among contributors, both prospective and existing ones, then giving self-contained and well documented issues to the new contributors for them to get a feeling of things that they're getting into. Then we lead and assist the prospective contributors to a point that they turn into successful ones down the line. After that, we build a better mentor-mentee connection among existing and prospective contributors. Finally, we move and provide a comfy communication channel that folks would want to use in order to dive into our world. Now, let us discuss more about how newcomers can feel right at home with us. One of the very first thing that new contributors would like to do is they would feel like picking up an issue ticket or to start working to get traction. All of this can be very functional in terms of approach and theory. It is one of the things that connects the contributors to the work instead of the community and we see them as not a friend but a person who wants to get stuff done. So a newcomer would really want to first get to know the folks around them in the community, then talk about relevant, latest and upcoming stuff, and then explore the teams and sub-projects that they would want to contribute to. We like to believe that for newcomers, discovering about new things should happen organically in a way that they would be able to figure out what is it that they would really like to contribute to. Moving on. Then the newcomers appreciated to go deeper into the things that they have singled out and picked that they would want to be a part of it, be it about designing shiny looking badges, packaging stuff into RPMs, making documentation, writing code or translating software. Everything could use some reading up and knowing about. So a newcomer would really want to first look around a documentation and applications and channels. There are always folks around you who definitely know more about a certain thing and they can be a source of information for you. Secondly, take the project that they're interested for for a spin to have a first-hand experience and thirdly to inform related teams and sub-projects if they come across any kinds of bugs or discrepancies or mistakes. We like to believe that for newcomers should not be assigned any issued tickets to start with. That is not what we do unless well they ask for the assignments of the tickets and that's entirely a different case. Finally, when newcomers become friends with the community and they know about the projects that they're interested in and they are literally into what they're doing in the community. It is now time with the exciting stuff that is to start with contribution. They literally get to decide the way they want to contribute, the team that they wish to be a part of and any extent of time and effort that they want to devote to the community, they get to choose. So, at this point in time when a newcomer is not a newcomer but a celebrated member of the community, they can get started with any of making pull requests for adding new features or fixing old issues or embracing their imagination by coming up with great designs or writing about the translating things that people should know about. Now for newcomers that they can call themselves a friend of Fedora and we really appreciate the time and effort that they put in into participating with the community. It's really the only way is up. I will now pass it over to Alberto who will delve into explaining how good we have been in our initiative so far. How successful has our initiative been so far? Well, we've done a lot of classrooms with a very great quality. Mostly in video classrooms are in YouTube and in YouTube channel of Fedora. So I will put the link soon in the chat. We have a complete session for the classrooms and yeah, the most recent was the RPM packaging. So, it's a great classroom. Thanks, Ankur, for that. And well, we had a lot of material to share with newcomers so new contributors benefit from these videos, from the documentation. Also, we have a lot of moderation and some questions on Fedora. It's a great part of boarding in the Fedora. So, we can do a lot of things here for newcomers, for users, for new contributors. So, helping these parts of the Fedora UNC are very important. Thanks, Luna. Yes, these videos. Okay, next slide, please. Okay, in Fedora we have a lot of words. You know, the last year we had well on 5,000 discussion posted, new posted. Mostly we sold with 500, maybe. Most of this work was done for no heroes. Here's the list. People can take the forum like on and make it a great place to search for questions for solving problems to contact the community. It's a great place. It was a titanic word from Ankur and other moderators to maintain Fedora like a place with great quality material. Now it's a great work. Next slide, please. So, who is this in numbers? The new forum to get newcomers, well, to trade newcomers, new contributors is open a ticket, mostly yes. I don't see the slides. Okay, there it is. We open mostly 63 new tickets. No. Our current rate of success more or less are a, I think, at 28% done new contributors graduate. We have some cold tickets, you know, past some time from the, the wind up when we opened the ticket to now. We got some relative advance of these are 34 mostly the 50% of the, of the tickets are in this part. Well, we have some people that say, hey, well, this is not for me. Thanks. Now this is a, I need to experiment these and know who is this and say, well, this is not for me are more or less the 7% of the tickets. Maybe we can say, hey, it's not so good numbers, but really they are. If you think a little bit about for this, you know, when we can imagine in a talk with 100 people. If you ask, oh, we, we, we went free open source, high quality operating system. Well, of course, we are talking about Fedora. And they say, mostly everyone, we raise the hand and say, oh, I went that. No, this would create. And if you ask, well, okay. How many wants to open a but still a ticket. Mostly 10 mostly seven will raise the hand of 100 was okay. Seven 10% 10% of the people website. If you ask, okay, we want to submit the patch or, or open it or a package the, the software you want or translate the, the documentation you wanted you in your mother language. You say, okay, maybe one of the 100. I think mostly in this a contributors or fellow contributors are a people that have the value of the, oh, have the value are more value of people know are very rare are very, very difficult to to get. These numbers are great for, for these things now we, we, we now know is not, is not easy. Get people to contribute in the project or in every free and open source project is very difficult. And we want to make, make it easy. So, thinking about it. This is a great numbers for the sick. I think we can do better. I don't know who. And now we are working and we are research who can do this better. So, thanks for her minutes. I, I, I said the words for Andy. Andy, you are prepared. Yes, I prepared. So, thanks Alberto. Yeah, how do we plan on incentive raising participation. So, next slide. Yeah. So, we're shiny sparkling recognition. How do we plan this so become a part so help newcomers and become a valuable part of the community. And this is, this are badges we have designed and they're coming soon. So, and so the ideas and there, for example, the first bet. Yeah. What it wants a person becomes a proud member of join. So, those of you who may be familiar with the badges system know that getting a badge or receive badges for participation, volunteering in several stuff stuff in Fedora. Let me say QA testing or translation wiki. QA testing is also a good place to start and help. By the way, is my opinion always a good feedback of Fedora and to motivate newbies to to stay and to work on Fedora. This is a kind of, in my opinion, giving feedback and appreciating the world into work. The other batch is create a better onboarding experience to the ecosystem awarded to once a person closes a welcome ticket as complete. Yeah, a quantified batch which can be earned with more involvement. Is it so that this if you actually, I will say this later, but okay. Anyhow, therefore, this, this batch will be awarded if you are. Well, yeah. Our order close the welcome ticket as complete. And so, and all it's fine. Then next slide, please. So ideas and specialist. This is awarded to the person who comes up with an idea to improve the process. Well, this is, in my opinion, a really nice idea of this batch, because many of the interest on newbies new volunteers have awesome interesting ideas. And they, and some of the ideas are really help always helpful and improving Fedora. And we're really great and grateful because to be honest, if you're in a system, you know, maybe from work or from other groups. Not maybe Fedora social groups or other sport groups. If you are long in this group, you, you, you may be not really open for other ideas or you don't think left or right. And so newbies are always an inspiration. If they have really nice ideas. So, yes. And the last batch was onboarding specialist just awarded once a person completes process related to join sick. Yeah. This would be depending on his interests. Like, let me say if someone is a good wants to translate or wants to is has coding skills and want to prove RPM package or fix something about etc. So this will be in his specific interest. This batch can be awarded. But as I said at the beginning, these pages are created, but they are coming soon. So stay up to date and be surprised at the next slide, please. So how do you get started with contributing to us like this slide. So the first, first thing first is you have to create an AS account Fedora account system. And this is in the important step. Well, I remember I can say this. We've recently talked about that you are the one have welcomed me and guided me to Fedora. And this is really so, yeah, I guess we talked about two or three years ago, three years maybe probably. And yeah, and you say I'm still here because of this wonderful, awesome community and team here and well also things. Yeah, now, as part of presenting Fedora join sick. Thank you, Alberto and Akadish. Yeah. Then if you have created the your FAS account, then we are going to open up a welcome ticket. And with this welcome ticket, which you will find on a page, you I have to sometimes I say, but you will say, find you very, very important steps to go through. A lot of things to wait clear instructions and and one of the important aspect is also I'm in the next slide is because I'm talking about it. One of the important steps is you have you introduce yourself. We prefer. Yeah, still on may join mailing list. Because all can read this for sure you and this will be attitude as well to the joint Peggy group. But we say writing introduction email to the joint mailing list because everybody recognizes sees and can write back and welcome you in personally. And then, um, yeah, you are open actually to explore the right field of our Fedora ecosystem and to explore the sub projects and 16 we have to your interest. So, you can just drop in in several groups you can read the wikis and if you have an idea or you're unsure where whom to ask or how to join. Therefore, we are also to help you Okay, here's the link to the telegram group or ISE channel or in the email or just ping person X, Y or for example, let me see uncle uncle for example, you're for us Fedora. Yeah, if you want to contribute. And then you will. We will help you out. Yes, from time to time we check the progress. I have keep in mind it's two, three weeks we check to almost two or three weeks we check house and the status. And we're asking, okay, are you feeling well? Are there any issues problems? Are you unsure? Isn't there something maybe it's normal that miscommunication or other problems. Yeah, we try to there to help out and yes, and yeah, and if you have all the steps done and you're still alive. And not a dead account. Then we are we are very happy to have you as a new prospective contributor and Fedora Fedora family as a value member and yeah it's time to celebrate and it's actually always time to celebrate if somebody joins Fedora telegram group and this is always for us. Awesome. And I, I'm always happy I guess Alberto and I can agree to this and that we are all happy to open new welcome tickets to help new users and to see and to listen to their ideas and it's, yeah, giving so much back for our voluntary work that we're doing all in well in our free time. Yeah. So, and yeah, maybe one aspect to add is you don't have to be afraid of voluntary work. Yeah, it's free time. One of our principles is as well we say, first things first is always real life, your work, your family work life balance your friends, and it doesn't matter how many hours you spend for Fedora. It's better to spend one or two hours in a month or in a week. It depends on your capacity and we all know I can say I have also times where I haven't much time or I have was it's normal then I do less. And this is nothing to fear because we're, it's so normal and it's, and this is friendship, friends, friends, friendship building. You can talk openly to the persons do you like and know what one nobody would say, oh, no, sorry. So it's, it's always to say, yeah, quiet, it's good. Thanks for saying this. And this is also for me a part of to be open awareness, not to be ashamed if you're feeling, I say weak. It's not, it's not, it's, yeah. Join us, join us. Okay. Some questions, little questions. And maybe we can answer from the Q&A session we can do it in this is you went asking some for us and in the next slide, we have no contact information. So if we don't have a lot of time to respond in this session, we can join us in telegram on element in ERC via Twitter, or you can get a ask everything. So a thank you. Thank you very much. Every one here in the special. Andy. So, oh, we have questions. No. They are questioning about the, if the local tickets are created automatically. You can reach it in the join seat via the, I don't know the telegram of element or ERC. We can open these, this ticket for you. We can ask some question about your interest. And we can help you to engage your with the people can help you in, you know, I do want to. Some translation. We help with that though. Look in the correct people in the, in the project to can help you know. And many, many times we can help you directly with, you know, you want to be part of the come up sick. Well, I'm in the come up sick. I can help you. So it's not automatically we need to present to use those in. In the chat or be a main. So no, no, are. Automatically. Well, you can put to fast account here. And we will contact you for mail or or IRC is. I don't know if this respond your question. Steven. We don't seem to have any more questions and thank you, Alberto for the answers. So we have a lot of answers to the poll and I'm surprised that there are folks who have been a part of joints. Again, they have been contributing to Fedora when they had their own welcome tickets. That's a great thing. It's a sign that our initiative has been helpful and we aim to make it more helpful in the coming times. So thank you very much for attending our talk. It was pleasure to have you folks here. Thank you.