 So, hello everyone, I think we should start, otherwise we will be very late. So we will talk about Fedora Appreciation Week because we want to say thank you to the people that are part of the Fedora community. So let's talk a bit about us. So B and I, let's say for Fedora during this year, during this summer, we were a mentor and our mentee was Anna and she has been working on Fedora Happiness Package and she will explain a bit more details about it. So hi everyone, I'm B and I work with the community operations team on data analytics and related stuff and I'm also involved with the diversity and inclusion team and both of the teams are working together for launching this Fedora Appreciation Week to thank basically the Fedora community for all the work they have done. And yes, I have also been a Google summer off code mentor for the third time this year and Anna has been a great mentee for both of us and she has been working really hard on the Fedora Happiness Package project for over the summer. Hi everyone, my name is Anna, so I'm the said mentee, so I got selected somehow for GSOC 2018, yeah, so nice to meet you all. So let's talk a bit about, let's say Fedora Appreciation Week, let's say how started, how we had this idea. First we were inspired by the Ubuntu community, they were doing Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day and we wanted that it would be very interesting to have something similar for Fedora community. In this way we can say thank you to all our contributors that are working really hard in their free time and in this way they can feel that their contributions are very valuable for our community and in this way we can, let's say it's kind of a way to tell them that their time is very valuable for all of us and for everything that they are doing because let's say Fedora it is a very powerful operating system and so on but because of the community that is working really hard behind it and yes it's because of these people that are part of us, not all the people were here, this is a group photo that we did at Vlog two years before, yes in Krakow and I'm really glad that the community is growing even more. So what we will do throughout the week, we will have different events or initiative that will be part of Fedora Appreciation Week and all the community members, let's say are very encouraged to say thank you to another person for something specific that person has done, let's say for example if you want to say thank you to someone that helped you a lot especially when you were let's say on your first steps to be part of the Fedora community, this is a great way to say them thank you and but not all, only for this but also for something else, for example someone helped you to fix something and you can say thank you to that person. So yeah, you will get a lot of thank yous during the day or during that week. You will say thank you to someone else and someone else will say thank you to you so that's why it's all this about. Okay, so I'm just going to discuss in brief about why we are doing this, about why it is important to thank other community members who are working on Fedora like different parts of the operating system or different areas in the community. So I mean Fedora community is mostly like a volunteer based community so we don't really get paid for efforts unless it's your day job to work on Fedora. And so a lot of people still contribute a lot to development of Fedora and also in non-technical areas and sometimes like sometimes some people feel like they are not appreciated enough for their contributions to the operating system or to the overall community and that's because like when we are working together sometimes like slowly over time we feel like we forget to communicate that we appreciate their efforts even though like whatever small or big efforts they are putting and we forget to communicate that we need to thank them because they are doing all of this in their volunteer time. So we basically created the idea of this week to practice like gratefulness and say thank you so that everybody feels appreciated and they feel like good like they feel appreciated enough for their work in Fedora and here are just some benefits of like practicing gratefulness so we feel that like if everybody feels like appreciated for their work in the Fedora community it will have a positive impact overall on the contributions and on the team and it will also boost like confidence of community members in Fedora it will lead to like happier community members, better relationships, better work and basically more productivity but it's not just like the contribution aspects of it but we also want the community you know to gel together to interact with each other more and to basically put out all this positivity in open source out in the real world that we are working and collaborating and doing this together and we want everyone to know that we really appreciate whatever they are doing even though I mean whether it's a small contribution or like it's a big thing like everything is appreciated whatever they are doing in Fedora community so yes this is basically you know a meme so we want everyone to feel awesome because they are a part of Fedora and we are such a nice community so we want them to feel happy and appreciated so that was our whole concept behind why we wanted to do this appreciation week and have this different ideas on how to do it and how to say thank you to other community members so Yona will now introduce a little bit about Fedora appreciation day or week depending on how the logistics go and how you can say thank you to other community members during this period. Okay so first of all even when will be this Fedora appreciation week or Fedora appreciation day so this will take place around November 6th I'd say because it's also the anniversary of the Fedora project so this is what we are aiming to do the Fedora appreciation week and the way that let's say how all of you can be part of it is first of all to pick someone to be a contributor that it's part of Fedora community and of course not only one you are encouraged to do to say thank you to also other people so you can just choose someone from the Fedora community that you really appreciate a lot and you really would say thank you for everything that that person has done especially something that it was very valuable for you and that helped you a lot and in this way let's say explain a bit the contribution that that person did and why it was useful for you. Let's say for example I for example in my personal experience I could say thank you to the first person that helped me to get into Fedora that it was also my mentor he's not part of Fedora anymore but still he was the person who let's say helped me with everything to get in touch with the other people and to grow more at the community and in this way for example you can see why it was very helpful for you the what the other person did and and you can just like let's say express your gratitude toward that person and in this way you can start writing your appreciation for that person so how can you do that first of all is we do this even now of course Karma Cookies and I think is anyone here that doesn't know what Karma Cookies is or someone that wants to explain it yes so Karma Cookies is actually a system when you add the plus plus signs after the FAS ID of one person or IRC Nick if the Nick is married with a FAS ID and after collecting several cookies you can get badges I think the biggest one is like 50 cookies or something like that but is a way to say thank you in a simple manner you don't need to write anything or do anything just FAS ID plus plus and the people will be regarded with a badge so yes thank you and we can do that on IRC so especially let's say when we have meetings and the meeting will end you can just say thank you for example to the person who chaired the meeting and so on another way how you can write an appreciation is contributor stories so contributor stories as I said it's a way to write kind of a story and we have a template to help you what things you can include there for another person and I will explain even a bit more how it's the template and show you a screenshot about it another way is the happiness packets that we mentioned that Anna has been working on it and she will show us later on even a demo of how it looks now and how let's say other things that we are going to implement until November you can tweet about this and the tweet that we thought to use for Fedora appreciation week will be we are Fedora in this way it will be even useful for us to have some kind of metrics to see how many people participated and let's say how useful it was to have only a week only to say thank you to someone else and why to do this only for specific week and not do this throughout the year and something else that you can do of course that you can share it with your friends because it's very valuable to spread the word and the others can do the same as you so as I said they can do one of these kind of ways that they can be part of it so as I mentioned one of the ways was the contributor stories so what is contributor stories contributor stories are the record of our best memories that we have with people that are part of the Fedora community so we can be let's say everyone that is part of us that is contributing it doesn't matter what kind of contributions or let's say how much time that person spends as part of our community but maybe the things that that person has done if it's very valuable for us we can start writing a story about that person and we can share our stories that we let's say we are doing as part of Fedora or something I don't know something else that it's unique that you think it's very special about someone that it's a community member and you can share the story with the community members you have another possibility to keep it private and only that the admins that are let's say that are admins for the Pajor repo and this is also the link that you can go there and check it out only that person can see the story that you will write but for the others will be private but if you want to share it also with everyone you can just keep that as public so yeah this is the screenshot how it looks the Pajor repo that we have so you have even a template because we wanted to make a bit more use let's say more easier for you how to write something so you can just let us know a bit more about your story the person that you are writing something about him or her let's say the kind of history or story that you had with that person and why you are saying thank you or what things that person did for you that it was very useful and help you a lot so until now actually we have nine contributor stories we were trying to convince someone during VLOG to write another one but we need to try more so you can write one or you wrote one yeah but you can write more and for now we have seven that are public and two that are private so thank you to everyone that wrote a contributor story and thank you to all the people that will write one in the next days you can even do this now and as I mentioned to you the link about it you can just check it out there and we'll be very happy if you can write one okay so this is my first time doing this anything of this sort so please go easy on me yeah so couldn't talk my name is Anna and I was one of the GSOC interns selected to you know work on this amazing project called happiness packets and okay and so I guess I should start on why I picked this project first I'm a developer so for me stuff like this doesn't make a lot of sense you know I just code I don't care what the other person does exactly and I don't tend to like restrain or say thank you is just a given that the other person has to do what I tell them to do but I can see the benefits like as be mentioned that a lot of benefits to be doing nice to sing thank you to people every once in a while they'll be nicer to you and this is like especially important in an open source community where people are not obliged to help you so you know sending them a thank you card or buy them a beer or something like that it just puts you puts you in there good books so civility costs nothing but it buys you everything yeah so that's a quote for you that and I'm not really going to go into the technical details but so I just yeah so I'm a huge Snoopy fan so if you haven't started yet today you can start from today we're going to like launch the website so you guys can log in and send in your own appreciation notes as well and yeah so this is the project it's called Fedora happiness packets so this originally was a folk of another project called happiness packets so thank you for that and essentially it's a platform to make it easier for you to show your appreciation show your gratitude to your fellow contributors and for now and I'm not like I'm an introvert for me like going up to a person and you're not telling them thank you it just terrifies terrifies me I do not do one-on-one person one-on-one is not my thing at all so if you're like me this is like the perfect software for you you can just send anyone you appreciate someone who has touched your touch you basically like in a meaningful way like for me I would probably send maybe after this session some happiness packets to my mentors I wouldn't do that in real life but yeah I'm sending it anyway but um yeah so that's that's essentially what it does like it helps you if you're like me again introvert you don't like sending messages to people in person you can do it online and you can do it anonymous anonymously as well so and but we do have other options so some of the options are like you can choose to have your message public you can choose to have your name public as well you know if you're that kind of person good on you but you can also send private messages as well so that can work yeah and if you want you can just put up your message on the website as well but you can hide your name so you know there's something for everyone yeah and so this is like a screenshot I will demo it like right now but this is what it looks like it looks the design is not so modern but we're working on I mean we still have time this is going to happen sometime in later this month so we'll have time to improve we're looking forward to your feedback as well yep thanks so just giving a few tips for writing happiness packet so when we initially put this up I would I saw a lot of messages that just said you are awesome thank you for helping me with so-and-so bug yay um so you want to write a more meaningful happiness packet or thank you know what I would say personalize it you know everyone loves hearing their name so you know putting your name in as well in the happiness packet and don't use a generic template of Google so don't Google something and just cut copy paste it that's not really nice and next one is like be specific so if I don't know you know a contributor who has worked on this pull request for a really long time you could you know mention that hey so-and-so like thank you for helping out with this pull request thank you for working on this bug thank you for working on this issue so you know like make it specific you know and let them know how much that pull request or bug or issue meant to you you know yeah and of course obviously don't forget to thank the people who review your code they take the time off to sit and read through your very very long code so take time off to thank them as well and obviously next one is like be prompt it's always best you do this the day after or maybe at least you know put in a month while it's still relevant while it's still fresh on the other person's mind but it's always better late than never you know yeah so now yes the demo so so you can log in with your fuzz account and okay so did you open a private tab at least you can just like go ahead and send some happiness just one more thing so even if you directly click on the send some happiness now button without logging in it will redirect you to the login page and then you can go ahead and I'm not exactly sure why it's not yeah so you just have to like put in the person's name and email and the message you want to send and like I mentioned the privacy options you have we have a lot of options here so you can agree to share your name and email and address of the recipient the other person doesn't even have to know who sent it as well and you can choose to have it if you want to put it up on the happiness archive you know show your love to the world and you have the third option obviously do like you agree to display names publicly like both are names publicly as well so yeah and only if both of the people agree so the sender and the the person who will receive it we will publish we will have them at the archive so if you want to get inspired by some other happiness packets you can just check them there yeah so there's nothing bad right now but yeah because we have so we example messages to and if you just go on the web interface to send the happiness packet yeah so you can also see the message inspiration link there from where you can directly see like some example happiness packets being sent and also in the end you you have even the share button so you can share on Google plus Facebook or Twitter that you wrote the happiness packets in this even your friends probably will be encouraged to do the same and if you want like to give us some more feedback about it we would be very happy you can file an issue on our Pagura repo that it's the link at the end oh yeah yes don't send us an email because we will change it but you can it's better to file an issue on our repo yes or if you want to help but we have some other issues that are open if they are assigned to Anna she's working on them otherwise you can open another one or work on one on the others that we have so yes for the moment Anna is assigned to most of them oh yes so I don't know if you have any question regarding the demo but we don't have a lot of time and we want to mention even the the usability testings yeah so obviously there's like a for citation thing we will like you know looking for feedback a lot of feet I know it's like it's not bad supposed to be right now but so with your help we're looking for features you know what you think what do you think doesn't work would you use it so you know if you're interested will be like right outside this hallway so whoever wants to sign up like come talk to me yeah we have some sheets here so you can just write your name and email and we can coordinate like when you can do it it's not too long it's just 20 minutes at most so it won't take too much of your time and it will be really helpful for us and the project oh yeah and obviously some of the things we are like working on is like audio video messages you know like a text message is great but audio video messages you can hear the person they're just like more effective as well plus you'll be getting cool badges so we don't have a badge yet yeah but at least we just had as you saw our logo and we want to thanks the design team and this is a nice idea to I don't know write a contributor story or happiness package to the design team because they did very nice logo for us and we will design the badge soon yes because when you're logging you will login with your fast account and yes sir so your question was how can we get the badge right so when you log in as we said you will log in with your fast account and when you write when you write happiness packets and both of you will you will not be anonymous in this way you will directly get the badge when you send the happiness packets to the other person sorry yes the sender yeah I mean the other person cannot get the badge but he can yeah they can write a happiness package to get the badge so do you have any questions otherwise we need to My first question is like I know the happiness packet software before it was a Django application if I'm not wrong did you keep record of the issues that was in the original packet to this one or you are just having the power to try the issues because the github repo from that from that application have their own issues so you try to solve it or you just port it and work over it okay and my other question why if I descend the happiness packet as private I don't get the badge that doesn't matter for me because if you want to be anonymous and you get the badge then where's the point of being anonymous people will understand that you send them yeah but you're not the people is not going to to know to who you send the package of it was due to the one who send the package I don't know if the anonymity is dead jail at the only thing you are going to know is that you send a package but no when or where or to who so there is no point in in not giving the badge or giving the badge only to public at least that's what I think maybe you can file a new issue and we can discuss it there and everyone can put their ideas in so we really need to finish is the GDP are compliant we are working on that but yeah I mean as everything in Fedora is we are compliant we will be as it follows pass login so if yeah it's a long as yeah yes so yeah sorry if we need to finish now and thank you for being here