 Welcome everyone to Fedora joint session on Fedora Women's Day 2020. We are virtual this year and so before starting I would like to ask how many of you here are new to Fedora and the free and open source ecosystem who don't know much about what Fedora is how we work and what happens inside Fedora? Oh that would be that's cool Mary you have a newbie with yourself that's cool I'm a newbie Ramya is like oh they are listening that's cool so welcome everyone so Fedora is actually a free and open source project and so let's start with what free and open source software really means so actually the open source means that the source or the source files which builds and compile which you can compile to create an executable and run the program the code behind that is actually open and free ensures that the software the source code is under a free license that means that it's not under something copy right but it's actually a copy left something so it provides you a lot of freedoms like you can modify the code according to your needs and reuse the software even modify that edit that accordingly and you can in some life in different licenses you can redistribute that and the modified version as well and the free as in freedom of speech but not free bear so if that's coming inside cd then I think you'd have to pay for cd as well so the perks that you get by contributing to a open source project or by working in an open source environment you the biggest but that you get to make really awesome friends and you become a part of a really awesome community and the second point being you get out of your comfort zone the from a student's level student's perspective I feel like the things that you work on on your student life and create smaller short projects they teach you a lot of things but when you work on something which is live somewhere and being used by a lot of places and a lot of people that provides you that pushes you out of your comfort zone and teaches you a lot of things and how to manage stuff you gain a lot of competitive advantage in your tech ecosystem and it helps you build up a living foundation for your career and it actually helps you promote industry standards and you feel way more comfortable when you work in a day job and you see our similarities between working on open source and the things that you work on according to the job description would be pretty similar what else it's totally fun you can it's all fun to talk to people and collaborate with them on different projects learn from them and maybe teach some people about about it as well it's very fun when you work on a free and open source project and which is being used in a lot of places and it just makes you feel good that you are working there some professional perks that you have for your free and open source software contributions that you get is you get to work on huge live projects which are being deployed somewhere and being used a lot of places you get a lot of feedback and PR reviews the pull request that you create for code documentation images design outreach whatever you work on you get a lot of feedback and especially with code you get a lot of PR reviews pull request reviews from people who are actually the professionals in that field also you gain a lot of communication skills when you talk to people on on video chairs you have meetings you have the IRC you tend to increase your communication skills as well and you also get to showcase what you've worked on so if there's something that you're going to be working on you can mention that in your cv or in your resume and you can share that in the outro that you are working on that it helps you a lot in the professional careers so things so as we are currently in the fedora woman's day and fedora is actually a free and open source software project so let's see what fedora is is so fedora is actually a community of people who are working together to build a free and open source software platform that can and that can be used on different places like we have work station servers iot arm that's pretty similar course so and the things that you build are actually built by built with collaboration from different people you have and we share like a user focused solution that we build on the platform fedora is actually from fedora itself it's it creates an innovative platform for hardware clouds containers that enable software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users so you can think of fedora as a community and as a fedora project it actually provides you a platform for your hardware cloud containers like for hardware you get servers workstation and all the spins and labs with cloud you get co-hosts and with containers yeah containers also are co-host as well so if we dig it deep a little deep in the fedora ecosystem the four foundations are the four pillars that fedora stands on are these four freedom friends features and first so we believe in freedom and you the code that you write is licensed and the free and open source free and under free and open source license and what makes fedora really really awesome is the people that you have around they are like way more kind and you tend to you tend to make a really some really awesome friends and the third one's features in the fedora ecosystem we try to get a good amount of features in the platform along with that fedora is like the leading one of the leading Linux distributions that we have around we have like we tend to port things being the first I believe system D was first ported in fedora as well and I think turn will see to see if version two are the fedora as one of the major distros who accepted that as a change and now we are on that so these are the four foundations that meet fedora awesome and a lot of people think this is really essential that a lot of people think that you have to be a really great programmer or you need to know how to code in order to contribute to a Linux project or the fedora project in that's actually not true you there are a lot of things that you can do it's not always about code and infrastructure development or the kernel patches you can do design you can work on documentation you can start with marketing and evangelism that's actually how I started I came across fedora in google code in 2019 I then I organized a fedora release fedora 31 release party in karachi parks fund then I got involved with quality assurance there's some quality testing there after that I worked on some documentation and currently I am working on the i3 special infrastructure we are currently building i3 based fedora we spent our thing and other things regarding i3 window manager and I work on the fedora badges the badges back and stuff so I do work on that as well and fedora more development so you don't have to be a programmer in order to get started with fedora or you don't always have to be working on the course of things you or the kernel patches stuff you can start with quality assurance you can start with documentation there are a lot of people who start with documentation and are currently maintaining a good amount of documentation as well and so you if you would like to contribute to code all documentation you can you can find the code at figure.io that github equivalent for fedora and the github server that we have the other thing is github.com slash fedora infra that's where some of the fedora infrastructure applications are the third one's actually source dot fedora project dot org src dot fedora project dot org that's actually the package manager if you're on the package managements are things src dot fedora project is dot org is the way to go there you can find rpms containers and you can follow them work on them and create vr server changes and the last one's actually the infrastructure dot fedora project dot org slash seagrid slash sensible dot grid i think that's actually working that's actually not working and it's where all the fedora infrastructure apps currently live in so this is where they get deployed from and all of these projects that you will find under figure or the fedora infra circle they're all licensed under free and open source software and they come across they come inside the umbrella for force so as you now know you don't have to be a coder or a programmer who sits in dark rooms and have a hoodie on to work on linux you can start you start with you can start with documentation design etc so if you in order to get started you can contact there's a special interest group in fedora who their focus i work with that team as well our focus is to improve the onboarding step onboarding styles for newcomers and create a process like welcome to fedora where we will introduce you to how fedora works or somewhere you can get started with and we you can talk to real people in these channels so these are people who are from different parts of fedora someone's working on packaging someone's working on infrastructure and we a good amount of people are there and they collaborate together to improve the newcomer experience and provide you pointers to where you can contribute according to a skill set or the things you are currently interested in so on irc it's a hashtag fedora minus join on three node and on the and on telegram it's trying fedora so let's keep the word word on and keep the plus flag high free linux software flag high and free ndb so you can tweet about today's event by using fedora woman's day 2020 fedora fwd 2020 and you can tag fedora fedora community if you wish you can tag me nasa hm and score dev and score not this actually underscore nasa hm and score so these are slides which i didn't update it with my twitter handle yet but with the adword you can tag them as xtm he isn't able to join today and he'll be i think there are some difficulty on his work and stuff so you can tag me here thank you very much for joining i'm gonna drop a link for fedora join communication channels in the chat so if someone would like to get started with and talk to your people so they can actually communicate actually talk to us in one of these video communication channels and we'll be more than happy to onboard you yeah ripple i did see that that the last link wasn't working and thanks for the info that secret is now in figure fedora infrastructure if you're on the automation and the infrastructure side of things you can contribute to the fedora and so i see mary here hey mary welcome back you are muted again hi this time i'm like auto reset i did not press the mute button so i don't know what that's about but that was great thank you so much um do we have any questions from people in the chat um that's fine if we don't um but we could just maybe stick around in the chat and hang out um for the rest of the hour in case anybody stops by oh some people coming in um but anyway i'm just like curious i mean just like talk a little bit about yourself like what do you do right now are you a student do you work what are you who's next year uh so i am actually not so i am a student and i'm working as an engineering intern at a development company in the back end team at a local startup here and i work on a lot of things inside fedora i currently i'm working on the i3 set for the i3 we spend along with that i am currently working on the back end for badges that's badger along with snails who was an outreach intern previously and i do work on some core stuff and it's actually a lot of places i work on now so oh i heard you like mentioning this stuff during your presentation and to say you're leaving out a whole bunch of stuff like you hang out with us in mind share meetings you go to the ttf meetings you're a part of the dni team um this year is doing more than he's taking credit for um you work really really hard for fedora and we appreciate you so i just wanted to say that out loud uh thanks mary it's actually very great for me to be able to talk to you all and to contribute to something which is used in a lot of places and to learn a lot because like my journey that started with was with fedora it was when i was around 14 and i came across google coden and we had a lot of tasks there i even i didn't even know what ansible was in 2000 like before google coden and that's how i actually started with how things work and now i mostly work on python go and rest in my day job and with fedora it's uh i love so uh thanks yonah with uh oh ripples asking for a cake no cake yet i'm actually at my sister's place and i'm sitting in her kitchen today so you see some kitchen things behind you but no cake yet i actually think i'm going to make brownies oh it's 9 22 in the morning so i guess i have a few more things that i could probably add on to this join session um you know we're gonna publish these on youtube and love to be able to send them to um newcomers um you know hey check out this video so i guess one thing i'm gonna say is don't be afraid to say hi and to put yourself out there i know like going into a chat room for the first time you've never met anybody there and saying hello be intimidating a lot of i mean there's all kinds of people in this world but i know that there's plenty of introverted people i'm an extroverted introvert so i have those moments where i don't want to go into gosh this this chat room there's nobody talking here and i'm just supposed to say something what are you crazy um so i understand the feeling but i encourage you to overcome that and go ahead and send that message um find a group within fedora or any open source community that you're interested in of people who are doing things that you're interested in so then you have like a personal connection with these people beyond just wanting to work on fedora and you got to start to build friendships and bonds with people you get the chance to potentially get some mentorship from people there are many many things you can get from being part of it but i guess specifically just have courage put yourself out there um you can learn people are kind and they're willing to willing to teach you occasionally just like anywhere we run across someone who might not be but i'm going to tell you for the most part we are so um don't be afraid to put yourself out there look for people who are doing things that you like to do and try to connect with them um you know use fedora as a way to overcome imposter syndrome we heard a story today from smear about that was great um here you will be recognized for the work you do and you can get that appreciation and that fulfillment so just a bunch of a bunch more thoughts about you know joining fedora and getting to be a part of fedora we can send you all the links and give you all the resources but without the will and the encouragement to get involved it can be overwhelming so i'm here saying this is for you and you are welcome thanks mary for sharing your thoughts and ideas uh i think the same way because it was actually really really intimidating for me to after google code into uh get actually involved with fedora and to ask people just for just about that i would like to get started and what you find after making that first message or that you are new comer here and would like to get involved you find really great people who eventually become your friends afterwards and you tend to feel you that feeling of intimidation just goes away with time and when you are actually get started with doing stuff so just don't be afraid and within the communication channel just type a message about getting started that you want to get started and these are your skills and you'll be more than happy to help you to get started provide you pointers towards mentorship regarding fedora that different places you want to work on different groups it'll be more than will be more than happy to have you there awesome well thanks again this year for taking time on your day to come and present and all the help that you've given for fedora women's day and everything else i'm gonna jump off the call for now and then i think there's another session in a half an hour so i'll just be hanging around in the chats and i'll talk to you guys and see you around bye