 Hi everybody, I'm Matthew Miller. I'm the Fedora project leader and we're doing virtual summit from here, my backyard in Somerville, Massachusetts. My daughter is serving as the camera person here. It's going to interview me for a few questions, kind of like if somebody came up at the Fedora booth at summit and talked to me about something. Here's what I'd say. That's our dog, Tia. She's an important part of this interview as well. Okay, okay. What is Fedora? Fedora is a project where we work together to build an operating system or make it easy for other people to build operating systems that solve problems for their users. So we work on collecting a bunch of software that developed in the open source world out there in the environment and we put it into packages and we put those packages into convenient ways for users to consume. So that includes a desktop-based thing, Fedora Workstation, which is our main condom-based desktop and a bunch of others as well. Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop and other things that different people in the project work on to provide desktop environments to users. It also means Fedora IoT. I think we may be coming up with a fancy name for that, but as of the time of this recording, it is called Fedora IoT and that's for edge computing and devices and all that kind of stuff. So we have those kind of things. And then also people. Yes. We also have things like the Python Classroom Lab or the Python Robotics Lab, which are basically specialized operating systems made for those use cases. For example, I think it's been a while, but the Robotics Lab was used to win World Cup robotic soccer for a while, which is pretty exciting. And the Python Classroom Lab is used to quickly set up a classroom for teaching that programming language. So we have a lot of things like that. What's the goal of Fedora? The goal of Fedora is, I talked about this a little bit, to make an operating system and make it easy for people to make an operating system. But specifically, we want to do that in a community way where everybody can work together and we make something that we all own together. So Red Hat sponsors the Fedora project, but Red Hat doesn't really own the thing that is the community. The community owns Fedora. The community owns Fedora and it is a community project. And that's kind of part of the goal is to have this community involvement and make something that we together all work on. And it's ours, but nobody really owns it. So that's Fedora. How do Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS all relate? So yeah, we've got a complicated ecosystem, right, where we've got Fedora, which serves as the upstream project. We are the place where all of these other little bits of software, so, you know, SystemD, the Linux kernel, G-Lib C, programming languages, applications, Zygonome desktop, IoT stuff, all that all comes together and we integrate it into one thing. And then it flows from there to our other downstream operating system. And I talked about our mission being about making, making it easy for people to make operating systems. And so obviously our downstreams, you know, Rel and CentOS are an important part of that. The exciting thing we're doing now is CentOS Stream. So the idea is that Fedora is this place where you can be engaged in the community. It's a community owned distribution. CentOS Stream is something where Red Hat, it is a Red Hat moderated operating system where things flow from Fedora into there. And then Red Hat engineers make the decision. And it's done transparently in the open, in an open source way. You can take patches, you can contribute, but ultimately Red Hat engineering owns the decisions there. And then ultimately Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the product, which is if you need the value add that Red Hat adds, which this conference, virtually or in person, will tell you a lot about, if you need that, which a lot of people do, Red Hat provides that support. What do you do in the project? I am the Fedora project leader, which means I joked when my kids were doing things for English class a couple of years ago. I write persuasive essays. I listen to people. And what I tried to do, because it is a community project, I'm not a dictator. I can't tell anybody what to do. I can't make orders. And what I try to do is find out how people can work better together, what people in the project are working on, how we can kind of move all in the same direction. So we can get more done working together, try to help the community work smoothly. And I work with a number of other people, day to day, Marie Norton, who is our Fedora community action and impact coordinator, the Fcake, who helps work on community building, Ben Cotton's program manager. He works on making sure that we actually stay on schedule and ship things on time and get our announcements when we need to. And then other people in the Fedora council, that's our leadership body, we all work together. But I work with all those people day to day and the rest of the community to make sure everything's going smoothly and in a good direction. And we have a strategy and we execute that kind of thing. What kind of people work on Fedora? Oh, so many different people all around the world. So it's about it. It's kind of hard to estimate because it's such a wide project and because there's nobody on the payroll. But about 4,000 people work on Fedora to some degree every year and maybe 2 to 300 people are the core constituency of the project. And that's web designers, that's writers, that's some programmers, a lot of people doing packaging, that's this integration work, quality assurance, and then kind of just the task to get the distro out. So lots of people doing lots of different jobs all around the world in different parts of the world. South America, India, other parts of Asia, North America, Europe, Czech Republic is where we have read as a big office there. So we have kind of a big following but also other parts of Europe. So it's a global project and a lot of people contribute in lots of different awesome ways to different areas. Is there any exciting Fedora news? Yes, we actually have a bunch of exciting things going on. One thing the Fedora IoT edition is launching. So this is going to be our premier solution for running on small devices, not tiny like sensor level devices, but home gateways or also even out in the world, in industry gateway devices that can be used for automation control and those kind of things. And that's going to be the upstream for something, a Red Hat product that is I think a rel, core OS edge is going to be the product. And so Fedora IoT serves as the innovation engine for that. So that's pretty awesome. Also, our friends over at Lenovo the laptop people are actually shipping some laptops with Fedora pre installed on it, which is awesome. Fedora is available from some small places, which are also exciting cool and I appreciate them. But it is just really neat to see it being shipped out of the box on a major laptop vendor and the people at Lenovo have been awesome to work with. They're very excited about doing this in an open source way. This isn't some sort of modified half proprietary operating system. This is the real pure Fedora workstation coming to you from Lenovo. So that's really exciting. I think there's some of those people are around here at this virtual summit. You could talk to them more about it.