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Great news, Fedorans! As the month of February is moving at warp speed, we have decided to extend the CFP for Flock to Fedora until Monday, March 3rd. The submission site will automatically close at 23:59 UTC, so you still have some time to send us your proposals for this years event. Read on for some helpful links, a reminder of the themes and some general information about Flock this year.
Following the discussion during the recent Fedora Council F2F on Fedora-Council#502 , the council would like to approve a new policy to set some DEI criteria for potential locations to meet when choosing where we hold our large-scale community events such as Flock. The objective behind this proposal is to make sure we have a governance structure in place to later propose some more specific rules for event location selection. The proposal has two parts: the policy itself, which proposes criteria we would like to use, and then formalize some rules to adhere to when deciding on a location. The rules will be submitted later in a separate proposal.
In order to approve this policy, we are using the policy change policy framework. By policy, this proposal is now open to our community discussion for a period of two weeks, after which the Council will hold a formal vote. The vote will come into effect on March 12th. The full proposal is available from Fedora-Council#502 and council-docs#234 , and discussion is welcome on the discourse thread.
A special thanks to our DEI team who have spent a considerable amount of time creating this well thought out policy.
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Flock to Fedora will happen in the beautiful, historic city of Prague, Czechia from June 5 to June 8 this year. We cannot wait to welcome our wonderful contributors to the Fedora Projects’ annual event. Our Call for Presentations (CFP) is open until February 23. In order to enable as many of our contributors to submit talks,we have put together this blog post that might help you connect your topic to a theme, or help you to look at the themes in a different way. We hope this will make the themes resonate with you —and maybe spark a talk topic to match.
This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.
This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.
Fedora had a booth at BalCCon for the 8th time in a row. I’m personally very happy that we kept this streak as the first BalCCon where Fedora had presence is when I first became Ambassador in Serbia 😊. I’m not aware of any other booths that had such a strong presence.
For those unaware of this conference, it is focused on: hacking, information security, privacy, technology & society, making, lock-picking, and electronic arts. For a sharp eye, these are well-rounded topics for Free Software-oriented people and that makes it rather important conference in the region. In addition to all that, people that organize these events are extremely welcoming and heart-warming people! Working in tandem: founders, volunteers, and speakers – all show teamwork in very challenging times, both now as well as in the past… For an untrained eye it would seem that every BalCCon is a smooth sailing, but the truth is that there is a lot of effort and sacrifice required in realizing it. Every single person behind it, is a devoted, humble, and passionate contributor to the event.
Attendees range from teenagers, students, younger and older adults all interested in learning, sharing and socializing with each others. In other words, the conference is not solely focused on lectures and workshops, but also on bringing similar-minded people together and providing them a safe place to connect.
Fun is also huge part of the event as there is a karaoke evening (don’t miss that one 🎙️) and a rakia tasting and sharing night adequately named “Rakija leaks”🥃.
At Fedora booth we try to engage people and encourage questions, to better understand what people like and dislike, to provide them guidance and invite them to join the community. We always keep the positive attitude towards all Free and Open Source Software and never fuel or support distro-wars. We love Fedora, but that doesn’t exclude love towards other distros as well (it just may not be as strong 😁).
This approach had an impact that many non-Fedora users liked to talk to us and stuck around. That relationship grown to constructive discussions about strengths of Fedora and their OSes of choice. Many of them converted over time 😉, or at least found a perfect sweet-spot for Fedora in their everyday life.
Due to the import customs in Serbia, swag has been a hit and miss sometimes, but we try to keep the booth entertaining even in the absence of much-adored stickers.
This year we’ve had a revamp of our booth with new Fedora logo for the roll-up banners and the table cloth. And it was at a perfect time, as Fedora booth was visible in an article of country’s most popular printed IT magazine Svet Kompjutera.
This was all due to the amazing support from jwflory who displayed great amount of innovative and pro-active energy! ❤️
Booth appearance has evolved over the years and become more and more inviting to everyone. An organizing volunteer even approached me to say that people’ve been asking if Fedora will have a booth again this year, as they found it very interesting – not only from the Project’s aspect, but also because, since the first year we tried to bring something that would draw people to come and talk to us.
To give some examples:
Awesome demo of touchless gaming concept by our dear thunderbirdtr (2015)
There are plans and ideas for future booths too, such as SyncStar setup, SELinux challenge box, DIY pin machine, other quizes, …
Here is the timeline in photos from 2015 – 2024 (there are missing photos due to, either COVID, or just an unfortunate oversight on my end):
2015201620172019202220232024
Huge thanks for the support from jwflory, thunderbirdtr, nmilosev, nsukur, bitlord, and especially to my dear wife littlecat that makes the booth incredibly appealing.
If you’ve never been to Serbia, Novi Sad, or BalCCon, you should definitely consider visiting and we’ll do our best to be good hosts and dedicate some of our times just for you! 🤗
This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.
One more week of January to go, folks! And that also means we are one week closer to some key milestones coming up in the Fedora Linux 42 release. Here’s a summary of some release-related topics, plus some upcoming events and a general roundup of what’s happening around the project lately.
This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.
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