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Flock 2024 CfP open now until April 21st

Apply now for the Flock to Fedora 2024 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, Flock is using Pretalx as our CfP system. If you submitted a proposal to DevConf CZ this year, it will feel familiar. The submission deadline for the Flock 2024 CfP is Sunday, April 21st, 2024.

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What are Flock 2024 CfP reviewers looking for?

Flock 2024 will continue to have three tracks like last year, and we are also introducing themes as optional descriptions for proposals. These tracks and themes help the Flock 2024 CfP reviewers select diverse programming for the conference schedule.

Flock 2024 tracks

Main Track
The usual main track of Flock. Everything and anything to do with the Fedora contributor community. Presentations, talks, workshops, and more.

Tip: At Flock, interactive sessions that include attendee participation receive extra preference over traditional lecture-style talks.

CentOS and Friends
A dedicated track for the CentOS community and other downstream friends. This focuses more to an Enterprise Linux audience, including topics about EPEL.

Fedora Mentor Summit
(Saturday, August 10th) Half-day event focused on mentoring best practices. Mentor Summit programming focuses on workshops and sessions to promote mentorship best practices and to connect mentors and mentees across the Fedora community.

Flock 2024 themes

New this year, the Flock reviewer committee is introducing themes for submitters to choose from. These themes tie into focus areas of the Fedora Strategy 2028. The strategy was co-created with the community on Fedora Discussion and we are excited to share an overview and first comprehensive look at the Fedora Strategy 2028 this year.

When submitting, you’ll be asked to associate your proposal with one or more of these themes:

  • Accessibility (a11y): Fedora websites and docs use the current best-practices for a11y. Fedora Linux Editions use the best-available open source a11y tech. Our project tooling follows best a11y practices.
  • Reaching the World: Fedora Linux is available pre-installed on more systems from more vendors. Fedora Linux is widely available in cloud providers and CI services. Fedora maintains a strong network of thriving local communities around the world.
  • Community Sustainability: Everyone in Fedora can have a mentor, and everyone in Fedora can be a mentor. Modernize our communications tooling.
  • Technology Innovation and Leadership: Fedora is a popular source for containers and Flatpaks. Immutable variants are the majority of Fedora Linux in use. We integrate programming language stack ecosystems.
  • Editions, Spins, and Interests: Each Edition has a story for each release. It’s trivial to create and maintain a new Fedora Spin or Remix. More (active) SIGs, fewer images.
  • Ecosystem Connections: Better collaborative workflow with CentOS Stream. Get people working on downstreams directly involved in Fedora as an upstream. Collaborate on tooling, practices, and offerings with peer distros and upstream projects.

Associating your proposal with these themes will help reviewers understand how your session fits into the broader conference topics. If you do not see your work perfectly represented here, don’t be discouraged.

About the Flock 2024 venue

Flock is the Fedora Project’s annual contributor conference, bringing together our global community. The conference provides a venue for face-to-face meetings and conversations. It is also a place to celebrate our community. This year, Flock will be held from Wednesday, August 7th to Saturday, August 10th at the Hyatt Regency Rochester in Rochester, New York.

See the original Flock 2024 announcement and the Flock 2024 website for more details about the venue and the forthcoming hotel reservation block.

Submitting to the Flock 2024 CfP

We are using a new CfP system called Pretalx this year. Visit the Flock 2024 CfP site to create an account and submit. Choose the Flock to Fedora 2024 event in order to make an account. The first reviewing round begins on Sunday, April 21st, so submit early!

We look forward to seeing your submissions for Flock 2024. Reply with comments to this post if you have any questions about the Flock 2024 CfP. We hope to see you in Rochester this August!

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Welcome Outreachy 2024 applicants!

On March 4th, 2024, the application phase kicked off for the Outreachy 2024 internship program. Fedora is proud to continue our participation in Outreachy again this year. We are offering three internships that will run from May to August 2024. This blog post is an orientation for both community members and new applicants to the Fedora community to understand Outreachy, what projects we are running this year, and some best practices for working with the Fedora community.

Read on for more details!

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Infra & RelEng Update – Week 11, 2024

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

We provide you both an infographic and a 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 at the infographic.

Week: March 11-15, 2024

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Fedora Ops Architect Weekly – March 8th

I really need to come up with a snappier name…open to suggestions!

In any event, hi folks! I hope you are having a Magnificent March so far 🙂 Its been a while since I got this weekly blog out, February had a lot of work travel, some vacation time and a little bit of seasonal flu thrown in for good measure so I missed a few weeks. I’m now back in full action, and bringing you a weekly report of all things fedora that are in my current purview.

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Infra & RelEng Update – Week 10, 2024

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

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.

Week: March 04-08, 2024

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Communishift is now available

Long time after first announcement of this Fedora hosted OpenShift for community we are finally able to say that it’s available. It took us (Fedora Infrastructure Team) a long time to get over all the legal issues of hosting this in Fedora Infrastructure, but we were finally able to solve all those issues.

Communishift is made mainly for hosting containerized projects related to Fedora, but not ready for infrastructure deployment yet. For example you have a neat idea for service that will help Fedora and need to test it something. Or you want to try a testing deployment for something you already have at hand, but it was never deployed in OpenShift. If you don’t meet any of those, feel free to request the communishift project anyway and we will look at the request individually.

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Infra & RelEng Update – Week 9, 2024

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

We provide you both an infographic and a 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 at the infographic.

Week: February 25-29, 2024

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2023 Year in Review: Infra & Releng

This is a summary of the work done by Fedora Infrastructure & Release Engineering teams as of 2023. As these teams are working closely together, we will summarize the work done in one blog post by both teams.

This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.

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2023 Year in Review: Community Platform Engineering (CPE)

This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) Team. Every quarter, the CPE team works together with CentOS Project and Fedora Project community leaders and representatives to choose projects that will be being worked upon in that quarter. The CPE team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on the chosen initiatives and day-to-day work that needs to be done. Some of the sub-teams are dedicated to the continuous efforts in the team whilst some are created only for the initiative purposes.

This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.

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Infra & RelEng Update – Week 8 2024

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are mostly tied to I&R work.

We provide you with both an infographic and a text version of the weekly report. If you want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in-depth details look at the infographic.

Week: 19 February – 23 February 2024

Read more: Infra & RelEng Update – Week 8 2024

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day-to-day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
List of planned/in-progress issues

Fedora Infra

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

CPE Initiatives

EPEL

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

Matrix Native Zodbot

With ongoing stability issues with the Matrix <-> IRC bridge and many contributors switching over to Matrix, zodbot has become increasingly unreliable. The bridge is currently shut off completely. This initiative will provide a future proof solution and allow us to conduct meetings without wasting time troubleshooting the bridge and zodbot.

Updates

  • This initiative is now finished as the Zodbot is already running in Matrix for a few months and most of the initial issues were resolved

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on -cpe channel on Matrix.

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