The Mindshare Committee is establishing a Quarterly Report, with this post being our first edition. It covers activities from the Mindshare Committee and related teams for the months of October, November, and December of 2021. As we kick off these reports, we welcome feedback on how we can improve in the related Mindshare ticket.

Help Wanted in Q1 2022

Take a look at the links below and see how you can get involved. For tickets and Discussion threads, make sure to comment your interest in getting involved.

• Contributors interested in working on promotion and increased engagement on Fedora social media accounts
• Contributors interested in helping out with the revival of Fedora Marketing efforts
• Ambassadors & contributors to hang out at DevConf.CZ 2022, January 28th & 29th (virtual)
• Ambassadors & contributors to hang out at FOSDEM 2022, February 5th & 6th (virtual)
• Designers interested in working on a logo design for the Fedora Mentor Summit
• Feedback & recommendations for improving the new Mindshare Committee Quarterly Reports
  • Is your team active under the Mindshare “side” of the Fedora ecosystem? We would love to include your team updates in this Quarterly Reports

Events

• Fedora Linux 35 Release Party
  • Recordings available!

Team Updates

CommOps Team

• Working with Community Outreach Revamp team to develop updated docs page for CommOps
• Community Blog Activity
  • 18 posts in October
  • 32 posts in November
  • 13 posts in December

Docs – Forum – Chat – Repo

Community Outreach Revamp (FCOR)

• Working on updated documentation
• Presented at the Fedora Linux 35 Release Party
• Started Marketing Plan & brought in a new contributor to support that effort
• Wrote Informal Polls deliverable from Objective
• Revisit Ambassador Group cleanup
• Planning Ambassador Monthly Call kick-off!

Docs – Chat

Council Representative

• Wrote and review article “Fedora Linux earns recognition from the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a DPG”

Docs – Forum – Chat – Repo

Design Team

• Design Team Weekly Meetings restructured!
  • Weekly 30 minute live-streamed & recorded calls
• Work on F36 wallpaper 
• Work beginning on new Fedora style guide & Fedora website revamp wireframes
• Created a team on PenPot for designers to share Fedora brand assets

Docs – Mailing List – Chat – Repo

Magazine Team

• Switched from using Tagia to using Pagure for tracking in-progress articles and article ideas
• Switched from using Libera Chat to using chat.fedoraproject.org for weekly meetings
• Implemented a chatbot to help with running the weekly meetings (zinebot)
• Updated the documentation for the aforementioned
• Began using Discourse’s calendar to track the meeting and publication schedule (meeting schedule updated by Matt’s fedocal2discourse bot)

Fedora Magazine – Docs – Forum – Chat – Repo

Mentored Projects

• Outreachy participation with 3 interns this round!
• Fedora participation in Google Summer of Code being reconsidered – we have a discussion thread for the community to chime in
• Researching more mentored project programs for Fedora to participate in – Hopes to have something in place by 2023
• Ashlyn Knox is working to complete her degree through a practicum with Fedora working on start.fedoraproject.org and UI/UX for the Flock to Fedora/Nest website
• Emma Kidney, an intern from the CPE, started ramping up on to the Fedora Website Revamp project as a UX designer
• Kicking off development of a new unconference: Fedora Mentor Summit

Docs – Mailing List – Chat – Repo

Mindshare Committee

• Facilitation of community surveys
  • Fedora CoreOS Survey
  • F35 Release Retrospective
• Working on coordinating and prioritizing production of swag with the new Fedora logo
  • Tshirts
  • New Ambassador polos
• Development and implementation of Mindshare Committee Quarterly Update
• Planning starting for FOSDEM 2022 (ticket)
• Planning starting for DevConf.CZ 2022 (ticket)

Docs – Mailing List – Chat – Repo

Websites & Apps Team & Revamp

• Ongoing planning work on the Websites & Apps Team Revamp Objective
• Two members of the Program Management team have joined the efforts
• Outreachy Interns
  • One has joined to work on a revamped Mote
  • Another has joined to help us maintain Fedora Websites
• Active discussions took place in regards with the future of Easyfix
• Fedora Websites codebase has been migrated from Python 2 to Python 3
• Working on CI implementation with live builds on PRs for websites
• Project management repositories have been set up on GitLab
• Migration of repositories from Pagure/GitHub to GitLab is underway

Docs – Mailing List – Chat – Forum – Repo

Mindshare Updates from the Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator (FCAIC)

• Future of events
  • In person event policy development
  • Virtual event improvement & sustainability discussion
  • Fedora Museum sustainability (WorkAdventure platform)
• Development of Mindshare Infographic
• Swag coordination
  • Follow ups on Nest Swag Pack
  • Set up Fedora Cool Stuff Store & working out related issues

Thanks, we’ll see you online!

Thank you for reading the first edition of the Mindshare Committee Quarterly Report. We will publish our next report sometime in the beginning of April. Feel free to join us in the #fedora-mindshare chat on IRC/Element and drop by the Mindshare weekly meetings.