This post is a brief summary of the team’s highlights over the course of the second quarter of 2024 (April to June). These highlights include:

  • Fedora Week of Diversity
  • Flock Hackfest preparations
  • Fedora Mentor Summit preparations
  • Improvements to the team onboarding workflow
  • Our new repository for DEI event media e.g. picture, videos, slides, etc.

These highlights will be summarised below.

Fedora Week of Diversity

Screenshot of a live moment during Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) in June 2024. Two presenters are shown in panes to the left. One speaker is a white man titled "Justin W. Flory" and the second speaker is a white woman titled "Jona". In the slideshow pane to the right of the speakers, there is a list of names of contributors and volunteers of people who organized the event. Chris Idoko, Emma Kidney, Roseline Bassey, Tosin Doreen, Adrian Edwards, Amita Sharma, Joseph Gayoso, Nikita Tripathi, Consolation Obazee, Justin W. Flory, Jona Azizaj.

https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/19 & https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/week-of-diversity 

Fedora Week of Diversity took place June 17-22, 2024. This week is the successor to Fedora Women’s Day, originally started in 2016 as a celebration of the diverse people who make up our Fedora community.

From inspiring interviews to engaging virtual sessions hosted on Matrix, this year’s Fedora Week of Diversity showcased the strength and spirit of the community. Attendees registered for the event through Pretix, and session recordings were made available on YouTube for wider access.

You can find out more on the 2024 recap blog post of the event by Oluwatosin Olatunji.

Flock Hackfest preparations

https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/44

For this year’s Flock, the team planned a half-day hackfest. This session was designed to welcome newcomers, provide insight into the DEI team’s ongoing efforts, and outline our plans for the future. 

The agenda for the session included:

  • Introduction to the DEI team, including our GitLab workflow and team meetings
  • Retrospective on the Fedora Week of Diversity
  • Ticket triage on GitLab and collaboration on pending tickets
  • Next steps for the DEI team

Goals of the hackfest were:

  • Provide a clear understanding of our team’s mission, vision, and workflow to new people interested in learning more about the DEI team.
  • Outline upcoming events and gather input on event ideas/themes. Ideally, create a team with interested people in organizing the events.
  • Identify strategies to better support DEI initiatives and regional communities.

Flock was held from Wednesday, August 7th to Saturday, August 10th at the Hyatt Regency Rochester in Rochester, New York, USA. You will have to wait for our Q3 report to see how it went!

Fedora Mentor Summit preparations

https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/25

Planning took place for the half-day event focused on mentoring best practices. This year’s Mentor Summit aimed to focus on workshops and sessions to promote mentorship best practices and to connect mentors and mentees across the Fedora community.

FMS was held together with Flock and took place on Saturday, August 10th. You will have to wait for our Q3 report to see how it went!

Improvements to the team’s onboarding workflow

https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/2

Given the influx of new team members the last few months, the team decided it would be good to standardize how we onboard new members. Two changes were made: 

If you would like to get involved, you can check out our updated process here.

DEI Media Assets

https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/30

A repository was created for the team to store pictures, videos and slides from DEI events. This was created to help us with future content creation for the team.

Looking ahead to 2024 Q3!

As mentioned above, you can look forward to summaries of how the DEI Hackfest and the Fedora Mentor Summit went.

Want to get involved? Join the DEI Team Matrix chat room (#dei:fedoraproject.org) and follow the Fedora Discussion tag. We meet twice monthly. Our next meeting can be found on the Fedora Calendar.