Fedora 28 is out.It’s time for the Ambassadors to plan their activities around the release. The most common activity for Ambassadors to do is organize release parties. A release party is also a great way for other contributors in the community to get involved with advocacy in their local regions. Learn how to organize a release party and get a badge for it in this article.

Organizing a release party

How do you organize a release party? There is a wiki page that has the full details. You will find hints of what you can start doing now and how to do it. You can also see the Ambassadors schedule for the time frame to hold a release party. You can also read other Ambassador release party reports on the Community Blog.

So how do you do that? First, check out this page in our wiki. You find some hints there about what you can do and how to do it. You should check the Ambassadors schedule for the time frame to hold a release party (5 May to 5 July 2018).

First steps for a release party

If you decide to host a party for the Fedora 28 release, you should first make a wiki page for it. Please follow the naming convention for the wiki page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F28_YOUR-PLACE

You should then link that page to the overview page of all release events, which you can find here.

Check with your regional Ambassadors and Bex if you can get swags at your planned time. If not, you can create USB flash drives for Fedora 28. Also, check for swag (t-shirts, stickers, pins, etc.) if you need some. For creating posters, banners, or other similar items, check and see if they exist somewhere already. If they don’t, you can create a ticket for the Design Team.

Have fun and earn a badge

Then you can have your party! Just make sure you write a report of it (only people with reports get a badge awarded) and have some nice pictures with happy faces. Then you will surely earn the badge for release party organizers.