Join us on Thursday, May 29 2025 for the Fedora 42 release party! Free registration is now open for the event, and you can find an early draft of the event schedule on the wiki page. We will be hosting the event in a dedicated matrix room, which registration is required to gain access, and will stream a mix of live and pre-recorded short sessions via Restream from 1300 UTC – 1600 UTC.

Read on for more information, although that intro might cover most of it 🙂

Why a change in format, kind of?

For F40, we trialed a two-day event of live presentations, streamed via YouTube into a matrix room over Friday and Saturday. This was fine, but probably a little too long to ask people to be able to participate for in full.

For F41, we trialled ‘watch parties’ across three time zones – APAC, EMEA and NA/LATM. This was ok, but had a lot of production issues behind the scenes, and unfortunately some in front of the scenes too!

So, for F42, we decided to run a poll to collect some feedback on what kind of event and content people actually wanted. The majority prefer live presentations, but time zones are unfortunately still a thing so we have decided to do a mix of live and per-recorded sessions via Restream in a dedicated matrix room. Each presentation will be 10-15 minutes in length, a perfect amount to take in the highlights, and the event itself will be three hours in duration. Lets see how this remix goes! 🙂

What you can expect

• 10-15 minute sessions that highlight all the good stuff that went into our Editions this release, plus hear about our new spin – COSMIC! You can also learn a little more about the Fedora Linux design process and get an update on the git forge work that’s in progress too, plus much more!
• Real Time Matrix Chat – Attendees are welcome to chat in our event room, share thoughts, ask questions, and connect with others who are passionate about Fedora. Some speakers will be available for questions, but if you have any specific ones, you can always follow up with them outside of the event.
• Opening Remarks from Fedora Leadership, updating you on very exciting things happening in the project, plus an introduction from our new FPL – Jef Spaleta!

Why a registration for an event on Matrix?

Right now we have no tooling to get some metrics for the event with on matrix. Plus we want to avoid spammers as much as we possibly can. That’s why we are using a free registration system that will send an invitation to your email in advance of the event. We recommend registering in advance to avoid any last minute issues, but just in case they are unavoidable anyway, we will have someone on hand to provide the room invite to attendees who have not received it.

As always, sessions will be available on the Fedora YouTube channel after the event for folks who want to re-watch or catch up on the talks. Also a big thank you to our CommOps team for helping put together this release party! We hope you enjoy the event, and look forward to celebrating the F42 release with you all on Thursday, May 29 from 1300 – 1600 UTC on Matrix!