By Ananya Nalavathu and Francois Gonothi Toure

Introduction

Open source communities run on contribution, and contribution runs on documentation, storytelling, and knowledge sharing. At the Fedora Project, that means the Fedora Community Blog and Fedora Magazine, two publications that give contributors a voice and give the community a way to stay informed, inspired, and connected.

This year, as part of my internship with the Fedora CommOps team at Red Hat Ireland, I got to experience that firsthand. Publishing 11 articles, running editorial campaigns, and coordinating content across sprints gave me a deep appreciation for how much thought goes into keeping Fedora’s editorial standards consistent and how much easier that journey could be for new contributors with the right tool in hand.

That’s exactly what my fellow intern Gonothi built during his Outreachy internship with the Fedora Project. In our final sprint together, we decided to share it with the community because tools that make contributions more accessible deserve to be heard. With that context in mind, I’ll hand over to Gonothi to walk you through what he built and why. 

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