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Honoring a Fedora legend: Mel Chua

Content Warning: Cancer, hospice care, death.

August 1st 2024 edit: On Tuesday, July 30th, Mel Chua passed away in the company of close family and friends. We are heartbroken by this news. You can find more information on their CaringBridge page or LWN coverage by Joe Brockmeier. Mel, we miss you. <3

The Fedora Council recently received the news that Mel Chua, a Fedora contributor in the early and formative days of the Project, was placed in hospice care after a long battle against cancer. On behalf of the Fedora community, we extend our condolences and love for Mel and their loved ones. In May, we asked the community to share stories and memories of Mel at the F40 Release Party opening remarks. To honor their memory for the next generation of Fedora contributors, we compiled the stories and a reflection on Mel’s impact on Fedora, its trajectory as a Free Software community, and most importantly, their impact on the people of our community.

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Flock 2024 CFP extended to April 29th

April 22, 2024 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

The Flock to Fedora 2024 call for proposals (CFP) is now extended to Monday, April 29th 2024 at 11:59 PM US Eastern. Now is the last chance to get your great idea or topic into the Flock 2024 CFP before it closes. This will be the only extension and the new deadline is final.

See the previous announcement for more details about the Flock 2024 CFP. You can also submit directly at cfp.fedoraproject.org. For general questions about Flock and the CFP, join the Fedora Chat room on Matrix, #flock:fedoraproject.org.

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Fedora DEI Team 2023 Q4: Appreciation Week and new members

April 11, 2024 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

The Fedora Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Team rounded out 2023 with a focus on celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fedora Project and officially welcoming new team members. This post is a brief recap of the fourth quarter of 2023 (October to December) for the DEI Team. The end of the year is typically a slower time in Fedora due to holidays, but we had some major highlights in 2023 Q4 anyways:

Shifted our sprint planning from a monthly cadence to a quarterly cadence.
Revived Fedora Appreciation Week after five years, to celebrate our 20th anniversary.
Welcomed two new team members, Robert Wright and Emma Kidney.
Fedora Pride was established, and represented at some of our virtual events.

This post summarizes these highlights and also paints a picture of what we were looking forward to in 2024 Q1. Read on to get the full scoop!

Fedora Project and Outreachy internship program for underrepresented groups in open source

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Welcome Outreachy 2024 applicants!

March 5, 2024 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

On March 4th, 2024, the application phase kicked off for the Outreachy 2024 internship program. Fedora is proud to continue our participation in Outreachy again this year. We are offering three internships that will run from May to August 2024. This blog post is an orientation for both community members and new applicants to the Fedora community to understand Outreachy, what projects we are running this year, and some best practices for working with the Fedora community.

Read on for more details!

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CFP now open for the Distributions dev room at FOSDEM 2024!

November 28, 2023 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

Co-authored by benny Vasquez and Justin W. Flory.

In just over two months, the Fedora Project returns to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium from 3-4 February 2024 again with a stand, a bunch of friends, and our usual role as organizers of the (Linux) Distributions Developer Room (dev room).

CFP is open until 5 December 2023!

The Distributions dev room opened its CFP a couple of weeks ago. We have seen great ideas come in! If you would like to join us, submit your talk for inclusion no later than December 5th. If you’re looking for ideas, we’ve got a list of potential topics on our official CFP announcement, and you can always look at previous years for more ideas.

Important dates for FOSDEM 2024

CFP closes: Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Deadline for accepted speakers to confirm: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Final schedule announcement: Friday, 15 December 2023

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Happening now: Fedora Linux 39 Release Party & 20th Anniversary Celebration

November 10, 2023 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

Join the Fedora community today, 10 November and tomorrow, 11 November, for the Fedora Linux 39 Release Party & 20th Anniversary celebration. As we ring out the recent release from this past Tuesday, we continue the tradition of gathering the community for two days of sessions and social activities. Join us for the event on the RingCentral Hopin platform. Registration is required, but free.

==> Register here <==

We have an exciting line-up of content to share with you. The full schedule is also available on the Fedora Wiki. We hope you can tune in and catch it live. If not, the sessions will be recorded and shared on the Fedora Project YouTube at a later date.

You can also earn a limited-edition variant of our usual release party Fedora Badges series, created by Chris Idoko and Marie Nordin:

Featured photo by Georg Eiermann on Unsplash. Modified by Justin W. Flory.

Charting the vision: Fedora DEI Team October 2023 update

November 1, 2023 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

October 2023 recently came to an end. With it, so did the first sprint of the Fedora Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Team. This post is a brief recap of our highlights from the last month. It was a busy month for the DEI Team:

Began planning and execution of Fedora Appreciation Week.
Ratified new vision and mission statements for the team.
Revised several pages of our Fedora Docs site.

Flock 2023 CfP extended to 27 June

June 21, 2023 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

Were you keeping an eye on the Flock 2023 call for proposals? Were you planning a proposal for this year’s event in Cork, Ireland from 2–4 August 2023? Did you miss the deadline to submit? Fear not, because the Flock 2023 CfP is extended for one week only until Tuesday, 27 June. If you were still working on that perfect proposal for our first return to an in-person event in four years, there is still time to submit before the deadline.

Submit your proposal for a presentation or workshop in our new CfP system at cfp.fedoraproject.org. The CfP system now supports login with the Fedora Account System (FAS).

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Fedora Linux 38 election results

June 13, 2023 / Justin W. Wheeler / Comments Off

The Fedora Linux 38 election cycle has concluded. Here are the results for each election. Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all candidates for running in this election!

Flock 2023 CfP open now until 20 June

June 6, 2023 / Justin W. Wheeler / 6 Comments

Flock to Fedora returns in-person again after four years. This year is in Cork, Ireland from 2-4 August 2023. The CfP is open now. Will we see you there? This article introduces the new Flock CfP system and how to submit your proposal as a presenter this year.

Apply now for the Flock 2023 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, Flock is using a new CfP system. If you have ever submitted a proposal for a DevConf event, it will feel familiar. The deadline to submit is by Tuesday, June 20th, 2023. Now extended to Tuesday, 27 June!