As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

Fedora on Windows Subsystem for Linux by Seth Jennings

What is the goal of your session at Flock?

Let users know the technical details of the Windows Subsystem for Linux and about the effort to package a Fedora userspace for use in that environment.

What does it affect in the project?

Platform availability. It can drastically lower the barrier to entry for using Fedora on machines that must have Windows installed.

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

Build Your Own Fedorator by David Labský

What is the goal of your session at Flock?

We will build devices called Fedorators. Those are DIY Raspberry Pi-based boxes which allow you to put Fedora onto USB flash drives and more. We’ll also hold a short sprint focused on adding features such as Twitter or Fedora Badges integration!

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

Workshop: Turning Legacy Docs into User-Story-Based Content by Robert Kratky

What does your talk focus on?

We would like to emphasize that it is a much more of a workshop or a do-session than a talk. We would like the attendees to leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how we are proposing to simplify and streamline the work on documentation, so that they can all be ambassadors for the new approach.

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

CommOps and Metrics Workshop by Sachin S. Kamath

What does your talk focus on?

The workshop has two parts. During the initial 90 minutes, we will discuss on how metrics help Fedora and will be showcasing the CommOps Toolbox. There will be a quick demo and also a hands-on session on metrics generation.

For the next 90 minutes, we will have a CommOps Hack session where we will work together to close the existing tickets in our issue tracker.

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

User Feedback on Modularity by Mary Clarke

Briefly describe your session:

I will actually have 6, 1-hour sessions during the course of Flock. They will be in the hour before the lunch break and the  hour after the lunch break on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The reason we are doing this is that my sessions are not typical talks, in fact, they are not talks at all. You could describe them as focus groups intended to obtain end-user feedback. These sessions are intended to be highly interactive where we will demo functionality and ask for attendees to respond with their thoughts. I have provided more information through my answers below.

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

Multi-Arch Container Layered Image Build System by Adam Miller

What does your talk focus on?

My talk will focus on the Fedora Layered Image Build System (FLIBS), the challenges multi-arch has brought to the container ecosystem, how we will integrate FLIBS with other Fedora initiatives, and what this all means for Fedora users and contributors.

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

Get Together with Local Fedorans: A UX Design Case by Suzanne Hillman

What is the goal of your session at Flock?

To explain a UX process that I used in an Outreachy internship in a way that others within the Fedora community can use it for their own projects.

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As you probably know, there is annual convention called Flock. This year’s is happening in Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA and will begin the morning of Tuesday, August 29. Sessions will continue each day until midday on Friday, September 1.

I have asked all of the session leaders from Flock some questions.

And now you are about to read one of the responses.

Designing Fedora Badges by Marie Nordin

What is the goal of your session at Flock?

The goal of my session at Flock is to educate and guide attendees through the process of creating Fedora Badges artwork. I would like to help Fedorans who are interested in being artistically creative find a fun and useful outlet with active mentors to guide them. Another goal of my session is to empower contributors to have the ability to create badge artwork for their events and projects within Fedora.

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