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Fedora @ SCaLE 22x 2025

Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference – a 2025 open-source community event.

At a Glance

What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
Where: Pasadena Convention Center
When: 6 – 9 March 2025

Our Field Team

This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters / CentOS at the Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference:
Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
Iván Chavero (FAS: ichavero)
Carl W George (FAS: Carlwgeorge)
Shaun McCance (FAS: shaunm)
Kate Mulder
Justin W. Wheeler (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]

What is SCaLE 22x?

The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.

This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Technical Committee (Online Services) Chairperson, Mr. Phil Dibowitz, and Technical Committee (Networking) Chairperson, Robert Hernandez paved the way for a smooth registration.

Conference Highlights

Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!

Justin Wheeler coordinated and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Perry Rivera. Items included: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge lanyards, and more.

Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.

Day 1: Thursday 6 March

Red Hatter and Fedora Ambassador Perry Rivera delivered community marketing items and swag.

In addition, Perry brought the following:

Snacks for our crews
Dry-board markers
Dry-board flipchart easel
Opportunity drawing tickets
Scissors
Gaffers tape
Glue
An air steamer (to iron out banner wrinkles)
And more!

Some of our ambassadors arrived the previous day to avoid traffic, others in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops.

We checked in at the Red Hat Booth, but things were quiet there. So, a small group of up lunch at Noodle St., which was perfect considering how cold and drizzly the day presented itself.

We reunited in the lobby area and later in the expo hall to discuss next steps. We discovered just how close the Fedora/CentOS booth was next to the Red Hat booth, which facilitated comm and referrals to and from our teams.

The booth received a vibrant free-standing banners this year. We received a great looking table cover, and swag. We also used a flip chart easel to display a QR code for guests to easily scan to pick up a Fedora badge and to display presentation/workshop info.

After dropping things off, Perry helped steam iron the Fedora table cloth to give it the “less travelled less wrinkly look” and put up the flipchart easel. After doing some initial setup, Perry returned some boxes for booth items back to my car to reclaim booth space. Next, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2025. Their chair Reza Rassool and crew organized a lively charcuterie mixer.

After the networking event, a small group of us re-convened at Cordova Cafe to reflect on our day.

Day 2: Friday 7 March

We returned to the conference and the Expo Hall this morning to continue unpacking swag, marketing systems, and more. Perry also checked in from to the Red Hat booth from time-to-time to render assistance as needed.

Perry set up a flip chart and glued on a handy QR that users could scan to pick up an e-badge.

Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian and Scott strategically set up swag items. Ivan and Alex, meanwhile routed power cables within the booth.

Meanwhile, Carl and Shaun set up camp for CentOS.

A Grand Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference

At 2pm, the Exhibit Hall opened. Initially, we had high traffic coming in at the Red Hat and Fedora booths.

We greeted approximately 450+ this day, discussing key foundations such as Freedom, Friends, Features, First, and topics such as AI on Fedora, bootable containers, gitops for packaging, accessibility, git forge, RISC-V, and more.

To accomodate the masses, we took turns around lunch to keep the booth up and running. Some of us departed to Yard House for lunch.

Upon returning, we resumed exhibiting and handing out swag.

Upon closure of the Exhibit Hall, we headed to UpScale to support Scott’s presentation.

After, we headed over to Cafe Santorini to a fine dinner with Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora associates.

Next, some of us went to Karaoke night to listen to great music and hear each other sing.

Day 3: Saturday 8 March

We returned to exhibit hall to meet with more of our community and talk about Fedora and tech topics. Perry also time-shared with the Red Hat booth as well.

Later this evening, a few of us attended Game Night.

Day 4: Sunday 9 March

Perry packed up his hotel room early Sunday and then returned to the conference center and the exhibit hall to continue discussions with our Fedora and Red Hat community.

The final day brought in about 250 Fedora booth guests.

Around 2PM, all booths began closing down to pack things up for shipment. We returned the rolling luggage and a banner box over to Kate Mulder for FedEx return.

Afterward, Perry stopped by Leslie Lamport’s insightful closing Keynote, Coding isn’t Programming .

Suggestion Box / Feedback Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux conference

Throughout the conference, our booth had a sign-in sheet where visitors could stop by and leave feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.

From the data reviewed, we collected key findings:

Interesting Topics

OpenShift: Interest in OpenShift on Fedora, tips on optimizing for kernel.
Bootable Containers
How to Get Started in Fedora Contributing
Aurora – 1 guest also said it has an occasional wake from sleep issue.
AI/ML
KDE integration with Fedora – 1 guest said “Thanks!!”
Guest uses BigLinux distro, but doesn’t run any Fedora (yet)

Documentation

Interest in documentation and videos for a 4th grade level on getting started with Fedora.
Interest in documentation and videos and local events for general Fedora development.
For each event, for the “Convo Count” sheet, it might be handy to send out to ambassadors a cheatsheet with a 4-5 sentence summary and resource links for strategic topics, or perhaps a QR code that guests can scan to find out the latest release’s highlights.
Interest and videos in how to contribute to Open Source and general Python/bash/github use as it pertains to Fedora.

Releases

We had two guests still using release 40 (latest version as of this writing is 41). For those that provided their version, no one appears to be using release 39 or below. We did however have one visitor mention they are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (latest version as of this writing is 9.x).
We had at least 7 guests running 42 beta.

Swag

We had quite a few guests requesting more swag
Requests for children-friendly Fedora swag (especially coloring books, kid-themed stickers, etc.)
Requests for Fedora case badges, key cap covers (both standard and mini)
Requests for zip-pouches, similar to the Flock ones from previous years.
Stickers

General Kudos

Multiple guests said “Way to go!” and “Thanks Fedora Team!”
One guest said “Smooth upgrades [compared with] any [other] OS”
One guest wrote “I LOVE Kinoite!! Very cool with a lot [of] extensibility.”
One guest wrote ” <3 Bazzite“
One guest wrote “I love the hat distros”
- Possible ideas for awesome hat-named spins, projects, etc.
One guest wrote “Keep up the awesome LXDE!!

Feedback

Modularity: One guest found it helpful when it was around, especially for dnf. Same guest also laments Modularity’s retirement (cross-reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireModularity) and cited dnf5 has no Modularity support.
One guest asked: Will there be a COSMIC DE in Atomic? Possible cross-reference: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cosmic-desktop-environment-on-fedora/102112
One guest requested personal AI compatibility and a possible KWAAI AI partnership.
One guest uses system for home lab stuff.
2 guests replied with cat face emojis.

In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!

Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference

Ambassador Alex Acosta
Josh Berkus presents Develop, Test, and Deploy with Podman Desktop
Kate Mulder and Katherine Nnanwubar engaging community and customers at the Red Hat Booth
All hands on deck for the Red Hat Booth
Larry Cafiero stops by to say hello at the Fedora Booth
Scott Williams discusses fine details about qbsh
“SCaLE Game Night…Yeah!!!” – Iván Chavero and Perry Rivera
Rob McBryde enlivened the Beanery audience with his dulcet karaoke tones
Kyle Gospodnetich stopped by to chat about Bazzite
It’s Chris Welker…Yeah!
“Block”ing out photo booth time at Game Night.
Bala stopped by our booth to say hello
Carlos Meza and I discussed what’s new in DevOps/SRE.
It’s Jeff Carlson, Fedora enthusiast and San Fernando Linux User Group guest.
So excited to see our booth guests! – Kate Mulder
Go Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS!
Go Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS!
Leslie Lamport delivered his “Coding isn’t Programming” Closing Keynote
SCaLE Conference Chairperson Ilan Rabinovitch
Perry met up with Jill Bryant during Lobbycon.

Leslie Lamport – Keynote at Scale, Leslie’s Homepage, Wikipedia Page
UpSCaLE – SCaLE 22x lightning talks
SCaLE 22x YouTube Playlists – https://www.youtube.com/@socallinuxexpo/playlists

Fedora at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025

April 8, 2025 / Raphael Groner / 1 Comment

The evening before, we prepared the Fedora booth so we could start on time on Saturday. As is tradition, we attended the social event at the Turmbrauhaus. Almost the entire time during the event, I was at the booth and visitors had a few questions. We could assign a special badge to some people. The talks on various topics were well attended. In addition to other distributions and community projects, several commercial companies were also represented with their own booths.

Proposal to move Community Blog to Fedora Discussion

March 6, 2025 / zlopez / 18 Comments

Hello readers of community blog!

Recently on community blog round table meeting we had an interesting conversation about the future of community blog and we would like to hear your feedback on that discussion.

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Image by Ryan Lerch. CC BY-SA 4.0

Council Policy Proposal: DEI Events Policy

February 25, 2025 / amoloney / Comments Off

Following the discussion during the recent Fedora Council F2F on Fedora-Council#502 , the council would like to approve a new policy to set some DEI criteria for potential locations to meet when choosing where we hold our large-scale community events such as Flock. The objective behind this proposal is to make sure we have a governance structure in place to later propose some more specific rules for event location selection. The proposal has two parts: the policy itself, which proposes criteria we would like to use, and then formalize some rules to adhere to when deciding on a location. The rules will be submitted later in a separate proposal.

In order to approve this policy, we are using the policy change policy framework. By policy, this proposal is now open to our community discussion for a period of two weeks, after which the Council will hold a formal vote. The vote will come into effect on March 12th. The full proposal is available from Fedora-Council#502 and council-docs#234 , and discussion is welcome on the discourse thread.

A special thanks to our DEI team who have spent a considerable amount of time creating this well thought out policy.

Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia

February 4, 2025 / Momo (fedorauser) / 1 Comment

BalCCon 2k24 – Invisible Path

Fedora had a booth at BalCCon for the 8th time in a row. I’m personally very happy that we kept this streak as the first BalCCon where Fedora had presence is when I first became Ambassador in Serbia 😊. I’m not aware of any other booths that had such a strong presence.

For those unaware of this conference, it is focused on: hacking, information security, privacy, technology & society, making, lock-picking, and electronic arts. For a sharp eye, these are well-rounded topics for Free Software-oriented people and that makes it rather important conference in the region.
In addition to all that, people that organize these events are extremely welcoming and heart-warming people! Working in tandem: founders, volunteers, and speakers – all show teamwork in very challenging times, both now as well as in the past… For an untrained eye it would seem that every BalCCon is a smooth sailing, but the truth is that there is a lot of effort and sacrifice required in realizing it. Every single person behind it, is a devoted, humble, and passionate contributor to the event.

Attendees range from teenagers, students, younger and older adults all interested in learning, sharing and socializing with each others. In other words, the conference is not solely focused on lectures and workshops, but also on bringing similar-minded people together and providing them a safe place to connect.

Fun is also huge part of the event as there is a karaoke evening (don’t miss that one 🎙️) and a rakia tasting and sharing night adequately named “Rakija leaks”🥃.

At Fedora booth we try to engage people and encourage questions, to better understand what people like and dislike, to provide them guidance and invite them to join the community. We always keep the positive attitude towards all Free and Open Source Software and never fuel or support distro-wars. We love Fedora, but that doesn’t exclude love towards other distros as well (it just may not be as strong 😁).

This approach had an impact that many non-Fedora users liked to talk to us and stuck around. That relationship grown to constructive discussions about strengths of Fedora and their OSes of choice. Many of them converted over time 😉, or at least found a perfect sweet-spot for Fedora in their everyday life.

Due to the import customs in Serbia, swag has been a hit and miss sometimes, but we try to keep the booth entertaining even in the absence of much-adored stickers.

This year we’ve had a revamp of our booth with new Fedora logo for the roll-up banners and the table cloth. And it was at a perfect time, as Fedora booth was visible in an article of country’s most popular printed IT magazine Svet Kompjutera.

This was all due to the amazing support from jwflory who displayed great amount of innovative and pro-active energy! ❤️

Booth appearance has evolved over the years and become more and more inviting to everyone. An organizing volunteer even approached me to say that people’ve been asking if Fedora will have a booth again this year, as they found it very interesting – not only from the Project’s aspect, but also because, since the first year we tried to bring something that would draw people to come and talk to us.

To give some examples:

Awesome demo of touchless gaming concept by our dear thunderbirdtr (2015)
Fedora on handheld touchscreen devices (2018)
AAA Gaming on Fedora out-of-the box (with RPM Fusion only) (2022)
Introduction of Fedora cookies (2023)
Fedora baby 👶 (2024)

There are plans and ideas for future booths too, such as SyncStar setup, SELinux challenge box, DIY pin machine, other quizes, …

Here is the timeline in photos from 2015 – 2024 (there are missing photos due to, either COVID, or just an unfortunate oversight on my end):

Huge thanks for the support from jwflory, thunderbirdtr, nmilosev, nsukur, bitlord, and especially to my dear wife littlecat that makes the booth incredibly appealing.

If you’ve never been to Serbia, Novi Sad, or BalCCon, you should definitely consider visiting and we’ll do our best to be good hosts and dedicate some of our times just for you! 🤗

Clipboard with a paper titled "open projects" and an empty unordered list

Photo by Markus Winkler. Modified by Justin W. Flory. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fedora Operations Architect Report

January 26, 2025 / amoloney / 0 Comments

One more week of January to go, folks! And that also means we are one week closer to some key milestones coming up in the Fedora Linux 42 release. Here’s a summary of some release-related topics, plus some upcoming events and a general roundup of what’s happening around the project lately.

Fedora datacenter move later this year (2025 version)

January 23, 2025 / zlopez / 9 Comments

The Fedora Project has instances in a number of datacenters and clouds all over the world, but a majority of instances are in a datacenter located in Virginia, USA. This datacenter space, along with the majority of servers in it, were generously provided by our primary sponsor, Red Hat. We moved to our current space from another Red Hat datacenter back in 2020, and now it’s time to move again.

So why would we want to move? Well, there’s a number of reasons:

We have expanded to fill all the physical rack space available. This leaves no room to expand capabilities, like RISC-V builders, etc..
We are hitting power limits. Several of our racks are close to the point where if one of the two power circuits went down, some machines would power off abruptly.
Many of our machines were purchased during the previous data center move in 2020, and this new move will provides another opportunity to invest in more power efficient, faster, and denser hardware.

After a bunch of discussion and planning, we will be moving to a new datacenter near Raleigh, NC. This site will give us room to expand and has much more available power, allowing for higher densities.

The good news – most of the new hardware has already been purchased! We plan to install and set up the new hardware in the new datacenter, logically switch to the new site with slightly temporarily diminished capacity ( mostly in staging ).Then, we will ship the newer machines from the old datacenter to the new one, bringing everything back to greater than 100% capacity.

Our goal is to complete this move over the course of a few weeks, and have everything back up with greater capacity than before, and with as minimal impact to the project as possible.

We are looking at mid May to do the switchover, after Fedora 42 has been released. Timing is still tentative, but we will provide more detailed information as the plan dates solidify. Our next key milestone is to use the Beta Go/No-Go as an indicator that this is the best time to execute the move. At the end of this transition we expect everybody’s experience will be faster builds, faster tests, and to have room for further expansion in the future.

Fedora Google Summer of Code projects and mentors CFP is open!

January 23, 2025 / ffmancera / 0 Comments

Google Summer of Code is a summer program aiming to bring more developers into open source software development. It enables interns to spend their summer working with open source organizations on projects proposed by participating organizations and supported by mentors.

Fedora used to participate in Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization consistently in the past. We would love to bring that back! We are happy to announce that we are applying as an organization again.

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Fedora Chooses Forgejo!

December 24, 2024 / amoloney / 3 Comments

The Fedora Council is pleased to announce that we have chosen Forgejo as the replacement for our git forge! That means you’ll see Forgejo powering our package sources (src.fedoraproject.org) as well as our general git forge (what pagure.io is today). It has been a long road to get here, and we cannot thank the Fedora community enough for your patience and support throughout.

For deeper context into what went into this decision, we will walk you through the last few months from the council’s perspective. You may want to grab a tea or coffee or beverage — this might be a few paragraphs long 🙂

FESCo election: Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

December 9, 2024 / amoloney / Comments Off

This is a part of the Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Monday, 9th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Friday, 20 December. 2024

Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Fedora Account: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Nick: zbyszek
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Fedora @ SCaLE 22x 2025

At a Glance

Our Field Team

What is SCaLE 22x?

Conference Highlights

Day 1: Thursday 6 March

Day 2: Friday 7 March

A Grand Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference

Day 3: Saturday 8 March

Day 4: Sunday 9 March

Suggestion Box / Feedback Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux conference

Interesting Topics

Documentation

Releases

Swag

General Kudos

Feedback

Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference

Related Posts

Fedora at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025

Proposal to move Community Blog to Fedora Discussion

Council Policy Proposal: DEI Events Policy

Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia

BalCCon 2k24 – Invisible Path

Fedora Operations Architect Report

Fedora datacenter move later this year (2025 version)

Fedora Google Summer of Code projects and mentors CFP is open!

Fedora Chooses Forgejo!

FESCo election: Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

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