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Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2021-22

June 4, 2021 / Ben Cotton / 2 Comments

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!

Congratulations to the winners in the Fedora elections!

Don’t forget to take the Annual Fedora Survey and claim your badge!

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

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Fedora Linux 34 elections results

June 4, 2021 / Ben Cotton / 1 Comment

The Fedora Linux 34 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!

Results

Council

One Council seat was open this election. A total of 226 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 678 votes (226 * 3).

# votes	Candidate
496	Aleksandra Fedorova
333	Eduard Lucena
234	Damian Tometzki

FESCo

Four FESCo seats were open this election. A total of 241 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1687 votes (241 * 7).

# votes	Candidate
1156	Neal Gompa
931	Stephen Gallagher
804	Dan Čermák
771	Mohan Boddu
716	František Zatloukal
602	Robbie Harwood
564	Frank Ch. Eigler

Mindshare

One Mindshare seat was open this election. A total of 190 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 190 votes (190 * 1).

# votes	Candidate
168	Onuralp Sezer

Stats

The Fedora Linux 34 election cycle showed a slight uptick in engagement for Council and FESCo.

The FESCo and Council elections saw an increase in candidates over the previous cycle while Mindshare had only one candidate.

Edited 2021-06-07 at 1730 UTC to correct a misstatement about the number of candidates compared to the previous election.

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Help make Fedora awesome by taking the first Annual Contributor Survey!

June 2, 2021 / riecatnor / Comments Off

The Fedora Council is running the first Annual Fedora Contributor Survey and we want to hear from you! The survey will be open to take for the month of June, and there is a shiny Fedora Badge to earn. Our goal is to gather authentic and valuable feedback to better support the Fedora contributor community. We plan to analyze the results and share findings at Nest with Fedora, 2021. Take the Annual Fedora Contributor Survey today!

The survey was proposed and developed by Council member, Aleksandra Fedorova, with support from Marie Nordin (promotion & feedback coordination) and Vipul Siddharth (LimeSurvey wrangler). The Council as well as the Mindshare Committee gave input and feedback on the survey several times as it was being developed. The Community Outreach Revamp Objective team also pitched in on the Community Engagement section of the survey. The development of a yearly survey falls under the Revamp’s activities and we want to keep survey fatigue at a minimum so it made sense to tie these two initiatives together.

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Outreachy Interns introduction – 2021 Summer

May 31, 2021 / Vipul Siddharth / Comments Off

Recently, Outreachy announced selected Interns for May 2021 to August 2021 round and we have 4 interns with us. This blog introduces them to the community. If you see them around, please welcome them and share some virtual cookies.

Outreachy is a paid, remote internship program that helps traditionally underrepresented people in tech make their first contributions to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities. Fedora is participating in this round of Outreachy as a mentoring organization. We asked our Outreachy interns to tell us some things about themselves!
Here are they, in their own words

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Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2021-21

May 28, 2021 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Elections voting is open through 3 June.

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IRC Announcement

May 27, 2021 / nb / Comments Off

Since its beginnings, the Fedora Project has used the freenode IRC network for our project communications. Due to a variety of recent changes to that network, the Fedora Project is moving our IRC communications to Libera.Chat.

If you are a current IRC user, please go and register your nick(s) on Libera.Chat ( https://libera.chat/guides/registration#registering ) and rejoin the #fedora related channels you wish to. You can take this opportunity to choose a new secure password and make sure you are connecting via SSL. There is good documentation about choosing an IRC client at https://libera.chat/guides/clients

If you are a Matrix user, we ask for your patience as we get bridges setup on the new network. If you were joined to rooms via the generic freenode bridge, you will need to leave them and rejoin the fedora rooms in matrix (which will be plumbed with the Libera channels)

As of 2021-05-28 our official IRC presence is on irc.libera.chat.

Many Fedora channels have moved over and are ready on Libera.Chat. However, less-used channels have not be automatically setup. If you need a specific #fedora-* IRC channel setup, please file a ticket at https://pagure.io/irc requesting the channel.

New channels should have the same name as they did on freenode. For example: #fedora, #fedora-admin, #fedora-devel, and #fedora-join.

If you would like a fedora IRC ‘cloak’ you can request it at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiberaCloaks
(an IRC cloak obfuscates your client host address and shows ‘fedora’ instead). Please note that cloaks are not foolproof, there are ways for people to still get your IP, but they do make it more difficult for people to obtain your IP.

Also, look for upcoming exciting announcements around Fedora’s Matrix presence.

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Migrating the DNF Stack CI to GitHub Actions

May 25, 2021 / Lukáš Hrázký / Comments Off

DNF’s continuous integration (CI) has historically struggled from multiple standpoints, including: reliability, coverage, and results not being publicly available. We recently migrated to GitHub Actions, which—in addition to increasing our integration test suite stability and coverage—led to it being more reliable and its results available publicly to contributors.

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Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2021-20

May 21, 2021 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora Linux 32 will reach end of life on Tuesday 25 May. Elections voting is open through 3 June.

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F34 Elections voting now open!

May 21, 2021 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

Voting in the Fedora Linux 34 elections is now open. Go to the Elections app to cast your vote. Voting closes at 23:59 UTC on Thursday 3 June. Don’t forget to claim your “I Voted” badge when you cast your ballot. Links to candidate interviews are below.

Council Election: Interview with Aleksandra Fedorova (bookwar)

May 20, 2021 / bookwar / Comments Off

This is a part of the Council Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 21 May and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 3 June 2021.

Interview with Aleksandra Fedorova

Fedora Account: bookwar
IRC: bookwar (found in #fedora-ci)
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