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Women in technology: Fedora campus presence

This week, we kicked off an initiative for engaging more women contributors in Fedora. Sumantro Mukherjee helped me guide new contributors on this Hangouts call. The purpose was to bring in more woman contributors to the Fedora Project and help them be industry-ready. As buzzwords in the industry boom, these meet-ups are focused to generate awareness in the first few rounds. Then, they address fields like the Internet of Things (IoT), ML, and mobile app development, to mention a few.

Keeping in mind, these are done using the leading edge, open source, Linux-based Fedora, which is also the upstream for RHEL. In the first few minutes, we discussed about free and open source software (FOSS) and the participants’ exposure with the industry. After a bit of in-depth discussion, we figured out that little or no guidance is one of the major barriers when the participants wanted to contribute to any FOSS project. Also noted was the lack of on-boarding guides as another major barrier for not being able to contribute to FOSS projects.

In the second half of the meeting, we discussed how Fedora is released. Some common terminologies like bleeding edge, Rawhide, and branched were discussed. The meeting concluded with the suggestion of topics that the audience would like to learn. A weekly follow-up mechanism will be helpful for community growth.

Meeting details can be found in this Etherpad.

Network by Martha Ormiston from the Noun Project.

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Fedora Elections are here and it's time to vote!

Elections Retrospective, July 2016

July 26, 2016 / jkurik / 1 Comment

The results are in! The Fedora Elections for the Fedora 24 release cycle of FESCo and the Council concluded on Tuesday, July 26th. The results are posted on the Fedora Voting Application and announced on the mailing lists. You can also find the full list of winning candidates below. I would also like to share some interesting statistics in this July 2016 Elections Retrospective.

2016 Elections Retrospective Report

In short, voter turnout is approximately on its average level (well, slightly below).

New guidelines for Fedora Ambassadors and Design

July 18, 2016 / Justin W. Flory / 4 Comments

This week, some Ambassadors, CommOps, and Design Team members collaborated on improving and redefining the guidelines for how to request artwork and other art assets. As the advocates and representatives of Fedora across the globe, the Ambassadors often need many tools and resources for demonstrating Fedora. Examples of this might be fliers, banners, tablecloths, stickers, badges, and more. Until recently, the process for requesting artwork assets was not well-defined and somewhat unclear. This can cause problems when Ambassadors need something designed for an event. Sometimes it can draw out the request or end up in an accident, such as purple DVD media covers!

Creating official guidelines

To help more clearly communicate the most effective way for Ambassadors to request artwork, an official set of guidelines were written and proposed based on discussion with Design Team members. The official guide walks through all the steps necessary to help make sure requests receive quick responses and all the information needed is available. This not only helps the Design Team understand a request, but it also benefits the Ambassadors by helping getting a faster turnaround on a deliverable. An announcement about the new guide appeared on the Ambassadors list.

Read the new guidelines about requesting artwork here!

You’re invited: FOSCo Brainstorm Meeting, 2016-07-18, 13:00 UTC

July 13, 2016 / cwickert / Comments Off

For some time now, Fedora has discussed the idea of the Fedora Outreach Steering Committee (FOSCo), a body to coordinate all our outreach efforts. Now it’s time to make it happen!

FOSCo brainstorming: you’re invited!

On behalf of FAmSCo and the Fedora Council, we would like to invite the Fedora community to an all-hands.

What: FOSCo brainstorm meeting
When: Monday, August 18th at 13:00 UTC
Where: #fedora-council on freenode

Roll call

So far, the following participants have confirmed attendance.

Ambassadors: cwickert, giannisk, gnokii, mailga, potty, tuanta
Council: mattdm
Design: gnokii
Marketing: jflory7
CommOps: jflory7
Websites: mailga
Docs: zoglesby
G11n: noriko

The fact that we already have a good team of volunteers should not stop you from attending. In fact, we would like to hear more voices from all stakeholders. The more, the better! To get an idea what FAmSCo has been working on so far, please have a look at the wiki page and current status.

None of this is set in stone yet, and we feel we need your input before we go any further. We are looking forward to your comments and to meet you next Monday!

Share your “Year in Review” with Fedora

December 17, 2015 / Justin W. Flory / 6 Comments

Define the numbers of sharing your Year in Review of Fedora

A lot happens in Fedora each year, but what’s behind these numbers? Share your story! Source: Fedora Magazine

2015 has been an active and busy year for Fedora. All year, the contributors across all of the different sub-groups, working groups, special interest groups, and teams help make the magic behind Fedora happen. With a project as large as Fedora, sometimes it can be hard to keep others on different sides of the Project up to date. To help share what everyone has worked on make happen this year, all sub-groups, teams, or other groups are invited to share your “Year in Review” on the Fedora Community Blog!

Elections Retrospective, 2015

December 17, 2015 / jkurik / 5 Comments

The results are in! The Fedora Elections for the F23 release cycle of FESCo, FAmSCo, and the Council concluded on Tuesday, December 15th. The results are posted on the Fedora Voting Application and announced on the mailing lists. You can also find the full list of winning candidates below. Taking inspiration from Pingou‘s blog post “FESCo vote history“, I would also like to share some interesting statistics in this 2015 Elections Retrospective.

2015 Elections Retrospective Report

In short, voter turnout has improved in all races, and while no records have been broken, the numbers are back to our typical higher levels. A direct correlation was seen between days when we advertised voting and our most active voting days. Incumbency was a big factor in each race (all incumbent candidates were re-elected) and voters showed confidence in the candidates who were previous position-holders.

Introducing the Fedora Community Blog

November 9, 2015 / Justin W. Flory / 9 Comments

As many Fedora contributors can likely agree, there are countless different tasks, operations, and work being done inside the Fedora Project community to work towards our four foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, First. With all that’s going on, it can sometimes be difficult to know what everyone is working on without doing some digging on the wiki or IRC meeting logs, whether it be translation efforts, the next engineering decision for Fedora, a great new marketing idea, or maybe the achievements of our Ambassadors in a local event.

The Four Foundations of Fedora: Freedom, Friends, Features, First

The Fedora CommOps team is proud to announce the premiere of our newest platform for members of the community to share important news, updates, and information about the Project with others. The Fedora Community Blog will make it easier to be connected to all of the different projects, groups, and efforts going on in the community every day. Teams are encouraged to share their goals, achievements, and calls for assistance on this blog to help increase the overall interconnectedness of the community.

How can I contribute?

Every team or group in the project is encouraged to make an effort to share the work that they do with their groups with the rest of the community. Anyone who is interested in contributing to the Community Blog can sign in with their Fedora account via OpenID. Once you sign in for the first time and add some information to your profile, join #fedora-commops on freenode and say hello – the rest of the team can help get you started with the tools and information you need to write your first articles.

How to sign in

Signing into the Community Blog is easy! If you have an account in FAS, you can log in directly with OpenID.

Navigate to the login page on the blog.
When signing in, click on the OpenID box and enter your FAS in the format below. Go ahead and log in – you will be redirected to Ipsilon, where you will enter your FAS details.
1. <your FAS here>.id.fedoraproject.org
Viola, you’re now logged in! Make sure to add to your profile so readers can know who you are and what part of the project you represent.

Isn’t this like the Magazine or Planet Fedora?

Not exactly. The Fedora Magazine is intended for a variety of content, whether that be news about the latest Fedora release, a how-to article on using cool software in our repositories, or other miscellaneous news related to the Fedora Project. In short, the Magazine is focused towards users and contributors alike. Planet Fedora is an aggregator of individual project members’ blogs. Blogs posts on Planet Fedora are not required to have any direct relation to the project, and can feature topics such as Linux kernel development, events in the free and open-source world, and more.

Alternatively, the Community Blog is intended to be a source of information for contributors to learn more about what’s going on in our backyard. While it is open to the public, the blog would be the more appropriate place to share news about the progress or call for help for a particular task or project in Fedora, such as needing translation help for a particular language.

Anything else?

We are excited to be launching this blog to help tie our community closer together with news and information! As things begin to get rolling, we are looking forward to seeing what the rest of our community puts together to publish here!

If you have any other questions about the Community Blog, come by and say hello on freenode in #fedora-commops or drop a line in the CommOps mailing list.