Prague is calling! The deadline for the Flock 2026 CFP (Call for Proposals) is fast approaching. You have until Monday, February 2nd to submit your session ideas for Fedora’s premier contributor conference.
We are returning to the heart of Europe (June 14–16) to define the next era of our operating system. Whether you are a kernel hacker, a community organizer, or an emerging local-first AI enthusiast, Flock is where the roadmap for the next year in Fedora gets written.
If you haven’t submitted yet, here is why you should.
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.
Tux greeted all guests into the Exhibit Hall.
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.
Our initial canvas before booth transformation.
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.
Tada! Fedora and CentOS ready for visitors.
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.
While guests peruse the swag, Brian and Carl realize the paparazzi have arrived…
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.
Karen and Katherine [right] welcome customers and community.
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.
Scott [right] fields a question from a guest.
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 .
Perry meets Leslie Lamport
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).
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
March 19, 2024 / aishat / Comments Off on Flock 2024 CfP open now until April 29th
EDIT: The CFP was extended to April 29th. Don’t wait to get your idea or topic in for this year!
Apply now for the Flock to Fedora 2024 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, Flock is using Pretalx as our CfP system. If you submitted a proposal to DevConf CZ this year, it will feel familiar. The submission deadline for the Flock 2024 CfP is Monday, April 29th, 2024.
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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The Fedora Mobility SIG is working to get Fedora Linux working on mobile device. This includes the PinePhone, a smartphone built with open hardware. Many distros are working to add support for the features that smartphone users expect, including video calls. I was able to use Firefox as a fully-featured Matrix client to make video calls.
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