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FOSS Wave with Fedora at KGISL, Coimbatore

Recently, I was invited by Prem to NASSCOM to give a brief talk on FOSS and Technology as part of the FOSS Wave community. Prem is doing a great job there by putting his effort in helping students from Tier2 and Tier3 cities. Around twenty enthusiastic students were selected and invited to Bengaluru to take part in such events. Mine was one of them. I conducted a GitHub session after Intro to FOSS and a brief intro about Fedora Project.

What is FOSS Wave? It’s a place to learn, teach, enrich and be part of FOSS revolution! It is an initiative to…

spread FOSS knowledge
connect with FOSS minded people across the globe
help students contribute to FOSS projects, tools, and technologies
Help students become industry ready.

In addition to sharing knowledge, FOSS Wave speakers also take part in organizing events and speaking in conferences across the globe. The FOSS Wave community consists of active contributors from across the globe. It includes both paid employees and volunteers who work towards the goals set forth in the FOSS revolution.

Earn Fedora Badges designing Badges!

June 23, 2017 / mleonova / Comments Off

Fedora Badges is a perfect place to start if you want to help out the Fedora Design Team. “I’m not a designer!” “I can’t draw!” “I’ve never opened Inkscape” – you might say. And that is totally fine! Everybody can help out, and none of those reasons will stop you from designing your first badge (and getting badges for designing badges).

Finding a Badges ticket

There are quite a few badges tickets. One might have difficulty looking for one that’s open, one that’s possible to implement, or one with a concept. So we decided to put together a list of relatively easy badges designs that are up for grabs. This post will go out about once a month and provide you with such list of badge tickets carefully selected by us!

First of all let’s look at the process of creating a badge. If you can, attend a badges workshop. If none are available, no problem! Here’s a step-by-step guide with tips. You can also ask questions on IRC (#fedora-design) or at our bi-weekly meeting every other Wednesday at 7-8 AM EST on #fedora-meeting-1 on freenode.

These badges are still up for grabs! Try designing one of the following badges and we will help you through the process:

#432: “I’ve been there“, for visiting a Fedora booth at any event
For this badge design, reuse this artwork (https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/the-panda-is-in) and add a panda in front! (https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/lets-have-a-party-fedora-25)
#333: “Oh, wait!“, for canceling a Koji build
This artwork just needs a little tweaking, and it will be ready! Download the svg and make the suggested changes in the comments.
#150: “Testing Day participant“, for contributing to a Fedora QA test day
This badge needs original artwork, but it will be a breeze! Create a drawing of a piece of paper, and put the letters A+, B, C, D etc in separate files to create an entire series.

Earn Fedora Badges designing Badges!

February 9, 2017 / riecatnor / 1 Comment

Finding a Badges ticket

There are quite a few badges tickets! One might have difficulty looking for one that’s open, one that’s possible to implement, or one with a concept. So we decided to put together a list of relatively easy badges designs that are up for grabs. This post will go out about once a month and provide you with such list of badge tickets carefully selected by us!

Once you have all the resources, read through the guide, and are ready to create, pick one of these and set yourself to owner:

#432: “I’ve been there“, for visiting a Fedora booth at any event
#333: “Oh, wait!“, for canceling a Koji build
#150: “Testing Day participant“, for contributing to a Fedora QA test day

Where to point newcomers to Fedora

November 10, 2016 / ankursinha / 2 Comments

Like any FOSS community project, Fedora relies heavily on volunteers. It is, therefore, no surprise that we’re always looking to increase our contributor base. There is always so much to be done. Of course, many teams work in harmony to keep Fedora ticking. Each team tends to have its own “on-boarding process” for newcomers, which if you’ve been around recently, you’ll have noticed CommOps has been working on improving one by one.

Wayland By Default Test Day 2016-10-13

October 13, 2016 / sumantrom / 1 Comment

Today, Thursday, 2016-10-13, is the Wayland by Default Test Day! As part of this planned Change for Fedora 25, we need your help to test Wayland by Default! Using Wayland instead of X gives a better basis for isolating applications from each other and the rest of the system.

Why test Wayland By Default?

Systems using certain graphics hardware or graphics drivers (matrox, qxl) may have problems running the Wayland session. In these (rare) cases, users may have to configure gdm to use X11 (although automatic fallback should work most of the time). If we don’t manage to close all the feature parity gaps entirely, users relying on those features may have to choose the X11-based session.

FOSS Wave: Delhi, India

August 31, 2016 / sumantrom / 1 Comment

Open source is the new trend. When major corporations are moving towards open architecture by using open source tools and even pushing their internal projects into open source, it makes your contributions especially worthy. But before starting with contributing, many people face the same common set of questions. How they can start, how should they introduce themselves in the community, and where they can contribute. To answer these questions, I planned a session on free and open source software (FOSS) and Fedora at the Northern India Engineering College in Delhi, India.

During the planning phase, I got in touch with Sumantro, who is himself an open source enthusiast and contributing to various open source projects including the Fedora Project. With his help, we planned the agenda for the session and gathered the resources to conduct the session. On 12th August, 2016, this session on FOSS and Fedora was conducted to:

Answer these questions
Bring up new people in the open source arena
Show where they can contribute, learn and make an impact

Join the G11n team this week to help translate Fedora

Golden chance to translate Fedora 24 in your language

March 31, 2016 / pravins / 4 Comments

Out of the six billion people in the world, only 339 million have English as a first language. The importance of English in global business increases the number of English speakers, but the people learning are taking English on as a second language. A notable number of users prefer products in their own language. Japan is a common example of this.

In the Fedora Globalization (G11n) group, we are making this happen. The efforts are huge, and kudos to all our contributors.If you are a non-English user in Fedora and want to help improve translations in your native language, this is your time to contribute! A virtual Fedora translation sprint is coming up soon for Fedora 24 GUI applications.

Using your Fedora email alias with Gmail

March 22, 2016 / justharshal / 19 Comments

Editor’s note: the instructions here may be out of date. If you’re interested in updating it, contact us on Fedora Discussion.

Gmail is a popular email service and web client for browsing, receiving, and sending email. Gmail is used by billions of people across the world. It’s one of the simplest, most accessible email services even with being full of features. Did you know that it is possible to read and reply to other email services directly from Gmail? I’ve been doing this for years. Here is how to do it with your Fedora (fedoraproject.org) email alias.

Tag: getting started (page 2 of 2)

FOSS Wave with Fedora at KGISL, Coimbatore

Earn Fedora Badges designing Badges!

Finding a Badges ticket

Earn Fedora Badges designing Badges!

Finding a Badges ticket

Where to point newcomers to Fedora

Wayland By Default Test Day 2016-10-13

Why test Wayland By Default?

FOSS Wave: Delhi, India

Golden chance to translate Fedora 24 in your language

Using your Fedora email alias with Gmail

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