HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN AN OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEM PRESENTED BY Fedora Design Team Lead & Sr. Interaction Designer, Red Hat, Inc. RPI B.S. Computer Science '03 Máirín Duffy This presentation is under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Please enjoy and share.

#1 What is Fedora? #2 Why Fedora? #3 What kinds of projects happen in Fedora? TODAY'S TOPICS: #4 Get started!

#1 What is Fedora?

The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

#1 The Fedora Project always strives to lead, not follow. #2 The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread free/libre code and content. #3 The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of many people throughout our community. MISSION ELEMENTS

This is Fedora.* * Actually, there's way more to it; this is a simplified model. :)

#2 Why Fedora?

We believe a community-based, open model is the best way to produce the highest-quality software.

NO BAND-AIDS. THE ENDS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. LEGALLY REDISTRIBUTABLE. CONTENT, TOO!

THOUSANDS OF CONTRIBUTORS GLOBALLY. EVERYONE IS WELCOME – NO WALLS. COMMUNITY-ELECTED BOARD. ~22 MILLION USERS. SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, ARTISTS, SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS, DESIGNERS, WEB PROGRAMMERS, WRITERS, SPEAKERS, TRANSLATORS, WEB DESIGNERS... ~22 MILLION USERS.

CLOSE TO UPSTREAM, SOMETIMES SERVE AS UPSTREAM. 100% POWERED BY OPEN SOURCE. RED HAT IS THE LARGEST SINGLE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE LINUX KERNEL.* LIBVIRT, NETWORK MANAGER, D-BUS, POLICY KIT, PACKAGE KIT, CONSOLE KIT, DEVICE KIT, FREEIPA, SELINUX, PULSE AUDIO, PLYMOUTH, GFS, LVM, METACITY, PANGO, GTK+, EVINCE, VIRT-MANAGER, OGG THEORA, EXT3, IPSEC, ABRT, GLIBC, KOJI, BODHI, RPM, YUM, FUNC, COBBLER... * Linux Foundation Report, April 2008

Red Hat purchased Qumranet...

RAPID RELEASE CYCLE – EVERY 6 MONTHS. FIRST TO GET NEW FEATURES. PROVING GROUND FOR INNOVATIONS.

#3 What kinds of projects happen in Fedora?

PALIMPSEST SAMPLE PROJECTS: RADEON DISPLAY PORT TEXT-BASED NETWORK MANAGER BETTER WEBCAM SUPPORT PACKAGE KIT BROWSER PLUGIN GNOME SHELL Disk utility GUI. Support DisplayPort connections for ATI Hardware. More webcams supported out of the box! Control NetworkManager on the command line. Secure package installation from web pages. COLOR MANAGEMENT Handling color profiles on the desktop. Desktop SIG FEDORA TEAM #1 Next generation desktop environment. GET INVOLVED! IRC #fedora-desktop on irc.gimp.net MAILING LIST PALIMPSEST Disk utility GUI. COLOR MANAGEMENT Handling color profiles on the desktop. PROJECT LISTING

FEDORA TALK SAMPLE PROJECTS: FEDORA VOTING APP KOJI FEDORA ACCOUNT SYSTEM BODHI FEDORA COMMUNITY Asterisk server for Fedora audio conferencing. Supports Fedora elections. Manages Fedora user accounts, SSO & Open ID Build system for Fedora. Update workflow system. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Keep the servers that run Fedora running. Infrastructure Team FEDORA TEAM #2 Web-application to enable developers. MIRROR MANAGER Manages the various mirrors that host Fedora content. GET INVOLVED! IRC #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net MAILING LIST TICKETS

SURVEY SYSTEM SAMPLE PROJECTS: EVENT PLANNING INTERVIEWS Help needed deploying a FOSS voting system for surveys. Help plan Fedora Events, Audio/Video Streaming... Website revamp! Interview contributors project-wide to develop collateral for publicizing Fedora. FEDORA INSIGHT Zikula CMS-backed online magazine. Marketing Team FEDORA TEAM #3 GET INVOLVED! IRC #fedora-mktg on irc.freenode.net MAILING LIST PROJECT LIST

ICON & LOGO DESIGN SAMPLE PROJECTS: UI DESIGN OPEN SOURCE FONTS USABILITY ASSESSMENTS Rolling requests, see ticket system. Currently working on GNOME Shell and Fedora Community usability assessments. Identifying great FOSS fonts for inclusion in Fedora and advertising them to packagers. RELEASE ARTWORK Design the default artwork for Fedora 13. Design Team FEDORA TEAM #4 GET INVOLVED! IRC #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net MAILING LIST PROJECT LIST

INTERNATIONALIZATION TEAM A SMALL SAMPLING OF OTHER TEAMS: BUG TRIAGE TEAM FEDORA GAMES SIG ELECTRONICS LAB TEAM Translate Fedora into 50+ languages, and work on the tooling around managing this huge project. Triage bugs, make sure they get to the right people. Build a 100% free and open source electronics lab using Fedora as a platform. Identify and package free & open source games as well as produce the Fedora Games Spin. FEDORA AMBASSADORS Spread the word about Fedora and software freedom at events around the world. Other Ways To Get Involved FEDORA MINI Work to optimize the Fedora experience on netbooks and other small hardware devices.

#4 Get Started!

#1 Get a Fedora account! join.fedoraproject.org #2 Find a team or project you're interested in. Join their mailing list and send an introducing yourself and your interests – and claim a task! #3 Read planet.fedoraproject.org. It's a great way to keep up with what's going on across Fedora. 4 QUICK STEPS TO BECOME A FEDORA CONTRIBUTOR

#4 ASK QUESTIONS. Do not be afraid – if you are stuck, just ask! Become a visible contributor by blogging your progress to Planet Fedora, and by talking to your teammates and asking lots and lots of questions. 4 QUICK STEPS TO BECOME A FEDORA CONTRIBUTOR

Questions? Thanks to my Fedora Design Team pal María 'Tatica' Leandro from Venezeula for designing the cute characters throughout these slides. :) All of the fonts in this presentation and its graphics are free and open source. All of the graphics in this presentation were created using 100% free and open source software. This presentation is under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Please enjoy and share.