How to Contribute to Fedora Project Jaroslav Řezník & Jiří Eischmann

About Us Jaroslav Řezník: Fedora Program Manager Fedora Board member Fedora Ambassador for the Czech Republic Jiří Eischmann: Community manager in Red Hat Czech Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee

Fedora A community distro sponsored by Red Hat RPM-based Released every six months Values: freedom, friends, features, first

Why Fedora? Very close to upstream Innovative Great community

Governance model Fedora is about meritocracy Several steering groups Board, FESCo, FAmSCo, SIGs, teams But community...

Fedora Project Board Fedora Project Lead (FPL) Currently held by Robyn Bergeron 4 appointed members 5 elected members by community Top level body Strategic and tactic goals Trademark approval Escalated issues by other groups

FESCo Fedora Engineering Steering Committee 9 members, elected by community Technical decisions, new features approval

FAmSCo Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee 7 elected members You can meet ambassadors here (Fedora booth near entrance) Sales of open source :) Leading ambassadors Coordination Budget Events

Elections Fedora 18 will be... Wait... Wait... (it's going to be legendary) Spherical Cow! Elections for every release (so every 6 months) Board, FESCo, FAmSCo, name Continue with naming? Coming soon!!!

Many Ways to Contribute Bug Reporting Testing (test days) Localization Documentation Packaging Development Design&Artwork Promoting

SIGs and teams Special interest groups Join one to contribute in specific area Create one to work on not yet established area and gain momentum! Other teams Design team, marketing team, release engineering team, documentation, QA etc...(more later)

Fedora Test Days Focused on features that are going to land in the next version of Fedora. Prepared by professionals. Help by the community and Fedora engineers. Easy to test. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days

Ambassadors Promoting Fedora Representing Fedora at events Organizing release parties Distributing DVDs, stickers,... Looking for new ambassadors in Poland and Slovakia.

Packaging Look for unpackaged software you'd like to see in Fedora Prepare package (SPEC file) Go through Package Review Get sponsored Become packager! Join relevant SIG (optional)

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