This presentation will walk you through the Fedora Project and different roles you can contribute to this project.

1. Parag Nemade
Presented by
Fedora Contributor since last 12 years
CC-BY-SA-3.0 License
Contributing
To
Fedora Project

2. Topics
●
Introduction
●
FOSS Software
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History of Fedora
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About Fedora Project
●
Contribution

3. Introduction

4. Introduction
•Linux operating system
•Provides latest software and contents
•Linux distribution based on RPM
•Developed by always increasing community
•Available for free use by anyone
•RHEL is based on Fedora
•Sponsored by Red Hat

5. Statistics
•Fedora Everything (x86_64)
• Fedora 27 – 118 GB
• Fedora 28 – 131 GB
• Fedora rawhide – 132 GB

6. FOSS

7. FOSS
•Free and Open Source Software
•Code is free to study, use, modify and
redistribute
•License is important

8. History of Fedora

9. History
•Started by Warren Togami in 2002 as “Fedora
Linux”
•Later accepted as Fedora Project when RHL
become RHEL
•First Fedora release 5th
Nov 2003
•For easy availability of extra software's to RHEL
releases

10. About Fedora

11. About Fedora
•Current version 27 is released
•Average Six month of development cycle
•Support for 13 months after release
•Upgrades are supported for n+2 versions
•Since Fedora 21, 3 product editions
• Workstation (Desktop users/developer)
• Server (infrastructure services)
• Atomic (Linux-Docker-Kubernetes stack)

12. About Fedora
•Based on below core values of the community
(Fedora Foundations)
• Freedom
• Providing FOSS
• Friends
• Strong and Caring community
• Features
• Adds latest development
• First
• Sometimes we innovate new things and become first to
provide them

13. Fedora Contribution

14. Contribution
•https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join
• Content writer
• Designer
• People Person
• OS developer
• Translator
• Administrator
•http://whatcanidoforfedora.org

15. Content Writer (words)
• Fedora Magazine (https://fedoramagazine.org)
• Wordpress based site
• Delivers articles on latest happening in Fedora
• Documentation (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/)
• Installation and Usage guides
• Release notes
• CommOps(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps)
• Drafts release announcements
• Tells various sub-project stories to users

16. Designer (images)
•Designer community
• Fedora Logos
• Banners, T-shirt designs for events
• Fedora Badges
• Every release Background Wallpapers
•Usability SIG
• Improve end user experience

17. People Person (1-1)
• Ambassadors
• PoC for local community
• Help to organize events
• CommOps
• Helps contributors to connect various sub-projects
• Free Media
• Distribute Fedora media for Free
• Marketing
• Promote usage and support of Fedora

18. Translator (translations)
•Fedora Localization Project
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

19. Administrator (Web)
•Infrastructure
• Core people who provides services for running
Fedora services
•Release Engineering
• Build server
• Updates (mirrors)
•Websites
• https://getfedora.org

20. Developer (code)
•Packaging
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_col
lection_maintainers
•Bug Traiging
• http://bugzilla.redhat.com
•Testing
• https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org
•Easyfix
• http://fedoraproject.org/easyfix

21. References
•https://getfedora.org/
•https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join
•https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_packag
e_collection_maintainers
•https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
•https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Jo
in_start
•https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/

22. Questions?
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