This document provides an overview of how to get involved with the open source Fedora operating system project. It discusses what Fedora is, why contribute to Fedora, the types of projects within Fedora like desktop, infrastructure, marketing and design teams, and provides quick steps to get started like creating an account, finding a team or project, following updates, and asking questions. The goal is to welcome and onboard new contributors to Fedora's collaborative community.
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Keynote given at Software Freedom Day Boston in 2012. Talks about how the Fedora Design team came up with a process to recruit new designers to their team. Outlines a specific method of doing this.
45-60 minute workshop given at LibrePlanet 2010 on getting started with Gimp and Inkscape to create bitmap and vector artwork. Also covers licensing and attribution of sourced images.
A Tour Through Open Source Creative ToolsMáirín Duffy
A tour of the best and most popular open source tools for creativity, including tools for drawing, video editing, animation, etc. Talk given at the Red Hat Summit in 2012.
Aimed at beginners to Inkscape and vector graphics, this bootcamp walks you through how to get started getting productive with Inkscape. It includes a tour of the user interface and hints/tips around the most useful basic functions the software offers.
This open forum panel discussion for AIGA UCLA was presented by Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Jose Caballer and Lara Fedoroff. Deemed "UX for Dummies" this discussion focused on the definition, process, deliverables and challenges of User Experience verses Information Architecture.
This was presented at the Bukidnon State University extension campus at Alubijid National Comprehensive High School, at Alubijid, Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines.
) Introduction to Fedora - Will be presenting basic stuff about Fedora, its' community
2) "Let's Build a Fedora Community in Albania!" - Will be presenting ways to contribute to the Fedora Project and invite the audience to aid our efforts in establishing an Albanian Fedora Community.
Progressive f# tutorials nyc don syme on keynote f# in the open source worldSkills Matter
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Design Bounties: Adventures in Recruiting New Free Software NinjasMáirín Duffy
Keynote given at Software Freedom Day Boston in 2012. Talks about how the Fedora Design team came up with a process to recruit new designers to their team. Outlines a specific method of doing this.
45-60 minute workshop given at LibrePlanet 2010 on getting started with Gimp and Inkscape to create bitmap and vector artwork. Also covers licensing and attribution of sourced images.
A Tour Through Open Source Creative ToolsMáirín Duffy
A tour of the best and most popular open source tools for creativity, including tools for drawing, video editing, animation, etc. Talk given at the Red Hat Summit in 2012.
Aimed at beginners to Inkscape and vector graphics, this bootcamp walks you through how to get started getting productive with Inkscape. It includes a tour of the user interface and hints/tips around the most useful basic functions the software offers.
This open forum panel discussion for AIGA UCLA was presented by Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Jose Caballer and Lara Fedoroff. Deemed "UX for Dummies" this discussion focused on the definition, process, deliverables and challenges of User Experience verses Information Architecture.
This was presented at the Bukidnon State University extension campus at Alubijid National Comprehensive High School, at Alubijid, Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines.
) Introduction to Fedora - Will be presenting basic stuff about Fedora, its' community
2) "Let's Build a Fedora Community in Albania!" - Will be presenting ways to contribute to the Fedora Project and invite the audience to aid our efforts in establishing an Albanian Fedora Community.
Progressive f# tutorials nyc don syme on keynote f# in the open source worldSkills Matter
F# is a powerful open-source language which Microsoft, other companies and the F# community all contribute to. In this talk, Don will discuss how the “F# space” has recently opened up significantly in interesting ways. F# now includes contributions that range from Cloud IDE platforms, Cloud Compute frameworks, Data interoperability components, Cross-platform execution, Try F#, MonoDevelop, and even Emacs editor integration with surprising tooling support, as well as the Visual F# tools from Microsoft and the broader NuGet package ecosystem. Don will also talk about some of the latest contributions from Microsoft Research, including new type provider components for F#, and describe how his team work with the Visual F# team and other teams around Microsoft. There will also be demos of some fun new stuff that’s been going on with F# at MSR and the community.
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The slidecast is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAdAqqRLqKE
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Getting Involved in an Free/Open Source Operating System
1. HOW TO GET INVOLVED
IN AN
OPEN SOURCE
OPERATING SYSTEM
PRESENTED BY
Máirín Duffy
Fedora Design Team Lead &
Sr. Interaction Designer, Red Hat, Inc.
RPI B.S. Computer Science '03
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2. TODAY'S TOPICS:
#1 What is Fedora?
#2 Why Fedora?
#3 What kinds of projects happen
in Fedora?
#4 Get started!
4. The Fedora Project's mission is to
lead the advancement of free and
open source software and content
as a collaborative community.
5.
6. MISSION ELEMENTS
#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.
7. This is Fedora.*
* Actually, there's way more to it; this is a simplified model. :)
13. 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...
14.
15.
16.
17. 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
21. FEDORA TEAM #1
Desktop SIG
SAMPLE PROJECTS:
COLOR MANAGEMENT Handling color profiles on the desktop.
PALIMPSEST Disk utility GUI.
RADEON DISPLAY PORT Support DisplayPort connections for ATI Hardware.
BETTER WEBCAM SUPPORT More webcams supported out of the box!
TEXT-BASED NETWORK MANAGER Control NetworkManager on the command line.
PACKAGE KIT BROWSER PLUGIN Secure package installation from web pages.
GNOME SHELL Next generation desktop environment.
GET INVOLVED!
MAILING LIST desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org
IRC #fedora-desktop on irc.gimp.net
PROJECT LISTING https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop
22. FEDORA TEAM #2
Infrastructure Team
SAMPLE PROJECTS:
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Keep the servers that run Fedora running.
FEDORA TALK Asterisk server for Fedora audio conferencing.
FEDORA VOTING APP Supports Fedora elections.
FEDORA ACCOUNT SYSTEM Manages Fedora user accounts, SSO & Open ID
KOJI Build system for Fedora.
BODHI Update workflow system.
FEDORA COMMUNITY Web-application to enable developers.
MIRROR MANAGER Manages the various mirrors that host Fedora
content.
GET INVOLVED!
MAILING LIST infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org
IRC #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net
TICKETS https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/1
23.
24. FEDORA TEAM #3
Marketing Team
SAMPLE PROJECTS:
FEDORA INSIGHT Zikula CMS-backed online magazine.
SURVEY SYSTEM Help needed deploying a FOSS voting system for
surveys.
EVENT PLANNING Help plan Fedora Events, Audio/Video Streaming...
WWW.FEDORAPROJECT.ORG Website revamp!
INTERVIEWS Interview contributors project-wide to develop
collateral for publicizing Fedora.
GET INVOLVED!
MAILING LIST marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org
IRC #fedora-mktg on irc.freenode.net
PROJECT LIST https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing#Projects
25.
26. FEDORA TEAM #4
Design Team
SAMPLE PROJECTS:
RELEASE ARTWORK Design the default artwork for Fedora 13.
ICON & LOGO DESIGN Rolling requests, see ticket system.
UI DESIGN Rolling requests, see ticket system.
USABILITY ASSESSMENTS Currently working on GNOME Shell and Fedora
Community usability assessments.
OPEN SOURCE FONTS Identifying great FOSS fonts for inclusion in
Fedora and advertising them to packagers.
GET INVOLVED!
MAILING LIST design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org
IRC #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net
PROJECT LIST https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1
27.
28. Other Ways To Get
Involved
A SMALL SAMPLING OF OTHER TEAMS:
FEDORA AMBASSADORS Spread the word about Fedora and software
freedom at events around the world.
INTERNATIONALIZATION Translate Fedora into 50+ languages, and work
TEAM on the tooling around managing this huge
project.
BUG TRIAGE TEAM Triage bugs, make sure they get to the right
people.
ELECTRONICS LAB TEAM Build a 100% free and open source electronics
lab using Fedora as a platform.
FEDORA GAMES SIG Identify and package free & open source games
as well as produce the Fedora Games Spin.
FEDORA MINI Work to optimize the Fedora experience on
netbooks and other small hardware devices.
31. 4 QUICK STEPS TO BECOME A FEDORA CONTRIBUTOR
#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 email
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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
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