- Tell Us Your Fedora 2017 Year in Review
The past year was a busy for Fedora. The community released Fedora 26 and 27. Different sub-projects of Fedora give their share of time for the overall success of Fedora. But in a project as big as Fedora, it’s hard to keep track of what everyone is …
- Election Night Hackathon Supports Civic Engagement
This article was originally published on Opensource.com. On November 7, 2017, members of the RIT community came together for the annual Election Night Hackathon held in the Simone Center for Student Innovation. This year marked the seventh …
- Resigning From Fedora Council for Fedora 27
Since I became a Fedora contributor in August 2015, I’ve spent a lot of time in the community. One of the great things about a big community like Fedora is that there are several different things to try out. I’ve always tried to do the most help in …
- IRC for the 21st Century: Introducing Riot
This article was originally published on Opensource.com. Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is one of the oldest chat protocols around and still popular in many open source communities. IRC’s best strengths are as a decentralized and open communication …
- FAmSCo August 2017 Elections: Thoughts on a Global Community
A new release of Fedora makes headlines this month. With every release, it also means a new round of the Fedora community leadership elections. On 24 July 2017, the call for nominations went out for candidates. The Fedora Engineering Steering …
- What I Discovered in Tirana, Albania
The past few months have brought many changes for me. I traveled throughout Europe to experience some of the open source conferences and communities across the continent. Along the way, I met incredible people with powerful stories about their own …
- Mission to Understand: Fedora Diversity FAD 2017
This article was originally published on the Fedora Community Blog. Team picture of the Diversity Team members (left to right: Brian Exelbierd, Amita Sharma, Radka Janek, Jona Azizaj, Bhagyashree Padalkar, Justin Wheeler) The Fedora Diversity FAD …
- Take the #HappinessPacketChallenge!
One of the most important lessons I was taught growing up is to say “thank you” when someone does something nice for you. Many months ago, someone first introduced me to something called Happiness Packets. The idea is simple but powerfully effective. …
- Stepping Out of Fedora: May to August 2017
Transparency is the best policy and communication is key. This is why I felt it was important to make this announcement ahead of time to make clear expectations for the coming months. This past December, I was happy to accept a Production Engineer …
- Students Meet Fedora at Linux Weekend 2017
This article was originally published on the Fedora Magazine. Open source projects are built online and a lot of their community members are placed all over the world. Even though projects have people from around the world, this doesn’t stop …