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The Fedora Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are teams within the Fedora Project that are less formal than official subprojects. They are sometimes a first stage in the development of new projects within Fedorat.

Creating a SIG

A SIG is a lightweight structure with very little red tape. If you're interested in forming one, please visit Creating a Fedora SIG.

Introduction to existing SIGs

# – B

3D Printing

The 3D Printing SIG's goal is to make Fedora the best platform for 3D printing.

Ada

Maintainers of Ada packages in Fedora are strongly encouraged to subscribe to the Fedora Ada mailing list. Anyone else who stay informed about the topic is also welcome to subscribe.

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) SIG is a coordination point for people and groups working to improve the tooling for such pursuits in Fedora. Anyone interested is welcome to join us on Matrix or Discourse.

Alternative Architectures

The purpose of the Alternative Architecture family of SIGs is to promote Fedora on a wider array of computer hardware implementations.

Amateur Radio

The goal of the Amateur Radio group is to improve the Fedora collection by adding packages that are useful for amateur radio (a/k/a "Ham radio") operators and shortwave listeners (SWLs).

Asahi

The goal of the Asahi SIG is to help the folks working on support for ARM-based Apple Macintosh computers (otherwise known as "Apple Silicon" Macs) and to produces a Fedora installation image for those that want to run Linux on Apple Silicon devices.

Astronomy

The Fedora Astronomy group seeks to gather people interested in improving support for astronomers and astrophysicists.

Atomic Desktops

The Atomic Desktops SIG coordinates efforts related to all Atomic Desktop (rpm-ostree based) variants of Fedora: Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway (formerly Sericea) and Budgie (formerly Onyx).

Big Data

The Big Data SIG, in grand Fedora style, aims to make Fedora the best platform for all things related to extremely large and diverse collections of structured, unstructured and semi-structured data that grow exponentially over time.

BIOS Boot

The goal of the BIOS Boot SIG is to help those working on Fedora's bootloader stack to keep Fedora booting on systems which require Legacy BIOS to boot or have a need to employ the UEFI Compatibility Support Module (CSM). To help with this, the SIG members will regularly test that Fedora Rawhide images still boot on Legacy BIOS systems and assist with triaging and fixing Legacy BIOS boot bugs.

Budgie

The Budgie SIG's mission is to maintain the Budgie desktop environment experience and its Spin in the Fedora Project. The group is lead by Joshua Strobl, the founder of the Buddies of Budgie organization that coordinates the project's development.

Bug Triage

Fedora Bug Triage attempts to manage the flow of bug reports filed against the myriad of Fedora projects. They stand to prevent the other project members from being overwhelmed by bug reports by resolving trivial submissions, removing or correcting flawed or inadequate reports, and making sure that maintainers are able to get things done.

C – E

Cloud

The Cloud SIG works to make Fedora successful on all major cloud platforms, public and private.

Confined Users

The Confined Users SIG works to coordinate efforts related to different means of confining users and their accounts (i.e. achieving secure process, data and account isolation and protection, and mitigating privilege escalation), and also to bring beginners and intermediate users with an interest in computer security together with developers and experts and engage them in contributing to the testing efforts. This can often be time-intensive but also does not require as much long-term experience as many expect. A willingness to contribute to simple usability testing, requiring only to identify and report issues and unintended behavior, often makes a large impact. Admittedly, however, the core focus on achieving confinement tends to involve sophisticated testing conducted by more experienced users (and those who want to become experienced).

Container

The Container SIG's mission is to maintain, grow, guide and promote best practices for the development and release of operating system-level virtualization containers and their image ecosystems.

Continuous Integration

The goal of the Continuous Integration (CI) SIG is to bring together enthusiasts interested in developing tools, best practices, standards, and workflows to implement Continuous Integration in Fedora at a larger scale. While the practice is well-known and used by many software projects, it is usually applied at an individual component level. Scaling it up is a challenge from both technical and organizational points of view, and this SIG feels they have an opportunity within Fedora to explore and develop the CI/CD topic beyond simple pull-request testing.

CoreOS

The CoreOS Working Group champions the CoreOS Edition of Fedora as the most credible solution available today for container workflows.

COSMIC

The COSMIC SIG aims to prepare for and promote the upcoming COSMIC Desktop environment, developed by System76.

Data Engineering

The Data Engineering SIG seeks to make Fedora and CentOS pleasant platforms for building systems for the collection and usage of data.

Deepin

The Deepin Desktop Environment SIG's mission is to define a high-quality Deepin DE experience to Fedora users and developers. They are just getting started, and in need of members who will push and maintain the Deepin packages in Fedora.

Design

The Design SIG aims to provide the latest free and open source tools for visual designers, especially Fedora's own Design Suite.

Desktop

The Desktop SIG strives to make Fedora a very good desktop distribution. The goal is to produce a more targeted desktop spin while maintaining traditional Fedora strengths such as security and commitment to free software. They work on developing and releasing the Fedora Desktop Live CD.

DNS

The DNS SIG attempts to improve name resolution implementations available on Fedora. The goal is to have fully-featured and privacy enabled name resolution, while still working on all common networks, for servers as well as workstations.

DotNet

The DotNet SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain .NET (and related) packages in Fedora. The goal of this group is to help to anyone interested in .NET and support others in creating and maintaining those packages. Anyone interested in C#/.NET is welcome!

eBPF

The goal of the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) SIG is to help the folks working on eBPF development and adoption, and evangelize and promote its usage in a community within Fedora.

Education

The mission of the Education SIG (Edu SIG) is to optimize Fedora for use by teachers and learners, both inside and out of the context of educational institutions. They do this by building, maintaining and evangelizing a strong ecosystem of educational packages within Fedora, and by supporting learners in using these packages as tools to reach their learning goals.

Enterprise Linux Next

The Enterprise Linux Next (ELN) SIG maintains the buildroot and compose tools that aim to make possible the emergence of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-like environment, using only the standard Fedora package sources. The hope is that both distributions will benefit from the integration, as Fedora users will gain access to a professional-style Linux environment and Red Hat will be better positioned to evaluate what impacts new software releases may have on their customers.

EPEL

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is targeted at filling the gap between the complete Fedora Collection and the packages that are maintained in Enterprise Linux. The EPEL SIG is a community of individuals (led by a steering committee) that focuses on package maintenance and infrastructure to provide as many packages as possible to the consumers of Enterprise Linux.

Erlang

The mission of the Erlang SIG is to encourage the packaging of Erlang and Elixir projects in Fedora.

Extended Reality

The XR SIG's goal is to enable extended reality (XR)—an umbrella term that encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR)—capabilities in Fedora. This includes integrating runtime environments, emerging desktop environments and development tools into the Fedora package archives, along with upstream collaboration and gaming.

F – K

Finance

The Finance SIG works across the Fedora Project to ensure that all contributors and groups have the financial resources that they need. They coordinate processes, manage budgets and strive to push financial authority and accountability as close to the margin as possible while ensuring accurate and transparent accounting.

Flatpak

The Flatpak SIG is for people who are interested in improving the state of Flatpak packaging in Fedora. This includes maintaining existing Fedora Flatpaks, maintaining the Fedora Flatpak runtime and improving the documentation and overall packager experience when working with Flatpaks on Fedora.

Fonts

The Fonts SIG is an informal group of Fedora Linux contributors dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in the distribution and its other Linux derivatives. They stay very busy tackling the tasks seen below, among others:

Formal Methods

"Formal methods" are techniques that use mathematics to prove that models of software, hardware, and other systems will or will not have certain behaviors. To be practical, they must use automated tooling. The goal of the Formal Methods SIG is to make it easy to install formal methods tools in Fedora, ease learning how to apply them, encourage the development of "open proofs" (where implementations, proofs and the required tools are all FLOSS), and provide feedback to toolmakers so that the tools in Fedora can become more powerful, scale better and are easier to use together.

Games

The goal of the Games SIG is to make Fedora the best free and open source gaming platform available for both developers and users.

Geographic Information Systems

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) SIG is an initiative aimed to package GIS technology-related open source software in Fedora/EPEL, and turn Fedora/EPEL into the best choice for a GIS platform.

Go

The goal of the Go SIG is to bring together all people that are interested in the Go programming language, be they packagers, developers or users, and working together to improve the overall experience of using Go on Fedora.

GraphQL

The GraphQL SIG's mission is to maintain, grow, guide and promote best practices for the development of applications using GraphQL within our infrastructure.

Haskell

The mission of the Haskell SIG is to maintain, grow, and guide the packaging of Haskell projects in Fedora.

Heterogeneous Computing

The goal of the Heterogeneous Computing (HC) SIG is to encourage the packaging and accessibility of heterogeneous computing projects in Fedora and EPEL. This includes machine learning, OpenCL and scientific computing. AMD's ROCm software stack is a perfect example of the kind of projects we love to champion.

Independent Software Vendor

The Independent Software Vendor (ISV) can be anything from a one- or two-man shop to a software design and development powerhouse. Fedora is a great platform for showing off your product, especially to community developers who might be interested in contributing code, plugins, or feedback.

i3

i3 is a tiling window manager for X11. The goal of the Fedora i3 SIG is to produce a Fedora i3-based Fedora Spin. They can be found on Pagure.io, Telegram and IRC.

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things Working Group helps to shepherd the nascent support in Fedora for IoT-style devices into a more robust state.

Java

The Java SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that work on enhancing Java in Fedora. Their mission is to provide high-quality Java applications and environments to Fedora users and developers, and to support each other in the maintenance.

Join

The Join SIG aims to maintain channels for prospective contributors to engage with the community, converse with existing members, make friends, find mentors, get a feeling of what the community does in general, and reduce the learning gradient that joining a new community entails—and make it more enjoyable!

KDE

The KDE SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain KDE packages in Fedora. Their mission is to provide high-quality, usable KDE software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

Kubernetes Development

The Kubernetes Development (KubeDev) SIG is a group of Fedora community members interested in using, developing, extending Kubernetes for Fedora components and services.

L – O

Language Testing

The Fedora Language Testing Group (FLTG) takes care of the Fedora testing activities: taking the initiative to conduct the Fedora Test days, update the necessary wiki pages, prepare test cases and get things coordinated and organized for the testers.

LibreOffice

The goal of the LibreOffice SIG is to coordinate packaging of the LibreOffice Suite and related packages.

Live

The Fedora Live SIG is dedicated to producing live content like video game livestreams or live community podcasts.

Live DVD

The mission of the Live DVD SIG is to provide a stable Live DVD for each new stable release of Fedora.

Live Upgrade

If you want to participate in efforts to make live upgrades happen more smoothly, you should join the Live Upgrade SIG.

LXDE

LXDE LXDE Special Interest Group

The LXDE SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards LXDE in Fedora. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXDE experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages and helping each other in all LXDE related efforts.

LXQt

LXQt LXQt Special Interest Group

The LXQt SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards LXQt in Fedora. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXQt experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages and helping each other in all LXQt related efforts. This SIG is very similar to LXDE because both projects are developed using the same GUI toolkit: Qt.

Medical

The Medical SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in healthcare, medicine, biology and bioinformatics.

Messaging

The Messaging SIG seeks to create a messaging infrastructure within the Fedora Project that facilitates communication, interaction and integration between services inside the Fedora infrastructure.

Minimal Core

The Minimal Core SIG is a group of people interested in maintaining Fedora's minimal package set. This is the Core group in the comps file, and any packages installed by the Anaconda installer by default.

Miracle

The Miracle SIG aims to prepare for and promote the up-and-coming Miracle tiling window manager for the Wayland display protocol.

Mobility

The Mobility SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in enhancing the experience of using Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting netbooks, mobile internet devices (MIDs), tablets and the like, the original plan was to expand in scope to include things such as set-top boxes (STBs), but the SIG became inactive for some time. It was resurrected in 2020 to work on booting Fedora on smartphones, initially focusing just on the Fedora experience with the Pine64 PinePhone.

Mono

The Mono SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain Mono and other Mono-related packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable software packages to Fedora users and developers, and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

Multimedia

The purpose of the Multimedia SIG is to provide the best possible multimedia experience for Fedora users, out of the box. They aim to share the burden of maintenance for multimedia-related packages, coordinate interdependent updates and rebuilds, and also provide a pool of experienced reviewers in the area of multimedia.

Music & Audio

It should be easy and enjoyable to make music and work with audio on Fedora, and the Music & Audio SIG is one of the prime reasons that it is.

NeuroFedora

NeuroFedora is a group of researchers and Fedora contributors that are interested in having a dedicated spin/application bundle to be used by the neuroscience and neuroimaging community. They build on top of several other spins and SIGs, including Big Data, Fedora Medical, Machine Learning, Robotics and Science and Technology.

NoSQL

The NoSQL SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain NoSQL-related packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable NoSQL software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

OpenStack

This SIG is for people interested in maintaining the packages for OpenStack clients in Fedora, the associated Oslo libraries, and their dependencies. They coordinate with the RDO Project (RPM Distribution [of] OpenStack) to sync packaging and collaborate with upstream developers to provide high-quality packages.

P – R

Package Review

This SIG is currently in its infancy, and things are still being organized. The job is to process new package review submissions and evaluate them for quality and adherence to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines. As this is the initial experience for many new contributors to the Fedora Project, we also work towards making this procedure as smooth and rewarding as possible.

Anyone is welcome to join; obviously it is necessary for one to already be a packager in order to issue the ultimate review for new packages, but there are many tasks along the way that can be done by anyone and participation in the SIG is a good path to securing sponsorship for eventually becoming a member.

Pantheon

A SIG for people who are interested in improving the state of the Pantheon desktop environment in Fedora. This includes porting packages from Elementary OS and testing libraries, packages and applications.

Perl

This is a group devoted to packaging Perl modules and applications for Fedora.

PHP

PHP SIG PHP Special Interest Group

To assist packagers in bringing PHP-related packages to Fedora and assisting in their continued maintenance by providing timely reviews, acting as secondary package owners and assisting with related security issues.

Pride

The Pride SIG envisions itself as a social group & community safe space for Fedora contributors and users as well as a trusted resource to the broader Fedora DEI initiative and Fedora Council on LGBTQ+/Pride-related challenges. They are involved in hosting events & activities that lift up and support members of marginalized communities.

Printing

Fedora Printing Printing Special Interest Group

The Fedora Printing Project's goal is to create a good printing experience on Fedora.

Python

Fedora Loves Python and this SIG are for people who would like to see this relationship flourish.

PyTorch

The intent of the PyTorch SIG is to bring together all people that are interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning and heterogeneous/high-performance computing in Fedora, be they packagers, developers or users, and work together on improving the overall experience. We intend on pushing forward native PyTorch support in Fedora; this includes collaborating with other groups to enable hardware acceleration and needed package dependencies.

Quantum Computing

The Quantum Computing SIG is a group of Fedora contributors/community members who are interested in experimenting with Quantum computing within Fedora, to see what is possible and to build a solid knowledge base for any possible projects that may arise.

R

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. This SIG is for people who are interested in improving R support in Fedora, which includes packaging the core runtime, add-on packages, IDEs and other components.

Red Team

The Red Team SIG is the cybersecurity community for Fedora that produces offensive tooling, curated exploits, standards, and reference architectures.

Respins

The mission of the Respins SIG is to provide the community at-large with regularly-updated ISO images to serve as ready-made demonstration aids for events like Install-fests, conferences and other local events. The nature of these images, essentially turnkey environments for Fedora Workstation and its derivative spins with an assortment of popular packages preinstalled, also makes them ideal rescue tools for systems in disrepair. Their work is freely available here.

RISC-V

The goals of this SIG are to bring people together who wish to help with enablement and support of the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.

Robotics

The goal is to bring packages of open and free software related to robotics, and educational software for robotics, into Fedora to make it fit to power (mobile) robots.

Ruby

Ruby SIG Ruby Special Interest Group

This is a SIG for people who are interested in improving the state of Ruby in Fedora. This includes packaging Ruby libraries and applications, setting and improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Ruby packages for Fedora.

Rust

A SIG for people who are interested in improving the state of Rust in Fedora. This includes packaging Rust libraries and applications, setting and improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Rust packages for Fedora.

S – X

Science and Technology

The purpose of the Sci/Tech SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.

SIGs/Security

Fedora's Security SIG is no separated SIG but it is integrated into the community, and associates and connects contributors and other SIGs that impact security, but also aims to embed security perspectives into other teams and SIGs. The Security SIG offers a point of exchange and to connect with. It allows users and contributors to have a place where they can go to when it comes to making aware of or discussing security matters, it brings different perspectives in the security discussions together, it embeds security-perspectives into the community and facilitates feedback loops into all areas of Fedora with consolidated security-relevant knowledge.

Server

Our goal is to make Fedora suitable for server deployments and the perfect base for enterprise systems like RHEL.

Social Science

Social Science is an emerging SIG that wants to make Fedora a recommendable distribution for social scientists; referring in broad terms to those interested in socio-technical issues.

Sound

The Sound SIG creates free sound themes for Fedora, using only FOSS software available from the Fedora repositories.

Source String Contextualization

The Source String Contextualizing Group (SSCG) provides meaningful descriptions of the source strings for translators (better known as internationalization, or i18n) to ensure the correctness and quality of the translations, thus facilitating a good end user experience of the localized Fedora applications.

Spins

The Spins SIG performs technical reviews of Spins contributed by the community.

Stateless Linux

The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state.

Stewardship

The goal of the Stewardship SIG is to provide temporary maintenance of important packages that are in danger of being removed from the distribution. This usually happens when the primary maintainer of a package orphans it—be that for lack of interest, time or resources—or decides to maintain the package as a module only, and so orphans then eventually retires the "normal" package. However, as this can have consequences for a large set of dependent packages (and users), the members of this SIG step in to take on (hopefully) temporary maintenance of important packages.

Store

The Store SIG is devoted to getting a store running, both for users looking for one-off purchases and for Ambassadors who need swag in bulk.

Sway

The goal of the Sway SIG is to provide a good user experience for Sway, the tiling Wayland compositor and replacement for the i3 window manager.

University

The University SIG focuses on problems related to institutions of higher education and their populations, which is primarily introducing students to the personal and pro-social benefits of utilizing free software.

Usability

The Fedora Usability SIG aims to provide coherence, accessibility and intuitiveness for all people using Fedora and its associated resources.

WASM

The WASM SIG is dedicated to connecting users interested in WebAssembly.

Workstation

The Fedora Workstation Working Group is the main team behind Fedora's official desktop edition.

Xfce

Xfce SIG Xfce Special Interest Group

The Xfce SIG works on the integration of the Xfce desktop environment. Their aim is to establish it as an equally well-regarded choice of desktop environment as GNOME and KDE.

Inactive SIGs

Inactive ≠ Dead
The Special Interest Groups listed below have ceased to remain organized and productive in recent times, but in most cases this is not a fixed state. With the exception of groups which reorganized around a different topic or whose focus is no longer relevant, any SIG can be resuscitated given sufficient community interest.

A – S

Atomic

Project Atomic is now sunset
As of 2020, the Atomic SIG is dormant and has been for some time. The content of this page and others related to Atomic are preserved for historical reference and in the hope that some of the content may still prove useful, but the group is not active or holding meetings. Fedora CoreOS is the replacement for Atomic, while Fedora Silverblue is the replacement for Atomic Workstation.

The Fedora Atomic Working Group works to bring integrate new OS technology and tools from Project Atomic into Fedora.

Audio Creation

Audio Creation is now sunset
As of 2023, the Audio Creation SIG is dormant and has been for some time. The content of this page and others related to it are preserved for historical reference and in the hope that some of the content may still prove useful, but the group is not active or holding meetings. The Music & Audio SIG has been created as its successor.

The goal of the Audio Creation SIG is to make Fedora the best free/open-source platform for computer-based music production, audio mastering and audio editing.

Machine Learning

Group succession
The Machine Learning SIG is inactive and has been replaced by the newer AI/ML SIG.

The Machine Learning SIG's goal is to make Fedora the best platform for all things related to Machine Learning. We aim to act as a bridge in the gap between the Astronomy, Big Data, Medical, and Science and Technology SIGs.

Silverblue

Dormant
This SIG is currently dormant. You may wish to review the Atomic Desktops SIG instead.

We like the Silverblue variant and we want to coordinate efforts towards making it a first-class edition of Fedora.