Fedora Linux 38 Release Party Schedule

The Fedora community will celebrate the release of Fedora Linux 38 with a virtual Release Party. The virtual release parties are a great way to learn more about the latest Fedora Linux release. More importantly, they are a chance to spend time with the wonderful Fedora community.

Dates

Friday, 2 June to Saturday, 3 June 2023

Registration link

https://hopin.com/events/fedora-linux-38-release-party/registration

Schedule

Friday June 2

Time (EDT, UTC-4)	Time (UTC)	Session title	Name of speaker	Description	Notes
8:00–9:00 AM	12:00–13:00	Hallway Track - Pre-Event Social	N/A	Join us in the Fedora Museum to meetup and socialize with fellow Fedorans!	Portal session
9:00–9:30 AM	13:00–13:30	Opening remarks	Matthew Miller, Justin W. Flory	Join the Fedora Project Leader and Fedora Community Architect as we kick off the celebration for this release, look back on the last release cycle, and review highlights from this weekend's event.
9:30–10:00 AM	13:30–14:00	Fedora Message Notifications (FMN): Introducing v3	Aurélien Bompard	Fedora Messaging Notifications (FMN) has been rewritten from the ground up! Come to this talk to discover what you can do with the new version, and how it is written, organized, and deployed.	https://notifications.fedoraproject.org/
10:00–10:30 AM	14:00–14:30	Creative Freedom Summit Retrospective	Emma Kidney, Madeline Peck, Marie Nordin	The Creative Freedom Summit hosted by the Fedora Design Team is an annual free virtual event to promote Open Source creative tools, features, and benefits of use. The summit’s accomplishments and areas for improvement will be examined in light of the first year of the event, along with potential changes for the following years to come.	https://creativefreedomsummit.com/
10:30–11:00 AM	14:30–15:00	Break - Hallway Track - Social	N/A	Join us in the Fedora Museum to meetup and socialize with fellow Fedorans!	Portal session
11:00–11:30 AM	15:00–15:30	Peter Robinson]] Fedora IoT update	Peter Robinson
11:30 AM–noon	15:30–16:00	Fedora Websites 3.0: Delving into a contributor-friendly semantic website	Emma Kidney, Akashdeep Dhar	The refreshed websites for the primary Fedora Linux offerings are out now in the production environment and now is the best time for folks to make their contributions, no matter the nature of those. This presentation will include a short demonstration on how anyone from the community can effectively contribute to the Fedora Websites 3.0 project using the contributor-friendly content management system.	https://fedoraproject.org/, Slide deck
12:00–1:00 PM	16:00–17:00	Fedora CoreOS News & How Columbia University Uses Fedora CoreOS	Dusty Mabe (Red Hat), Marc Pusey (Columbia University Irving Medical Center)	In this session we'll talk about recent developments in Fedora CoreOS. We'll also hear from Marc Pusey from Columbia University about how they're using Fedora CoreOS and what it's like to participate in the project.	https://fedoraproject.org/coreos/
1:00–1:30 PM	17:00–17:30	Break - Hallway Track - Social	N/A	Join us in the Fedora Museum to meetup and socialize with fellow Fedorans!	Portal session
1:30–2:00 PM	17:30–18:00	State of EPEL	Carl George, Diego Herrera, Troy Dawson	Representatives from the EPEL Steering Committee and the CPE EPEL team will give an overview of the state of EPEL, including a look at future plans.	https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/
2:00–2:30 PM	18:00–18:30	Improving Licensing Upstream	David Cantrell, Jilayne Lovejoy, Richard Fontana	Fedora adopts SPDX licensing expressions. How the project planned a migration from an existing homegrown license identification system to a newer industry standard system and what this means for package maintainers.	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SPDX_Licenses_Phase_2

Saturday June 3

Time (EDT)	Time (UTC)	Session Title	Name of speaker	Description	Notes
8:00–8:30 AM	12:00–12:30	How To Join Fedora	Akashdeep Dhar, Onuralp Sezer	Love Fedora Linux 38 for what it is and want to participate in the community that is behind making it? You are in the right place! This presentation will go over how a newcomer can join the community, make some friends, give meaningful contributions and enjoy their time here.	Slide deck
8:30–9:00 AM	12:30–13:00	State of Docs	Hank Lee, Peter Boy	Docs updates on Fedora Docs website improvement and 'Getting started with Docs contribution', Quick Docs site metrics, and remake of Docs hackfest.	https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/
9:00–9:30 AM	13:00–13:30	Break - Hallway Track - Social	N/A	Join us in the Fedora Museum to meetup and socialize with fellow Fedorans!	Portal session
9:30–10:00 AM	13:30–14:00	Community Platform Engineering - Who We Are and What We Do	Samyak Jain, Akashdeep Dhar	Community Platform Engineering is a Red Hat sponsored team that works on developing and maintaining the applications and services that the community uses and loves. Join us in this talk to know about who we are, what we have been upto in the time between the Fedora Linux 37 release to Fedora Linux 38 release and what we plan on doing going forward.	https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/, Slide deck
10:00–10:30 AM	14:00–14:30	Inside Look at Fedora's Mastodon Account	Joseph Gayoso	Five months since joining Mastodon, come see how the Marketing Team has leveraged the excitement over an open source platform to connect with our community and establish a new footing for Fedora's social media. We'll walk through our journey up to this point, how we have managed the Mastodon account, and where we go from here.	https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/
10:30–10:45 AM	14:30–14:45	Closing remarks	Matthew Miller, Justin W. Flory	Join the Fedora Project Leader and Fedora Community Architect in the closing session, thank-yous, and an update on the next Flock event.
10:45 AM– 2:00 PM	14:45–18:00	Post-Event Hallway Track - Social	N/A	Wrap up the party, catch up with Fedora friends, and claim your release party badge in the Fedora Museum.	Portal session

Announcement links

Here are links to the various announcements shared during the opening and closing sessions.

• HelloTux store (use FEDORA5 for a discount)

The Fedora Community Blog is a great way to keep up on announcements. Subscribe via email, RSS, or watch the Fedora Discussion tag.