Category:SIGs

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

Creating a SIG

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

Introduction to some SIGs

Ada

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

SIGs/Ada

Alternate Architectures

The purpose of the Alternate Architecture SIGs is to promote fedora on different architectures.

Currently there are active teams for:

• ARM both ARMv7 and aarch64
• MIPS
• PowerPC both big and little endian Power64
• S390x

The following teams are looking for members:

• X86_32

No longer active architectures are:

• IA64
• SPARC
• Parisc

Amateur Radio

Goal of Amateur Radio group is to improve the Fedora collection by adding packages for amateur radio (Ham Radio) operators and SWLs.

SIGs/AmateurRadio

Astronomy

Goal of Fedora Astronomy group is to gather people interested to improve support for astronomers and astrophysicists.

Astronomy

Atomic

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

Atomic WG

Audio Creation

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

Audio Creation

Big Data

The Big Data SIG, in grand Fedora style, aims to make Fedora the best platform for all things related to Big Data.

Bigdata SIG

Bug Triage

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

Fedora Bug Triage

Cloud

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

Cloud SIG

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. The Desktop SIG will develop and release the "Fedora Desktop" live CD

SIGS/Desktop

DotNet

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

SIGs/DotNet

Education

The mission of the Fedora Education SIG (Edu SIG) is to optimize Fedora for use by teachers and learners, both within and outside of the context of educational institutions.

We 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 curricular goals.

Education

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. We are a community of individuals focusing on package maintenance and infrastructure to provide as many packages as possible to the consumers of Enterprise Linux. The EPEL SIG is led by a steering committee.

EPEL

Erlang

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

Erlang

Fedora Join SIG

The Fedora Join SIG works on making it easier for new prospective contributors to join the project and contribute.

Fedora Join SIG

FLTG

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

FLTG

Fonts

The Fonts Special Interest Group is an informal group of Fedora Linux contributors. It is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in the distribution and its other Linux derivatives.

Join us and help:

Fonts SIG activities

Activity	OS Developer	Translator	Content Writer	Designer	People Person
find the best fonts to include, to please artists, identify font creation tools needing packaging, create and improve Fedora fonts,
find the best fonts to include, for internationalization reasons, document the preferred fonts for your locale, improve the way a font supports your script by identifying problems and proposing ameliorations,
package new fonts and font tools, review font packages before Fedora inclusion, fix font or text problems in applications and libraries,
propose good Fedora fonts defaults,
identify font or text problems in applications and libraries, improve font package descriptions and summaries to help users choose the right fonts for their needs,
convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly license, recruit possible free/libre font authors, recruit new SIG members, get font or text problems fixed, improve the SIG visibility by getting it linked and quoted everywhere,
document font creation tasks, document free/libre font release best practices, document free/libre font packaging, clarify, complete and improve our wiki, identify interesting third-party material, and link it here, convert wiki information to other document formats.

Any font or text-related activity can be tackled, as long as the result is free/libre and compatible with the Fedora objectives.

The current SIG task list is published here.

Formal Methods

"Formal methods" are techniques that use mathematics to prove that models of software, hardware, or systems will or will not have certain behaviors. To be practical, they must be automated using tools. 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 an implementation, proofs, and required tools are all FLOSS), and to provide feedback to toolmakers so that the tools in Fedora can become more powerful, more scaleable, and easier to use together.

Formal Methods SIG

Games

Goal of Games SIG is to make Fedora the best Free software and open source gaming platform there is for both developers and users.

SIGs/Games

Geographic Information System

GIS is an initiative aimed to pack GIS technology related OSS in Fedora/EPEL and turn Fedora/EPEL to be the best chioce for a GIS platform.

Geographic Information System

Go

Goal of Go SIG is to bring together all people that are interested in Go in Fedora, be it packagers, developers and/or users and working on improving the overall experience.

Go SIG

Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

The 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.

ISV SIG

Java

The Java SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards Java in Fedora. Their mission is to provide high-quality Java applications and environment to Fedora users and developers and to support each other in the maintenance.

Java SIG

Join

The Fedora 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 and how the community does in general, and reduce the learning gradient that joining a new community entails -- and make it more enjoyable!

Join SIG

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.

KDE SIG

Live

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

Live SIG

Live DVD

Our Mission is to provide a stable Live DVD per stable release of Fedora.

Live DVD SIG

Live Upgrade

If you want to participate in efforts to make live upgrades smoother, join the Live Upgrade SIG.

Live Upgrade

LXDE

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.

LXDE LXDE Special Interest Group

LXQt

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 similiar to LXDE cause both projects are connected.

LXQt LXQt Special Interest Group

Machine Learning

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

Machine Learning

Fedora Medical

The Fedora Medical is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in having a dedicated spin/application bundle to be used by the healthcare and medical community.

Fedora Medical

Minimal Core

The Fedora 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.

Fedora Minimal Core

Mobility

The Fedora Mobolity SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), Tablets etc. It could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs).

Mobility

Mono

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

Mono

NeuroFedora

The 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. NeuroFedora builds on top of several other spins and SIGs including BigData, Data Science, Fedora Medical, Machine Learning, Octave, Robotics and Science and Technology.

NeuroFedora

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.

NoSQL

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 review them for quality and adherence to the Packaging Guidelines. As this is the initial experience for many new contributors to the Fedora Project, we also work towards making this procedure as enjoyable as possible. Anyone is welcome to join. Obviously it is necessary for one to already be a packager in order to review packages, but there are many tasks that can be done by anyone, and participation in the SIG is a good path to sponsorship.

Package Review

Perl

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

Perl

PHP

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.

PHP SIG PHP Special Interest Group

Printing

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

Fedora Printing Printing Special Interest Group

Python

Fedora loves Python and this SIG is for people who would like to see this relationship flourish.

Python SIG

Red Team

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

Robotics

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

Ruby SIG

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.

Ruby SIG Ruby Special Interest Group

Rust SIG

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.

Rust SIG Rust Special Interest Group

Science and Technology

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

Fedora Science and Technology SIG

Security

The Security SIG has goals of developing secure-coding (and other) training, code audits, and working with security vulnerabilities.

Server

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

Server SIG

Sound

We are to create free sound themes for fedora, using only FOSS software available from the Fedora repositories.

Sound SIG

Spins

A SIG for technical review of Spins contributed by the community.

Spin SIG

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.

Stateless Linux

SSCG

SSCG (Source String Contextualizing Group) provides meaningful descriptions of the source strings for translators to ensure the correctness and quality of the translations. Thus facilitating good end user experience of the localized Fedora applications.

SSCG

Store

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

Store

Usability

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

Fedora Usability

Xfce

The Fedora Xfce SIG works on the integration of the Xfce desktop environment. The aim is to establish Xfce as desktop environment besides GNOME and KDE.

File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide XfceDesktop xfce4 xicon1.png Xfce SIG Xfce Special Interest Group

3D Printing

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

3D Printing SIG