Category:SIGs

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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.

AI/ML

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.

Currently there are active teams for:

• ARM (both ARMv7 and ARMv8 [aarch64])
• MIPS
• PowerPC (both big- and little-endian Power64)
• S390x

The following teams are looking for members:

• RISC-V
• X86_32

No longer active architectures are:

• IA64
• SPARC
• Parisc

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

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 The content of this page and others related to Atomic are preserved for historical reference and in the hope that some of the content may still prove useful, but the group is not active or holding meetings.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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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).

Continuous Integration

The Continuous Integration SIG develops test automation system for Fedora, as well as tools and workflows for generic Continuous Integration useful to any software project.

Cloud

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

COSMIC

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

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!

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 (ELN)

The ELN SIG maintains the buildroot and compose tools that aim to make possible the emergence of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-like environment, termed "Enterprise Linux Next," 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.

F – K

FLTG

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.

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 System (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are 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.

Heterogeneous Computing (HC)

The goal of the Heterogeneous Computing 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 (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.

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.

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.

KubeDev

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

L – M

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.

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.

Medical

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

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.

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.

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.

N – Q

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.

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.

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 – S

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.

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 SIG

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 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.

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.

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

Silverblue

This SIG is currently dormant. You may want to join the Fedora Atomic Desktops SIG.

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

Silverblue SIG

Social Science

An emerging SIG that wants to make Fedora a recommendable distribution for social scientists; and that is broadly interested in socio-technical issues.

Social Science 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

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.

Sway

U – X

Usability

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

Fedora Usability

WASM

A SIG dedicated to connect users interested in WebAssembly.

WASM

Workstation

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

Fedora Workstation Working Group

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.

XR (VR/AR/MR)

The Fedora XR SIG's goal is to enable XR (VR/AR/MR) capabilities in Fedora. This includes integrating runtime environments, emerging desktop environments, development tools, upstream collaboration, and gaming.

XR SIG