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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 | Lightning Talks: Lenovo & Fedora; Community Ops 2.0 | Mark Pearson, Justin W. Flory | Two ad-hoc sessions by our volunteer lightning talk submitters. | |
| 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/, Slide deck, Recording |
| 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/, Slide deck |
| 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 and 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/ |
| 10:30–11:00 AM | 14:30–15:00 | Fedora Workstation's State of Gaming | Akashdeep Dhar | A deep dive session explaining the benchmark experience of the latest AAA-racing title Forza Horizon 5, exploring the performance metrics on platforms like Fedora Workstation 38 and Windows 11 and comparing them to understand how far we have come in terms of creating a GNU/Linux distribution that is well suited for video-gaming. | Slide deck |
| 11:00–11:15 AM | 15:00–15:15 | 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. | |
| 11:15 AM–2:00 PM | 15:15–18:00 | 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.