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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
7:00-8:15 AM 11:00-12:15 Hallway Track - Pre-Event Social N/A Join us in the Fedora Museum to meetup and socialize with fellow Fedorans! Portal session
8:15–8:30 AM 12:15–12:30 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.
8:30–9:00 AM 12:30–13:00 TBD TBD
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 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 TBD TBD
11:30 AM–noon 15:30–16:00 [TBD] 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/
12:00–1:00 PM 16:00–17:00 TBD: CoreOS Dusty Mabe, +1
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 [TBD] How to join Fedora? TBD
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 Fedora Workstation's State of Gaming: A Case Study for Forza Horizon 5 (2021) on Fedora Workstation 38 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.
10:00–10:30 AM 14:00–14:30 [TBD] 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 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 TBD TBD
11:30 AM–noon 15:30–16:00 TBD TBD
12:00–1:00 PM 16:00-17:00 TBD TBD
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 TBD TBD
2:00–2:15 PM 18:00–18:15 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.

Info for Socials

Coming soon.


Announcement links

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

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