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#264 [Talk-25] Contributing to Fedora as a Teenager, Here's how You can too
Closed: Talk Scheduled by riecatnor. Opened by nasirhm.

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  1. What is your proposal?

In this session I will be sharing my personal journey on How I got involved with Fedora Project and How you can get started with contributing to Fedora, hoping for it to be an inspiration for other teens and people from diverse backgrounds to get started with Fedora. Diversity and Inclusion in FOSS is essential, It would provide some key reasons why we all should work on making our communities more diverse and inclusive. Fedora Join SiG is doing amazing work to help newcomers get on boarded with fedora and help them get started with Fedora Project and there's a bias within newcomers who think they need to be an awesome developer in order to get involved but there are many other ways i.e: Docs, etc to get started and get into code if you would like to after being familiar with how things work. This talk would be helpful for newcomers to get introduced within Fedora and I would be covering the following topics:

  • How I started with contributing to Fedora Project
    • My Google Code In Story
    • Life after Google Code In
  • Diversity and Inclusion in FOSS
    • Why Diversity is essential to FOSS Communities

  • Fedora Join SIG

    • You don't have to be a programmer in order to get involved with Fedora

  • Who in addition to the speaker needs to be in the virtual room for this to succeed? This could be the audience you need to reach, other participants in the conversation, or other stakeholders.

List each person by their name and FAS ID, as shown below:

  • Justin W. Flory @jflory7
  • Siddharth Vipul @siddharthvipul1

  • Newcomers to Fedora, eager to take their first steps in Fedora land.

  • Is this a…

  • 25 minute Talk

  • Anything else we need to know?

Nothing

  1. Who are you?

  2. Name: Nasir Hussain

  3. FAS ID: @nasirhm
  4. IRC Nick, if not FAS ID:
  5. Timezone: UTC +05:00

I will be there :raised_hand: This would be a great session to promote in our Summer Coding / Mentored Projects channels too, once a Nest schedule is published.

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue tagged with: Community

I'm definitely interested -- I think we have a lot to learn from people's experiences coming into the project. Once COVID-19 is under control, I'd also like to send this to other conferences where young people who are potential contributors might be!

Your session has been accepted for Nest with Fedora. Please review the attached schedule (PDF) and advise ASAP if there are any conflicts. The timezone used for the attached schedule is EST. Schedule will be locked by Tuesday August 4th. If you have further questions or need assistance, feel free to email mnordin@redhat.com or drop those inquiries on this ticket. Thanks!

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Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue tagged with: Talk Accepted

Hi! Nest with Fedora is beginning shortly. I want to thank you for speaking at this years contributor conference, your time and effort is appreciated :)

I have outlined the basic process for speakers below. If you have questions, feel free to drop them here and I will do my best to answer them before the event begins.

How to get to your session:
Enter the event
Go to Sessions tab on the left at the correct time
Click your session
Accept permissions for audio/video
You're in!

Sessions are set up as moderated by the speakers. There is a maximum of 10 people on screen at once, though people can leave the screen and different attendees can request permission to join. The speaker(moderator) will have a moderation panel on the bottom left hand side to allow or deny the request. If you feel you need someone besides yourself to help with moderation, please make sure they are registered for the event and provide their full name here. Anyone can watch and participate in the chat. Sessions will be recorded.

To share slides, there is an option at the bottom to share your screen, where you can choose the window/tab to share. To share a video with audio, you can share your screen and play the audio on loud speaker (so your mic picks it up). Screen sharing works just as other video conferencing tools (like Google Meet, Bluejeans etc).

If you have technical issues during your session, contact one of the attendees labelled "Organiser" or myself, Marie Nordin, through the platforms direct message function.

Cheers!

  • riecatnor

Thank you for your participation at Nest with Fedora, it is appreciated. It was a great event and we have received a bunch of positive feedback.

Please attach slides or a link to slides here, and I will close the ticket as complete. If you did not use slides during your session, please comment to let me know.

Cheers!

Hi @nasirhm do you have slides you can upload/link to for your presentation? If so, please drop them here. Thanks!

Hey @riecarnor , Apologies for not sharing the slides earlier, here's the link to it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13cmYlUeoMV5UVWFVlvjaQ0bQ2TqNQhgN6LraQszWFvg/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you very much for the work you're doing marie !! :D

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue close_status updated to: Talk Scheduled
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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