Hi Ambassadors! The CFP is open for DevConf CZ in Brno, Czechia from 12-14
June 2025. This is one week after Flock in Prague!
https://devconf.info/cz/
I am looking for help organizing a Fedora booth in Brno this year. The form
for the application is here:
https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/cfp
Does anyone want to work with me on organizing the Fedora presence there
this year? You can reply back on the list, or we can chat more on
#ambassadors:fedoraproject.org on Matrix.
Let me know if you have questions!
Hi Ambassador community. I sent the below email to Fedora contributors who
registered a free ticket for our annual FOSDEM contributor appreciation
dinner last night. However, I also wanted to share it with our wider
Ambassador community because I know there are so many of you who cannot be
with us there in-person, and I want to share some of the community vibes
here with the rest of you. <3
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Hi folks. This is your friendly, neighborhood Fedora Community Architect
👋🏻 You are receiving this email because you registered a ticket for the
Fedora & CentOS Contributor Appreciation Dinner at FOSDEM 2025. Don't
worry, you were not added to any mailing lists, but I did want to share
some remarks that I originally planned to give last night during our meal.
A special thanks goes to CentOS Connect and sponsors for their support in
making shared community experiences like this happen. Our contributor
appreciation dinner is a special tradition in Brussels. It is always one of
the most memorable community moments of the year for me. I enjoy it most
because I love seeing our community come together, "break bread", and share
our stories and wisdom with each other. And of course, eat yummy food!
Even though we had a great dinner last night, I know a lot of people are on
edge. There is no shortage of headlines grabbing our collective attention.
The world we live in right now feels divided. In many ways, this is new.
But in our Fedora community, division is actually nothing new. Although I
like to think of our "division" as "diversity of thought." In the world of
Linux distributions, we know we will not always agree with each other. We
may not always think the other person is right or we may think there is a
better way to solve a problem. The thing is, that is okay. What matters is
wherever we go as a community, *we go together*. As Friends. The ability
for us to work together, collaborate, and have fun while doing it is what
makes our community so special and unique. Over the ten years I have been
in this space, that magic feeling of community is what keeps me here and
brings me back to Fedora every day. I have learned so much from many of
you. As we get close to nearly a quarter of a century building Fedora, I am
excited about what is still yet to come in our shared future.
The FOSDEM contributor appreciation dinner is one very small way that we
get to say THANK YOU to our community members. We know not everyone can or
even wants to travel. We know that there are a lot of amazing Fedora folks
who were not in the room with us. But our contributor dinner is one way
that we share the common experience of being a Fedora community member. In
turn, I ask that you help pay it forward for Fedora, wherever and however
that makes the most sense for you. Maybe it is at a local Fedora meetup in
your region, or maybe it is mentoring a newcomer on their first Fedora
package. Whatever your meaning of paying it forward might be, as one of our
appreciated guests, I hope you will help extend the light of the Fedora
community in your own circles of the Project.
Finally, I wanted to give a special acknowledgement to Dorota "Dorka"
Volavkova and Fernando Fernandez Mancera. Dorka is a phenomenal part of our
Events team and Fernando volunteered as event owner for this year's FOSDEM
event. What we pull off here every year in Brussels is a community effort,
and Dorka and Fernando did incredible work to bring the Fedora community
vibes to CentOS Connect and FOSDEM. Thanks to all the visible and invisible
work done by these two to help bring us together for a few days in
(surprisingly warm and sunny!) Brussels.
On behalf of the Fedora leadership team, thank you for all that you do to
make Fedora what it is. Over our 22 years as a community, we have
accomplished a lot together. I believe we are only just getting started.
Enjoy the rest of your FOSDEM! See you around the Fedora stand and the
Distributions DevRoom.
— JWF
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*Cheers*,
*Justin W. Flory* (*he/him*) || 📧 jwf(a)redhat.com || 🔗 jwf.io
*Fedora* Community Architect
TZ=America/Atlanta (UTC-4) 🕗
*Fedora is a registered Digital Public Good
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While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no
expectation to receive a reply outside yours.
