● What is Fedora?

● Who is Fedora?

● Why does Fedora matter?

● How do you join the open source movement?

What is Fedora?
... a set of projects ...
Ambassadors
Artwork
Directory Server
Distribution
Documentation

Printing
Translation
Websites
Fedora For Kids
How to get into projects?
● Content Writer
● Designer

● People Person

● OS Developer

● Translator

● Web Developer or Administrator

 Content Writer
● Write tutorials and articles
● Write documents, guides, how-tos, FAQs,

marketing material, process/methodology docs,

release notes.
● Write documentation about usability.

Skills: Writing, editing, grammar, technical

knowledge (specific and general)
 Designer
●Design projects including: Fedora Logo, Promo
Banners, Widgets, Icon Theme, Media Art,
Posters, T-Shirt Design

Skills: GIMP, design

 Developer
● Create new applications
● Become a package maintainer to create and

maintain RPM packages for software in Fedora.

● Test/break Fedora.

Skills: Programming, RPM/Packaging, Bug filing

 People Person
● Spread the word of Fedora
● Think of creative ways for promoting Fedora

● Develop marketing strategy to promote the

usage and support of Fedora worldwide.

● Provide Feedback to Developers about bugs

and feature requests

Skills: People skills, event organization, customer

service/support, enthusiasm
 Translator
● Translate documents, guides, how-tos, FAQs,
marketing material, process/methodology docs.
● Translate the software to your native language.

Skill: English, Non-English native language,

technical knowledge
 Web Developer or Administrator
●Improve Fedora's image and to create the best
possible web interface for users and contributors
on the Internet.

●Skills: Python, XML/XHTML, CSS, Web app

development, Linux system administration
How to join
http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora
●It is as easy as getting account in any social
networking site.

Talk to
●
 [ Who uses Fedora? ]
● Linus Torvalds, the creator and primary maintainer of
Linux
● NASA
● Roadrunner, the number one Supercomputer in the
world
● Evo Smart Console gaming console
● Over a hundred derived distributions including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
● humanoid robots
● Millions of other users
Features of Fedora and What's new
in Fedora 14?
 Quick Facts
● New release out every six months
● Free and open source applications only
● Free and open source Infrastructure
● Maintained by volunteers largely (~70%)
● Nearly 15,000 installable software packages
● Rapid progress of free and open source
software
 What's New in Fedora 14

● Desktop Users:
● SPICE (Simple Protocol For Independent
Computing Environments)
– Providing users with a enhanced remote
desktop experience
● Libjpeg-turbo: load/save improvements for
images
 What's New in Fedora 14

● Developers:
● D: Systems programming language
combining C and C++ with productivity gains
of Ruby and Python
● GNUStep – GUI framework based on
Objective-C as part of gcc
● Rakudo Star: Perl 6 implementation
● Milkymist: tools for embedded board
development
 What's New in Fedora 14

● System Administrators:
● F14 images available on Amazon ECS
● Virt-v2v for migration from Xen VMs to KVM
We can't wait to impress you,

The team