Fedora Introductory Talk

2. What is Fedora?
How To Join Fedora?

3. What is fedora?

11. Staying close to upstream
projects

13. >New release every six months
>Free and open source applications only
>Free and open source Infrastructure
>Maintained by volunteers largely (~70%)
>Nearly 15000 software packages available
>Rapid progress of free and open source
software

14. What is The Fedora Releases
Naming Convention??

15. Fedora 16 (Verne)
James Lovelock is a futurologist, and so was Jules
Verne
Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
Laughlin is a city in the state of Nevada (United States),
and so is Lovelock.
Fedora 14 (Laughlin)
Robert H. Goddard was a professor of physics, and so
was Robert Laughlin.

16. WHAT IS COMMUNITY ?

19. WHAT OPEN SOURCE
COMMUNITY PROVIDES YOU?

21. How to join

24. Content Writer

25. 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)

27. Designer

28. Design projects including: Fedora Logo,
PromoBanners, Widgets, Icon Theme,
MediaArt, Posters, T-Shirt Design
Skills:GIMP , Inkcscape etc.

30. OS Developer
niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

31. Create new applications
Become a package maintainer to create and
maintain RPM packages for software in Fedora.
test/break Fedora.
Skill : Programming(c/c++,java), RPM/Packaging,
Bugfiling

33. People Person
niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

34. Spread the word of fedora
Think of creative ways for promoting Fedora
Develop marketing strategies to promote the
usage and support of Fedora worldwide.
Provide Feedback to Developers about bugs.
Skill : People skills, event organization, customer
service/support, enthusiasm

35. niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

36. Translator
niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

37. 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

39. Web Developer Or
Administrator
niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

40. Improve Fedora's image and to create the best
possible web interface for users and contributors
on the Internet.
Skill : Python, HTML/XML/XHTML, CSS, Web
app development,Python, Linux system
administration

41. http://fedoraproject.org/join­fedora
Talk to :Fedora Mentors
niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

42. s
niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

43. niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org

44. The team
Nitesh Narayan Lal
IRC:niteshnarayanlal
FAS Account :niteshnarayan
Mail:niteshnarayan@fedoraproject.org