# Fedora Podcast interview about EPEL

## Intro
- Do the introduction that Grayson would do
- Introduce the hosts
- Introduce season 3 or manage expectations about it?
- Introduce the topic
- Introduce the guests
- Chat for a bit and build rapport, then dive in

## What is EPEL?
- Question 1: What is EPEL?
- Question 2: How many users are there of EPEL?
- Question 3: How does EPEL fit into the RHEL ecosystem?
- Question 4: Is EPEL just the rest of what’s in the Fedora repos that is not selected to ship with RHEL? Is there a difference between what’s available for Fedora vs CentOS?
- Question 5: Is packaging for EPEL different that packaging for other distros?

## EPEL in IT Infrastructure
- Question 6: What are some enterprise-specific programs that are in EPEL? What are some of the most popular EPEL packages? What are some of the most important EPEL packages that users depend on?
- Question 7: Who are the decision makers that would be involved in integrating EPEL and FOSS contributions into job descriptions? What hesitations might those folks have about moving in this direction?
- Question 8: Why would a company pay an employee to maintain packages for free software? Is there resistance from different areas in the enterprise when they hear of IT using FOSS? How big a role if any does that play in getting buy-in for dedicated resources?
- Question 9: Are there examples you can think of where a company is supporting EPEL? What does that look like?

## Contributing to EPEL
- Question 10: How can contributors help maintain packages? Can they choose what package they maintain? What are the responsibilities involved? What is the time investment like? What kind of skills do they need to know before trying to maintain a package? How many packages can a full-time employee maintain?
- Question 11: If a package already has a maintainer, how can someone still help for that package? Is there basically nothing else to do at that point and they should consider maintaining another package in a ‘I scratch your back and you scratch mine’ mindset?

## Outro
- Thank guests for coming on the show
- Point listeners to the show notes for more resources
- Call to Action: Please take the EPEL survey!
- Sign off

## Show Notes
- *Link to EPEL survey*
- *Link to podcast forum post for further discussion*
- *Link to point of contact's details if provided*
- *Insert link to main EPEL IRC/Matrix channel*
- *Insert link to main EPEL long-form discussion channel, whether it's in Fedora Discussion or a mailing list*
- [EPEL Documentation - Fedora Docs](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/)
- [Demystifying EPEL | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Presents 29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hi-bfQxE2A)
- [Fedora Council Update: EPEL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcnUfoHqq4)