# Speaker Notes

**Slide #1:**
* Introduction: Welcome the attendees and tell them what we are here for in brief.

**Slide #2:**
* Points to be discussed in today's presentation.
* Ask questions for engagement.

**Slide #3:**
* [Fedora's Mission and Foundations](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/)
1. What is Fedora?
2. Vision
3. Mission
4. Brief introduction to Open-Source community.
* [How is Fedora Organised?](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/orgchart/)
1. The Fedora Council: Overall leadership and governance body.
2. FESCo: Most of the projects are organised under this Committee.
3. Mindshare: Represents the outreach leadership in Fedora.

**Slide #4:**
* Goals of the Fedora Join.
1. Encourage communication between prospective contributors and existing contributors.
2. Provide self-contained and well-documented issues for newbies to get them started.
3. Guide the prospective contributors.
4. Help stimulating knowledge exchange between prospective contrbutors and existing contributors. Also, No one-on-one mentoring is provided but one-to-many.
5. A comfortable communication channel for the prospective contributors.

**Slide #5:**
* What is an FAS account?
* FAS account creation
* Welcome Tickets. Explanation in brief.

**Slide #6:** (Steps to be followed by a new contributor)
* Introduction:
* Introducing themselves by joining mailing lists.
* Join Pagure group
* Exploration:
* Complete Freedom to check out and contribute to subprojects
* Interaction:
* Checking on the contributors and helping them.
* I am Fedora:
* Every prospective contributor is a valuable member in the community.

**Slide #7:** (What the is the community about?)
[What is Fedora all about?](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/#_what_is_fedora_all_about)
* Freedom: Free software and content. Open-source.
* Friends: Friendly community
* Features: Excellent and diverse software due to the community.
* First: Committed to Innovation. Latest, robust and powerful softwares are provided.

> BT0, the following needs to be specified explicitly before starting with the "subprojects".

#### Important disclaimer - When we talk about quote-unquote subprojects in the coming slide, we would try to be as general as possible to cover SIGs, elected committees and everything else that a newcomer should know of.

**Slide #8:** (technical subprojects 1)
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee — FESCo is the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. It is a fully community elected body and represents the technical leadership in Fedora.
* Fedora Modularity — Modularity introduces an optional Modular repository that provides additional versions of software on independent lifecycles.
* Fedora Containers — Here you will find Documentation and Guidelines regarding creation, usage and maintainance of Containers in Fedora.
* NeuroFedora — NeuroFedora is an initiative to provide a ready to use Fedora based Free/Open source software platform for neuroscience.

**Slide #9:** (technical subprojects 2)
* Fedora Teleirc SIG — The Teleirc SIG is a volunteer-driven group to manage Teleirc bridge bots.
* Fedora CI — Fedora Continuous Integration Portal
* Fedora Infrastructure - Documentation covering the development and administration of the many projects that make Fedora work.
* Fedora ELN — Buildroot and compose process using Rawhide to emulate Red Hat Enterprise Linux

**Slide #10:** (technical subprojects 3)
* Fedora Minimization Objective — Home of the Fedora Minimization Objective.
* Fedora QA — This docs outlines all the activities you can get involved in to help with Fedora QA (Quality Assurance) and is meant to guide you through the QA ecosystem.
* CPE - The Community Platform Engineering Team is a Red Hat team dedicated to the Fedora and CentOS projects where they contribute to the infrastructure and release engineering.
* Fedora i3 SIG - Documentation for the Fedora Special Interest Group centered about the i3wm window manager.

**Slide #11:** (non-technical subprojects 1)
* Fedora Mindshare Committee — The Mindshare Committee fosters communication amongst the Mindshare teams and helps facilitate Council strategy.
* Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) — Community Operations (CommOps) provides tools, resources, and utilities for different sub-projects of Fedora to improve effective communication.
* Fedora Documentation (Docs) — The group behind this very documentation site. Includes contributors’ guidelines to Fedora Docs
* Fedora Badges — The group behind Fedora Badges — a fun website built to recognize contributors to the Fedora Project, help new and existing Fedora contributors find different ways to get involved, and encourage the improvement of Fedora’s infrastructure.

**Slide #12:** (non-technical subprojects 2)
* Fedora Join SIG - The Fedora Join SIG aims to set up and maintain channels that let prospective contributors engage with the community.
* Fedora Magazine — Guidelines around contributing to the Fedora Magazine.
* Fedora Localization Project - The Fedora Localization Project.

**Slide #13:**
* How to become a successful contributor?
* Let's take a look at some steps.

**Slide #14:** (Steps to become a successful contributor)
* Time Commitment:
1. Time commitment towards the work you are doing.
2. Reserve time for volunteering.
3. Important to enjoy the work.
* Get permission from work and family:
1. Understanding the benefits of contributing.
2. Managing work and family time.
* Joining:
1. Don't join just to contribute; Interact with the folks, make new friends and be a part of the community.
2. Take your time.
3. Don't get discouraged in the first few days.
* Observation:
1. Learn more about the organisation.
2. Attending meetings, emailing on mailing lists, hanging out on IRC.

**Slide #15:** (Steps continued)
* Find Tasks that interest you: Must interest you.Pick what you want to work on.
* Start Simple: Don't jump into the deep end. Don't work on huge tasks all by yourself. This would avoid chances of failure.
* Build relationships in the community: Communicate with people. You can find a mentor/sponsor to make your journey effortless.
* Keep yourself busy: Working on exciting tasks efficiently, irrespective of their scale.

**Slide #16:**
* Diversity and it's importance in the community.
* Some ground rules to ensure a positive and friendly environment.

**Slide #17:** (Ground rules/Code of Conduct)
* Be considerate:
1. Effect of your decisions on other's.
2. Responsibility of contributors to consider consequences before making decisions.
* Be respectful:
1. No personal attacks due to disagreements.
2. Maintaining proper behavior and manners.

**Slide #18:** (Conclusion)
* Inform about Mailing List, IRC, Telegram, Matrix, Discord
* Conclude the presentation