Fedora DEI Team Meeting Notes
About our meetings
This section includes general notes or info about our team meetings.
Social Agreement
- Focus on listening to what others say.
- Stay present as much as possible. Close out or silence email, chats, etc. during the meeting.
- Let everyone have a chance to speak. Be aware of how much time you are talking.
- Be mindful of the meeting schedule. Be a contributor to moving dialog forward!
- Use the "raise hand" function when you want to add a comment or ask a question, especially in larger group meetings.
- Stay on mute when you are not speaking.
Meeting agendas
- Intros, welcomes, hellos (~5m)
- Team announcements & news (~5-10m)
- DEI Advisor updates to the team (~5-10m)
- Follow-ups from last meeting (if any) (~5-10m)
- Ticket discussions (remaining time)
- Open floor (remaining 5-10 minutes)
2025-06-12
Chair: Cornelius Emase
Attendees:
Team announcements & news
- Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.15
- Flock videos are now available!
- Release Party 41 videos are also available
- Fedora 43 Wallpaper progress update
- Fedora 42 Elections Results published
- GSOC Summer 2025 – ExplainMyLogs
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- Emma Kidney will propose some dates for the social hour, and we will try "garticphone" as the first game
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/9
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-06-12/diversity.2025-06-12-11.30.log.html
2025-05-29
Chair: Nisha Chandila @nishachandila
Attendees:
*
*
Team announcements & news
-
Topic: Fedora Linux 42 elections are open, and voting closes June 2 at 23:59 UTC.
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Topic: Flock to Fedora Volunteer Sign Up Now Open
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- Emma Kidney will propose some dates for the social hour, and we will try "garticphone" as the first game
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/9
- Ticket #53: "Fedora Mentor Summit"
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-05-29/diversity.2025-05-29-15.00.log.html
2025-05-15
Chair: Nisha Chandila @nishachandila
Attendees:
*
*
Team announcements & news
- Nominate your Fedora Heroes before May 16
- Fedora 43 Test Day
- Fedora Social Hour
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- Emma Kidney will propose some dates for the social hour, and we will try "garticphone" as the first game
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/9
- Ticket #53: "Fedora Mentor Summit"
Open floor
- Fedora Docs Virtual Event — we talked about this. If anyone wants to help with this event, it is in June too.
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-05-15/diversity.2025-05-15-11.30.log.html
2025-05-02
Chair: Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers
Attendees:
*
*
Team announcements & news
- Fedora 42 was officially released on April 15, 2025.
- Fedora Elections nominations period is now open and will close on May 8
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- Emma Kidney will propose some dates for the social hour, and we will try "garticphone" as the first game
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/9#tab-issues
- Ticket #53: "Fedora Mentor Summit"
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-05-02/diversity.2025-05-02-15.00.log.html
2025-04-03
Chair: Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers
Attendees:
Akinbani Misturat - she/her
- Michael (misc) - he / him
- Judith Etugbo - (FAS- judithetugbo) she / her
- Justin W. Wheeler (FAS: @jflory7) - he/him
- Isioma Angela (isioma20) - she/her
- Preethi grace
(FAS : @preethigrace) - she/her
- Progress Olaoye (FAS: @myloothniel) - she / her
- Nisha Chandila - she/her
- Israel Abazie (FAS: @vintage-creator)
- Cornelius Emase - he/him
- Chioma Veronica Ezezim(FAS: @veronicaezezim) - she/her/hers
- Precious Israel - She/her
- Ayomide Olugbenga-Ojo - she/her
- Ayodeji Daniel Obamiyi - he/him
- Dorcas Odetayo - she/her
Team announcements & news
- New Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
- End of OpenID authentication in Fedora Account System
- https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/end-of-openid-authentication-in-fedora-account-system/
- On the latest Fedora Infrastructure weekly meeting we decided on a date of OpenID authentication sunset. The date is 20th May 2025. The OpenID is being replaced by OpenIDConnect (OIDC) in most of the modern web and most of the Fedora infrastructure is already using OIDC as the default authentication method. OIDC offers us better security by handling both authentication and authorization. It also allows us to have more control over services that are using Fedora Account System (FAS) for authentication.
- Proposal to move Community Blog to Fedora Discussion
- Flock is coming: 5-8 June 2025, Prague CZ
- https://fedoraproject.org/flock/2025/
- The annual Fedora contributor conference, Flock, is open for registration. The final event schedule is due very soon. We hope you could consider joining us in Prague this year if it is possible for you. If you need help with travel advice or getting to know more info about the event, join #flock:fedoraproject.org on Matrix.
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- DEI event policy discussion in the Council
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
- Fedora Mentor Summit
- Outreachy applicant Q&A
- We used the second-half of the call to answer various questions from applicants!
- Don't forget to spend time on your portfolios and use this as a chance to showcase your contributions and efforts over the last month.
- Be wary about using AI for your contributions. Unfortunately, it is a lot easier to make bad contributions with AI than good contributions. Consider avoiding the use of AI, or use it as minimally as possible. We want to get to know you, and it is not a goal to make every contribution perfect!
Open floor
Highlights
For the quick links and questions shared during the call, you can find it here as well.
2025-03-20
Chair: Amita Sharma (amsharma)
Attendees:
*
Team announcements & news
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-03-20/diversity.2025-03-20-11.30.log.html
2025-03-06
Chair: Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers
Attendees:
- Robert Wright (rwright) - he / him / his
- Amita Sharma (amsharma)
- emma kidney (ekidney) - she / her / hers
- misc
Team announcements & news
- Fedora is accepted to GSoC :tada:
- Proposal to move Community Blog to Fedora Discussion
- Contribute at the Fedora Linux 42 i18n Test Week
DEI Advisor updates to the team
- Council Policy Proposal: DEI Events Policy
- Council F2F/Hackfest 2025 Summaries
Follow-ups from last meeting
- Emma Kidney will submit DEI hands-on heckfest session for Flock, 2025 ✅
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
- Ticket #53: "Fedora Mentor Summit"
- https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/53
- This year we will focus on three things: Mentor/Mentee Lunch Matching, Social Networking @ Evening Social, Contributor recognition event
- Jona has reached out to everyone who expressed interest last year in organizing FMS and will have a call with them next week or the week after
- If you're interested in getting involved, please comment on the issue
- Ticket #51: "Ideas for social calls"
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-03-06/diversity.2025-03-06-16.00.log.html
2025-02-20
Chair: Amita Sharma (amsharma)
Attendees:
- Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers
- emma kidney (ekidney) - she / her / hers
Team announcements & news
DEI Advisor updates to the team
- Council hackfest happened 2 weeks ago, and we are working on a summary of what we worked on during the hackfest
- DEI event policy was agreed to by council and will now go through the policy change policy, which will start when this is published by Monday 10th Feb 2025
Follow-ups from last meeting
- Jona to open ticket re meeting agenda format and timing ✅
- Emma, open ticket for the social part ✅
- Coty to open ticket for how we can reach more teams for outreach & additional feedback ✅
- Jona open ticket abut FMS 2025 ✅
- Emma open ticket for how DEI team represent at Flock - CfP open soon ✅
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
- Ticket #52: "Possible Flock 2025 proposals"
- https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/52
- A DEI workshop has been submitted by Jona and Amita
- we can think of a quiz but that needs a lot of prep, so we will think offline
- AI: Emma Kidney will submit DEI hands-on heckfest session for Flock, 2025
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-02-20/diversity.2025-02-20-11.30.log.html
2025-01-22
Chair: Jona Azizaj, she/her, jonatoni
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID; TBA)
- Emma Kidney
- Coty Sutherland
- Chris Idoko
- Misc
Team announcements & news
- FOSDEM next weekend! Feb 1st & 2nd
- Flock to be announced soon. Going to be in June in a secret Europe location.
DEI Advisor updates to the team
- Council Hackfest Feb 4th - 7th in Spain. Anything DEI team want to bring from discussion.
- Events policy (ticket #34)
- Jona: will check with Aoife about agenda
Follow-ups from last meeting
- all was already done by Emma
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
- meeting format & frequency
- Emma: like the format of the agenda and the alternance between video and text.
- Coty: meetings conflicts, going to try attend more, also likes alternating video and chat
- Chris: what we have now is fine
- Misc: more meetings!
- Jona: prefer the video call, and let Justin do the matrix one. More people come to matrix, than on video call
- issue with timing (example, amita)
- more social meetings, like game from time to time
- misc: need to get the feedback from people not in the meeting ?
- jona: next one is on a different time
- will open a ticket on the topic
- emma: open a ticket for the social part
- DEI activities for 2025 (brainstorming)
- jona: what we did last year, what worked ?
- FWD (Fedora Week of Diversity)
- hackfest during flock, some people were interested
- FMS (Fedora Mentor Summit)
- happened just around flock
- what has the most impact, should we support more local team ?
- Cody: contact with various ERGs, to find some way to engage with us
- less difficult than event, less stressful
- jona: seems interesting to explore
Open floor
- misc: accessibility push at RH, maybe there is some synergy to find ?
Action items
- Jona to open ticket re meeting agenda format and timing
- Emma, open ticket for the social part
- Coty to open ticket for how we can reach more teams for outreach & additional feedback
- Jona open ticket abut FMS 2025
- Open ticket for how DEI team represent at Flock - CfP open soon.
2024-10-24
Chair: Jona Azizaj, she/her, jonatoni, Christmas 🔔
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID; one thing you're looking forward to this quarter)
- Michael Scherer, he/him, misc, vacations
Team announcements & news
- Fedora Operations Report
- FOSDEM 2025 returns on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February
DEI Advisor updates to the team
- Changes to the Editions Promotion policy
Follow-ups from last meeting
- ✅ AI: @ekidney Create first draft of 2024 Q2 report for DEI Team review, then share with CommBlog editors for review after DEI Team +1's
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q4: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/7
- Ticket #43: "DEI Team 2024 Q2 Quarterly Report"
- Ticket #48: "DEI Team 2024 Q3 Quarterly Report"
- https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/48
- Topic to be included: preparations for the DEI team hackfest at Flock, Fedora Mentor Summit, DEI policy for Flock location (Council proposal + workshop from misc and riecatnor at Flock), DEI Team Report ComBlog Graphic Revamp.
- Any volunteers to work on it?
- Ticket #34: "DEI policy for Flock location"
- https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/34
- !agreed The event policy will be scoped explicitly to Flock to Fedora and Fedora-funded hackfests. New language will be added for hackfests that provides exemption for hackfests that focus on a regional, local, or national group or audience. The Council retains the ability to override the policy by publishing a public explanation.
- create a agenda/presentation for future council meeting on AV
- speak of why we do that
- and what we want from council
Open floor
- question about low intendance of the video call, and low discussion on the room
- how to get more people in the meeting ?
- (jona) potentially a issue of matrix vs google meet for attendance
- might go join GNOME DEI call to discuss with them, about their own policy
2024-10-10
Chair: Justin W. Flory (jflory7) - he / him / his
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID)
- Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers
- emma kidney (ekidney) - she / her / hers
- Michael Scherer (misc) - he/him
Team announcements & news
- Improving DEI in Open Source Community Leadership
- https://uceducation.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eVVYChpxMlpp7Yq
- The purpose of this study is to gather thoughts and experiences about diversity and inclusion in Open Source Community Leadership. Participants will be shown different widgets to pick from. This will help create a design for a tool to help Open Source community members make smart choices when selecting leaders or board members.
- GNOME Asia 2024 — 6-8 December 2024 — Bengaluru, India
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GNOME_Asia_2024
- A group of Fedora contributors and Ambassadors in India are helping co-organize GNOME Asia at the Red Hat office in Bengaluru. Following our Flock 2024 workshop, this aligns with our goals of supporting more regional events and diverse communities beyond the typical Eurocentric focus of our flagship events.
DEI Advisor updates to the team
- Flock event policy ticket has updates, but this will be a meeting discussion topic today!
Follow-ups from last meeting
- ✅ AI: @ekidney Create first draft of 2024 Q2 report for DEI Team review, then share with CommBlog editors for review after DEI Team +1's
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q4: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/7
- Ticket #43: "DEI Team 2024 Q2 Quarterly Report"
- https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/43
- @jflory7 will swap this quarterly report ticket with @ekidney. The 2024 Q2 milestone tracks all of the things we worked on in that quarter. Major highlights were a new events media git repo for photos, videos, and slides; Fedora Week of Diversity; and preparations for Flock.
- [due: 2024-10-17] @ekidney Create first draft of 2024 Q2 report for DEI Team review, then share with CommBlog editors for review after DEI Team +1's
- Ticket #34: "DEI policy for Flock location"
- https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/34
- !agreed The event policy will be scoped explicitly to Flock to Fedora and Fedora-funded hackfests. New language will be added for hackfests that provides exemption for hackfests that focus on a regional, local, or national group or audience. The Council retains the ability to override the policy by publishing a public explanation.
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-10-10/diversity.2024-10-10-13.01.log.html
2024-09-26
Chair: Jona Azizaj; she/her; jonatoni;
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID; favorite pizza)
- Justin/JWF; he/him; jflory7;
- Michael Scherer; he/him; misc;
Team announcements & news
- Flock bid process was started
- DEI policy not discussed yet by Council, but taken in account for bid
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
- #44 wrap up report for the Hackfest
- #25 wrap up report for the mentor summit 2024
- #34 not discussed in council, next meeting
- #18 ticket was bumped
- Others tickets got move to Q4 and/or moved accordingly, see tickets changes
Open floor
- discussion on regional communities, as discussed in hackfest
2024-08-29
Chair: Jona Azizaj; she/her; jonatoni; chocolate/pistachio
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID; favorite ice cream flavor/s)
- Justin/JWF; he/him; jflory7; birthday cake
- Michael Scherer; he/him; misc; coffee
Team announcements & news
- Flock 2024 happened this month! :tada: Share your own event reports and any social media coverage in a section on the Fedora Wiki.
- The Flock 2024 post-event survey is live until Friday, September 6th. This survey will directly influence decisions made for planning Flock 2025. We are testing some new ideas and theories in the survey. If you have not yet filled it, please fill it ASAP. Even if you were not there in-person (just choose virtual attendee option if you were remote).
DEI Advisor updates to the team
- nothing specific from council, Mattdm's keynote cover most of it
Follow-ups from last meeting
- ✅ AI: @ekidney Create new featured image for DEI Team quarterly updates
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q3: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/6
Open floor
2024-07-18
Chair: Justin/JWF; he/him; jflory7; lately, a night owl2
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID; early bird or night owl?)
- Jona; she/her; jonatoni; night owl
- Roseline Bassey (roseline-bassey) - she / her / hers
- amsharma
- tosindoreen
Team announcements & news
- Please share your thoughts on AI/ML when it comes to Fedora, the survey is Live until July 31st!
- Fedora Week of Diversity 2024 in numbers
- Introducing the Fedora Community Operations Initiative
- To honor the memory of Mel Chua for the next generation of Fedora contributors, Justin compiled some stories and reflections on Mel’s impact on Fedora.
- Flock is coming very soon!
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- 🟠 AI: @ekidney Create new featured image for DEI Team quarterly updates
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q3: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/6
- DEI Team hackfest at Flock: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/44
- Agenda for the hackfest
- (1) Team intro.
- (2) 2024/2025 roadmap for events.
- (3) Supporting DEI & regional communities.
- (4) Docs hacking
- Supporting DEI & regional communities: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/45
- How could we better support our DEI and regional communities in 2025?
- What might we focus on at the Flock hackfest?
- !idea Local meetups as a starting point. Should they be Fedora-specific, or something more general? For example, open source meetup, a programming language meetup, a Linux meetup, etc.
- !idea Using major regional events as gathering point of local community members. For #region-africa-west:fedoraproject.org, this could be OSCA Festival. For #region-saarc:fedoraproject.org, this could be GNOME Asia.
- !idea We can leverage existing connections with local leaders and event organizers to help us coordinate a presence on the ground at these events.
- !idea Extending the Fedora Ambassador program to West Africa. What does a regional mentor look like in 2024? What does a mentor do? What are their responsibilities? How can the DEI Team support regional mentors?
Open floor
- Thanks folks for being here! Hope to see some of you soon. Otherwise, see you in the Fedora-verse!
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-07-18/diversity.2024-07-18-13.00.log.html
2024-07-04
Chair: Justin/JWF; he/him; jflory7
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID)
- misc; he/him; misc
- oluwatosin;
Team announcements & news
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- 🟠 AI: @ekidney Create new featured image for DEI Team quarterly updates
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q2: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/5
Q3: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/6
- End-of-quarter retrospective
- Future goals for Q3?
- We spent a lot of time on events this quarter, which is one half of our project charter. We have done great work!
- But the part about DEI communities has not gotten as much work and effort. Brainstorming on how we could do this better?
- DEI policy for Flock location: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/34. We reviewed the recent changes made by @misc and looked at the timeline for making this policy a reality. Here are the key takeaways:
- Proposed to consolidate the two policies (event location and event location policy change policy) into a single document.
- The parts of the policy change policy that do not fit into the Council Policy Change Policy can become guidelines or recommendations within the proposed event location policy.
- This avoids the inherent implication of converting the DEI Team into a policy-making group, which as of today, we are not and do not have any official charge to do so, other than via the DEI Advisor representative to the Fedora Council. By directing this policy to the Council instead of the DEI Team, we lean into the existing structure and avoid opening a new discussion about whether the DEI Team has the authority to mandate project-wide policy.
- I felt that some of the criteria evaluation could be more clear for non-native English speakers, e.g. "Hierarchy of Norms" and "Temporality" may be difficult terms to understand even for native English speakers. If we cannot think of something else, we could brainstorm in a future call.
- Our goal is to revisit the policy discussion asynchronously throughout July, and aim to have a final draft ready by our next A/V meeting on Thursday, August 1st. Then, we will review and see if we are ready to propose this as a new policy to the Fedora Council.
Open floor
2024-06-06
Chair: Jona Azizaj, she/her, jonatoni, matcha bubble tea 🧋
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID; favorite summer drink)
- Justin/JWF; he/him; jflory7; pomegranate sparkler (pom juice, sparkling water, lime)
- Michael/Misc; he/him; misc; water
- Adrian; he/him; moralcode; lemonade probably
- Roseline
Team announcements & news
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- ✅ AI: misc, Robert Wright (he/him), Sarah Thornton (she/her) Work on DEI events policy draft for DEI Team review
- 🟠 AI: @ekidney Create new featured image for DEI Team quarterly updates
- ✅ AI: @jflory7 Promote FWD call for videos on social media
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q2: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/5
Open floor
- See you in 2 weeks for Q2 ticket triage! :tada:
2024-05-23
Chair: Justin W. Flory, he/him, jflory7
Attendees (name; pronouns; FAS ID)
- Luna Jernberg (bittin) - they / them / theirs
- spotz
- Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers
- emma kidney (ekidney) - she / her / hers
- Adrian Edwards (moralcode)
- Amita Sharma (amsharma)
- Samyak Jain (jnsamyak) - he / him / his
- misc
Team announcements & news
- Fedora Release party is starting tomorrow!
- Registration for FWD is open
- Elections voting is now open!
DEI Advisor updates to the team
Follow-ups from last meeting
- 🟠 AI: misc, Robert Wright (he/him), Sarah Thornton (she/her) Work on DEI events policy draft for DEI Team review
- ✅ Emma will work on the Q1 quartely report
- Q1 event report is ready to go, Emma created a ticket, re the header image, so she can update it.
Ticket-driven discussion & notes
Q2: https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/milestones/5
- DEI Team 2024 Q1 Quarterly Report
- Fedora Week of Diversity updates
- Create a central repo for all the DEI event pictures+videos+slides
- New Member template & small docs updates
Open floor
Matrix meeting notes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-05-23/fedora-dei-team.2024-05-23-13.01.log.html
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