Flock 2025 Welcoming New Voices

Go ahead. >> Okay. Uh we're engagaining our Latan team leader. Our federal Latan community isn't starting uh from scratch. Uh it's a sleeping giant. We have dedicated ambassadors. We have champion Federa for years. It's time to reconnect uh reincarnate and empower them. erh reach out uh recharge let's have genuine conversations not just call uh we all ask uh how can help you rebuild your local community and energy uh what support uh do you need to to make Fedora thriving again in your country uh back to the front lines uh uh we will support our reactive uh leaders in becoming highly visible at local open source and text events events. Imagine Fedoras uh present at meetat hackathon and conference across Latin America powered by familiar face. >> Yeah. Uh one of these uh things about uh these topics is about Yeah. in you know we have the flock all the years um we have uh a lot of people coming to flock but some people in other regions not have the opportunity opportunity to come to flock because it's expensive it budget issue whatever what we need in these regions what we need it's not only latam it's for all the regions apac um I don't know latam ma emia we are trying to find the way not find a way because it's ready We need say to all these teams to start working in a small events a small groups in these countries to um contri to to start find new voices. New voices is new contributors and we are trying to find a packagers. We're trying to find translators guys documentation. We have a lot of roles inside Fedora. This is what we need currently trying to find in LATAM. Obviously Luis and me is from Panama, Panameanians, we are working in the Latan and we are trying to find this in in Latam. Latam is Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia a lot a lot a lot of countries there. Um obviously uh the problem start after before pandemia uh a lot of people disappear for all the project and uh the you remember if you remember in the past we have a big event as a food call. Okay. And this is why we need now a small events, a small group and start add a new people in the in the in the community because currently we don't have a lot of people. In the past we have a hundred hundred hundreds of people everywhere. Please continue. >> Okay. Uh connection with future uh text starts. Uh the next generation of text talent is in college and universities eager to make an impact. Uh you need to be right there with them building strong uh listing connections. Uh compass connect. Uh let's get back to it with one onone engagement at university and technical school. uh will introduce Fedora to the bridge minds uh who are shaping um tomorrow's technology showing the how they can contribute and grow. uh from a student to steward. Uh we are nur this relationship offering mentorship resource um pathway uh for students uh to transition from um learners to active contributors uh becoming the next wave to Fedora leaders >> and I think uh some people ask you know because some people say you know sometimes you don't have the budget or what we need to receive because if you do a event you need swag, you need the stickers, you need uh some people want to motivate to go to this event about the stickers but it's not a sticker. We need a technical sessions because I don't want to receive for example this sessions in a technical h conference. I want to receive I don't know uh the new kernel futures the I want to check what is the new process for uh create the specs for create a new package I don't know Microsoft I see I see Brian talk about the new Microsoft futures in in the in the in the envir in the ashure side obviously I love that sessions because I am an engineer too but we need evans to uh find new contributors and we have the new process. If you need for example if you need a budget a small budget to create this event or group events because you want to pix a hackfest I don't know in your country you can do that ask requesting in the mind in the mines gitlab repository you can create a ticket and you can request a budget a small budget obviously not a million of dollars a small budget to uh start with this small events and obviously ly if you have a big event you need um visit other city inside your country you can do that too and you can receive the um help from the Fedora project side it's important that part because you know all the people not have the same economic economic opportunity in the in the in the wallet you know and it's important to say if another project is going to help you to uh complete complete this uh these goals, these events, these things and if you need help mart team um the new FPL sum f consil all the team is going to help you to complete your goals. Please >> I I think that I I am the the the good sample because I know Fedora because I I Um >> 2011 >> huh >> on 2011 >> in the university I I know in the university and I am here I I make contribution in the package team uh design team so all because I uh know the community >> perfect yeah please continue oh yeah oh my I think I jump to my side mentoring and challenging yeah um I think I talked talk about the challenge. All the challenge all the time is one thing is money other thing is uh uh how you can start to create a small events. Uh basically um all the times I suggest I recommend I suggest uh the idea to start from some universities because in the past you are a student and for example in my in in my side is easy is it for me to talk with the my university in the past I say hey uh can I do some conference it's a it's free conference or a small a small hack hackfest about uh for the new engineers, you know, the new engineers want to to receive this uh technical session or hackfest or whatever or workshops. Um I start in that in that way. Uh I don't start in schools. Uh I think I don't know university schools for because these guys don't know what this guy in the school I think. So if you have other idea about this please go ahead and say me that part but the school people the school guys don't know what is the future for for in the life you know I don't know if I I'm going to study engineer I I am not going a doctor astronaut I I don't know but engineers you are going to the engineer faculty and say hey we are going to give a free workshop and the people say oh it's a Linux workshop is a red hat fedora workshop and the people know that you can start there with a small budget you can buy some pixas you can buy whatever inter I don't know what do you need to do this this a small event and small groups in matrix in ele in matrix in the in the federa channels you can h join to the federal ambassador channels to the federa packaging channels and if you need for example if I need help from ankor from the neighbor Federa project. I can ask to anchor to do a remote session and talk about the neuro federa project. In the past obviously you can ask in the past to say hey ankur can you come to Panama or come to Brazil or come to United States to do a you know inside on-site session. Obviously today the the money is is is pro is a problem but you can start doing a remote session remote workshops if you need a for example Kevin Fancy hey Kevin can you give me at sometimes your available time in some in some weeks to uh give me a infrastructure workshop uh to talk about how you automate all the environment about as you know about the pagure about the infrastructure of Fedora how this works etc and you motivate this new futures engineers to start you know hey join to the federal community new voices ambassador ambassador project is not a it's old project now we have a advocate we have a mentee mentor etc but for me the best u the best uh roles to contribute is uh the development sites packaging um infrastructure translator, documentation and other things because I think so if you are going to work in the real life as an engineer you need to understand all these things uh and this going to help you in your future career and I think that part is important um oh sorry at this point any question sorry no oh yeah you are there thank you sir um um about the oh [clears throat] uh bring back Fedora. I I mentioned this part Fedora school because in Panama we have one example in the past. The Fedora school is not a school. The name of Fedora School, we we put this name because in a university in the big university in Panama, technological technology university, we create the Federa school and all the engineers on Friday, Saturday, you know, we have one a big issue with the days because Saturday all the people want to stay in the home with the family and drink and some barbecue and you don't want to continue study but some people come to the university on Saturday to learn about Linux in that Fedora school in the university I don't mention Fedora I mentioned we are going to give you uh we are going to teach you about Linux how works this how work Linux how you can navigate inside Linux how to install web servers etc you know but then this guy say but what operating system I'm using now you are using Fedora. Fedora is this this this this this and I start I take this way to start broadcast about Fedora send the all the information about Fedora project and I send the wiki hey this is to if you want to as a work as a packer maintainer if you want to contribute as a documentation translator etc please start there create your fast account you know that part um works yes worked two or three We [snorts] receive a lot of contribution. We have a lot of Panama contributors in the in current channels in LATAM channels. Uh some people are still there. Some people now is uh not have a time. It's okay. The time is other issue. Uh but yes, we create this and this is not a part of any Federa project. In the past, we have a Federal University, Federal Ambassador University, other things. what I what I'm trying to to do with this erh session I want to if you have more ideas about how to find new voices new contributors for the projects not for Latan for any region please share with the team share with the ambassador team share in the channels because we are trying to um continue growing this community this is a big community it's a friend community family community. I feel as a family this community and [clears throat] we need uh new contributors, new new voices and we need u new packagers, documentator, documentation people, translator. Um next one we have a I think we have other one. Yeah. Um I passed this one. I jump everything. I think I talk everything. And okay, this is some examples. Um in Brazil we have a Latino where is a big big conference in Brazil. In the past the Brazil team put uh some stance there. Um but currently we don't have a lot of people in Brazil. We have a one channel in telegram and we have one channel in in matrix. The Federa Brazil team is trying to to rebuild to make yeah to rebuild the the team in Brazil with a small group. Now we have a 120 guys there. Obviously Brazil have a lot of million users and engineers in in in Brazil but we have a 100 26 or something in in the channels. This guy is trying to put a stand in some small events, large event. And I mentioned this because we need continue um maybe we we need continue put a stance there because it's a big one. We have a Oh, sorry. >> That was >> Yeah, it's okay. H in Latino where all the Microsoft Red Hat um opens a lot of people is going there and I think it's a good idea to continue um uh put the standards. Nerdiala is in Argentina. The last year I visit Nerdala with Alma Linux. Uh I I I work with the Alma Linux team to talk about Alma Linux in Neriala. But I don't see any stan about Fedora is I say oh my god where is Fedora? I don't see Red Hat there. I see Rocky Linux. I see Alma Linux. I Microsoft obviously obviously but I don't see Fedora there on and Red Hat too. And I think it's important to check this event because this Evan Erdala work in Argentina, Chile, Spain, Mexico and we don't have presence we don't have presence there. >> [snorts] >> uh fle is fle is in the worldwide I think it's in latam reions world all the latam rean fle is a free event all the years we do uh we do a fle uh to present a operating system installation uh day etc about operate any opensource operating system it works in the ino and pyon I think pyon is worldwide event correct yeah in pyon currently we are working in Costa Rica and we We have some guys working in Panama doing a great job about Pyon. This is my suggestion. We need presence in some I this is my example but I know you know more events big events but we need more presence in this sites uh because we need to find new voices new contributor new contributors um in the worldwide. The next one um continue mentors small groups small events international video uh I don't agree with that but sometimes work because we need we are currently working in uh I I know in federal we have one team working in podcast in videos etc. I think we need to continue doing that because some people want like YouTube or to to learn. Um that's all for me. I think Luis, do you have anything else to check or >> No, for now the only mention is the for example the international video. >> Yeah, we mention it because the new generations consume videos or reals is uh fast content. >> Okay. >> This is the reason for I mention it but it's all >> I think. Thank you. >> Thank you for your presence in this session. >> Thank you team. I mean [laughter] any I think we don't have any question any question team? Oh >> silence. Oh um is there um do you have like a contact within Fedora or Red Hat that you can ask for funding? >> Yes, we we have a we have a pro you say for funding correct? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. In the mines share really fast the answer. In the mineshare repository we have the process to request reimbursement to request budget a small budget. If the budget is a small for example $150 you can request really fast and if you have if you use a wise platform PayPal or if you use any of these it's really fast to receive this. Obviously you need create a ticket and I think sometimes the people don't want to create the ticket but the ticket is important to uh compliance things you know red hat need uh wow need a report about this and it's important to create this tickets and to request your uh reimbursement or request a budget and put the name of the event or what you are going to do pix whatever put everything there the details that's all mare repository So how is that information advertised? Like I have no idea where where to get that. For example, you said mind share. >> You know what? Let me send uh it's a good thing. Next time we need to put the the links. Uh let me give you all the URLs to about the repositories and you can broadcast to your any group uh to create these tickets. Okay. It's uh it's really uh it's easy way to it's one link and documentation. You can you can send this to all the groups in in your country. I think so. Ready? >> I going to give you my contact and lose contact. >> So like maybe advertise it on something like the release party. You could maybe >> Yes. For release party, let me you know I have we have a you have in the you are in the matrix channels. >> Okay. Let me do a broadcast with Justin to send all this information. It's important I think uh >> I have a question but maybe I'll ask you after >> No no no no it's okay it's okay uh the other speaker is not yeah >> okay so uh I have a question uh if I got you correctly uh you mentioned that uh regarding schools you are focused to uh to universities uh because high schools are not specialized etc etc am I correct Yeah, but this problem oh let me say this problem is all in latam I am not sure how inia or other regions works because the high school in latam the people is not secure what he for example I the last year in my high school I don't know I am going to take engineer I no doctor no I am going to work as a designer you know the people don't know what is the the next way but we take the we take universities because the people is ready in in in the in the in the career in the in the engineer techni technology tech technological career and yeah the people is ready there and we are going to start hey we're going to talk about Linux infrastructure blah blah blah all these things >> okay okay but in >> one recommendation >> oh thank you >> one recommendation regarding that uh from side uh school is uh bad. Uh of course that's correct. We have learned only Microsoft software. [clears throat] >> Yeah. [laughter] >> But anyways at university that's the point where you should start because where you need the stuff and if you practice it in parallel to your theory uh you are a really good pre uh prepared afterwards and you can bring the people into the community then. And that's how I did that. I started directly in the first semester with a Linux installation parties then introduction to command into the command line and using that all and how to automate stuff and that was really good for our students. I can say >> not it's really a good suggestion. >> I actually kind of disagree with that >> because we started actually introducing especially to girls technology. Yeah. >> And I think like hearing it as early as possible in a very >> I would say teenager friendly way >> actually will enable projects like Fedora and like whatever else is out there from an open source community >> to create awareness because they've heard it before. >> Okay. >> So and there are many kind of like events if I look at like in in Germany what's the one Girls Day is one thing because I I organized it and we did mechanical engineering because it was approachable, but they also understood like what is open source and we held a a presentation and compared it to playground and amusement park to see like hey just imagine like for every ride you need someone who checks the security and that is like someone who does quality engineering and all these bits and pieces. And this analogies actually do help to kids and teenagers to understand not just it but also like understand open source >> technology technology open source open source technology >> opensource in particular and a lot of them actually are very curious about how can they get engaged at very early age so I wouldn't neglect schools >> agree and other thing to that is I mentioned in all the in all the session I mentioned only engineers and it's not only engineer because I I I know in other countries we have some friends financial guy we have a um what is the financial guy the other one is a designers we don't need limitate the technology only for engineers sorry for say that is my one of my uh I think I agree with you I mention all this session engineer But we have financial guys, we have designers, we have gamer developers, we have uh doctors using node of fedora scientists. Scientists we yeah I think don't uh limit the um the technology and open source technology for engineers. Yeah, sorry for say that it's my my one of my error in this session. But yes the what do we need? We need new contributors, new voices, any any role. If you are a financial guy, if you are a designer guy, it's okay. You are welcome to the project. Now it's I corrected fix it. [laughter] >> I'll add some context why I asked the original question. You know, uh oh, I'm I'm a bit biased here because I used to be a teacher and I used to be a teacher at a technical high school. Yeah. So uh I was teacher of subjects like uh programming and operating system administration and so on and uh so I tried to introduce my students uh to uh open source and sure Linux and uh I met with uh the students who graduated at this school and not uh every student of uh that school is expected to continue to the university but still we met recently and it was really nice to see that a lot of them actually is currently focused uh to Linux. it's their it's their job. So uh uh I think yeah as it was said let's let's start let's start early and uh even now I'm no longer a teacher. I work for Redhead and uh I still do like a once a year or twice a year some talk for high school students. Yeah. Do some workshop. Yeah. Because I think yeah really uh if we catch this early Yeah. we can catch their curiosity and introduce them to something really they can use in their professional life and I think this is might be the way. >> Yeah, totally agree. I think I think this this is a good [applause] I I love this. Uh anything else to Oh, you have you have more >> I just wanted to >> we don't have more speakers now. >> No, we have a break afterwards. >> Okay. >> Just one more thing. If you seek funding >> Yeah. connect with customers >> and build customer branding in relation to open source and you will have funding from a customer site and present. That's what we did and it's an amazing technique. >> It's a good good idea. Yeah, it's a good idea. >> Oh, >> any other questions? [laughter] >> I don't know if I want to put this on recorded, but I do have a question. Like so are you talking about Red Hat customers you attracted or like other vendor customers like when you >> No, I think when you mentioned customer don't don't focus only in Red Hat customer. >> No, I'm asking because you did it I I have questions [laughter] like like what customers were you able I don't know if you can say it but >> I can. Okay. So we did it with uh financial customers like two banks and uh Deutsche Berza and we approached them in regards so I partnered with a marketing um person and said like hey can we do something for kids especially girls and get them into STEM >> but I think it would work with any kind of customers because all like all companies face exactly the same challenges. is and I believe that they lack the support from knowledgeable people such as like we have in this community to actually build these kind of programs and there's plenty of opportunities to exactly do that. So if you have connections or if you advertise it I'm pretty sure you will find people who are interested and then the other way is vice versa. I think Fedora also is looking always for people who could support that. [laughter] >> I mean it's it's a real question. >> It is enough for that. >> Yes. Because I believe at least the conversation I had they always struggle to find competent people to support these kind of things. uh uh Louis mentioned u uh some students in go to the technology uh university in Panama but the but the but the master the the in what is instru the prof uh don't don't teach in the don't teach these students in the correct way don't show don't show the tools don't show the open source show everything but not the open source side and maybe this is one of the goals for the for Luis for all the contributors is and you mentioned customers all the years in Panama we do a hackathon with a big customer and in this event we integrate all these people all these student in technology open source Linux cloud etc and these guys take a correct ways to join to continue in the university and join to uh companies, foundations etc. I understand what what you are saying. We are trying to do that sometimes because you know it's is that part is you receive funding using uh some customer to help you to uh help students to grow and that part is important. I understand that part and we have one foundation in Panama for technology for technology open source only what is the name of the foundation >> found panameia system lies open source so li open source open source it's the name of the foundation and we are working on that only times to receive a funding and help students to grow yeah >> I think we're Yeah, >> one more time. >> Thank you. [applause]