#meeting:fedoraproject.org log

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:00:37

!startmeeting Fedora DEI Team - 2025-03-06

<@meetbot:fedora.im>

16:00:39

Meeting started at 2025-03-06 16:00:37 UTC

<@meetbot:fedora.im>

16:00:39

The Meeting name is 'Fedora DEI Team - 2025-03-06'

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:00:48

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

16:00:50

Robert Wright (rwright) - he / him / his

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:00:51

!meetingname diversity

<@meetbot:fedora.im>

16:00:52

The Meeting Name is now diversity

<@ami117:matrix.org>

16:00:52

hey

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:09

hey Robert Wright (he/him) Amita Sharma 👋

<@ami117:matrix.org>

16:01:10

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

16:01:12

Amita Sharma (amsharma)

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:01:13

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

16:01:16

emma kidney (ekidney) - she / her / hers

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:17

!topic Agenda

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:23

!info (1) Intros, welcomes, hellos

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:31

!info (2) Team announcements & news

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:39

!info (3) DEI Advisor updates to the team

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:47

!info (4) Follow-ups from last meeting

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:01:53

!info (5) Ticket-driven discussion

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:02:00

!info (6) Open floor

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:02:07

!topic Intros, welcomes, hellos

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:02:18

If this is your first time at a DEI Team meeting, please say hello!

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:02:18

If you have questions before we start the meeting, now is also a good time to ask.

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:02:22

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

16:02:23

Jona Azizaj (jonatoni) - she / her / hers

<@misc:ephaone.org>

16:02:47

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:03:25

!info Present: Robert Wright (he/him) Amita Sharma Emma Kidney misc @jonatoni

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:04:07

happy to see so many of you folks around 🎉

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:04:20

!topic Team announcements & news

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:04:31

Any news that you would like to share?

<@misc:ephaone.org>

16:04:56

nothing new

<@misc:ephaone.org>

16:05:06

(at least for me)

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:05:19

same for me

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:05:30

I have three things that I want to highlight then 🙂

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:05:41

!info Fedora is accepted to GSoC :tada:

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:05:56

this is really great news for us

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:06:02

Oh huzah!

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:06:03

!info Meet the Fedora Project Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:06:11

!link https://fedoramagazine.org/meet-the-fedora-project-mentors-for-google-summer-of-code-2025/

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:06:34

!info Proposal to move Community Blog to Fedora Discussion

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:06:43

!link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/proposal-to-move-community-blog-to-fedora-discussion/

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:07:12

and the last one

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:07:13

!info Contribute at the Fedora Linux 42 i18n Test Week

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:07:21

!info The i18n and QA teams have organized a test week from Tuesday, March 04, 2025, to Monday, March 10, 2025

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:07:29

!link https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-linux-42-i18n-test-week/

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:07:54

Any other news, or shall we move to the next topic?

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:08:30

!topic DEI Advisor updates to the team

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:08:43

!info Council Policy Proposal: DEI Events Policy

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:08:51

!info This proposal is now open to our community discussion for a period of two weeks, after which the Council will hold a formal vote. The vote will come into effect on March 12th.

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:08:59

!link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/council-policy-proposal-dei-events-policy/

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:09:22

thanks misc for driving this topic 🚀

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:09:33

!info Council F2F/Hackfest 2025 Summaries

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:09:43

!link https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/council-f2f-hackfest-2025-summaries/144541

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:09:52

!info The first one is a summary of our discussions on how the council works.

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:10:01

!link https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/council-f2f-hackfest-2025-summaries-how-the-council-works/145310

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:10:17

!info The second one is a DRAFT Strategy 2028 Update (still WIP)

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:10:25

!link https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/draft-stratgey-2028-update-council-hackfest-report/146348

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:10:40

that's all the updates from my side

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:10:50

!topic Follow-ups from last meeting

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:11:00

!info How This Works: We review past action items from the last meeting. For each action item, we note a quick update on its status and then move forward.

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:11:08

!info Emma Kidney will submit DEI hands-on heckfest session for Flock, 2025 ✅ (completed)

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:11:17

thanks Emma Kidney 👏

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:11:33

no problem!

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:11:41

!topic Ticket-driven discussion

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:12:23

any preference on which tickets you want to discuss? I was thinking about #53 and #51

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:12:32

any other suggestions?

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:12:42

#53 is about Fedora Mentor Summit

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:13:04

and #51 is about social calls ideas

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:14:49

Emma Kidney Robert Wright (he/him) misc Amita Sharma

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:15:10

I'm open for either. Would like to know more about hte mentor summit.

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:15:17

I think the mentor summit would be good to talk about

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:16:03

awesome, let's start with #53 then

<@ami117:matrix.org>

16:16:21

yes

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:16:35

!topic Ticket #53: "Fedora Mentor Summit"

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:16:55

!link https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/53

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:17:56

a few weeks ago I was discussing with Justin on what we could do for Fedora Mentor Summit and we came up with 3 main ideas

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:18:15

Mentor/Mentee Lunch Matching, Social Networking @ Evening Social, Contributor recognition event

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:18:47

we have seen similar things in other projects/communities and we would to see this happening at Flock too

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:19:18

I suggest checking Justin's comment for each idea to get more context/information

<@ami117:matrix.org>

16:19:37

these sounds interesting

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:19:37

So would this be instead of how is was done last year

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:19:49

So would this be instead of how it was done last year

<@ami117:matrix.org>

16:20:07

we may need to do some activities for Contributor recognition event to prepare ?

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:20:22

we didn't get many applications for FMS this year - I think maybe around 3

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:20:58

so instead of pushing for more proposals - we thought of focusing our energies only on 3 things

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:21:45

I did reach out to people that expressed interest in helping with FMS (at Flock's survey form) to see who is interested in helping with these ideas

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:22:14

Emma Kidney: I hope I answered the question 😅

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:22:36

Amita Sharma: yes, that's why I have reached out to people to see who wants to help

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:23:02

you did! I think thats a good approach - it could have more of an impact being more social

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:23:26

if any of you wants to help as well, let me know - and I will create a meeting so we can discuss in more detail what we want to do, and divide the work

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:24:13

I keep thinking and then I retract.

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:24:49

So - my mind is drifitng back to CommOps around New Contributor support (getting folks to Join SIG, etc etc)

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:24:59

And how the Mentor program has such a strong ability to connect things in

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:25:03

Like another funnel

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:25:24

And I keep thinking - "jeez, how could we use this as a better place to teach people how to be better mentors to new folks in Fedora!"

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:25:55

We have so many channels to do this type of activities - it would be good if it was just tied in or at least the pathway of how it connects is clear to see if we can get more participation!

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:26:23

"Are you planning on meeting members of your package team or SIG? Come to Mentors Summit and learn how to better work together and build up!"

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:26:41

So I am reading the 3 big ideas and trying to think about how it connects and where's a great tie in.

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:26:48

That's why I keep typing and stopping lol

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:27:37

I think the lunch networking could be one option for example

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:29:03

also the workshop from Marie and Smera last year was great

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:29:34

giving different examples on the mentor-mentee relationship and how to handle different scenarios

<@ami117:matrix.org>

16:29:50

I can help if required

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:30:35

awesome Amita Sharma, will count you in 🙂

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:31:15

tbh it's a topic that we could do so many things, that's why it was a bit hard to pick just 3 😅

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:31:29

OK - I mean it makes sense.

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:31:38

I am going to see if we can use some CommOps energy to it. :)

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:32:08

that would be awesome 🚀

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:32:23

anything else we can add to this topic now?

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:34:40

Nope - I will read the ticket.

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:35:42

Okay, let's move to #51 since we didn't cover it last time

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:36:16

!info This year we will focus on three things: Mentor/Mentee Lunch Matching, Social Networking @ Evening Social, Contributor recognition event

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:36:34

!info 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

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:36:46

!info If you're interested in getting involved, please comment on the issue

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:37:06

!topic Ticket #51: "Ideas for social calls"

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:37:19

!link https://gitlab.com/fedora/dei/home/-/issues/51

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:37:35

Emma Kidney: would you like to drive this topic? 😄

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:38:36

Sure - I commented some games I found that can be played in browser. I couldnt find much, a lot of sites require sign up or payment lol

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:39:20

If anyone knows of anything else - feel free to add it to the list!

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:39:59

We could look at scheduling a social call some time and try some out?

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:40:26

that would be awesome 😍

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:40:33

yes 💯

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:41:11

which one should we pick first

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:41:33

garticphone is pretty fun!!

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:41:56

oh i've seen that on discord

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:42:26

I think we played it at release party some time ago too

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:42:46

I'm up for it 😄

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:43:24

would advertising it to the wider community be good or do we want to keep it for just the team?

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:44:17

I don't mind inviting other contributors too

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:44:43

could be a fun way to recruit more members 😄

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:44:56

show them how fun we are

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:45:03

hah, I thought same thing 😄

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:46:21

More social things in Fedora is always a good thing :)

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:46:25

Emma Kidney: do you want to propose same dates and then decide when we do it?

<@ekidney:matrix.org>

16:47:02

sure thing ill look into it and ill comment on the ticket!!

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:47:42

Awesome 🎉

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:49:16

!action Emma Kidney will propose some dates for the social hour, and we will try "garticphone" as the first game

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:50:00

!info Emma Kidney will comment on the ticket for the next steps

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:50:19

10 minutes left for Open Floor

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:50:21

!topic Open floor

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:50:47

anything else we want to discuss for today? 😄

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:52:42

I guess not 😅

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:53:08

thanks everyone for joining today, and see you all in 2 weeks 🎉

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:53:11

all good from me! :)

<@rwright:fedora.im>

16:53:14

thanks Jona!!! :)

<@jonatoni:fedora.im>

16:53:35

!endmeeting