#meeting:fedoraproject.org: docs

Meeting started by @jflory7:fedora.im at 12:59:48 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Agenda (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:00:29)
    1. INFO: 1. Introduction, Quick Hello, the Agenda (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:04:33)
    2. INFO: 2. Basic Framework: What are we expect to do (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:04:39)
    3. INFO: 3. Round of Introductions (Who you are, what you’re interested in) (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:04:42)
    4. INFO: 4. Cursory Overview: What are we doing next (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:04:45)
    5. INFO: 5. Next meeting’s topics (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:04:48)
    6. LINK: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/docs-initiative-2025-kick-off-meeting/176624 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:04:58)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction, Quick Hello, the Agenda (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:05:06)
    1. INFO: Present: @hricky, @pboy, @lochipi, @pbokoc, @jspaleta, @jflory7, @chris (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:08:04)
  3. TOPIC:Basic Framework: What are we expect to do (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:08:17)
    1. INFO: As part of the discussion prep for today, please review this general overview and summary of the recently-approved Fedora Docs Community Initiative. (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:09:39)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/docs/docs-initiative-2025/wiki/Initial-Tasks (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:09:41)
    3. INFO: For the long-form version of the proposal, please see the Wiki page for the proposal. (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:09:57)
    4. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Initiatives/Fedora_Docs_2025 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:09:59)
    5. INFO: In summary, the core tasks of the Fedora Docs Team are described as follows: Maintenance of the publication system (Antora, Git, CI); Curating the presentation and structure of docs site; Graphical design; Improving publication tools for easier use; Workshops, training material; Quality Assurance; Promoting new content-specific specialist groups or authors;Supporting existing specialist groups or authors (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:11:08)
  4. TOPIC:Round of Introductions (Who you are, what you’re interested in) (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:12:48)
    1. INFO: Justin; jflory7; CommOps, DEI Team, Council, Mindshare, Flock Organizers, a lot of other things too 🙂; helping out with program management for the Docs Team, onboarding newcomers, and thinking about information architecture for how we group/publish information (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:15:43)
    2. INFO: Cornelius; lochipi; DEI, Join SIG; I want to help in all the areas I can. As mentioned in the wiki - " (Forge programming, reviewing, writing)". And also, Docs is the quickest/easiest path to onboarding new contributors, and I'm good at it :) (@lochipi:matrix.org, 13:18:07)
    3. INFO: Petr Bokoč, pbokoc; Docs initiative co-lead, currently Council, long time docs contributor, mostly keeping the docs running, fixing issues, merging PRs and helping people from other teams if needed (@pbokoc:fedora.im, 13:18:30)
    4. INFO: Freya; venefilyn; Cockpit package contributor; Dev for Cockpit, recently worked on migrating Cockpit's documentation from DocBook to AsciiDoc and have been talking with docs team for feedback, recently wrote a blog post about AsciiDoctor and asciidoc-py compatibility. Just here to listen in! (@venefilyn:matrix.org, 13:19:16)
    5. INFO: Peter Boy; FAS pboy; OTHER FEDORA TEAMS INVOLVED: Server WG ; WHY YOU SHOWED UP: long term engagement ind docs, one of the authors of the initiative / WHAT INTERESTS YOU IN DOCS: I use Fedora (server) very intensively and need good documentation. In addition, docs is absolutely essential to make Fedora more visible and widely used as a distribution. (@pboy:fedora.im, 13:20:42)
    6. INFO: NAME: Hristo Marinov; FAS USERNAME: hricky; OTHER FEDORA TEAMS INVOLVED: bootc, CoreOS, Atoomic Desktops; WHY YOU SHOWED UP / WHAT INTERESTS YOU IN DOCS: To help with whatever I have the skills to do. (@hricky:fedora.im, 13:21:00)
    7. INFO: Chris Idoko; chris; Fedora Badges, DEI; I contribute mainly to the Badges team and other areas like community design and events. My interest lies in using design to implement better UX for the Fedora documentation and its revitalisation (@chris_idoko:matrix.org, 13:21:55)
    8. LINK: https://gitlab.com/fedora/commops/home/-/work_items/71 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:23:04)
    9. INFO: Brandon Nielsen; nielsenb; QA; If it isn't documented, we can't expect people to use it. (@nielsenb:fedora.im, 13:24:05)
    10. INFO: Richard; Yukih; I'm involved in the rust sig though not active as much; I showed up because I wanted to make a reform of the the Docs website to make it easier for new members to gather information and learn about fedora (@yukih:fedora.im, 13:28:00)
    11. INFO: Jef Spaleta, (newish) Fedora Project Leader. I herd the cats. (@jspaleta:fedora.im, 13:30:14)
  5. TOPIC:Cursory Overview: What are we doing next (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:30:37)
    1. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/docs/docs-initiative-2025/projects (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:32:22)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/12984 (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:35:06)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/status_reports (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:54:18)
  6. TOPIC:Next meeting’s topics (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:56:06)
    1. INFO: The next scheduled Fedora Docs Team meeting is Tuesday, 13 January 2026, at 13:00 UTC (8 AM US EST) (@jflory7:fedora.im, 13:56:47)
    2. INFO: Anticipated next topics in the new year: Advocating for Fedora Docs (e.g. going to events, running workshops, helping invite others to write and contribute to Fedora Docs content); contribution guides maintained by the Fedora Docs Team on how to contribute; UI/UX improvements to the Antora UI bundle used for the design of the Fedora Docs website (@jflory7:fedora.im, 14:00:08)
    3. HALP: There is lots of room to pick an area of passion, and volunteer to help lead it! There are lots of things to do, and not enough people to do them all. Reflect over the winter holidays on how you would like to participate, be involved, and what might be a passion project for you as a Fedora Docs Team member (@jflory7:fedora.im, 14:00:58)
    4. INFO: The Fedora Docs 2025 Initiative Co-Leads, @pboy and @pbokoc, will work on the Projects board on Forgejo and continue to do setup of our new home on forge.fedoraproject.org as we get into the new year. (@jflory7:fedora.im, 14:01:38)


Meeting ended at 14:03:12 UTC

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. @jflory7:fedora.im (137)
  2. @pboy:fedora.im (35)
  3. @yukih:fedora.im (21)
  4. @pbokoc:fedora.im (16)
  5. @zodbot:fedora.im (9)
  6. @jspaleta:fedora.im (6)
  7. @lochipi:matrix.org (5)
  8. @nielsenb:fedora.im (4)
  9. @venefilyn:matrix.org (3)
  10. @meetbot:fedora.im (3)
  11. @chris_idoko:matrix.org (2)
  12. @hricky:fedora.im (2)