2026-01-29 –, Sycamore 2B
For a long time, there was a discussion to cooperate on Fedora Docs and CentOS docs – contentwise! In 2022, Ben Cotton and Shaun McCance jointly launched an initiative, which then struggled with resource problems.
Now, Fedora Council had approved a new Fedora Docs 2025 Community Initiative. It aims to use – and provide – special resources to put the long-standing ups and downs of Fedora documentation on a new, more sustainable footing.
We should investigate and test whether and how this can be linked to substantive cooperation between our neighborhood distributions, leading to mutual improvement of the respective documentation leading to better usability, especially for new users, and thus a win-win situation for all of us.
Possible topics:
- Documentation of application scenarios and tutorials for your own distribution, beyond the Red Hat/RHEL documentation.
- Specific documentation of server administration and server applications / use cases
- Requirements and documentation for the new Anaconda Web UI
- Sustainable dialogue on specific, cross-distribution technical issues, e.g., Grub, kernel, rescue environment
Contributions to further ideas are welcome.
In the first half, we should explore and discuss. In the second half, test 2-3 topics, maybe in subgroups.
Peter is a scientist at University of Bremen, specializing in research methodology, statistics, and computational methods & infrastructure. He is involved with Fedora since FC1, working with desktop and especially Server and contributing to documentation in the early days. In 2020, he got involved in the Fedora Server Edition Working Group. From 2022 onwards, he was also involved in setting up a new Docs Team and improving the Fedora documentation. Currently, he is also co-lead of the Fedora Docs 2025 Community Initiative.
Petr is a technical writer on the Community Linux Engineering team who has been active in Fedora Documentation since 2013, mostly working on user-facing documentation such as the Release Notes, the old (now no longer published) Installation Guide, and Quick Docs.