A round-table event with all FESCo members who are in attendance. We'll have a lively discussion of the latest round of exciting Fedora Changes and take questions about plans for the future.

Fedora KDE has had an exciting few years with a growing community and significant efforts between Fedora and the KDE project. This presentation will briefly cover the recent history and contextualize it for the future developments emerging within the Fedora KDE SIG.

Last year at Flock we introduced the Fedora Asahi Remix for Apple Silicon Macs, and later released Fedora Asahi Remix 39. A year has now passed. We'll share our learnings around building and maintaining a fast-moving Remix while staying as close as possible to upstream Fedora.

Update on what the Hyperscale SIG has been working on, what deliverables are available and how to use them, and what's coming up next.

The Fedora KDE Workstation Cloud Image is designed to provide users with a seamless and optimized experience of the Fedora KDE desktop environment in a cloud-based setting. This presentation will outline the development process, key features, and potential use cases for this specialized image.

• Introduction to Fedora Cloud Edition: We will provide an overview of the Fedora Cloud Edition and its significance in the cloud computing landscape. We will discuss the objectives and target audience of the Fedora KDE Workstation Cloud Image.

• Design and Development: We will delve into the technical aspects of designing and developing the Fedora KDE Workstation Cloud Image. This will include discussions on the selection and integration of KDE Workstation, optimizing the image for cloud performance, and ensuring compatibility with popular cloud platforms.

• Feature Highlights: We will highlight the distinctive features and advantages of the Fedora KDE Workstation Cloud Image for handling complex projects for visualization, animation . This will include a showcase of accessing the KDE Plasma desktop environment using RDP, using pre-installed KDE applications, desktop customization options, and seamless integration with cloud-based workflows.

Deployment and Use Cases: We will explore the various deployment options available for the Fedora KDE Workstation Cloud Image, including different cloud providers and virtualization platforms. Additionally, we will discuss potential use cases for this image, such as software development environments, VDI solutions, and remote collaboration scenarios.

• Community Involvement and Future Roadmap: We will emphasize the importance of additional community involvement in the development and improvement of the Fedora KDE Workstation Cloud Image and other images of similar types. We will also discuss the future roadmap, including planned enhancements, user feedback integration, and potential collaborations with other Fedora Editions.

Historically, Fedora has been the only top ten Linux distribution missing a significant chunk of multimedia software mostly due to FFmpeg being excluded from the distribution for legal reasons. With the introduction of a limited build of FFmpeg in February 2022, that changed.

Less than a year later, a number of previously forbidden codecs have been approved for inclusion in Fedora. Following these events, Fedora saw an influx of multimedia-related packages. While much progress has been made, there are still over 200 packages in a popular third party repository that could potentially be moved to Fedora.

During this hackfest, we will:

1. find eligible packages from a popular third party repository,
2. try to build them using only Fedora repositories,
3. attempt to fix any issues we encounter and
4. submit selected packages for review and inclusion in Fedora.

Let's close that multimedia gap!