Aurélien Bompard
I'm the Fedora Lead within the Community Linux Engineering team at Red Hat, in charge of the development side of things (as opposed to sysadmin things).
My not secret goal is to get more people interested in (and maybe eventually contributing to) our applications. They're cool! They're reliable! They help get things done! :-)
Sessions
At Flock To Fedora 2025, join us for an insightful exploration of Fedora Project’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025 with an emphasis on the essential roles of mentors and organization administrators. This talk will delve into the unique challenges and rewarding experiences associated with guiding emerging talent through two innovative projects: the "AI-Powered Log Triage and Security Alert Aggregator", and a novel service designed to streamline the introduction of new projects to Fedora Project. Hear interns progress stories and view snippets from the impactful work undertaken by Google Summer of Code 2025 interns. First half the presentation underscores how dedicated organization administrators and mentors help build a robust mentoring experience.
Alongside showcasing the GSoC and Outreachy contributions to Fedora Project, we will share the deeper reflection on mentorship from a challenging experience by Aurelien Bompard and Akashdeep Dhar's participation as mentors in Outreachy. In the previous year, they proposed a Fedora Infrastructure project and began mentoring the applicants with Tomas Hrcka's and Michal Konecny's support. Unfortunately, the contribution phase did not go as planned and we ended up discontinuing the internship early than intended. Here we will share our experiences from mentoring in the Fedora Infrastructure team - highlighting both the positive moments, arising issues and lessons learnt. Whether you are a current or aspiring mentor or mentee in the free and open-source software community, you can be sure to obtain valuable insights to help strengthen mentorship practices.
In this workshop, we'll pick our pet peeves with the Fedora Infrastructure applications and look at how we could make our daily lives easier. Help will be provided to get started with hacking on the apps, which app do what, how they are interconnected with each other, etc.
Knowledge of the programming language used in the app is very useful, but not mandatory: writing a detailed feature request with clear requirements is also very useful!