2025-06-05 –, Topaz
Given how expansive the Fedora Project community is—with its subprojects and SIGs—many newcomers struggle to find an area to contribute.
The Join SIG was set up several years ago to help newcomers gain a foothold and become part of Fedora. Over the years, we've tried many methods to increase our retention rates. Most recently, we've used a people-centric "Welcome to Fedora" process.
Our main goal has been to try to help newcomers get to know the people of Fedora by easing them into a friendly space before having them jump into tickets or tasks.
We think that we can retain more people with Fedora-wide co-operation. We hope that you will agree that everyone in the Fedora community has a role to play with the Welcome Wagon.
In this talk, we will start a conversation about how we can better retain the many new friends who come to Fedora through Join SIG.
To prepare for the talk, you may wish to peruse https://pagure.io/fedora-join/WelcomeToFedora
Akashdeep Dhar is a software engineer in the Red Hat Community Linux Engineering team, working on researching and developing applications running on Fedora Infrastructure, and has served twice in Fedora Council, once as an initiative lead for a community revamp and once as an elected representative.
Philosopher, Ethicist and Technologist.
Mat H has worked in community advocacy for a number of organisations.
His current interests are in digital sovereignty and an ethical technological landscape then enables all persons.
New to Fedora Join SIG, he likes to find peoples special abilities and propel them into Fedora's future.
