2025-06-05 –, Plenary
Mentorship has always been a big part of what makes Fedora special. This year, we’re adding something new to the Fedora Mentor Summit: a casual lunch matching session where mentors and mentees can meet face-to-face, share stories, swap ideas, and connect over common goals.
Here’s how it works:
* We’ve already paired folks based on the Fedora Discussion thread.
* If you didn’t sign up ahead of time - no worries! Stop by and we’ll find you a spot based on the groups we’ve already put together.
* Need a conversation starter? We’ll have a few prompts ready to help break the ice.
* Take a group selfie during lunch and you’ll earn a Fedora Badge as a fun keepsake. 🐧
No formal structure - just good food and good conversation with someone else who cares about growing the Fedora community.
Hey, open source folks! I am Sumantro, hailing from India (the eastern part - former capital during the British era AKA Kolkata). I love sharing knowledge and writing about technology and experiences (mostly that I try every day).
Anything from k8s, ansible to setting up TCMS for make-believe projects is right up my alley. I work as a Software Developer in Test in Fedora Project and contribute to Open Source communities in the form of
testing, public speaking, documentation, mentorship, and onboarding. Playing Jenga, reading books, and brewing coffee are a few of my hobbies besides implementing productivity equations in my life and creating vision boards for targets I wanna achieve!
Fedora Ambassador
Fedora Packager Mentor
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lbazan
Nikita is a scalable vector existence…
which may be described as somewhat of a material world version of SVGs: adaptable and accurate. She came up with this original tagline after making incredible amounts of original SVG designs.
Today, you will find her as a software engineer, but her journey in tech began as a mechanical engineer at IIT Roorkee. Nikita gained experience in open-source and design by working as the Outreachy 2022 summer intern with the Fedora Project and later as a consultant with Software Freedom Conservancy. She has brushed upon the field of FinTech in the past as a part of J.P. Morgan Chase Quant Research Mentee and became the top team from India in WorldQuant Alphathon 2022. She had interned at Cisco, India as a Technical intern in the summer of 2023 and continued with them as a full time software engineer for the IoT team.
Her creative spirit lies with her art and music. She plays the Sitar, Flute or keys sometimes and also likes to work with all forms of art from sketching to sculpting; from digital to physical. Being an INTJ, she is a detail-oriented person and likes to organize & plan her tasks out. She has been described as ‘Monica’ more often than not, even though she has never watched the show ‘FRIENDS’. Her drive lies in exploring new fields and picking up new skills.
I started using Linux in 1997 with Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane). Since then, I have been an active promoter of free software, collaborating with the LUG Vaslibre for approximately four years.
I hold a graduate degree in computer science from the University of Carabobo, Venezuela, with over 15 years of experience in IT management and application development. For more than 18 years, I have been dedicated to advocating for free software, not only in Venezuela but also in Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina, fostering open-source adoption and community engagement.
A teacher by profession and a technologist by passion, I live in a constant search to make sense of the world through a monitor and a keyboard.
As a packaging sponsor, I actively review and mentor new packagers, helping to strengthen the ecosystem of free and open-source software.
Akashdeep Dhar is a senior 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.