Hey all,
I am not much involved with the Fedora community, so not even sure if I
should comment on this thread..but since I have been involved in the
planning of the FWD Pune event and am also a speaker for the FWD Kolkata
event, I wanted to share my thoughts around this discussion as well.
I understand that speaking on any topic just by reading it up on a wiki
page is never enough and should be avoided. But here we have a small
chicken and egg problem. Since we don't have too many female Fedora
contributors at Pune, we can't find speakers who could talk on different
ways one could contribute to Fedora and since we never talk on these
contribution pathways and how to get started, we can't manage to find more
contributors. So, the idea was to get a few enthusiastic participants, who
were willing to find out about these different contribution pathways and
how to get started and give a presentation to the rest of our audience.
Other than this, whether this can be called a Fedora event or not...well, I
don't think I am eligible to comment on that. Whereas I always love events
to be community events and not individual or an organizational
initiative...but I am not sure what is best here with respect to the Fedora
community.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <
siddhesh.poyare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 June 2016 at 10:05, Amita Sharma <amsha...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Sure, Please feel free to edit wiki page (draft) [1] to add your
> name/names
> > as speakers, whoever wants to talk more on actual upstream contribution.
> > This is the link of the main event -
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016
> >
> >
> > Indeed, it is a fedora event. I appreciate your guidance and help.
> >
> > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWD_Pune
>
> Can we please not market this as a Fedora event? Or if we are, please
> make a more serious attempt to involve the community in it. That is,
> please try and do the following:
>
> 1. Send a 'first class' communication about the event on the mailing
> list, not a forwarded snippet of some arbitrary conversation that
> happened internally in Red Hat. It took me a while to even understand
> what was being talked about from the two emails
>
> 2. Make the meeting times public so that if anyone from outside RH
> wants to join, then they can. Not a lot actually do in my experience,
> but you're part of a larger community so please at least do due
> diligence. Also, we don't have kerberos ids in Fedora, so I assume
> you're talking about RH internal kerberos ids in the piratepad link[1]
> on the wiki page. I don't know why that is important in Fedora
>
> 3. Speaking about a topic is not just about content (that anybody can
> read a wiki page and deliver) but about presenting an example of a
> community member. Apart from some, I could not identify a lot of the
> people from the speaker list in the piratepad page as contributors to
> Fedora. I also did not see a call for speakers for the event, which
> is something you'd want to do if you don't have qualified speakers for
> the event. I guess you could bias the selection process in favour of
> women since it is a women's day event, but I don't know how women's
> day celebrations work so I don't know how that works.
>
> Siddhesh
>
> [1] http://piratepad.net/a5QZnEPaP8
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