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Fedora – How to Contribute? Things to know
Rahul SundaramPRESENTED BY:
Fedora Contributor, Red Hat
Licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Today's Topics
· Understanding Fedora
· Where to start?
· Tools of the trade
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Understanding Fedora
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Four Foundations
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Understanding Fedora
· Strong focus on Free and open source software licensing
· Cutting edge – Six month release, ~13 months of updates per release
· Culture of innovation
· Upstream orientation
· Sponsored by Red Hat
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Where to start?
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Where to start? - I
· You don't have to be a rock star programmer!
· Packaging
· Infrastructure
· Design
· Documentation
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Where to start? - II
· Quality Assurance
· Translator
· Marketing
· Much more at http://join.fedoraproject.org
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Tools of the trade
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Tools of the trade
· Communication - Mailing lists, IRC
· Collaboration - Wiki, Etherpad
· Presentation - Libreoffice, LaTeX
· Packaging - RPM, Yum, Koji, Bodhi and Pkgdb
· Artwork - Inkscape, GIMP, Blender
· Infrastructure - Python - Turbo gears, Django