Fedora x GNOME Asia 2024 @ RHT BLR

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 Epilogue 

GNOME Asia 2024 was held in Red Hat BLR office. This edition was staffed mostly by Red Hat employees and GNOME foundation members. The rendition had a nice split of Fedora, GNOME dev and Ubuntu talks. This event was a result of months on planning across multiple Timezones , seeing this come to fruition is a dream come true.

Day 0

I touchdown 72hrs before the event. To helpout with last minute plannings and logistical arrangements. I was in touch with Samyak Jain (event owner) and Justin Flory (Fedora Community Arch) who had listed down the items that were still getting delivered at the office. This part of any event is hectic and support from GNOME staff was desired.
Sudhir Dharanendraiah (Senior Manager @ Red Hat Core Platforms) being a Bangaluru native; led the facilities co-ordination efforts with Gowda (Red Hat India Facility Maganer). Sudhir is one of prime people who did a lot of the heavy lifting behind the curtains.

Day 1

The GNOME foundation has a specific "tradition" which is how they have the keynote at the end of the day. However, I believe that I will have to start with the keynote recap first here. Keynote was by Ramky and it was on "FOSS, Chai and Change" which focused on building awareness and how FOSS has evolved in India. 


Moving on, we had "Making mentorship a key part of your open source community" by Jona and Smera. Followed by "Async Page Flip support in Gnome Mutter". " Infrastructure and Release Engineering - What Goes Into Building Fedora Workstation?" by Akash and Samyak. The highlight of the day was Fedora Release Party!

Day 2

Open Source Mentorship: Crafting Communities, Creating Leaders by Samyak kicked off the day for me. followed by SyncStar by Akash. Finally Fedora x Outreachy!
 


Learning

1. Fedora is backed by Red Hat and there are a lot of advantages we have because of the leverage, we (Fedora) should really understand what we are signing up for and not take up things which are beyond our control.

2. Collaboration is key. This event lacked it from the beginning. Local organizers got almost no support and somewhere 1 week before the event, the GNOME foundation members gave up their share of responsibilities to Fedora and it was all Fedora folks running the show

3.  Adding and making changes last minutes is bad idea. Be it youtube live stream keys to adding a ubuntu release party unannounced is plain bad idea. It could have been planned and done, but forcing people to accept a proposal is just not possible.


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