Fedora Community Ops Meeting (2026-01-20): FOSDEM 2026, SCaLE 23x, Quests, Forgejo migration

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Hi Fedora folks :waving_hand: Here is the summary from today’s Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) meeting. We are shifting gears into “Event Season” and piloting some new infrastructure for 2026.

The Community Operations (CommOps) team provides tools, resources, and utilities for the different sub-projects of Fedora to improve effective communication and collaboration. Due to the lack of a formally-triaged agenda and lower quorum, today’s meeting was a casual year-end wrap-up focused on sharing news and announcements before the holidays.

Note: AI (Google Gemini) was used to summarize the transcript of the public video meeting. I reviewed and corrected the AI-generated output before posting.

:date: Key Updates & Logistics

1. FOSDEM & CentOS Connect — Brussels, Belgium :belgium:

The team is finalizing logistics for our presence in Brussels next week.

  • Metrics Workshop: Instead of a formal session, we will be joining a “Community Health & Metrics” topic table during the Friday Lunch at CentOS Connect. If you care about how we measure open source success, join us there!

2. SCaLE 23x — Pasadena, California, USA :united_states:

  • Big News: Fedora and CentOS have secured a Half-Day Track on Friday at SCaLE 23x!
  • What this means: We have a dedicated room to showcase upstream innovation. The exact schedule is TBD, but we are looking for help to promote this once the agenda is live.

:rocket: Strategic Pilots

3. Introducing “Quests” (Concept Pilot)

We are exploring a new way to bridge the gap between “Good First Issues” and “Maintainer” status.

  • The Concept: “Quests” are mid-sized, multiplayer projects (1-3 months) designed for contributors who want to tackle something bigger than a bug fix but aren’t ready to own a SIG.
  • Status: We are prototyping this workflow now. Stay tuned for a pilot launch soon.

4. Forgejo Piloting

The migration to our new Git forge is moving forward.

  • Action for Contributors: Log in now to the public instance at https://forge.fedoraproject.org using your FAS ID.
  • Why log in? We need to seed the user database and test permissions. Please log in once to ensure your account is active.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 3 @ 10:00 – 11:00 EST (Matrix)
See the CommOps Fedora Calendar for details.

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Hi @jflory7 , how are you? Thank you for the detailed update on the recent meeting.

I little reminder about myself. I was a contributor at Fedora a few years back. And then life happened, so I had to take a break. My passion for open source and Fedora being my first ever open source community I contributed to, I got pulled back to this project.

Now working as a community engagement manager, I would love to contribute back to the Fedora community.

I am particularly very much interested in “Community Health and Metrics”, and of course everything else thats necessary for a happy, healthy and safe community.
EDIT: Found DataWG on Forge!

I looked at the commops calendar but couldn’t find the next meeting date. Could you let me know when is the next meeting? Would love to attend it.

I look forward to working with the team and giving back to the community.

Thank you
Ramya Parimi

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Ramya, you need no reminder. :wink: However, I’m going to save the chit-chat for your (re-)introduction topic.

I confess this part of the Community Ops charter is where I am less engaged, but @mwinters and @rwright are our fearless Data WG leaders. You should find time to catch up on what they are up to.

Yeah, that is the best place to follow the progress that @mwinters is working on:

I just realized that the event series ended on December 31st and we never re-extended it. :sweat_smile: I’ll work on getting the meetings added back into Fedora Calendar for this year. In the meantime, I will add your FAS account email to the Google Calendar invite. We just had one today, sorry that I missed this post until now!

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This is now fixed for 2026:

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Thanks a bunch for adding me to the meeting calendar invite!

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