In Fedora Project, we believe that “everyone can be a mentee and a mentor”. Fedora Mentor Summit is a satellite event at Flock To Fedora organized to foster the practice of mentorship within the Fedora Project community. To celebrate the contributions of mentors and provide the opportunities to mentees, we have been coalescing the event with Flock To Fedora (by 2025, third time now ).
Flock To Fedora is all about contributors coming together - sharing ideas, collaborating thoughts and building connections in the community. As a part of the Fedora Mentor Summit 2025, we are organizing a Mentor/Mentee Lunch Matching session. Participants can get the chance to share delicious meals and interesting stories while connecting with the mentors and mentees of the community.
How it works
Comment below to express your interest
Add your interested role (mentor or mentee) and your topics of interest for matching
Deadline: 2025-05-16T00:00:00Z
Share your Matrix ID so that we can communicate preferences
What will happen
We will create matching of mentors and mentees based on your topics of interest
Matching can be changed among if informed well in advance
Change of roles may happen depending on the matching of mentors and mentees
Sharing and gathering of experiences is encouraged with other participants over at the table
We have created a simple guideline to support your lunch conversation
Why join in
In the spirit of Fedora’s “Friends” foundation, the Mentor/Mentee Lunch Matching is a great way to meet people, share ideas, and learn over a relaxing meal. Whether you’re hoping to find a mentor to learn from or inspire someone who’s just starting out - you can make meaningful connections here. Plus, if you snap a group selfie during the lunch, you’ll earn a Fedora Badge as a fun keepsake from the event!
FAQs
Do attendees have to be present in-person at the event to participate?
As the event will take place with participants sharing meals, this event is exclusive to in-person participants of Flock To Fedora 2025 only.
When is this event going to be organized and at which location?
This event is preliminarily planned for the first day of Flock To Fedora 2025 and is going to be organized in the same venue as Flock To Fedora 2025.
Which interest areas and relevant topics can be included in discussions?
Regardless of which subproject or SIG the participants may contribute to, all areas and topics are welcome with relation to Fedora Project.
Can I be assigned with one more friend or colleague in the same match?
As the goal of this event is to make potential mentor/mentee matches, it will be for the best if participants are open to new connections.
Can someone participate as both a mentor and a mentee?
There is always something to learn and something to teach at all ends so that is totally possible for the participants to be mentor and mentee.
Who can I reach out to, if I need more information on this?
Please feel free to reach out to me on #t0xic0der:fedora.im, @echevemaster and @jonatoni on #jonatoni:fedora.im for more information.
@theprogram yes, we’re planning to include all of those areas - programming, packaging, infrastructure, community, DEI, marketing, etc - anyone is welcome to join.
At the moment, we’re aiming to host it during lunch on the first day of the event, but if there’s a lot of interest, we might extend it to additional days.
Happy to join as a mentor from a manger/management perspective - hence anything reg business, career, growth, etc. anything goes or just ask me about my mistakes (for fun)
I am no good in regards to technical stuff
(if it doesn’t make sense or is needed feel free to remove me or give my spot to someone else)
Other questions - feel free to reach out at any time!
Hey! I’m interested in being a mentor for anyone who wants to write applications in Python. Being interested in Fedora Infra applications is definitely a plus!
My Matrix ID is abompard@fedora.im.
Happy to meet folks and talk about anything! \0/
I can help in getting folks moving in the world of fedora release engineering & fedora community in general! See you folks at the lunch!
I would be happy to mentor people for Embedded Software, Computer Networks and Graphic Design, but also open for other life experience discussions and general guidance!
I’m interested to be a mentee. I already have some basic understanding of the Fedora image mode systems in general and would like to gain more in-depth knowledge. I would like to learn more about Python, Go, Rust, RPM/Flatpak packaging, Release Engineering, Testing, Infrastructure, etc. Overall, as already mentioned in this topic, I would be glad to meet people I would like to talk to.
I would like to sign up as a mentee to better understand any of the following topics:
Working with diverse stakeholders (in an open source project context): Communication, strategy,
bootc: I have not had time to get to know bootc better. I’d like to understand the foundational technology, how an operating system is defined for bootc, and maybe going through some examples of how these images are built.
Konflux: I have spent little time on understanding the change in the packaging workflow from the traditional RPM + Koji workflow. I am already a packager with a few packages to my name. I’d like to know what I might expect in the far-along future, preferably someone who is familiar with RPM packaging and Konflux.
I’m interested in joining as a mentee. I’m mostly comfortable with the technical side of (still have a lot more to learn), but not so much when it comes to communication, community involvement, or handling things outside of code. would love to get some guidance on that!
also any advice on growing and building career in open source would be really appreciated and I would love to hear about your experiences too!
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I’m interested in being a mentor. I can help people get started with topics related to:
See you folks at the lunch!