Mentor/Mentee Lunch Matching @ Fedora Mentor Summit - Flock To Fedora 2025

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Introduction

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 :tada:).

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: 2025-05-09T00:00:00Z

  • 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!

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What areas are you thinking about recruiting mentors / mentees from?
Programming, packaging, infrastructure, community, DEI? All of the above?

What day will the event be on?

I would be glad to mentor about community work.

I would like to mentee about business in open source.

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@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.

Thanks so much for joining us :tada:

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