{"id":130744,"date":"2022-12-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fedoramagazine.org\/?p=37473"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:00:00","slug":"getting-ready-for-an-exciting-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/23\/getting-ready-for-an-exciting-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for an exciting 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This message comes directly from the desk of Matthew Miller, the<\/em> Fedora Project Leader<\/em><\/a>. \u2014 Ed.]<\/em><\/p>\n

This \u201clove letter to the community\u201d started in 2020 as a way to shine a little light in a very dark time, and to encourage everyone \u2014 including me \u2014 by reminding us all of the great work done by great people in Fedora. But it\u2019s become one of my favorite things to do all year. We\u2019re no longer just trying to get through a dark time. We\u2019re looking forward to an exciting era in Fedora\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

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The work we did this year sets a great foundation for building our future. I don\u2019t just mean the Fedora Linux 36 and 37 releases, although we should definitely be proud of those. But there\u2019s a continued sense of excitement around the community. We\u2019re growing and bringing new energy.<\/p>\n

This year, Nest With Fedora grew even more in a time where everyone is feeling virtual event fatigue. And we introduced Hatch \u2014 regional events where you could meet with other local-ish contributors. Reading the recaps<\/a>, I wish I could have gone to all of them. But it was great to spend time with some of you in Rochester. I\u2019ve really, really missed our in-person interactions. Virtual events help keep our global community connected, and help bring in new people who might not be able to join us otherwise, but they can\u2019t substitute for face-to-face meetups. More on that in a moment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just a few days of events that has me excited, though. When I look around the project, I see a lot happening. The Fedora CoreOS and Cloud teams promoted their deliverables to Edition status. We wrapped up a huge revamp of our community outreach<\/a> that began in 2020. The Docs team is more active than it has been in years (and they\u2019ve added a search bar to the site!). We have a complete renovation of our websites in the works. The Marketing team is exploring new ways to promote Fedora, including a presence in the Fediverse<\/a>. We\u2019re finally almost <\/em>ready to merge Ask Fedora and Fedora Discussion, bringing more of our conversations together.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of work for one year. The best part is how organic this work is. This wasn\u2019t some demand from on high (that\u2019s not how Fedora works), but it was people in the community saying \u201cI see work to be done. I\u2019m going to do it!\u201d Fedora is us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We will celebrate so much more in 2023. We\u2019re still working on the details, but we expect to have a greater in-person experience next year, including funding for hackfests and the return of Flock to Fedora! And of course, it\u2019s the 20th anniversary of Fedora. The world \u2014 and the technology that drives it \u2014 has changed so much since then. But our values haven\u2019t. The Fedora community remains an inclusive, welcoming, and open-minded community. I\u2019m proud to be a part of it. Happy new year, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This message comes directly from the desk of Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader. \u2014 Ed.] This \u201clove letter to the community\u201d started in 2020 as a way to shine a little light in a very dark time, and to encourage everyone \u2014 including me \u2014 by reminding us all of the great work done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[45,61,46,47],"class_list":["post-130744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora-os","tag-fedora","tag-fedora-project-community","tag-magazine","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}