Stephen Gallagher

Fedora 21 marked the first phase of the Fedora.next Initiative, an umbrella concept for a reimagining of how Fedora will operate in its second decade. This talk will focus on the switch to a Product-based model, the reasons behind it and the challenges (both technical and social) that we faced in shipping Fedora 21.

The session will be broken into approximately 25-30 minutes of lecture lightly covering a variety of topics including release-engineering, new feature development and socialization of ideas.

After the talk, the session will be opened up to a Q&A session with the audience.

As you may or may not be aware, Fedora is transitioning from its classic "one-size-fits-all" approach to one where we intend to target three specific user types with individual products: Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server and Fedora Cloud. Gathering Fedora contributors at FOSDEM to work on the logistics around this change in direction would be a valuable opportunity.

If you have an idea for how to improve Fedora or how to make one or more of the three new products really stand out, please join us for this planning and working session for Fedora's future. The Fedora.NEXT effort was launched recently as a means to reinvigorate interest in this most storied of distributions. We know that this will only succeed if we are meeting the real needs of our users, both current and potential. We would like anyone with an interest in guiding Fedora towards being the best solution for them to join us for this discussion.