My time contributing to Fedora from March 4th to April 2nd has truly been enlightening and extraordinary. I used to perceive open source as a distant concept with Fedora being completely off my radar until I dove into contributing this year. Now, I can say that I am contributing to open source, and even better to the Fedora Project. In this blog, I will be walking you through my contributions to Fedora during my Outreachy contribution stage.

Prerequisites Contributions

[Step 1] Set up your Fedora Account System (FAS) account.

[Step 2] Set up a personal blog.

[Step 3] Write a blog post that introduces the Fedora community to your audience.

[Step 4] Promote your intro blog post on social media.

[Step 5] Write an onboarding guide for Outreachy 2025 applicants.

Additional Contributions

[Prerequisite] Outreachy Onboarding.

[Stretch] Prepare social media posts.

[Stretch] Make a list of DEI-related holidays.

[Stretch] Write an article.

[Stretch] Evaluate impact of your promotion campaign.

[Advanced] Podman, CoreOS, Toolbx Test Day Social Media Support.

[Stretch] Preparing a portfolio of your contributions.

[Stretch] Make a timeline of what you would like to do in the Outreachy internship.

Supporting Materials

Personal Blog: Already had a personal blog post website that was accessible without the reader having to create an account. Adjusted some settings to meet up to the requirements.

Introductory Fedora Community Post: Worked on a blog post to introduce the Fedora community to my audience. Broke them down into sub-headings and added graphics to make it easier and more interesting to read.

Promotion of Blog Post on Social Media: After that, I took to LinkedIn to promote my blog post to my social media audience. Created a separate graphic to be used as a preview image to improve engagements.

Onboarding Guide for Outreachy 2025 Applicants: Wrote an onboarding guide for the 2025 Outreachy applicants. Writing this down helped me to document what I've learnt so far and also help future applicants, a win-win for me.

Prepare Social Media Posts for Fedora: Worked on social media post drafts that can be used for Fedora.

Write an article: Wrote an article with the topic of “Which is right for me - mainline Fedora or Fedora Atomic Desktops” to be published in the Fedora Magazine.

Social Media Impact Report: Worked on analyzing a social media campaign.

Supporting Graphics: Graphics I designed to increase engagement.

Biggest Contributions and Discoveries

My biggest contribution throughout this stage was reading up about everything Fedora, documenting it, running a social media marketing campaign and measuring the results. The whole process was truly enlightening!

Additionally, I learnt everything about Fedora Mainline and Fedora Atomic Desktops, what they are about and how beneficial they are to different users. I also enjoyed working on the DEI-related calendar, and the social media test days post. I learnt so much from these experiences and look forward to learning more.

A bonus contribution I enjoyed was helping out my fellow applicants in understanding Fedora and getting them used to the dynamics within the community.