Justin W. Flory
Justin W. Flory is a creative maker. He is best known as an Open Source contributor and Free Culture advocate originally from the United States. Justin has participated in numerous Open Source communities and led different initiatives to build sustainable software and communities for over ten years.
In October 2022, Justin joined Red Hat as the fourth Fedora Community Architect (FCA). He works closely between the Fedora Project community and Red Hat to lead initiatives that grow the Fedora user and developer communities. He also helps make Red Hat and Fedora interactions more transparent and open.
Justin is also a contributor to the Fedora Project since 2015. In Fedora, he volunteered as the team leader of the Community Operations team for four years and was a founding member of the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Team. He continues to represent and advocate for Fedora Linux internationally at events and conferences, including OS Community Africa Festival, CHAOSScon (Africa & Europe editions), FOSDEM, DevConf CZ, All Things Open, OSCAL, and others.
Session
There are few Open Source projects today with as much rich history, releases, and lived experience as the Linux kernel and the various Linux distributions that provide a user-ready operating system. Linux is the rock-solid foundation underlying most of the world’s Internet infrastructure online today. But what is the lifecycle of these complex operating system distributions and how does someone participate as an Open Source contributor? This interactive workshop will get attendees to explore the dynamics of open source Linux communities, what software engineering and packaging look like in the RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS distributions, and create a self-guided map for attendees to land a contribution in an open source ecosystem with over 30 years of history.