app01 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:51:59 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Fedora Project Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Community” https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/tags/community Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 This Podcast will feature interviews and talks with the people who make the Fedora community awesome. These folks work on new technologies found in Fedora, or they produce the distro itself. Some work on putting Fedora in the hands of users. There’s so much going on in Fedora; it takes a whole podcast series! en episodic News and interviews from the people who work on the Fedora Project Fedora Project This Podcast will feature interviews and talks with the people who make the Fedora community awesome. These folks work on new technologies found in Fedora, or they produce the distro itself. Some work on putting Fedora in the hands of users. There’s so much going on in Fedora; it takes a whole podcast series! no Fedora,Linux,Community,Open Source,Free Software Fedora Project podcast@fedoraproject.org 60: Changing of the Guard, the New Fedora Community Architect https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/60 8be8cecb-d2da-45a3-89e3-b27e9d31d17f Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Fedora Project full Fedora Project Justin Wheeler hands the Fedora Community Architect role to Shaun McCance. Both of them join Eric to explain what the job is, what changes, and what deliberately does not. 50:39 no <p>Fedora has a job whose entire purpose is the health of the community around the distribution, and this month a new person took it over. So we got both of them on at once.</p> <p>Justin Wheeler has held the Fedora Community Architect seat since 2022 and is moving into a new role as AI Alignment Community Architect. Shaun McCance is stepping into the Fedora role while staying on as CentOS Community Architect. Noah is out this episode, so Eric hosts solo.</p> <p>We get into:</p> <ul> <li>Where the role came from, why Robyn Bergeron pushed for it in 2015, and how it went from community outreach and impact lead to Fedora Community Architect in January 2023</li> <li>What actually lands on the desk: a Council seat, the Mindshare Committee, the Code of Conduct Committee, budget stewardship, and Flock</li> <li>How Mindshare funding works for ambassadors, local organizers, and anyone who just needs a box of stickers and will write an event report</li> <li>Justin's new AI Alignment role, why he wrote his own job description, and why he thinks community consent on AI has to be earned rather than assumed</li> <li>This Week in Fedora, and the argument that started when a bot began ingesting messages from a public but non-indexed Matrix room</li> <li>What Shaun brings from CentOS and from years as GNOME Foundation treasurer, and what he finds daunting about Fedora's breadth</li> <li>Why one shared budget spreadsheet is not a merger, and what stays separate on purpose</li> <li>Where to find both projects: CentOS Connect January 28 and 29 in Brussels, DevConf US September 24 and 25 in Boston, Texas Linux Fest in November, and All Things Open</li> </ul> <p>There is a written companion post at <a href="https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep60-changing-of-the-guard/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep60-changing-of-the-guard/</a> Special Guests: Justin Wheeler and Shaun McCance.</p> Fedora, CentOS, Fedora Community Architect, FCA, Red Hat, open source community, Shaun McCance, Justin Wheeler, Flock to Fedora, community management, AI alignment, Fedora Council, Mindshare, Fedora Podcast Fedora has a job whose entire purpose is the health of the community around the distribution, and this month a new person took it over. So we got both of them on at once.

Justin Wheeler has held the Fedora Community Architect seat since 2022 and is moving into a new role as AI Alignment Community Architect. Shaun McCance is stepping into the Fedora role while staying on as CentOS Community Architect. Noah is out this episode, so Eric hosts solo.

We get into:

  • Where the role came from, why Robyn Bergeron pushed for it in 2015, and how it went from community outreach and impact lead to Fedora Community Architect in January 2023
  • What actually lands on the desk: a Council seat, the Mindshare Committee, the Code of Conduct Committee, budget stewardship, and Flock
  • How Mindshare funding works for ambassadors, local organizers, and anyone who just needs a box of stickers and will write an event report
  • Justin's new AI Alignment role, why he wrote his own job description, and why he thinks community consent on AI has to be earned rather than assumed
  • This Week in Fedora, and the argument that started when a bot began ingesting messages from a public but non-indexed Matrix room
  • What Shaun brings from CentOS and from years as GNOME Foundation treasurer, and what he finds daunting about Fedora's breadth
  • Why one shared budget spreadsheet is not a merger, and what stays separate on purpose
  • Where to find both projects: CentOS Connect January 28 and 29 in Brussels, DevConf US September 24 and 25 in Boston, Texas Linux Fest in November, and All Things Open

There is a written companion post at https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep60-changing-of-the-guard/

Special Guests: Justin Wheeler and Shaun McCance.

Links:

]]> Fedora has a job whose entire purpose is the health of the community around the distribution, and this month a new person took it over. So we got both of them on at once.

Justin Wheeler has held the Fedora Community Architect seat since 2022 and is moving into a new role as AI Alignment Community Architect. Shaun McCance is stepping into the Fedora role while staying on as CentOS Community Architect. Noah is out this episode, so Eric hosts solo.

We get into:

  • Where the role came from, why Robyn Bergeron pushed for it in 2015, and how it went from community outreach and impact lead to Fedora Community Architect in January 2023
  • What actually lands on the desk: a Council seat, the Mindshare Committee, the Code of Conduct Committee, budget stewardship, and Flock
  • How Mindshare funding works for ambassadors, local organizers, and anyone who just needs a box of stickers and will write an event report
  • Justin's new AI Alignment role, why he wrote his own job description, and why he thinks community consent on AI has to be earned rather than assumed
  • This Week in Fedora, and the argument that started when a bot began ingesting messages from a public but non-indexed Matrix room
  • What Shaun brings from CentOS and from years as GNOME Foundation treasurer, and what he finds daunting about Fedora's breadth
  • Why one shared budget spreadsheet is not a merger, and what stays separate on purpose
  • Where to find both projects: CentOS Connect January 28 and 29 in Brussels, DevConf US September 24 and 25 in Boston, Texas Linux Fest in November, and All Things Open

There is a written companion post at https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep60-changing-of-the-guard/

Special Guests: Justin Wheeler and Shaun McCance.

Links:

]]> 59: What is CentOS? https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/59 0318dc25-da62-48e8-b087-1a215033d777 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Fedora Project full Fedora Project CentOS Board members Amy Marrich and Troy Dawson, plus Community Architect Shaun McCance, join Eric and Noah to sort out what CentOS actually is in 2026. 47:54 no <p>A couple of episodes ago we talked to Carl George about EPEL, and half that conversation ended up being about CentOS. The questions kept coming, so we made a whole episode out of it.</p> <p>This is the biggest panel the show has ever had. Amy Marrich chairs the CentOS Board and does technical marketing for OpenStack at Red Hat. Troy Dawson leads the CentOS Stream team, sits on the board, and builds CentOS Stream for RISC-V. Shaun McCance is the CentOS Community Architect, and as of two weeks ago the Fedora Community Architect as well.</p> <p>We get into:</p> <ul> <li>Why CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream are different projects, and why one of them retired around RHEL 9</li> <li>The pipeline: Fedora, then Fedora ELN, then CentOS Stream, then RHEL, and why Btrfs is the example everyone reaches for</li> <li>How Stream and RHEL now build from the same commit, on a one-week cadence versus six months</li> <li>Why partners shipped on RHEL 9 launch day because they had been building against Stream 9</li> <li>How the board actually works, why only one seat speaks for Red Hat, and what the SIGs and the SIG Council do</li> <li>Where to file a bug (against RHEL, not at Troy)</li> <li>How to contribute without writing code, and why being new makes you good at documentation</li> </ul> <p>There is a written companion post at <a href="https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep59-what-is-centos/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep59-what-is-centos/</a> Special Guests: Amy Marrich, Shaun McCance, and Troy Dawson.</p> CentOS, CentOS Stream, CentOS Linux, RHEL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Fedora ELN, Enterprise Linux, CentOS SIG, Hyperscale SIG, CentOS Board, CentOS Connect, open source governance, Linux A couple of episodes ago we talked to Carl George about EPEL, and half that conversation ended up being about CentOS. The questions kept coming, so we made a whole episode out of it.

This is the biggest panel the show has ever had. Amy Marrich chairs the CentOS Board and does technical marketing for OpenStack at Red Hat. Troy Dawson leads the CentOS Stream team, sits on the board, and builds CentOS Stream for RISC-V. Shaun McCance is the CentOS Community Architect, and as of two weeks ago the Fedora Community Architect as well.

We get into:

  • Why CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream are different projects, and why one of them retired around RHEL 9
  • The pipeline: Fedora, then Fedora ELN, then CentOS Stream, then RHEL, and why Btrfs is the example everyone reaches for
  • How Stream and RHEL now build from the same commit, on a one-week cadence versus six months
  • Why partners shipped on RHEL 9 launch day because they had been building against Stream 9
  • How the board actually works, why only one seat speaks for Red Hat, and what the SIGs and the SIG Council do
  • Where to file a bug (against RHEL, not at Troy)
  • How to contribute without writing code, and why being new makes you good at documentation

There is a written companion post at https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep59-what-is-centos/

Special Guests: Amy Marrich, Shaun McCance, and Troy Dawson.

]]> A couple of episodes ago we talked to Carl George about EPEL, and half that conversation ended up being about CentOS. The questions kept coming, so we made a whole episode out of it.

This is the biggest panel the show has ever had. Amy Marrich chairs the CentOS Board and does technical marketing for OpenStack at Red Hat. Troy Dawson leads the CentOS Stream team, sits on the board, and builds CentOS Stream for RISC-V. Shaun McCance is the CentOS Community Architect, and as of two weeks ago the Fedora Community Architect as well.

We get into:

  • Why CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream are different projects, and why one of them retired around RHEL 9
  • The pipeline: Fedora, then Fedora ELN, then CentOS Stream, then RHEL, and why Btrfs is the example everyone reaches for
  • How Stream and RHEL now build from the same commit, on a one-week cadence versus six months
  • Why partners shipped on RHEL 9 launch day because they had been building against Stream 9
  • How the board actually works, why only one seat speaks for Red Hat, and what the SIGs and the SIG Council do
  • Where to file a bug (against RHEL, not at Troy)
  • How to contribute without writing code, and why being new makes you good at documentation

There is a written companion post at https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep59-what-is-centos/

Special Guests: Amy Marrich, Shaun McCance, and Troy Dawson.

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