Fedora Project Podcast

56: Fedora Contributor Recognition Winners 2026

July 15th, 2026  |  58 mins 20 secs

ankur sinha, contributor onboarding, contributor recognition program, fabio valentini, fedora, fedora contributors, fedora kernel team, fedora linux, fedora mentor summit, fedora podcast, fesco, flock, join sig, justin forbes, kernel maintenance, linux, mentorship, neurofedora, open source, open source community, packaging guidelines, red hat, rust packaging, security updates, vendored dependencies

The Fedora Contributor Recognition Program just wrapped its second year, and the winners were announced live at Flock. On this episode of the Fedora Podcast, we sit down with all three: Ankur Sinha and Justin Forbes, to talk about the work that earned them recognition and what keeps them showing up for Fedora year after year.