Voting is open in the fedora community, please if you have a fas account, feel free to vote in: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-33-elections-voting-now-open/

Join the Fedora Design Team in a live session today, 25 Nov at 18:00 UTC, to design a theme for the official Fedora Discussion forum on Discourse!

https://twitter.com/mairin/status/1331615287829999622

P.S. — This workshop will use Inkscape, an amazing Free Software vector illustration tool!

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html

[CentOS-announce] CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end
at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as
the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hi, this is a rare FOSS "ad" we will share in this channel.

If you are feeling extra generous and have some spare cash, please consider becoming a supporter of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). These are the folks who support Free Software in important ways, like litigating violations of Open Source licenses, ensuring big corps play fair by the license rules, and sponsoring programs like Outreachy. They do a lot of amazing, hidden work for Free Software. Please consider donating and becoming a supporter of this great Free Software organization!

While not specifically about Fedora, Fedora and the SFC both advocate without compromises for Free Software, which is why this was shared here.

https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/1341740091996217344

https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

P.S. — Becoming a supporter (and getting a t-shirt, benefits, etc.) takes a $120 USD donation. But even if you have just $5 to spare, every bit counts!

From the desk of the Fedora Project Leader, this is a final year-end reflection on looking back at Fedora in an unprecedented year, the highs and the lows, and where we go next.

https://fedoramagazine.org/a-2020-love-letter-to-the-fedora-community/

Wishing our global Fedora Community a good year-end and hopeful New Year ahead!

Today I learned: https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/1349037318200561665

"Fedora Looks To Overhaul Its Community Outreach" — phoronix.com

> In addition to pursuing many technical changes for its Linux distribution like systemd-oomd by default, Btrfs Zstd compression, and standalone XWayland releases, the Fedora project is also looking to overhaul its community outreach this year.
>
> Fedora's "Community Outreach Revamp" is to focus on existing outreach teams within Fedora that are "struggling to function" or need greater support for success.

Read more…

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Community-Outreach-21

Only Fedora. 😉

From the Fedora Project Leader: https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/1351594594572632066

If you use the official #Chromium package on Fedora (or any distribution: Linux, BSD, self-compiled, etc.), you will want to see this thread.

https://twitter.com/fedora/status/1351631726791983105

Fedora is going to FOSDEM 2021, and we need help preparing videos of the new features in Fedora 33/34 like Btrfs, IoT edition, i3 Spin, and more:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MG4HPHZKFOHOJCNBDMMQJ5O7BYVJU7EW/

Do you have video editing skills? Want to see your work shown at the largest Free Software conference in Europe? Ask for pointers from the good folks in @joinfedora if you want to help out.

Do you hear about btrfs but not too excited about a fresh installation? We have a guide to convert your filesystems to btfs: https://fedoramagazine.org/convert-your-filesystem-to-btrfs/ (For Advanced Users)

Upgrade the sudo package to avoid a privilege-escalation hack. An update is pending testing before arriving to Fedora's stable repos:

F32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-8840cbdccd

F33: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-2cb63d912a

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow, allowing privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character. Read the MITRE CVE. Read the Red Hat Product Security Team analysis.

The update is already on the way to Fedora 32 and 33 (but you can upgrade before it goes to the stable repos - see Bodhi for details).

Fedora 32 package now has sufficient karma. Thanks all! Updates for both F32 and F33 should land in global mirrors for stable repos in the next 48 hours. You can find the RPM from Koji, Fedora's build system, if you don't want to wait for mirror syncs.

Fedora 34 will feature the most changes of any release in our 18 years. 😏😄🚀

https://twitter.com/Det_Conan_Kudo/status/1356748217484984322

The final Fedora Social Hour for FOSDEM 2021 is happening NOW. You can join now until 16:00 UTC.

Join the FOSDEM social hour:
https://jitsi.riot.im/fcwWxPztrmOWykyfPhfosdemorg6jsicd7zdm