@ankursinha - I would love to do a session on designing Fedora Badges! In the 8 week period following 12/13/18, most ideal timing for me will be mid-January on a weekend, likely in the morningor afternoon EST. Would this work?

I have a couple questions and thoughts:
Is there a certain or minimum length you recommend for a classroom session?
Is there a certain format for the session that is preferred or historically more successful?
If there is going to be announcements/posts about the session, I would be happy to make some design assets to go along with those. I would just need the specs for the whatever file sizes are needed.

@ankursinha - I would love to do a session on designing Fedora Badges!

Yay! Thank you!

In the 8 week period following 12/13/18, most ideal timing for me will be mid-January on a weekend, likely in the morningor afternoon EST. Would this work?

Yes, of course---we leave the time completely up to the instructors. If you have a week/weekend in mind now, we can block that off for you in the schedule.

I filed this for the date bit: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/113

I have a couple questions and thoughts:
Is there a certain or minimum length you recommend for a classroom session?

Most classrooms are usually one hour sessions. Some of the more involved ones where the instructors get the audience to do a few things too have sometime run for two hours.

Is there a certain format for the session that is preferred or historically more successful?

The most recent ones have used jitsi/bluejeans to share their screens. Depending on the topic, and how the instructors want to go about it, they generally use a presentation and quite a few have even run stuff in a terminal etc. The hands-on sessions seem to be popular---we also record these sessions and put them up on the Fedora YouTube channel so they can be used as reference in the future.

If there is going to be announcements/posts about the session, I would be happy to make some design assets to go along with those. I would just need the specs for the whatever file sizes are needed.

Yes, we announce these on the fedora magazine. Here's an example: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-classroom-session-fedora-modularity-101/

We try to publish the announcement at least a week in advance so that folks can organise themselves if needed. We can also set up a post-classroom survey for the attendees to feedback if you think that'd be useful.

I filed this for the magazine post: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/114

@duffy @ankursinha Hey! It absolutely sounds like a great idea! Definitely looking forward to it!

I see there is a badge for running a Fedora Classroom, maybe we can have a badge for the attendees too? (if there is not already one)

@duffy @ankursinha Hey! It absolutely sounds like a great idea! Definitely looking forward to it!
I see there is a badge for running a Fedora Classroom, maybe we can have a badge for the attendees too? (if there is not already one)

That would be really nice. We'll have to figure out a way to track attendees for this, though. Depending on the topic, many attendees may not be fedora community members too, so this may provide them with some incentive to join up and contribute maybe? I filed a ticket on our tracker here: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/127

@riecatnor : Would either 12th or 13th of January do?

The slots are filling up as other instructors confirm their sessions, but most of January is still free, luckily: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/F29

@ankursinha taking a look at the dates on the wiki, February 11th will work best for me. Can we put it on the schedule officially for that day?

Yes! I've blocked that out for you now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/F29

Would you be able to select a time too? Any time that's convenient for you works :) We need it for the announcement post (below), and to set up a BlueJeans room.

Last thing (I promise!): we also need a short summary of the session from you for the magazine post. Could you please send me one when you have time to spare? We'll want to publish it at least a week before the session to ensure the word gets around, and it usually takes the magazine editorial board a week to review posts---so it'll be amazing if I can have it by mid January?

Something like this: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-classroom-containers-101-podman/ . It should include some information about the session---what to expect, should the audience install any tools beforehand or download any material and that sort, and a little bit about you (the instructor :))

I'll take care of submitting it to the magazine and getting it reviewed etc.

Thanks again! :)

@ankursinha Hello! Sorry for the delay in response. Looking at the calendar again, I think I got the days mixed up. Would I be able to do February 9th or 10th instead of the 11th? (I need it to be a weekend day). I hope that will be okay, and I am fine to switch the weekend if needed. As for timing, 1PM EST will work very well for me.

As for format, I think the most effective way will be to use a video tool to share my screen, and give instructions/discussion/field questions in IRC. Do you have any thoughts on how successful this format will be?

I will get you the summary asap, and send that through email :)

Hello @riecatnor !

Yes, of course. How is 1EPM EST (1800 UTC/GMT) on 10/2/19? I've updated the calendar here, but please feel free to edit it if 9/2/19 works better.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/F29

We usually use Jitsi to do these sessions over video. It'll be the best way (and we can record the video and put it up on Youtube for folks to look at later). You can share screens and folks can ask questions and so on. We'll also have it running on IRC in parallel for questions and comments. I've created a Jitsi meeting here. How does it look? https://meet.jit.si/20190210-badges-101

I've received the e-mail. I'll draft up a magazine post asap and submit it for review/scheduling.

I've drafted a magazine post here. Could you please have a look to see if it's OK?

https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=24226&preview=1&_ppp=1b386e8161

• is there a link for the badges resources?
• is that the right package for comfortaa fonts?

Please suggest any other tweaks necessary and I'll then submit the article for review and inform the magazine team :)

Thanks again!

@ankursinha thanks for the date change, that works for me! The jitsi room looks fine.

The magazine post link isn't working for me... Can you send another?

Sorry about that: does this work?

https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=24226&preview=true

This was completed and I ran the session, but the recording failed :( I would be happy to run this again at some point. For now, closing this ticket. Thanks!