What's the audience for this conference (primarily KDE users or developers)?

What's the metric for success -- what do we want to get out of this?

The audience is mostly KDE contributors, though there are some users as well.

Insofar as what we want to get out of this:

• We want KDE folks to see that Fedora Linux is a valuable partner for the KDE ecosystem
• We want to raise the profile of the Fedora Project in the KDE community

So a metric for success would be increased engagement from the KDE community with the Fedora Project. I think this is the first time we would sponsor Akademy, so I think this is also in the "exploratory sponsorship" category too.

As a personal note, this is partly motivated to disabuse the notion that Fedora is a "GNOME distribution", as it has hurt the KDE SIG in getting people to use and contribute to Fedora KDE. I am hoping that this will go a long way toward changing that perception. With new initiatives in the KDE SIG and the upcoming Fedora Kinoite variant, I hope increased visibility will also help for driving interest in those efforts. And there is a bit of the competitive pressure thing with both openSUSE and Ubuntu sponsoring too...

Hi @ngompa this sounds great! I am generally +1. I would like to get clarification on a couple points as well.

For the lightning talk, who do envision doing this? Is this something you have the capacity to do or potentially someone from Fedora KDE?

For the networking video conference, who should be there to make it a success?

Ideally, I'd like @rdieter to do the lightning talk. :wink:

For the networking video conference, I think @bcotton and @mattdm would be important relevant folks along with myself and @siosm to discuss how we can directly best support each other with our initiatives.

Also, I had a separate ad-hoc conversation with @mattdm who kind of expressed interest in perhaps doing the "Platinum" (5000 Euro) level, which would get our name attached to a training/workshop session as a sponsor and give us the option of an office hours slot.

If we were to sponsor that level, I think having @bcotton, @mattdm, myself, and you be there for the office hours would make sense so that we can fully introduce ourselves to the KDE community and talk to them about KDE and Fedora.

+1 for me; I'm assuming the KDE SIG won't have trouble finding someone to do the talk :)

+1 Fedora :heart: KDE

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I am fine with sponsoring this. I would welcome more content and engagement about the topic around this like we have this for Python: https://fedoralovespython.org/

We finalized approval on Platinum level sponsorship of Akademy. I will be contacting the organizers to arrange the sponsorship.

The Mindshare Committee recommends the following:
- Create an event badge
- Publish a comm blog post
- Update/improve KDE docs
https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/85
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10011

Hey folks, I have contacted Akademy and the ball is now rolling. I have been sent the following email about the sponsor benefits.

 - We will have Sponsors’ Talks as part of the Akademy schedule at 17:00-17:40 UTC on 
   Saturday 19 June and Sunday 20 June. To ensure every sponsor gets an equal amount of 
   time to speak, we kindly ask that you pre-record your presentation and send it no later than 
   end of day Friday 11 June.
   The recording should be no less than 5 minutes and no more than 10 minutes in length. It 
   can also be used as a “teaser” to any office hours that you’d like to host during the 
   conference.
   When all of the sponsor talk recordings are in, we will be able to let you know which day your 
   talk is on. If you have a preference, please send that over and we will do our best to 
   accommodate.

  If your company would like to host a Sponsor Office Hour, you have a choice of one hour 
  during the following time frames:
  Saturday, June 19th between 13:00 UTC and 17:00 UTC
  Sunday, June 20th between 13:00 UTC and 17:00 UTC
  Thursday, June 24th between 12:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
  Friday, June 25th between 12:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

 There will be a meet and greet hour with the e.V. Board members, keynote speakers (Jeri 
 Ellsworth & Patricia Aas), and representatives from all of this year’s sponsors.
 This meet and greet hour will take place at 16:00 UTC on Monday 21 June.
 Please confirm who will be attending the meet and greet on behalf of your company.

To summarize, we need to work on supporting the following things:

Pre-recorded session on Fedora & KDE with a length of 5-10 minutes
- Who will be in the video - @ngompa mentioned @rdieter
- Record the video
- Edit the video
- Deadline: Friday June 11th

Office Hours
- Arrange folks to be at the office hours if we want to do this, @ngompa - do you know if this will be a casual conversation session or should be have a presentation of some kind?
- Choose a suitable time from the options and confirm

Meet and greet on 16:00 UTC on Monday 21 June
- The suggestion was @ngompa @bcotton @mattdm and myself would do the meet and greet. Please you three :) take a look at the time and let me know if you can make it or not. I am available during that time.
- I will confirm once we figure out who can make it.

• The suggestion was @ngompa @bcotton @mattdm and myself would do the meet and greet. Please you three :) take a look at the time and let me know if you can make it or not. I am available during that time.

I should be okay for this window.

• Arrange folks to be at the office hours if we want to do this, @ngompa - do you know if this will be a casual conversation session or should be have a presentation of some kind?

I don't know. How do we usually handle these kinds of things?

• Choose a suitable time from the options and confirm

I'm fine with either of these time slots:

• Thursday, June 24th between 12:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
• Friday, June 25th between 12:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Meet and greet on 16:00 UTC on Monday 21 June
- The suggestion was @ngompa @bcotton @mattdm and myself would do the meet and greet. Please you three :) take a look at the time and let me know if you can make it or not. I am available during that time.

I'm in.

Fallback videos for the lightning talk - maybe also as some additional content if need some extra content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig0gnM9jsm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eHRoEps6I

Current idea for the lightning talk:

• interview with the KDE sig about the state of KDE in Fedora:

possible questions:

• What is the Fedora project?
• Why are you contributing to the Fedora project?
• How are you involved with KDE upstream?
• What makes Fedora the best choice to use KDE?
• What is coming next for KDE in Fedora?
• How can people try KDE in Fedora?
• Where can people learn more about KDE in Fedora?

@computerkid reached out to me and mentioned he'd be able to help assemble this, so I'll talk to @rdieter and see if us three can do something quick this way.

@computerkid @ngompa and I knocked out recording a video last night, @computerkid is working some editing magic, looking forward to seeing the end-result.

Curious, I don't see anything on
https://akademy.kde.org/2021/sponsors
yet for fedora/redhat. Are they still waiting on us for anything?

Hi Folks, we have been given a time slot for the office hours. Please mark it on your calendar if you are able to make it, it will be great to have a solid Fedora presence :)

Thursday June 24th at 12:00-13:00 UTC

@rdieter this is most likely because the sponsorship details are still being worked out administratively. We should have that all settled by Monday.

Is there a video now?

Yes, @computerkid handed it off to @riecatnor on Friday.

We also have a website for fedoraloveskde.org: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/fedoraloveskde.org

There's a Fedora infrastructure ticket for setting this up: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10011#comment-737540

This went great! I think we should get a short blog post up on the CommBlog to summarize our presence at Akademy 2021 before we close the ticket out- any volunteers?