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[[Category:Open Source Communities]]The [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] is a [[:fedora:Statistics| community of contributors]] from [http://fedoraproject.org/maps around the world] who rapidly advance [http://opensource.org open source] software. The Fedora Project develops and maintains many software packages, and is best known for producing the [http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora Fedora linux] distribution. There are [[:fedora:Foundations|four foundations]] which are the core values of the Fedora community: [[:fedora:Foundations#Freedom|Freedom]], [[:fedora:Foundations#Friends|Friends]], [[:fedora:Foundations#Features|Features]], [[:fedora:Foundations#First|First]].
A number of Seneca students and faculty are involved with the Fedora Project, and many courses in the Seneca [http://scs.senecac.on.ca School of Computer Studies] use the Fedora linux distribution. Students in the [[LUX Program|LUX]] system administration program and a number of courses including the [[SBR600|SBR600 Software Build and Release]] course are active [http://join.fedoraproject.org contributors] in the Fedora community. In addition, Seneca professor [[User:Chris Tyler|Chris Tyler]] is a an active Fedora Project board member (F10-F11) and wrote participant, the author of the O'Reilly book ''Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution'', and was a Fedora Project board member (F10-F11, 2008-2009).
[http://redhat.com Red Hat] sponsors Fedora and is providing provided [http://www.senecac.on.ca/media/news/2008/2008-05-21.html?page=2 grant funding] during the 2008-2009 academic year to support student participation in the Fedora community.
To view Fedora projects taking place within CDOT, see the [[Project List]].
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The [[:fedora:FUDCon|Fedora Users and Developers Conference]] (FUDCon) will be hosted by Seneca College in December 2009 ([[:fedora:FUDCon:Toronto_2009|FUDCon Toronto 2009]]).
A group of Seneca professors and students in the [[LUX Program]] attended [[:fedora:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11|FUDCon F11]] in January, 2009. Here is a video about that event (by Colby Hoke, via [http://magazine.redhat.com/2009/02/13/video-fudcon-11/ Red Hat Magazine]):
