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[[Category:Open Source Communities]][[Category:Fedora]]The [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] is a [[:fedora:Statistics| community of contributors]] from [http://fedoraproject.org/maps around the world] who work with each other to 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 a Fedora Project board member (F10-F11 2008-2009 and F13-F14 2009-2010).

[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 Communitycommunity.

To view One of the current Fedora projects taking place within CDOTis the construction and operation of a Koji build farm for the [[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture]]. <hr /> The [[:fedora:FUDCon|Fedora Users and Developers Conference]] (FUDCon) was hosted by Seneca College in December 2009 ([[:fedora:FUDCon:Toronto_2009|FUDCon Toronto 2009]]). Twelve Seneca [[SBR600]] students, faculty, see and research staff attended [[FUDCon Tempe 2011]] in January 2011. A group of Seneca professors and students in the [[Project ListLUX 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]): <center><embed width="320" height="260" src="http://www.redhat.com/v/swf/flvplayer.swf?file=http://www.redhat.com/v/magazine/swf/FUDCon11Recap.flv&autoStart=false&image=http://www.redhat.com/g/magazine/FUDCon11Recap.png" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></center> Download this video: [http://www.redhat.com/v/magazine/ogg/FUDCon11Recap.ogg Ogg Theora format]