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Practical Diversity - The Fedora Username Change as a Case Study

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Learn how the Fedora DEI team bridged the gap between diversity work and technical contributions through a practical case study on username changes in this 14-minute conference talk. Discover how offering technical activities that directly impact underrepresented community members, particularly women and trans people, can create meaningful pathways for new contributors to join free software communities. Explore the challenges volunteers face when trying to find impactful diversity work in open source projects and examine concrete strategies for making inclusion efforts more accessible and technically engaging. Gain insights into transforming abstract diversity concepts into actionable technical projects that both advance inclusion goals and attract new community members with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

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Practical diversity, the Fedora username change as a case study - DevConf.CZ 2025

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