Getting to Know Fedora: My Journey Through Revamp Badges contribution as an Outreachy Applicant

April 2026 • 6 min read Mishael Kirira When I first heard about Fedora, I thought it was simply a Linux distribution for developers. I had used Linux for quite a few years now,I tweaked systems, installed custom Android ROMs, and enjoyed understanding how software works under the hood. But contributing to Fedora showed me something different. Fedora is not just an OS, It is a community, an infrastructure, and a collection of services maintained by people all around the world. My journey into this community began when I started exploring the Fedora Badges system and the services behind it like Tahrir and Tinystage What is the Fedora Project? The Fedora Project is an open-source community sponsored by Red Hat that builds Fedora Linux and maintains many services used by contributors. Beyond the OS, there are web applications, APIs, identity systems, messaging systems, and tools that keep the community running. One of those tools is Tahrir part of a web service that is used to show and dis