Collection of this group's data for a LLM-powered weekly report #587

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opened 2026-09-17 09:28:27 +00:00 by abompard · 4 comments

abompard commented

2026-09-17 09:28:27 +00:00

Hi folks,

I'm generating a weekly report of activity in the Fedora project centered on teams and SIGs, it's called This Week in Fedora. This generation uses an LLM. The goal is to make it easier to catch up with everything that's going on in the project, and to give visibility to each group's work and requests for help or testing. I think that from a newcomer's point of view, having an insight on what a group is working on at a point in time is helpful to decide whether it's interesting and worth contributing to.
I can collect activity from:

the neurofedora mailing-list
discourse posts with the #neurofedora tag
this tracker
meetings in Matrix meeting channels if you have any (but it doesn't look like you do)
messages in the #neuro channel in Matrix

I currently don't collect any of this, but I would like to know whether this group is OK with my program collecting and submitting info to an LLM from the following sources:

mailing-lists, discourse posts and meetings (if any)
this tracker
the matrix channel

The Matrix channel is public and its history is available to anyone, and I think it could be a valuable source for the report if you happen to do work there occasionally or frequently. Also, knowing the "tone" of a conversation and the currently discussed subjects before joining is very important to help contribute. It's like when you're added to an empty group chat and you don't know how to start. That's why we show history to new channel members, and this would be the same idea at a higher level.
That said, I recognize that the form of the tool influences its use, chat messages are usually less thought-through than emails or forum posts, and members could be intimidated that something they write there and regret end up in a visible summary (the program respects message edits, but anyway).
Since my goal is to foster participation, the one thing I don't want to do is to hinder it in another way.

Please decide which collected sources, if any, you are OK with (and if you work in other places that you would like to have collected, of course (I can do RSS feeds!)). If the group is OK with Matrix channel collection but some individuals aren't, I can also exclude certain Matrix usernames from collection throughout the Matrix channels that are not meetings.

I'm happy to answer questions if you have any. Thanks!

Hi folks, I'm generating a weekly report of activity in the Fedora project centered on teams and SIGs, it's called [This Week in Fedora](https://abompard.fedorapeople.org/twif/). This generation uses an LLM. The goal is to make it easier to catch up with everything that's going on in the project, and to give visibility to each group's work and requests for help or testing. I think that from a newcomer's point of view, having an insight on what a group is working on at a point in time is helpful to decide whether it's interesting and worth contributing to. I can collect activity from: - the `neurofedora` mailing-list - discourse posts with the `#neurofedora` tag - this tracker - meetings in Matrix meeting channels if you have any (but it doesn't look like you do) - messages in the `#neuro` channel in Matrix I currently don't collect any of this, but I would like to know whether this group is OK with my program collecting and submitting info to an LLM from the following sources: 1. mailing-lists, discourse posts and meetings (if any) 2. this tracker 3. the matrix channel The Matrix channel is public and its history is available to anyone, and I think it could be a valuable source for the report if you happen to do work there occasionally or frequently. Also, knowing the "tone" of a conversation and the currently discussed subjects before joining is very important to help contribute. It's like when you're added to an empty group chat and you don't know how to start. That's why we show history to new channel members, and this would be the same idea at a higher level. That said, I recognize that the form of the tool influences its use, chat messages are usually less thought-through than emails or forum posts, and members could be intimidated that something they write there and regret end up in a visible summary (the program respects message edits, but anyway). Since my goal is to foster participation, the one thing I don't want to do is to hinder it in another way. Please decide which collected sources, if any, you are OK with (and if you work in other places that you would like to have collected, of course (I can do RSS feeds!)). If the group is OK with Matrix channel collection but some individuals aren't, I can also exclude certain Matrix usernames from collection throughout the Matrix channels that are not meetings. I'm happy to answer questions if you have any. Thanks!

ankursinha commented

2026-09-17 09:35:04 +00:00

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+1 from me. As far as I'm concerned, all the data is already public information, so please free to use it to generate summaries to help us all keep up with everything that goes on in Fedora.