Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this June. This is one of those conversations.
Jaroslav Reznik has been part of Fedora longer than most people remember. This goes all the way back to Red Hat Linux 5, before Fedora was even known as Fedora. After a brief detour to another distro, he joined the KDE SIG days and went on to build a long career in Red Hat’s Program Management team. But it was the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) that brought him back to the Fedora community.
The moment that changed everything? A scene at FUDCon North America in 2009 watching Fedora’s Program Manager command what looked like a sci-fi control room, scheduling Fedora 13. Jaroslav looked at that and thought: I want that job. Years later, he got it.
On the CRA, Jaroslav is clear and passionate. The regulation is the first to formally acknowledge the existence of open source software in legislation. Thanks to an enormous community effort, it’s actually open-source friendly. Non-commercialised community projects are fully exempt. For a project like Fedora, the concept of open-source stewards formally recognised in the regulation opens up a powerful new model for governance.
