The Fedora Project is a project sponsored by Red Hat to co-ordinate the development of the Fedora operating system. Founded on September 2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and old Fedora Linux projects. The project consists of Red Hat employees, but in theory operates independently.

When Red Hat Linux split Red Hat Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the Fedora project, it left the existing small business and home users with some uncertainty about what to do. Red Hat Professional Workstation was created at this same time with the intention of filling the niche that RHL had once filled but it was created without a certain future. This option quickly fell to the wayside for non-enterprise RHL users in favor of the Fedora Project.

Recently the Fedora community has been thriving, and the Fedora distribution has a reputation as being a fully-open distribution that focuses on innovation and close work with upstream Linux communities. The project is not a separate legal entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions. The Fedora Project Board is responsible for the direction of the Fedora Project and comprises five Red Hat appointed members and four community-elected members.

Additionally, Red Hat appoints a chairman who has veto power over any board decision. Within Red Hat, this chairman holds the position of "Fedora Project Leader". Red Hat at one point created a separate Fedora Foundation to govern the project, but after consideration of a variety of issues, canceled it in favor of the board model currently in place.

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