# Stream9 Blog Post Draft

See also: https://hackmd.io/RkOiWNmIQcWSubQ3emY0lg

Please see https://hackmd.io/@forbushd/BJC9Q9DSY instead of this draft. That's what we're going to go with.

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*Note: If you want edit rights, please ask Rich.*

The CentOS Project is delighted to announce the availability of CentOS Stream 9, the next major version of the CentOS Stream distribution.

CentOS Stream 9 is developed in collaboration with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) engineering team, and with you, the CentOS community.

* Reminder/Overview of why Stream is awesome
* A place to contribute/influence future releases
* Get updates faster/sooner than in previous model
* Development platform for next RHEL release

* *timeline goes here* ... this is a "what we've already done" section, and should communicate that it's not *done*, but that it's *available*, and it is what you make of it.

* *Where to download, how to consume*
* Are we encouraging people to download ISOs of composes?

* *How to participate/contribute*
* Is this the right thing to point to?: https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/quickstart/

For more details about the CentOS Stream 9 project, see [centos.org/stream9](https://centos.org/stream9)
* That's being drafted here : https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw

###### tags: `stream9`