# CentOS Stream 9 Promo

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

## Overview

We want to do more intentional promotion around CentOS Stream 9, beyond the "coming soon" messaging that we currently have on https://centos.org/download/

This includes, at minimum:

* Web "mini-site" (See https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw)
* Blog post on CentOS.org and RedHat.com properties
* Press outreach

We also want to coordinate this with Alain's new visual identity/redesign work rollout. (See https://www.dev.centos.org/, https://lists.dev.centos.org/, https://people.dev.centos.org/, https://blog.dev.centos.org/)

All of this stuff has been announced on centos-devel, but that isn't "visible" to the press, or even to the bulk of our users. So we need to do something splashier to get more eyes on it.

## What this is not

This is not a product announcement or release announcement. It's a project availability announcement, and encouragement to participate.

This is not a "it's ready" ... Neal Gompa says: "CentOS Stream is never done, but it is made for you to make it what you want it to be."

## Deliverables

There are several outputs of this effort.

### Blog post

A point in time blog post. Possibly 2 of them - one on blog.c.o and one on blog.redhat.com

Blog post draft is available at https://hackmd.io/@forbushd/BJC9Q9DSY

### Web content

A web page (or mini-site?) at centos.org/stream9

Web content created here: https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw

### Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly updates?

We should also have an ongoing working doc that we publish on a schedule (TBD) which gives an update of what's happening in Stream 9. Who is going to write this? How often should we publish?

## Video

* A video-format version of the blog post (in the style of Rich's monthly updates on youtube)
* A video demo/walkthrough of someone installing c9s and highlighting some major features

### Banner for social media


The banner information can be changed in case you need to, to better fit the announcement itself.

In case of using new logo proposal:


## Coordination

This work should happen on the [centos-promo mailing list](https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo). If you're not subscribed, please do so.

## Press outreach

Collect press contacts that we can reach out to to possibly cover this.

@sjvn

@BrideOfLinux

## Reference:

https://gitlab.com/groups/redhat/centos-stream/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=Conan_Kudo

pipewire (Neal)

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:Pharaoh_Atem:CS9EPELDev

https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/jq/-/merge_requests/1 (nasty jq issue that was fixed in c9s first, even before Fedora)

https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/sudo/-/merge_requests/3 (sudo utmp resource leak)

https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/hdparm/-/merge_requests/4 (hdparm DCO bugfix)

systemd: misc fixes to enable systemd-oomd and for better compat with SIG-built backports

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-October/077383.html - CentOS Stream 9 is available in CI infra for tenants/projects

###### tags: `stream9`