Promo SIG Rolling Minutes

Standing items

2025-04-03

  • Attendees: Shaun, Jefro
  • Social media chatter
  • Twitter awful, considering dropping, but still higher numbers, need plan
  • Facebook page very low followers/engagement, consider dropping
  • Maybe try Threads instead?

2025-03-20

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide, Michel, Amy, Carl
  • Presenting at the Summit community theater
  • FRCL and other scheduling around Summit
  • Quokka plushie hunting

2025-03-13

  • Attendees: Shaun, Jefro
  • Red Hat Summit Community Central chatter

2025-02-27

  • Attendees: Shaun, Carl, Jefro, Amy
  • Showcase set up
  • Shaun to do all the things he was supposed to do last week
  • Need to get Carl shipping label to send banner to SCaLE
  • SCaLE classroom intro talk: bring up hyperscale, bring up bluefin lts?

2025-02-20

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide, Amy
  • Need to do the post-event survey
  • Need to set up Showcase
  • SCaLE planning:
    • Shaun needs to order refreshments
    • Need to schedule social to promote our presence

2025-02-13

  • Attendees: Shaun, Michel, Jefro, Davide, Carl, Davide
  • Sponsor contract conversations
  • Newsletter, Hyperscale report, doc day report

2025-02-06

  • Attendees: Shaun, Carl, Jefro, Amy
  • Connect/FOSDEM review

2025-01-23

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide, Jefro, Amy
  • Collecting items for newsletter
  • Demo computer planning for FOSDEM booth

2025-01-16

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Davide, Carl
  • Connect logistics

2025-01-09

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Michel, Davide
  • Discussing tshirt design for Connect

2024-12-12

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Carl
  • Web revamp require infra sync, Fabian on PTO Monday
  • Stuff isn't perfect, but probably MVP ok
  • Will merge this evening. Release announcement when?
  • Don't wait on URL slugs for docs.centos.org https://gitlab.com/CentOS/docs/docs.centos.org/-/issues/2
  • Should we bury secureboot caveat? Drop from blog announce, keep in rel notes.
  • Do YouTube thumbnail on blog announce.
  • Can we make Connect banner a tile?
  • Quick fix for purple links bar
  • Carl to add notes to rel notes about cpu baselines

2024-12-05

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Davide, Carl
  • Web revamp work

2024-11-14

  • Attendees: Shaun, Michel, Carl
  • CS10 announcement, target was Tue Nov 19
    • secureboot issues
    • website not ready
    • slip by a week? that's thanksgiving
  • Fedora podcast, Carl & Adam scheduled for Dec 3
  • Website chatter

2024-11-07

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • Connect planning
    • Evening plans, might not do a distros party, do a Connect reception?
  • Showcase future, 3 per year? April, August, November?
    • Trying to avoid Connect, RH Summit, Flock

2024-10-31

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Michel, Jefro, Davide, Carl
  • CentOS Connect contract is in our hands, reviewing…approved!
  • CentOS Doc Day on Mon after FOSDEM, hosted by Meta, Davide will do a signup form.
  • Socials: Sat is contrib dinner. Fri is distro party. Board+friends Wed? Sponsors dinner Thu?
  • SCaLE CFP closes Nov 1. We submitted for Classroom.
  • Need to set up Showcase venue.
  • Let's get Connect reg ready to direct ppl there from Showcase.

2024-10-24

  • Attendees: Shaun, Carl, Davide
  • SCaLE planning
    • Shaun submitted Fedora+CentOS Classroom
    • Perry suggested having a Fed/Cent activity day
      • Can this just be the Classroom?
      • Maybe full day pre-conf track including Classroom?
  • Showcase planning
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2024-10-17

2024-10-10

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Carl, Davide
  • Showcase CFP chat
    • Amy shared Showcase CFP with Cloud SIG
    • Workshopping EPEL talk

2024-10-03

  • Attendees: Shaun, Jefro, Amy, Carl
  • Connect: looking at retooling for smaller space, more meetup focused
  • RH Summit, Community Day, board f2f
  • SCaLE, waiting to see if Connect is over budget before committing to Classrom or both

2024-09-26

  • Attendees: Shaun, Jefro, Carl
  • Connect planning, looking at cost savings
  • FOSDEM booth
    • Need to submit, joined with RDO, also OKD?
  • CS10/EPEL10 launch plan
    • Is engineering ready?
    • Early Q4, Novemberish says Carl
    • Nov 4, release with Showcase? too early
    • Do Aleksandra's test day first, then launch announce
    • Tentatively Nov 19
  • EPEL will be on Fedora podcast in December

2024-09-12

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • Connect talk
    • Waiting to see Marriott bid
    • Ask Maritz what hotels they've talked to
    • Lots of A/V chat, whether we could just use gopro or even webcam

2024-09-05

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide
  • If we want to do a workshop for SCaLE, submit soon

2024-08-29

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro
  • Streamlining process for writing newsletter
  • Events:
    • Connect/FOSDEM (at least 4 people, actual 3 in 2024)
    • Flock (board f2f) (4 people, budget more for eu)
    • Red Hat Summit (or board f2f here?)
    • SCaLE (had the workshop 2024)
    • ATO
    • Regional fests (LFNW, TXLF, OLF) (only locals)
    • DevConfCZ? DevConfUS?

2024-08-22

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Michel, Jefro
  • Chatter about using Pretalx for Showcase
  • Expected turnout for Connect room block
  • Waiting for Fedora to announce release party dates before picking Showcase date

2024-08-15

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • Slide deck repo: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-events
  • CentOS Showcase, half day, on a Friday?
    • ATO Oct 27-29, Davide and Amy have commitments prior
    • Nov 1? (day after Halloween)
    • Amy suggested not a Friday for US-East afternoon because EU has already checked out
    • Mon, Nov 4?
  • Need to schedule social posts of CentOS at Flock talks, after Fedora publishes individual videos

2024-08-01

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • Various Flock talk

2024-06-06

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide
  • Getting new web site up by CL7 EOL (can it be done?)
  • Promoting Hyperscale as edition. Also AltImg images? SCOS? AutoSD?

2024-05-23

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Davide
  • centos.org revamp, ensuring it shows current activity

2024-05-16

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Davide, Jefro
  • Flock promo plans
  • Chat about instructions on how to do sig docs

2024-04-25

  • Attendees: Shaun, Michel, Amy, Jefro, Davide
  • General Summit chatter

2024-04-18

  • Attendees: Shaun, Michel, Anita, Davide, Amy
  • LFNW April 27-28, let's promote some talks, blog+tweet

2024-04-11

  • Attendees: Shaun, Jefro, Amy, Michel
  • General chat about social media channels

2024-04-04

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide, Michel, Amy, Jefro
  • Flock CFP: send to centos-devel, another social post
  • Troy blog post ready, will publish this afternoon
  • Let's do comms on RHS, Community Day, Community Central booth
  • EOL date word spreading.
    • Add dates to banners, try to make more prominent
    • Do another blog post

2024-03-21

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Davide, Michel, Jefro
  • Checking on RH Summit status
  • Let's cross-promote Flock CFP
  • Shaun to send stuff to Carl or Amy for TXLF
  • Board meeting followup actions and recording
  • Amy to send docs hackfest proposal to Flock CFP
  • Need to make sure board knows about f2f at Flock

2024-03-07

2024-02-29

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • RH Summit talk, Community Day, Community Central
  • Flock presence chatter, possible dates for board f2f

2024-01-25

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Davide, Jefro
  • Lots of misc Connect planning talk

2024-01-11

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • CentOS Connect reception? Cap at 120
    • How to handle checking registration?
    • Use red tickets for party entrance, hand out at checkin
    • If not checked in, we check name against list, but they still need to check in Friday morning for badge and swag.
    • Hotel can do reception at 28EUR pp for 2 hours for drinks only
    • Can they add any desserts on to that?
    • Are they flexible on number of people?
    • Would it be on ground floor or in our space?
  • Scheduling:
    • Cloud SIG meetup in second slot so Amy can hop to CHAOSS in the morn
    • Cloud SIG update right before RDO demo

2023-12-07

2023-11-30

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro
  • Discussion of talks we'd like to invite for Connect
  • Budget talk and sponsored travel

2023-11-09

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy
  • Newsletter:
    • Cloud SIG reports coming from Joel and Christian
    • Connect
    • Distro devroom (include link to all approved devrooms)
    • Docs SIG
    • Did we ever write about Integration SIG?
  • Discussion of downloads not being obvious/featured on centos.org

2023-10-19

2023-10-12

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide, Amy
  • Lots of discussion of two venue bids for CentOS Connect

2023-10-05

  • Attendees: Shaun, Davide, Amy, Jefro, Michel
  • ACTION: Shaun to reach out to scale organizers
  • Discussion of programming Community Day at RH Summit
  • FOSDEM: distros devroom and booth, both applications in progress
  • Newsletter items:
    • Stinson proposal for steering committee
    • Intel press release
    • Watch Fedora list for ELN plans for 10

2023-09-28

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro, Davide

  • Promoting Intel press release

  • Davide filed ticket to hook up centos.im

  • Newsletter items

    • Intel
    • Integration SIG
    • ISA SIG
    • Flock/Connect videos
    • Save the date for Connect

  • Blog/social post to save the date for Connect

  • SCaLE/Classroom

    • Half day on Thu before
    • What's best workshop? Getting started as contributor? EPEL packaging? Some overlap.
    • Let's sit down with Carl to figure out best format.

  • Other events?

    • No ideas for good LATAM events
    • EU: All Systems Go, Froscon
      • Talk to Alexandra about Froscon

  • Amy proposed putting together speakers bureau

    • hackmd or md file in gitlab
    • can we get speaker training?
    • can we do something virtual leading up to connect?

2023-09-21

2023-09-07

2023-08-31

  • Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro, Joseph

  • ACTIONS:

    • Shaun to set up paid Buffer
    • Shaun to set up Promo Matrix channel

  • Meeting times:

    • Jefro available half hour later
    • Let's do only 30 minute meetings, weekly

  • Set up channel for chat?

    • Matrix only?
    • Discussion on Discourse vs mailing list

  • Show off git repo and issues for newletter

  • Social media discussion

    • Discussion on whether to move from Fosstodon
    • Twitter is unpleasant, but we can't drop our account
    • Plan to use paid Buffer to let team access social media
    • Lots of discussion around getting regular content
    • Figure out easier ways for people to submit stuff for socials
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