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# Promo SIG Rolling Minutes
## Standing items
* New items for the newsletter
* Review next week's social schedule
* Upcoming events where we should participate
## 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
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## 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
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## 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
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro, Davide
* Blog posts to write:
* Welcome Troy to board & thank Celeste (Mon)
* Interview Troy (after scale)
* Kmods SIG and kernel sources (after scale)
* Board meeting recording/minutes (Thu)
* Stinson draft on Azure availability
* SCaLE blog post? (Fri)
* Blog post about other events we'll be at (next week) (txlf, flock, lfnw, ?)
* Social posts in addition to already scheduled?
* CentOS track at Flock, naming?
* Any new material for newletter?
* Cancel next week? (yes)
* SCaLE talks to promote
* https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/popping-kernels-linux-distributions (Neal)
* https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/bringing-fedora-linux-apple-silicon-macs-asahi-linux (Davide, Neal)
* https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/making-fedora-linux-more-reproducible (Davide)
* https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/adventures-linux-userspace-meta (Anita)
## 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
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## 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
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## 2023-12-07
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro
* OpenInfra Summit June at CERN, CentOS content?
* Room block closes 12/31, let's get word out
* Dicussion of staffing needs/signup for Connect
* Swag/hoodie discussion
* Brno supplier has limited stock, not good options
* Shaun will look into doing Nadel, intl shipping
* https://www.gocustomclothing.com/hoodies/9187-26223-gd058-gildan-heavy-blend-full-zip-hooded-sweatshirt.html#/4929-size-2xl/4976-colours-purple
* https://customlogousa.com/collections/zip-sweatshirts/products/champion-full-zip-hoodie?variant=31926929883232
* https://www.spreadshirt.be/nl/ontwerpen/detail/uniseks-zip-hoodie-PT1529?appearance=22
* https://www.shirtinator.de/en/sweatshirts/unisex-organic-sweatjacket-49009
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## 2023-11-30
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro
* Discussion of talks we'd like to invite for Connect
* Budget talk and sponsored travel
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## 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
* Can we launch new centos.org by Connect?
## 2023-10-19
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro
* Details have come back from Radisson for Connect, will book and announce
* Need to submit stand for FOSDEM: https://hackmd.io/YLszxU_8RqWtps3Jn6oqcA
* Started doing issue templates for public budget requests: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-events/-/tree/main/.gitlab/issue_templates?ref_type=heads
* Plan to submit to do Classroom workshop-style event at SCaLE
* Discussion of sponsor levels for Connect, shared sponsorships with Flock
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## 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
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## 2023-09-28
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro, Davide
* Promoting Intel press release
* https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/welcoming-intel-centos-stream?sc_cid=701f2000000tyBjAAI
* Let's write our own blog post and promote that
* Davide filed ticket to hook up centos.im
* https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11554
* 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
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro
* Need to submit for a FOSDEM stand: https://stands.fosdem.org/submission/
* Discussion around optimal event location for Connect, Classroom, and Flock.
## 2023-09-07
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Joseph, Davide
* Discussion on wiki decommission:
* https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1245#comment-872763
* https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2023-September/165405.html
* Shaun looking at list of wiki pages, auditing to make sure content finds home
* Docs discussion:
* https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2023-September/165399.html
* Discussion on value of quickdocs/howtos
* Less popular than 10 years ago
* Much of it should just be in upstreams
* And a lot of it would be addressed by RHEL docs
* Can we get RHEL 10 docs open from the outset?
* Events
* ATO: Shaun attending, prob sharing both with Fedora and Justin
* LFNW: Davide attending, also Carl and Troy
* https://gitlab.com/fedora/mindshare/home/-/issues/35
* Event Strategy discussion
* Proposal to make Connect at FOSDEM main contributor conf
* Rethink presence at other events to shorter, learning-focused
* Proposal to bring back virtual events
* SCaLE good candidate for first Classroom
## 2023-08-31
* Attendees: Shaun, Amy, Jefro, Joseph
* ACTIONS:
* [ ] Shaun to set up paid Buffer
* [x] 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
* https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-reports
* 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