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# 20210204_Growing-FCOS-Community



### PRs/Mrs Opened for the steps:



https://meet.google.com/pqi-epwy-udg

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- Execution
    - Stability: we might lose users if we have instability and "manual intervention"
    - Availability in more cloud providers
    
- Freely available information/resources
    - Publishing release notes
        - https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/194
    - More comprehensive documentation
    
- Outreach
    - Community event coordination
        - especially at conferences we don’t normally have representation 
        - but also making sure we are present at our regular conferences
    - Working with more upstream projects that integrate Fedora CoreOS
        - Typhoon has picked us up on their own
        - Have others tried and had trouble?
    - GSoC/Outreachy FCOS projects
        
- Staying in the conversation
    - More articles/posts about Fedora CoreOS
        - Fedora Magazine, opensource.com, personal blogs, etc
    - Podcasts, etc.. 
    - Boosting our Twitter presence

- Indirect Progress
    - Promoting containerized workflows
        - Helping to containerize the world 
        - If it's not easy to run XYZ workflow in containers people can't use FCOS

## Running Notes

Recurring Fedora Events:
- Nest with Fedora/Flock to Fedora
- Release Parties (2 per year)
- Fedora Women's Day
- Video Council Meetings
- Social Hours

Fedora Content outlets:
- Community Blog: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/
- Fedora Magazine: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/contributing/
- Fedora Planet: http://fedoraplanet.org/
- Podcast: https://x3mboy.fedorapeople.org/podcast/
- Fedora Classroom: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
- Fedora Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnIfca4LPFVn8-FjpPVc1ow


Fedora Resources:
- Request swag: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/procedures/swag/
- HopIn is accessible to Fedora. A formal process is currently being documented by Mindshare. You can request this resource here: https://pagure.io/mindshare/issues
- Community surveys are accessible to Fedora. There is a drop down template in the Mindshare repo for this request. https://pagure.io/mindshare/issues
- IRL Events (someday): https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/small-events/
- Design requests: https://pagure.io/design/issues
- Fedora Badges: https://badges.fedoraproject.org/
    - https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issues
- How Do You Fedora? interviews: https://fedoramagazine.org/series/how-do-you-fedora/



[cverna] What is our messaging to other conferences?
[jbrooks] We can produce a slide deck that can be reused/customized for talks/presentation
[walters] Fedora very RPM-centric; would love to push us towards more pure containers
[travier] tried to run Fedora images for containerizing Matrix and hit issues; having trusted container images outside Dockerhub would be great
[cglombek] not producing enough Fedora containers; maintaining containers in Fedora has high requirements (i.e. must be packagers). also facing problem of where to publish community operators in OKD space.
[jbrooks/dmabe] identified a problem that we don't have the applications people want in our sphere of control (i.e don't have trusted containers for all apps).  how can we improve the Fedora container story?
[cverna] need to have a better idea of who we are targeting with our content
[mperez] have connections with linux unplugged, can get FCOS discussed there; interested in producing more video content for communities (i.e. https://ceph.io/community/meetings/).  working on templates for hosting this style of content.
[mnordin] FCOS has access to all the Fedora community tools above; willing to help move tickets along in various community resources
[sumantro] Fedora Classrooms would be a good outreach point
[sumantro] Adding FCOS to https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/ will be great. 
[vipul] A bit different thing: opening a few GSoC/Outreachy projects can also bring a lot of eyes on the project. They are often not the best but it can help and also identify close all gaps in "How can I get started with FCOS" documentation
[dmabe/mperez] measuring stats for MLs, forums, GH tracker may be informative
[mnordin] would recommend starting with a user survey to gather a baseline from where to start from
[mperez] example survey - https://tracker.ceph.com/attachments/download/5323/Ceph%20User%20Survey%202020%20(3).pdf