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title: Valkey Stakeholders Meeting

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title: Valkey Engagement Working Group Meeting
tags: community, Valkey
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# Valkey Engagement Working Group Meeting
The community meeting for the Valkey Engagement Working Group.

*This doc is meant to serve as the "one doc to rule them all" for Valkey Engagement Working Group meetings and open discussions.*

:::info
:information_source: **Valkey Engagement Working Group Meeting Details**
:::
- Valkey Engagement Working Group meetings are 60-minutes in duration and held **every Tuesday at 8:30AM Pacific Time** ([Convert to your time zone](https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter?t=08:30&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)). 
-  **Have something you need help with or want to bring up with the working group?** Add your item to **Discussion Topics** for the next meeting's agenda. :point_down: 

:::info
:information_source: **Where to Find Us**
:::
The Valkey Engagement Working Group can be reached at: 
* [#valkey-engagement-wg](https://valkey-oss-developer.slack.com/archives/C089SN7Q4SH) in the Valkey Slack workspace, which is a private channel. Please send Lori Lorusso a DM in Slack to join the channel.
    * If you aren't already a member on the Valkey Slack workspace, please first [request an invitation](https://valkey-oss-developer.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2nxs51chx-EB9hu9Qdch3GMfRcztTSkQ#/shared-invite/email) to gain access.

:::warning
_Please read and abide by our [Code of Conduct](https://valkey.io/code_of_conduct/)._
:::




## July 1, 2025 Agenda
- OSSNA Denver -


## June 17, 2025 Agenda

New notes: https://hackmd.io/BkQy0xBVT9uOPHY-BIYH8w?view




### Open Source Summit NA
- Roberto writing a blog about the bundle
- Press Release - not enough substance bc the first 3 modules were released in April
- Will have press outreach at the event - briefings for David Nally regarding OSS story & messaging (Lor)



## May 27 & June 3, 2025 Agenda


### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Kyle Davis (AWS)
2. Lori Lorusso (Percona)
3. nigel (AWS)
4. David Östman (Ericsson)
5. Roberto Luna (AWS)
6. 

### Welome + Housekeeping

Decision was made to cancel the call due to low numbers of attendees (may 27)

* Discussion around promotingn blog posts via social & or updating the website
    * Mas & Madelyn & Kyle - kickoff discussions about a timeline for more enhancements 

* Who owns the Social media strategy? Who is posting?
    * We need a passionate social posting machine!

### Action Items Update - Holding for next Meeting June 3

*blog post on the supporting companies - submitted for review https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myQJEdnhrPHq_boNmBQAffgzFxQpJ8CivXinlQUl244/edit?tab=t.0
    
*    developer survey - Mas - size,types, workloads
    *come from Valkey - could turn into an annual survey 
    * LF, StackOverflow, 3rd party for distribution

* Monthly report to share WG activities - Nigel/Kyle collaborate - TSC - June report for delivery beginning of July
* Nigel to add remaining logos from Valkey slides to the Valkey 1 pager - work in progress
    * messaging update from Kyle
    * ready for feedback at next meeting
* Participating companies update - ByteDance
    * Need new strategy to get more involvement
* Valkey.io blog on compression from AWS - submitting PR
    *Blog Valkey Glide Go - in PR
    *Blog - JSON - PR
    *Do we need to prioritze posts before OSS NA - do we need a shared ownership model for blog review?
* Collateral for Conferences
    * Can we use Kyle's blog Upgrade Stories from the Community, Volume 1:https://valkey.io/blog/upgrade-stories-vol1/
    * mostly due to elasticache - AWS
    * can we generalize it? - Muse?
    * review previous posts for content?

*    Know before you go
    *    stakeholder call
    *    reference material/talking points
    *    ways to steer conversations
    *    document & standardize for the year
    *    send to any booth representative

* Slack survery (Brie) as baseline for wider engagement strategy - survey question are in WG slack channel
    *    slack
    *    potentially - GitHub & LinkedIn
    *    Does the LF have a wider net for us - larger survey audience?

* Brie and Lori to work together on Valkey tee (Viking) design, and BINGO card for OSSNA
*End of week deadline for booth staff!

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Updates on Module Bundling 
        * Can we have a name?
        * Valkey Extensions? Valkey Modules?
        * Go to the TSC 
* Other updates/changes to project

* Identify our 1 person in charge of the release package

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Nigel update: Any new projects committing to upgrading to Valkey?
    * Need a list of projects if possible
    * Tazama case study - Lori/Martin - technical help
    * Aiven - in process 17,000 moved and its all good
        * will have lots of good stuff to report end of June - John 
    * Nigel - ConFoo blog under review 
    
* Montreal JUG opportunity in June - date?
    * Java & Valkey talk (Kyle Dmitry interested)

* Content for website - how do we reach out to contributing companies? 
* Get them listed as participants - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oQBxLh2XFjyr6C_xsW9wnLIfT7TC-j5oz9u-HcdZwPQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0


### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences

New Business
1. T-shirts and upcoming meetups.
2. Participants page and advertising all of them on linkedin. 

    
* June 5 - Seattle Meetup https://w
## May 20, 2025 Agenda
:::info
:information_source: Special Topic: Community Engagement & Marketing Plan 
:::

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Lori Lorusso (Percona)
2. nigel (AWS)
3. Kyle Davis (AWS)
4. David Östman(Ericsson)
5. Roberto Luna (AWS)
6. Trak Lord (AWS)
7. 

### Welome + Housekeeping
This call will focus on how to grow the Valkey community and create content that serves the commuinty and brings broader brand awareness to Valkey.

### Topics for discussion
* Marketing Plan
* WHAT ARE OUR GOALS! & WHY ARE WE DOING IT?
    * lean in to open source
    * lean in to why we forked Redis - democratization
    * lean in to the humans doing the work
    * Who is the most excited to talk about Valkey
    * More of a community than Redis ever was - community centric not focused on one individual
        * lots of contributors building key features (individuals & their passion projects)
* Website -most peeps find us through google- then go to the blog
    * Where is there any spikes in traffic?
        * Redis announcement helped - how do we use that to our advantage?
        * Can we get analytics - from LF??
            * have to request through an LF PM
            * can we ask about a project collecting fully anonmyzed data - good follow-up


    * Slack Workspace Survey - Brie (PTO)
    * External Promotion
        * Do we need a project email address for outreach w/out a sponsorship price tag?
        * Guest Blog Posts
            * Where should it be?
                * AWS/Google? - participant service vs. project
                * LF Blog
                * Fedora Magazine
                * Rust Foundation (Dmitry module)
                * Media Outlets - The New Stack, Tech Target, Dev.to, HackerNews
                    * Paid campaigns
                * Content Creators - YouTube - Theo.gg
                    * difficult bc potentially paid - can be done with corporate backing
                    * need existing relationship - earned w/out $$ - content creator takeovers (sm/twitch/yt/discord)
                        * currently Valkey doesn't have a social footprint outside of LinkedIn
                        * LF - ask what is available
            * asking who:
                * Fedora guest post in magazine -Kyle
        * Press
        * Webinars
        * Podcasts
    * Accepted Conference Talks 
    * Conferences
        * Booth design
        * Onsite activations
        * Public awareness 

    * Participant Companies - Make it a Program
        * Working on adding participants it to the home page
        * Add them to our booth at events?
        * Nigel is working the list
            * bytedance - up and coming major contributor
        * Madelyn - acknowlegment week - force multiplier so they add themselves

* Upcoming Activities
* OSS NA
    * Press Release - gets us media not webtraffic 
        * what metrics are we measuring as success
    * Bundle Release 
        * adding LDAP - almost done - Enterprise Ready
        * Vector - debugging
        * JSon - done
        * Bloom - done
    * Gather data - names/features of individuals & their impact - to determine who we can showcase and how we can celebrate individuals at the community level
        

## May 13, 2025 Agenda


### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. nigel (AWS)
2. Abe Taha (Google)
3. Kyle AWS
4. Brie Craddock (AWS)
5. David Östman (Ericsson)
6. Libby Clark (AWS)

### Welome + Housekeeping
### Action Items Update

*blog post on the supporting companies - no one is stepping away - Lori/Martin
    
*developer survey - Mas 
    *come from Valkey - could turn into an annual survey 
    * LF, StackOverflow, 3rd party for distribution

* Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11KEJiPhMfIE3e_NBx83NJ1EuLAL7Runz



* Monthly report to share WG activities - Nigel/Kyle collaborate
* Nigel to add remaining logos from Valkey slides to the Valkey 1 pager - contacts listed in google doc (starting this week)
* Dmitry will submit a blog post for consideration - submitted 4/28 (in review)
* ~~AWS~~ Valkey.io blog on compression from AWS (at review)
* Collateral for Conferences
    * 1 pager - needs updating - work in progress
    * Valkey Community Deck - done in google drive https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dz0EyULUaunwUGM9qHtYaVLemI_wBEdm/edit#slide=id.p1
* Slack survery (Brie) as baseline for wider engagement strategy
* Brie and Lori to work together on Valkey tee (Viking) design, and BINGO card for OSSNA


### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Updates on Bloom Filters, JSON, VSS GA release
        * Bloom Filters - done (getting started tbd)
        * JSON - pending blog post
        * Check with Google on Vector - 1.0 TBD - need documentation

* Other updates/changes to project

What are the targets for 9.0 Release 
    *  mid September/October 
    
    * ATO - All Things Open - October 12 - 14
    * Flag ship features
      * Hash field expiration
      * Atomic slot migration
      * Multiple-databases in cluster mode
      * Multi-threaded read commands
    Madelyn add the high level deets on the new features
    
1 person in charge of the release package

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Dmitry to write blog post based on updates to Rust Module SDK - submitted
* Nigel update: Any new projects committing to upgrading to Valkey?
    * Need a list of projects if possible
    * Tazama case study - Lori
    * Aiven - in process 17,000 moved and its all good
        * will have lots of good stuff to report end of June - John 
    * Dmitry cloud service migration story potential
    * Nigel - ConFoo blog under review 
    
* Montreal JUG opportunity in June - Nigel
    * Java & Valkey talk (Kyle Dmitry interested)

* Content for website - how do we reach out to contributing companies? 
* Get them listed as participants - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oQBxLh2XFjyr6C_xsW9wnLIfT7TC-j5oz9u-HcdZwPQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0


### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences

New Business
1. T-shirts and upcoming meetups.
2. Participants page and advertising all of them on linkedin. 

    * OSS NA
        * We could do a bingo stamp/sticker card for folks to visit each booth to get swag and talk to each stakeholder about Valkey.
        * Could do the Pi Cluster giveaway -- once cards are filled up, enter into raffle for the Pi Cluster
            * Ericsson Booth P6
            * AWS Booth P1
            * Percona Booth G/S28
            * Google Booth ?
            * Valkey Booth ?
          * NetApp Booth G/S27 (Kyle & Nigel)
![Screenshot 2025-04-29 at 10.31.35 AM](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkH1VwAyxx.png)

Nigel get Valkey installed on the Pi Cluster 
 
Is this a good event? What qualifications make a good event? How should we evaluate it? What is the goal?

        * There are (5) talks mentioning Valkey
            * https://sched.co/1zfgZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfh6
            * https://sched.co/1zfjx
            * https://sched.co/1zfjZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfoh
            
Confirmed OSSNA: Libby, Nigel, Lori, Madelyn, Ping
        
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * JSON on horizon
    * AWS cloud collaboration - potential tbd
    * Dmitry Rust blog could be taylored for it
    
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews

* JUG collaborations
    * Montreal trial run June 17
    * potential in concert with other events (Denver, ATL)

*    June 5 - Seattle Meetup https://www.meetup.com/seattle-valkey/events/307527706/?eventOrigin=group_events_lis

*    Percona Tech Talks - June 16, Dmitry - module dev in Rust https://www.linkedin.com/events/7334205388193464321/comments/


Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc.
    

### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._


### Action Items

## May 6, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Abe Taha (Google)
2. David Östman (Ericsson)
3. 
4.
5.
6. Mas Kubo (AWS)
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Lori Update
* Percona - backing Valkey 100% - welcome back Redis
* Ericsson - officially moving to Valkey - backing 100% - a little internal conflicts but not stepping away
    * trust is lost
* AWS - behind Valkey, fully aligned and supporting
* Google - behind Valkey, product GA will continue supporting and contributing
* Marketing
    * Governance
    * CLA
    * create a one pager with all our benefits
        * adoption statistics
        * features
        * open source

* Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11KEJiPhMfIE3e_NBx83NJ1EuLAL7Runz


### Action Items Update



* Monthly report to share WG activities - Nigel/Kyle collaborate
* Nigel to add remaining logos from Valkey slides to the Valkey 1 pager - contacts listed in google doc (starting this week)
* Dmitry will submit a blog post for consideration - submitted 4/28 (in review)
* AWS blog on compression - in review
* Collateral for Conferences
    * 1 pager - needs updating - work in progress
    * Valkey Community Deck - done in google drive https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_i7cUD0_A2_pf0xCaeq_rhXzIJgLfZ47/edit#slide=id.p1

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Updates on Bloom Filters, JSON, VSS GA release
        * Bloom Filters - done (getting started tbd)
        * JSON - pending blog post
        * Check with Google on Vector - 1.0 TBD - need documentation

* Other updates/changes to project

What are the targets for 9.0 Release 
    *  mid September/October 
    
    * ATO - All Things Open - October 12 - 14
    * Flag ship features
      * Hash field expiration
      * Atomic slot migration
      * Multiple-databases in cluster mode
      * Multi-threaded read commands
    Madelyn add the high level deets on the new features
    
1 person in charge of the release package

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Dmitry to write blog post based on updates to Rust Module SDK - submitted
* Nigel update: Any new projects committing to upgrading to Valkey?
    * Need a list of projects if possible
    * Tazama case study - Lori
    * Aiven - in process 17,000 moved and its all good
        * will have lots of good stuff to report end of June - John 
    * Dmitry cloud service migration story potential
    * Nigel - ConFoo blog under review 
    
* Montreal JUG opportunity in June - Nigel
    * Java & Valkey talk (Kyle Dmitry interested)

* Content for website - how do we reach out to contributing companies? 
* Get them listed as participants - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oQBxLh2XFjyr6C_xsW9wnLIfT7TC-j5oz9u-HcdZwPQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0


### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * OSS NA
        * We could do a bingo stamp/sticker card for folks to visit each booth to get swag and talk to each stakeholder about Valkey.
        * Could do the Pi Cluster giveaway -- once cards are filled up, enter into raffle for the Pi Cluster
            * Ericsson Booth P6
            * AWS Booth P1
            * Percona Booth G/S28
            * Google Booth ?
            * Valkey Booth ?
          * NetApp Booth G/S27 (Kyle & Nigel)
![Screenshot 2025-04-29 at 10.31.35 AM](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkH1VwAyxx.png)

Nigel get Valkey installed on the Pi Cluster 
 
Is this a good event? What qualifications make a good event? How should we evaluate it? What is the goal?

        * There are (5) talks mentioning Valkey
            * https://sched.co/1zfgZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfh6
            * https://sched.co/1zfjx
            * https://sched.co/1zfjZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfoh
        
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * JSON on horizon
    * AWS cloud collaboration - potential tbd
        * Dmitry Rust blog could be taylored for it
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews

* June 5 - Seattle Meetup https://www.meetup.com/seattle-valkey/events/307527706/?eventOrigin=group_events_lis

    * Percona Tech Talks - opportunity for 8.1 Release
        * Dmitry - module dev in Rust

    * LF Webinar - possible?

    * TechstrongTV - guest upcoming discusson?
    

### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

*blog post on the supporting companies - no one is stepping away - Lori/Martin
    
*developer survey - Mas 
    *come from Valkey - could turn into an annual survey 
    * LF, StackOverflow, 3rd party for distribution
### Action Items

## April 29, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. nigel (AWS)
2. kyledavis (aws)
3. Lori (Percona)
4. Martin (Percona)
5. David Östman (Ericsson)
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Lori Update
* Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11KEJiPhMfIE3e_NBx83NJ1EuLAL7Runz


### Action Items Update
* Website Launch (Mas/Nigel)
    * homepage https://valkey.io/
    
* LF Blog post - published April 22
    * https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/a-year-of-valkey

* Line Item in Maintainers call - rep from WG to TOC call?
    * help us stay synced 
    * Mas & Kyle attends - put a item on the agenda
* Monthly report to share WG activities - Nigel/Kyle collaborate
* Nigel to add remaining logos from Valkey slides to the Valkey 1 pager - contacts listed in google doc (starting this week)
* Dmitry will submit a blog post for consideration - submitted 4/28 (in review)
* AWS blog on compression - in review
* Collateral for Conferences
    * 1 pager - needs updating - work in progress
    * Valkey Community Deck - done in google drive https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_i7cUD0_A2_pf0xCaeq_rhXzIJgLfZ47/edit#slide=id.p1

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Updates on Bloom Filters, JSON, VSS GA release
        * Bloom Filters - done (getting started tbd)
        * JSON (work in progress) modules, closing out in the next 1-2 weeks.
        * Check with Google on Vector - Madelyn checked in still waiting on response - weekly call 4/30 Madelyn checking status on GA

* Other updates/changes to project

What are the targets for 9.0 Release 
    *  mid September/October 
    * launch before the conference so we can talk at the conference 
    * ATO - All Things Open - October 12 - 14
    * Flag ship features
      * Hash field expiration
      * Atomic slot migration
      * Multiple-databases in cluster mode
      * Multi-threaded read commands
    Madelyn add the high level deets on the new features
    
1 person in charge of the release package

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Dmitry to write blog post based on updates to Rust Module SDK - submitted
* Nigel update: Any new projects committing to upgrading to Valkey?
    * Need a list of projects if possible
    * Tazama case study - Lori
    * Aiven - in process 17,000 moved and its all good
        * will have lots of good stuff to report end of June - John 
    * Dmitry cloud service migration story potential
    * Nigel - ConFoo blog under review 
    
* Montreal JUG opportunity in June - Nigel
    * Java & Valkey talk (Kyle Dmitry interested)

* Content for website - how do we reach out to contributing companies? 
* Get them listed as participants - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oQBxLh2XFjyr6C_xsW9wnLIfT7TC-j5oz9u-HcdZwPQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0


### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * OSS NA
        * We could do a bingo stamp/sticker card for folks to visit each booth to get swag and talk to each stakeholder about Valkey.
        * Could do the Pi Cluster giveaway -- once cards are filled up, enter into raffle for the Pi Cluster
            * Ericsson Booth P6
            * AWS Booth P1
            * Percona Booth G/S28
            * Google Booth ?
            * Valkey Booth ?
          * NetApp Booth G/S27 (Kyle & Nigel)
![Screenshot 2025-04-29 at 10.31.35 AM](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkH1VwAyxx.png)

Nigel get Valkey installed on the Pi Cluster 
 
Is this a good event? What qualifications make a good event? How should we evaluate it? What is the goal?

        * There are (5) talks mentioning Valkey
            * https://sched.co/1zfgZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfh6
            * https://sched.co/1zfjx
            * https://sched.co/1zfjZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfoh
        
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * JSON on horizon
    * AWS cloud collaboration - potential tbd
        * Dmitry Rust blog could be taylored for it
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews

* June 5 - Seattle Meetup https://www.meetup.com/seattle-valkey/events/307527706/?eventOrigin=group_events_lis

    * Percona Tech Talks - opportunity for 8.1 Release
        * Dmitry - module dev in Rust

    * LF Webinar - possible?

    * TechstrongTV - guest upcoming discusson?
    

### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._


    

### Action Items


---
## April 15, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Mas Kubo (AWS)
2. Lori Lorusso (Percona)
3. Libby Clark (AWS)
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Lori Update

* Kyle back next week


### Action Items Update
* Website Launch (Mas/Nigel)
    * submit PR - homepage
    * feedback from Kyle/Viktor
    * Launch this week
* LF Blog post - (Lori) resubmitted 
* 9 pieces of earned media since press release April 2
    * total 11
    * check https://valkey-demo.oursqlcommunity.org/

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Updates on Bloom Filters, JSON, VSS GA release
        * Not all collateral (blogs/docs) done on BF (done) and JSON (missing blog) modules, closing out in the next 1-2 weeks.
        * Check with Google on Vector - Nigel to find who is leading development

* Other updates/changes to project

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Dmitry to write blog post based on updates to Rust Module SDK
* Nigel update: Any new projects committing to upgrading to Valkey?
    * Need a list of projects if possible
    * Tazama case study - Lori

* Content for website - how do we reach out to contributing companies? Get them listed as participants - vastly underreporting & need more invovlement in WG
    * TOC 
    * LinkedIn Channel
    * AWS has a dashboard


### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * OSS NA
        * Ericsson CFP covering Valkey accepted
        * Percona will also be there.
        * We could do a bingo stamp/sticker card for folks to visit each booth to get swag and talk to each stakeholder about Valkey. NetApp and Google are also sponsors, could get them to participate in the bingo activity, as well. This would tie into the bundling of the modules theme.
        * There are (5) talks mentioning Valkey
            * https://sched.co/1zfgZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfh6
            * https://sched.co/1zfjx
            * https://sched.co/1zfjZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfoh
        * Could do the Pi Cluster giveaway -- once cards are filled up, enter into raffle for the Pi Cluster
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * Any new content?
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * Percona Tech Talks - opportunity for 8.1 Release
    * LF Webinar - possible?
    * TechstrongTV - guest upcoming discusson?
    

### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* Collateral for Conferences
    * 1 pager - needs updating
* Attracting more attendees to the WG
    * how can we get more involvement from contributing companies

### Action Items

* Line Item in Maintainers call - rep from WG to TOC call?
    * help us stay synced 
    * Mas attends
* Monthly report to share WG activities
* Nigel to add remaining logos from Valkey slides to the Valkey website
* Dmitry will submit a blog post for consideration 
* AWS blog on compression
---
## April 8, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Nanci Lancaster (AWS)
2. David Östman (Ericsson)
3. Lori (Percona)
4. Martin (Percona)
5. Itay (AWS)
6. Madelyn (AWS)
7. Nigel (AWS)
8. Dmitry (Oracle)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Nanci Update
    * Meeting facilitation moving forward -- year term of who leads the meetings
        * [Nigel] - One year term might be too long
        * Lori will be managing moving forward, Nigel / Kyle / Libby can be backups.
        * Action Item - Nanci to setup 30-minute meeting with Lori for transitioning
* Kyle back next week
* How was KubeCon?
    * [theCUBE interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b--BYPuhymU)
    * Notable conversations
        * Prometheus
            * someone from Prometheus works at Reddit, is working on getting Reddit to migrate to Valkey
        * ArgoCD

### Action Items Update
* Website Launch (Mas/Nigel)
    * Wasn't in the correct format which would've messed up everything, i.e. not a static site.
    * There will be a series of PRs instead of one big change that would break everything.
* [Seattle Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/seattle-valkey/events/306721873/) (Nanci)
    * Stickers
    * Cupcakes
    * Pizza
    * 51 RSVPs as of April 8

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Updates on Bloom Filters, JSON, VSS GA release
        * Not all collateral done on BF and JSON modules, closing out in the next 1-2 weeks.
        * Didn't do a good job at how to use, 2nd opportunity to make a good first impression.
        * You can download and use individually, but not together/bundled.
        * No date picked for when bundling GA will happen, but should shoot for GA by June 22 to coincide with OSS NA.
* Other updates/changes to project

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Any projects at KubeCon commit to upgrading to Valkey?

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * OSS NA
        * Ericsson CFP covering Valkey accepted
        * Percona will also be there.
        * We could do a bingo stamp/sticker card for folks to visit each booth to get swag and talk to each stakeholder about Valkey. NetApp and Google are also sponsors, could get them to participate in the bingo activity, as well. This would tie into the bundling of the modules theme.
        * There are (5) talks mentioning Valkey
            * https://sched.co/1zfgZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfh6
            * https://sched.co/1zfjx
            * https://sched.co/1zfjZ
            * https://sched.co/1zfoh
        * Could do the Pi Cluster giveaway -- once cards are filled up, enter into raffle for the Pi Cluster
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * LF 1-Year Anniversary blog post - need to update accordingly to guidelines from LF. Can also post to Valkey's website without updating.
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* .

### Action Items
* .
---
## April 1, 2025 - Meeting Canceled due to KubeCon
---
## March 25, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Nanci Lancaster, AWS
2. David Östman, Ericsson
3. Mas Kubo, AWS
4. Lori Lorusso, Percona
5. Dmitry, Oracle
6. Madelyn Olson, AWS
7. Itay Maoz, AWS
8. Vaibhav, Google

### Welcome + Housekeeping
* .

### Action Items Update
* Website Launch Plan
* 1-Year Anniversary Blog Post
    * commnicated the number of growth of contributors / contributions over a year time
    * Hit 150 contributors as of March 24 (in the core) if we include the other projects (GLIDE, etc.) then it's much larger than 150
    * 27 different companies contributing to core, plus other companies to the subprojects, around a total of 45 companies
    * Small cloud services that include Valkey
* KubeCon Press Release - going live April 2 at 9am GMT
    * Madelyn to make live by this time
    * Differences between 8.0 and 8.1 not clear in the press release could put these in the blog post that Ricardo has put together for 8.1 on Valkey site
* KubeCon Cupcakes
* 8.1 Blog Post - 3/27 publish date

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
* Other updates/changes to project

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* .

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * Anniversary Meetup in Seattle - https://www.meetup.com/seattle-valkey/events/306721873/
    * AWS
        * OSS Summits
            * North America
            * Europe
            * Japan
        * All Things Open
            * CFP submitted today for the other draft we reviewed, Lori is working on a more technical CFP to submit before deadline
        * reInvent
        * SymfonyCon (TBD) 
    * Percona
        * Will have a presence at We Are Developers and KubeCon NA (aside from some of the events above)
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * Sidekiq announced upgrade to Valkey - need to amplify
    * Website is a good way to encourage the community to amplify themselves
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* March 28 - one-year anniversary
    * post 1-year blog post on LF blog site - Lori to check with LF on this process

### Action Items
* Mas to connect with Mariana, et al, on website migration
* Lori to check with LF on the blog post process on their site
* Nanci to work with Mas on amplification methods for external posts covering Valkey
* Lori to check on publish date for 8.1 blog post -- should be April 2
    * Also need to share draft of post with the WG
* Lori to share 1-year blog post with Itay and others
* Madelyn to ensure 8.1 GA is live at 9am GMT, April 2
---

## March 18, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. nigel (AWS)
2. Brie Craddock, AWS
3. David Östman, Ericsson
4. Martin Visser, Percona
5. Libby Clark, AWS
6. Mas Kubo, AWS
7. Nanci Lancaster (AWS)
8. Dmitry (Oracle)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Welcome Mas Kubo

### Action Items Update
* One-Year Valkey Blog Post
    * Need companies to answer the following questions
        * What made your company decide to become a contributor/participant to the Valkey project?
        * What is the biggest difference you see between Redis and Valkey (in addition to the license change)?
        * If you could use one word to describe what the first year of Valkey has been like what would it be and why?
        * What are you most looking forward to in the next year of Valkey?
* Valkey Deck Template - Received an initial deck, requested edits
* ATO Abstract/Submission
* KubeCon press release
    * Need quotes about the 8.1 release and modules, will connect you with Noah from the Linux Foundation who will gather the necessary details

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Website updates
    * Need help
* Bundling will be in preview mode for KubeCon release 

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* 

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * .
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * .
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* .

### Action Items
* .
---

## March 11, 2025 Agenda
Meeting canceled due to lack of quorum.

---

## March 3, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. .Lori Lorusso, Percona
2. .Martin Visser, Percona
3. Abe Taha, Google
4. nanci Lancaster (aws)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* 

### Action Items Update
* 1-Year Anniversary Planning
    * KubeCon
        * [Press Release](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17PMk9Bc7sSS7bpMAQwIgy-XdsuNPiqrTskbSJimQg9k/edit?tab=t.0) - What will be announced
            * 8.1 release - g2g
                * We need a blog post on the website, as well (Nigel mentioned in Feb 18 meeting)
                    * *Discuss different commands that are faster.*
                    * *Valkey blog should be more technical in nature vs markety*
                * *Nigel can collaborate with Martin and Ricardo from Percona*
            * Modules
                * Bloom Filters - g2g
                * JSON - g2g
                * Vector Similarity Search - likely fine, not as confident, tbd
    * Keynote mentions
    * Cupcakes on expo floor - April 2 in tandem with PR?
    * 'Year in the Life of Valkey' write up to post in tandem with the 1-year anniversary of Valkey - Go 1-week prior to KubeCon?
*  LDAP discussion with Lori (Madelyn)
    *  looped in Ricardo - discussing auth stuff there (Oracle, AWS, Percona, and NetApp all in discussion. Auth module with adapters?)
*  Valkey Deck Template
    *  Nanci emailed Mariana, no response. Madelyn, did she mention this in last week's website meeting, by chance? (Madelyn poked her in meeting, Mariana hadn't read email, Nanci to re-ping)
*   How to release and package modules - Was this discussed in yesterday's core meeting?
    *   Consensus to have 2 distros of Valkey - one with and one without modules. Without modules will look like what it looks like today (twice a year) - include a distro with all the modules and whatever we development later down the line. They're both semantic versioning; might update module distro more frequently. Patch versions
    *   Semantic versioning in numeric field, patch, plus major, plus minor version will give numeric value.
    *   Need to put in blog post for KubeCon? No. This won't be ready until OSS Summit NA.
*   Tazama Discussion
    *   Three of their databases changed licenses at the same time, ran out of money. Tried focusing convo on Valkey, it was the easiest drop and replace. 'it saved us time, only had to spend was engineering hours for migration' - Valkey was easy to swap
    *   The org is to fight financial crime and expand to apac
        *   financial crime against oss companies
        *   highlight the cost they incured for database switching vs migrating to Valkey
        *   They're part of Gates Foundation
        *   Decrease in overhead
    * Shared tech specs with us  
*   All things open abstract [Little Forkers](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AfN9_PGUlVIuNQnvBc1v8KlzgUiNCH8_Y3NI5byn3_I/edit?tab=t.0)
    *   Could do community or OSS project track. The link above is more the general one for community.
    *   Could be high level in technical details and all the things we've done in the last year and a half.
    *   Will change title
    *   Action Item for all - Look over abstract, provide comments


### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * 8.1 Progress - have plenty of buffer to launch on April 2
        * next RC candidate to launch next week
* Other updates/changes to project
    * Valkey Operator
        * 
    * building a container for bloom, json, and vss rather than building from source
    * LDAP / Active directory support - do wonder if it's LDAP all the way down

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Tazama
* Spring Update
    * Different projects working on in tandem. PM working on it left. Another person starting next week. Hopefully have an update in the next few weeks.
* NetApp?
* Any Others?

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * ConFoo FollowUp/Takeaways (Nigel)
        * Gave a talk, got great feedback
        * People coming up to booth - can get 3 migration stories from people who came to booth
        * One of the sponsors hosts Symphony (php) - they opened a pr to support Valkey (big win for another OSS project adopting Valkey) - https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/59869
        * People said migration was really easy
            * no downtime
            * saving money
            * heard about it at the beginning of a half hour meeting and migrated by the end of it
        * [blog aggregator](https://valkey-demo.oursqlcommunity.org/) - someone from aiven maintains it pulling blogs from all over that discuss Valkey
            * do we want to incorporate this into the website or anything else? 
            * concerned that the blogs might be negative about Valkey since there's no filter on sentiment for the blog posts
            * Requires human curation - we should look through and see what we can cross-post
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * https://hackernoon.com/open-source-isnt-deadits-just-forked (shared with the group in chat by Lori)
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* .

### Action Items
* .
---
## February 24, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Lori Lorusso, Percona
2. Brie Craddock, AWS
3. Nanci Lancaster (AWS)
4. David Östman (Ericsson)
5. Libby Clark (AWS)
6. Madelyn Olson (AWS)
7. Dmitry Polyakovsky (Oracle)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* 30-minutes vs 1-hour weeekly meeting?
    * It will be 30-minutes planned yet calendar will be 1-hour in case we need it.

### Action Items Update
* Lori and Nigel to work together on migration story with Tazama
    * Lori has pinged Rob with Tazama and is waiting for him to get back. Action Item - Nanci to share nigel's email with Lori
* Madelyn to update the [Valkey Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_i7cUD0_A2_pf0xCaeq_rhXzIJgLfZ47/edit#slide=id.p1).
    * We will also work on creating a wealth of shared collateral.
        * Would like to add content that is missing, need to update things like JSON stuff.
        * Need to change template. Ask Mariana (person who is working on website) to create deck using same design elements from site.
        * 
* Nigel to work with Ricardo and Martin from Percona to craft the blog post for 8.1 GA release.
* Update to conversations about Valkey Operator: Madelyn met with Hyperspike who already has an operator for Redis and will port it to Valkey, donating it to Valkey. 
    * Madelyn would like feedback, testing, and support here. 
    * Madelyn to make slack channel public as it is private right now. Please reach out to Madelyn to join the channel for Valkey operator to participate.
        * People should DM Madelyn or Nanci to join private channel.
* Lori to write abstract idea to submit for the [All Things Open CFP](https://allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers).
    * Brie to assist on gathering speakers/ideas, etc.
* 'Year in the Life of Valkey' write up to post in tandem with the 1-year anniversary of Valkey.
    * Lori to get questions circulated to the companies part of the forking, ie "Meet the Forkers"
    * Valkey cupcakes at KubeCon -- Brie to work with Lori on this initiative, come from AWS/Valkey budget

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * Restarting convo how we're doing module components. How do we want to package and release them?
        * Formal review next Monday during weekly technical meeting
        * release a new distro with all of the modules, new versioning numbers, container for it, download a tar file
            * Folks like Percona and others should join to get feedback.
            * Action Item for Nanci - add in meeting details for the above
* Other updates/changes to project
    * Bloom Filter Updates
        * Launch modules independently, marketing tier on all 3 launches.
        * Code is ready, don't have a strategy for launching it
        * Libby: We have PR support for KubeCon and can do briefings with press on modules there.
        * Action Item: Pull Kristi in for press release covering Bloom Filter and possibly Vector Search module (at least a preview). Next would be JSON. We could market it as these are the three modules and come OSSNA they will all be released as a bundle. Also bring in Lori's press person. Nanci to start email chain to get the convo started.
    * OSSNA would be a good time to market the bundling of the modules.
    *  

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* NetApp - Percona started an RFC for building LDAP. Madelyn to look into this; making progress on this.
    * Percona will build things upon request ;)
        * Madelyn to talk to Lori about this
    * General auth development, different companies working on this, working on bringing together

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * Nigel at ConFoo this week.
    * 
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * .
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* .

### Action Items
* Building LDAP -
    * Percona started an RFC for building this
    * Percona will build things upon request - Madelyn to talk to Lori about this further
    * Different companies working on this, Madelyn working on bringing them all together
* Coordinate efforts for KubeCon press release
    * Kristi/Lori/Nanci to work together
* A Year in the Life of Valkey Blog Post
    *  Lori to come up with a series of questions for reps of different companies to answer for the blog post
* Cupcakes at KubeCon to celebrate anniversary
    * Lori and Brie to work together on this
* Lori to write abstract idea to submit for the [All Things Open CFP](https://allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers).
    * Brie to assist on gathering speakers/ideas, etc.
* Valkey Deck Template
    * Nanci to ask Mariana (person who is working on website) to create deck using same design elements from site.
* Three Modules
    * Discussion during next week's core meeting - How to release and package modules -
        * release a new distro with all of the modules, new versioning numbers, container for it, download a tar file -- Folks like Percona and others should join to give feedback.
        * Nanci to send out meeting details to encourage folks to join from WG.
* Tazama Discussion
    * Nanci to share Nigel's email with Lori to work together on this
---

## February 18, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. .Lori Lorusso, Percona
2. nigel (AWS)
3. Brie Craddock (AWS)
4. Nanci Lancaster (AWS)
5. Irfan Ahmad (Magnition)
6. David Ostman (Ericsson)
7. Madelyn Olson (AWS)
8. Meet (AWS)
9. Itay (AWS)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Discussion on the purpose of the meeting
    * Why do you attend? What do you want to get out of these meetings?
        * From Percona - 
            * to discuss community matters e.g. website, events etc
            * to understand other Valkey sponsors initiatives and discuss cooperation on promoting Valkey
            * to discuss Percona's Valkey initiatives and look for areas to work together 
            * Notes: Valkey recognition is still low at events. Want to work together with other companies to create a wealth of collateral, i.e. the [Valkey deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_i7cUD0_A2_pf0xCaeq_rhXzIJgLfZ47/edit#slide=id.p1) - can we work together on keeping this updated?
                * Crowd source migration stories, i.e. [Tazama](https://tazama.org/index.html) - Lori is working with Rob from this company on crafting a migration story. Nigel to join meeting to collab and work together.
                * Baseline marketing collateral to all utilize
* Slack channel - lack of discussion/engagement

### Action Items Update
* .

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * 8.1 RC-1
        * Containers difficulty but has been worked out, all released.
        * Madelyn will make social posts announcing the RC
        * Will do a GA blog post when it's ready.
            * Discuss different commands that are faster.
            * Valkey blog should be more technical in nature vs markety
            * Nigel can collaborate with Martin and Ricardo from Percona
* Other updates/changes to project
    * Thinking about how to announce all the different modules coming up
    * Update on Operator
        * Hyperspiked(?) was working on this for Redis, they're going to port it to Valkey. Reviewed on Monday (yesterday), collecting feedback and pull resources. Join the slack channel if you want to join in this effort. Madelyn to make channel public.
            * Nigel - Verizon also has something similar in the works and could reach out if needed.
    * Website
        * Need to add download page/update download page
        * Check the #everyone channel to look at the website updates to add your feedback.
        * No set ETA on when it's finished but close, designer has more mockups to review. Possibly 6-8 weeks. 

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* .

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences + Upcoming CFPs
    * AWS
            * February 19 - PHP UK
            * February 26–28 - ConFoo
                * Sponsoring Meetup alongside Oracle: https://confoo.ca/en/2025/activities
                * Does anyone from Oracle know who will be onsite and what they will be saying during their 5-minutes given? Should we do a joint thing about Valkey?
                * 6x6' Booth
                * `Talk session` by Nigel on 2/27 @ 15:00 – [A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Valkey Project](https://confoo.ca/en/2025/session/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-valkey-project)
                * `Help Needed` Nigel is flying solo. Would like to have someone helping him at booth.
    * Percona
        * Sponsoring 
    * Upcoming CFPs
        * [All Things Open](https://allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers) - Idea: General, why Valkey, with Valkey on-prem, AWS story, Aiven, etc. Lori will work on abstract
        * Have a more generic presentation that anyone can use and submit to other conferences.
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * Blog for 8.1 rc/8.1 Release
        * Analytics on site - most people coming to website come from LinkedIn/social posts. It's useful to have something to point to.
            * Need to add a banner to website announcing the RC vs adding the RC blog post.
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * [Valkeytine's Day](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7296220564476571648)
    * Percona is working on customer stories


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* Pitching to PR about 'A year in the life of Valkey' refine pitch, meet the forkers angle - quotes from the main team to fork it. There's a deadline to submit PR for marketing tie in for sponsorship. Could add to a tie-in to conversations at the booth.
    * Launching 8.1 in April, can use that as a focal point and build momentum from April through August with all the different events.
    * Lori to own 'A Year in the Life of Valkey'
        * Lori will have Percona's PR person on next week's call with a skeleton piece and fill in the blank of where we need quotes and other missing pieces.
        * Nigel: If we are targeting KubeCon, we can utilize CNCF projects who have adopted Valkey and add that into the press release/talking point at the event.

### Action Items
* Lori and Nigel to work together on migration story with Tazama
* Madelyn to update the [Valkey Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_i7cUD0_A2_pf0xCaeq_rhXzIJgLfZ47/edit#slide=id.p1). As a team, moving forward, we will all work on updating - keeping this deck in mind to update when conversations and decisions arise that affect the messaging in the deck.
    * We will also work on creating a wealth of shared collateral.
* Nigel to work with Ricardo and Martin from Percona to craft the blog post for 8.1 GA release. The blog post should be more technical than marketing content.
* Update to conversations about Valkey Operator: Madelyn met with Hyperspike who already has an operator for Redis and will port it to Valkey, donating it to Valkey. 
    * Madelyn would like feedback, testing, and support here. 
    * Madelyn to make slack channel public as it is private right now. Please reach out to Madelyn to join the channel for Valkey operator to participate.
* Lori to write abstract idea to submit for the [All Things Open CFP](https://allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers). General idea for 'Why Valkey' and include companies who were part of the initial forking to tell their stories. This could be a panel or collab between two companies.
* 'Year in the Life of Valkey' write up to post in tandem with the 1-year anniversary of Valkey. Lori to have an initial skeleton draft to present at next week's meeting.  We could also target adoption stories from CNCF projects (touch base with Nigel)
---
## February 11, 2025 Agenda - Not full meeting due to lack of attendance

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. nigel (AWS)
2. David Östman (Ericsson)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* Welcome Brie Craddock
* Slack valkey-engagement-wg channel:
    * I manually added these folks to the slack channel:
        * Lori Lorusso
        * Arthur Ansquer
        * Michelle Tabirao
        * Meet Bhagdev
        * Kyle Davis
    * Still missing:
        * Charley Mann
        * Victoria Antipova

### Action Items Update
* Ericsson, Oracle to submit their logo using template here by February 14: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/issues/new?template=add_participant_form_template.md
* 

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * 8.1 Release Candidate - Feb 11 (today)
* Other updates/changes to project
    * Modules Releases
        * Bloom filters
        * JSON
        * Vector Similiarity Search

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Spring.io Update
    * Action Item from Jan 28 meeting:
        * Blog post for how to use Valkey with Spring Data Redis - Meet Bhagdev (AWS) to own the blog post
* NetApp Discussion Update

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences + Talks + Upcoming CFPs to be aware of
    * Events + Conferences
        * AWS
            * February 19 - PHP UK
            * February 26–28 - ConFoo
                * Sponsoring Meetup alongside Oracle: https://confoo.ca/en/2025/activities
                * Does anyone from Oracle know who will be onsite and what they will be saying during their 5-minutes given? Should we do a joint thing about Valkey?
                * 6x6' Booth
                * `Talk session` by Nigel on 2/27 @ 15:00 – [A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Valkey Project](https://confoo.ca/en/2025/session/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-valkey-project)
                * `Help Needed` Nigel is flying solo. Would like to have someone helping him at booth.
    * Talks/Sessions
    * Upcoming CFPs to be Aware of
        * [Open Source Summit North America 2025](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/cfp/#overview)
            * Deadline: Monday, February 17 
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * .
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* Scaling Valkey Meetups
* Community/Contributor Recognition Program
* Filling out co-located request form for ValkeyCon at OSS NA
    * [screen share]

### Action Items
* .
---
## February 4, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Nigel Brown (AWS)
2. David Östman (Ericsson)
3. Victoria Antipova (Canonical)
4. Meet Bhagdev (AWS)
5. Madelyn Olson (AWS)
6. John Kennedy (Aiven)
7. Libby Clark (AWS)
8. Nanci Lancaster (AWS)
9. Dmitry Polyakovsky (Oracle)

### Welome + Housekeeping + Action Items and Discssion Followup
* Welcome
* Housekeeping
    * Please [go here](https://valkey-oss-developer.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2nxs51chx-EB9hu9Qdch3GMfRcztTSkQ#/shared-invite/email) to gain access to Valkey slack if you haven't already done so. DM me directly and I will add you to the #valkey-engagement-wg Slack channel
* Action Items Followup
    * Madelyn + Michelle on Valkey Operator + others for Slack convo
        * Everyone was added to a slack channel. Having a more detailed convo in a week or two to go over more of the technical details.
    * Blog Post promo on Upcoming Valkey Release
        * Highlight the features were added so people can come test it.
    * Blog post collaboration convos with Aiven and Percona. Documentation on common use cases and getting started guides
        * Convos not started. Has spoken a bit with Percona folks at State of Open


### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * 8.1 Progress - Feb 11 still release day?
        * Reviewed all items, plan is still to release RC on Tuesday
* Other updates/changes to project
    * Modules might GA them in the next few weeks. Not much discussion about them. There has been interest from folks coming up to Valkey booth.

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Valkey + Spring.io status update
    * None at this time
* Valkey + NetApp
    * Meeting set for February 6 at 1pm PST to discuss NetApp building out LDAP for Valkey. There may be two calls for this - the first one just going over at a high level technically what they want to do, and then perhaps a second one with more technical details as long as folks are okay with the idea. They don't want to start any work without first talking with the project.

        * Let Nanci know if you believe you should be on this call.

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * Updates on conferences you sponsored/attended/spoke at
        * NDC London
            * Good for Valkey, lots of awareness. A few stories of people having already migrated to Valkey. Will share more details after trip report.
            * Action Item - Nigel to follow up with folks to see if we can get stories added to site. Send swag in return?
    * Upcoming Events/Conferences Presence
        * AWS
            * This week - State of Open
                * Mention of Valkey in keynote this morning. Many folks aware of Valkey, some are not. Little bit slower than NDC London at the booth. There is a booth crawl tonight. Good for awareness, folks are excited. Keynote Panel about forks and license changes with Dawn Foster - she spoke about Valkey. Percona had a Valkey workshop on schedule.
            * February 19 - PHP UK
            * February 26–28 - ConFoo
                * Sponsoring Meetup
                * 6x6' Booth
                * Talk session on 2/26 @ 10am
                * `Help Needed` Nigel is flying solo. Would like to have someone helping him at booth.
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * 
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * AWS
        * Webinar: [EMEA AWS In-Memory Valkey Webinar](https://aws-experience.com/emea/smb/e/e77e4/emea-valkey-webinar) February 26, 5am–6:30pm PST / 13:00–14:30 UTC
            * Don't market/push on Valkey side
* One pager: Addition of company logos - permission needed
    * Ericsson, Oracle to submit their logo using template here: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/issues/new?template=add_participant_form_template.md
    * Ideally have these logos before February 14.

### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* Do something on Valentine's Day? Valkey Valentine's? Will you be my Valkeytine? Heart stickers with logo? In-Memory tie-in. Pink color usage from our branding? I <3 Valkey
    * April Fool's as well?
* Aiven migration - get them to talk about their journey, how easy/difficult it was to migrate. Related: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-kennedy-5216b112_aiven-product-updates-latest-advancements-activity-7292177991550316546-906a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
    * Nanci to reach out ot John about this
* Very early stage planning / goals for 2025
    * (2) Valkey Days events
    * (1) Valkey Conference
    * (1) Valkey Contributor Summit, potentially attatched to [Open Source Summit NA](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/) in June, or [Open Source Summit Japan](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan-2025/) in December. [OSS Europe](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/) in August
        * CFP for NA closes in 2 weeks - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/cfp/#overview 
            * Nigel to work on crafting the talk for ConFoo and recycle it for OSS NA
        * Contributor summit in either NA or EU, don't make it secret - open it up.
        * Ideally OSS NA based on timing
* Submitting to CFPs - Having content would be a bigger driver other than booth presence
    * Having talks in larger spaces is good for Valkey
    * Can craft our own agenda/content for Valkey Conf
    * Ericsson join talk submissions
    * Spring folks are interested in joint talks
    * Want to have technical content ready for the launch/new features


### Action Items
* Madelyn to reach out to LF about brand/logo changes
---
## January 28, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Nigel Brown (AWS)
2. Nanci Lancaster (AWS)
3. Martin Visser (Percona)
4. Abe Taha (GCP)
5. Michelle Anne Tabirao (Canonical)
6. Mykola Marzhan (Canonical)
7. Dmitry Polyakovsky (Oracle Cloud)
8. David Östman (Ericsson)
9. Libby Clark (AWS)
10. Meet Bhagdev (AWS)
11. Victoria Antipova (Canonical)
12. John Kennedy (Aiven.io)
13. Amber Wang (Alibaba)

### Welome + Housekeeping
* New Meeting Structure
* Please join slack and DM Nanci Lancaster to be invited to the #valkey-engagement-wg channel


### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
    * 8.1 upcoming February 11th for RC, last year launched at OSS Summit NA, wanted to do at same time but will be earlier than June
    * 1.2 was releasd in December
        * Nanci to work with Madelyn on blog post and PR promos
* Other updates/changes to project
    * Memory efficiency stuff
    * Performance improvements
    * Bloom Filters, Json, and vector similarity search
        * Looking to see how to bundle each into cohesive units
        * Release a test container people can test on

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* Valkey + Spring.io Data (VMware/Broadcom)
    * Spring Data Redis exists, looking to make Valkey as a connector
    * Engaged with engineering leads a few weeks ago
    * Next step - write a blog post for how to use Valkey with Spring Data Redis
        * Meet Bhagdev (AWS) to own the blog post
* Valkey + NetApp
    * Will have more details in 2 weeks (Nanci)
* Appetite for Valkey Operator in the group?
    * YES
    * Canonical to kickstart operator, will be in their own ecosystem, but if there's an appetite to kick start it ASAP, stakeholders to work with Michelle (Canonical)
        * Madelyn - knows of several companies who see this as a pain point (Reddit and Uber, as well as one other company)
        * Michelle - Technical kick off meeting? Collaborate on different technical needs.
            * Madelyn to start a slack convo with folks to get this started
            * Michelle hoping to start end of quarter or beginning of Q2
                * Timeline would be dependent on people resources to contribute to developing this, need to define MVP for operator
                    * Libby - could be amazing to have it ready by KubeCon NA and market it there
            * slack channel on operator https://valkey-oss-developer.slack.com/archives/C07NKD6GFJN

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * AWS
        * Valkey presence at the following conferences
            * [NDC London](https://ndclondon.com/), January 27–31, London, England
                * Booth + Party Sponsor
            * SOOCon (Valkey-specific)
            * [PHP UK](https://www.phpconference.co.uk/), February 19, London, England
                * Track Sponsor, includes table in exhibitor space
            * [ConFoo](https://confoo.ca/en/2025), February 26–28, Montreal, Canada
                * Booth + Meetup Sponsor
                * Possible talk by Nigel
        * `Help Needed` Looking for at least one person to help Nigel at NDC and ConFoo
    * Percona
        * [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2025/stands/), February 1-2, Brussels, Belgium
            * Stand: UA level 2 (group ) (not Valkey-specific)
        * [SOOCon](https://stateofopencon.com/), February 4-5, London, UK
            * Table (Martin to help at Valkey booth)
         * [SCaLE 22X](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x) March 6-9, Pasenda, CA
             * Table

* Blog Posts + Videos
    * [nigel] Valkey 1-pager
        * Common request at conferences for flyer/brochure with Valkey info. One pager would printed and handed out at conferences
            * Nigel to work with Martin and others in engagement slack channel to collaborate on this
            * Publicly talking about company adoption - Madelyn mentioned that they want to wait until they are happy and in a stable place with Valkey before talking.
                * None right now that will go on the record.
                * Ericcson not yet using, but discussing migration. Using Redis/Valkey in different ways. Once they are done, they can write up a blog post.
                * Most companies stated they'd move by January 2025 so we may see an influx of adoption. 
    * [nigel] Gathering ideas for Valkey common usecases/getting started guides
        * Caching PostgreSQL (could be a good collab with Percona)
            * These touch on this but there is room for improvement
                * https://dev.to/heroku/first-steps-to-caching-postgresql-queries-with-redis-2m71
                * https://medium.com/wultra-blog/achieving-high-performance-with-postgresql-and-redis-deddb7012b16
                * https://blog.sentry.io/buffering-sql-writes-with-redis/
            * John Kennedy - Aiven.io is super interested in this and collaborate 
        * Session Management
            * https://singh-sandeep.medium.com/storing-sessions-on-redis-in-node-js-a-guide-to-high-performance-session-management-a52986503070
            * https://medium.com/@ruveydayilmaz/session-based-auth-with-redis-9d9c832a59c5
            * https://upstash.com/blog/session-management-nextjs
            * https://medium.com/@ruveydayilmaz/session-based-auth-with-redis-9d9c832a59c5
        * Vector Storage (and Search?)
            * https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/vector_databases/redis/getting-started-with-redis-and-openai
            * https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/indexing-vectors
            * https://redis.io/learn/howtos/solutions/vector/getting-started-vector
        * Any low hanging fruit we're missing?
            * These are the top ones that come to mind. Start with these and expand upon later.
        * Madelyn - instead of these being blogs should these just be documentation?
            * blog material is more so opinionated
            * Nigel - Developers are consuming this in a more tutorial fashion which a blog format would be best for. But documentation should include examples from all of these areas.
                * Madelyn - Elasticache research/data says the opposite
            * Let's do both? Create documentation and a blog post that discusses it and points to the documentation to gain initial traction  
        * Purpose of blogs?
            * Need more content on Valkey overall to drive impact and people organically come across the content when discovering a particular problem, can see they can solve it with Valkey, then become Valkey users.
                * Questions on 'upgrading' from Redis to Valkey - Customer stories 
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* Should we record meetings? Make meetings open to the public?
    * Revisit in 6 months, but no for now
* Anything else we should **start** doing? **Stop** doing? **Continue** doing? **Improve** upon?
    * `Add your input here`
* Is your company producing any Valkey swag?
    * Folks will check on this with their marketing team.
    * Swag shop for Valkey swag to live and other companies can order from it
    * 
* Valkey ranking on [DB Engines](https://db-engines.com/en/ranking)
    * Madelyn has engaged with RedMonk on ranking
        * Discussing if being added officially in February, but most likely happening in March
        * Score of .93, 192 ranking
        * Recommendations
            * Have more posts across different platforms, social posts, etc.
        * Concern being ranked so low?
            * Need to start somewhere
            * Libby - It's not a cheap investment, $200k, what are we getting for the investment?
                * Is the ranking so low giving us positive or negative perception?
                    * Figure out where we are in ranking
                    * Madelyn - Don't think it would be a productive spend
                    * Invite Elizabeth to this meeting to give more details (Nanci) 

### Action Items
* 


---
## December 10, 2024
Content Updates
- Housekeeping (Katie + Kyle)
- 2024 EoY Post

Events
- re:Invent recap
- UpCloud
- KubeCon India (December 11-12)
- DoK (Dec 12, 10am Pacific)
- 2025 confirmed events
    - Seattle Valkey Meetup (Jan 15)
    - NDC London (1/27-31)
    - PHP UK (2/19)
    - ConFoo (2/26)

Ecosystem + Community Updates
- Valkey Website Visual Update Project
- Public, High-level Roadmap



## November 26, 2024
Content Updates
- Meeting hosts

Events
- China Activation
- re:Invent Workshop and Mixer
- KubeCon India (December 11-12)

Ecosystem + Community Updates
- Upcloud, Valkey, and Aiven Webinar (Dec 10)
- AWS ElastiCache is using Valkey 8
- Client Libraries Work

## November 12, 2024

Intros
- Irfan Ahmad - sharing project on Observability (https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/1167)

Content updates
- ATO Podcast - https://thenewstack.io/valkey-whats-new-and-whats-next/

Events
- Fedora 41 Launch Party
- Thanks to all of our partners helping amplify at OSS Tokyo, Ubuntu Summit, KubeCon NA, OpenEuler
- AWS reInvent mixer - invite only, free community event - https://www.linkedin.com/events/meetthevalkeyteamatre-invent7260693719241097217/comments/
- KubeCon India (12/11-12)
- DoK Valkey Presentation (12/12) - online

Ecosystem + Community Updates
- Valkey reaches 1 million pulls - https://hub.docker.com/r/valkey/valkey
- The Valkey project is targeting a Q2 release timeframe, with the initial release candidates being available in Q1.

## Core Features
### Hash field expiration
- [https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/640)
- The top data structure feature request on Redis, and now Valkey, was to implement element-level Time-to-Live (TTL) functionality within the collection datatypes, most notably the hash data structure. Currently, users who need this granular control over element expiration must rely on custom client-side logic or Lua scripts, which can require maintaining separate systems to listen to key-space notifications and are less efficient. Supporting this feature natively would simplify the design and implementation of these features for users and improve performance. The Team is actively working on finalizing the design before starting the implementation.
### Cache efficient main dictionary
- https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/169
- This is an initiative to develop a new cache efficient hash set that should have less memory-overhead and be more performant by better taking advantage of modern hardware. This hash set will be used to improve various data-structures within the engine including the main dictionary, the expiry table, pubsub, hashes, sets, sorted sets, and more. We expect to save 30B per entry, and improve overall get/set performance by 10-15%, with even greater improvements for datatypes that use additional hash sets. Much of the OSS work has been implemented and PRs are in-review. We will have a design review meeting soon to go over hashset design and the plan for integrating the changes into ElastiCache.
### Check and set functionality
- https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/1215
- A simple feature that allows conditional updates of key value pairs based on the current value. A frequently requested feature in Redis, that was never added because it conflicted with `WATCH`. Many users implement this today with LUA scripting.
## Modules
The Valkey project is working on a distribution of Valkey that also includes optional extensions called modules. The specific distribution mechanism is still being investigated. The Valkey TSC is considering the following approaches:
1. Fully integrated deployment: In the next major version, Valkey will come pre-deployed with all of the modules and users can choose which ones to enable. The official Valkey container will come deployed with all available modules, which can be enabled/configured. This is similar to how Redis is deployed today.
	1. Pros:
		1. Simplest user experience as there will just be a single Valkey distribution.
	2. Cons:
		1. Requires modules and core project to synchronize major/minor versions, which will require more maintenance effort as the core has long version lifespan.
		2. Unnecessary software bloat and complexity for users that just want core functionality. CVEs might force users who care about fixes into more regular patches.
2. Secondary distribution channel: Each module will have it's own versioning scheme, but we will release a bundle of the modules along with a specific engine version (with some name like `valkey-stack`, `valkey-extensions`, etc). This distribution will have it's own container and download from the main website. This collection of modules and core version will be tightly validated. For example, `valkey-stack` version 1.2 might contain two modules and be based off of `valkey-server` 8.1 and the full set of tests will be validated against specifically that version. Compatibility between other core versions, modules versions, or modules being best effort.
	1. Pros:
		1. Users will have two options of well tested and validated distributions.
	2. Cons:
		1. Documentation becomes more fragmented as some features are core and some are in the stack.
		2. Users may not realize they are missing out on features. This was apparently a concern with Redis, but unclear how material this was an issue.
3. Decoupled distribution mechanism: We will release each module individually with its own
	1. Pros:
		1. Empowers individual module owners with the mo
	2. Cons:
		1. There is not authoritative set of modules that a user can pull to get a good experience.
### Valkey JSON
- [https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-rfc/blob/main/ValkeyJSON.md](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-rfc/blob/main/ValkeyJSON.md)
- Valkey JSON is a new module that adds the ability to store JSON documents in Valkey. JSON documents can be accessed with a JsonPATH like syntax. This module provides API compatibility with RedisJSON.
### Valkey Bloom
- [https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-rfc/blob/main/Bloom.md](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-rfc/blob/main/Bloom.md)
- Valkey Bloom is a new module that adds the probabilistic bloom filter datastructure, which is a common use case in advertisement. It is a space efficient data structure which can tell you if an item is maybe in a set or definitely not in a set. It's one of many probabilistic data structures available in RedisBloom.
### Valkey Vector Search
- https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-rfc/pull/8
- Valkey Vector Search is a new module that adds vector similar search capabilities to Valkey. The RFC is still in early development, but the code is being contributed by Google based off their internal implementation.



## October 29, 2024

Content updates
- New valkey.io docs organization - thanks, Kyle!
- UpCloud now supports Valkey - https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey
- Valkey.io redesign examples

Events
- ATO this week
- Valkey session @ OSS Japan this week
- KubeCon NA Casual Activity ?
- AWS reInvent mixer - invite only, free community event
- KubeCon India 
- DoK Valkey Presentation (12/12) - online

Ecosystem + Community Updates
- Valkey is now included in Ubuntu - https://ubuntu.com/blog/valkey-ubuntu
- Any other recommended folks for Partner participation page? Need one more to launch!
- Valkey in Debian is now moved to unstable (viable path to being in mainline)



## October 15, 2024

Content updates
- RedMonk report: https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/10/11/valkey-momentum/
- Ubuntu support: https://ubuntu.com/blog/valkey-ubuntu
- Google Memorystore for Valkey --> https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-memorystore-for-valkey
- Amazon ElastiCache & MemoryDB support for Valkey --> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-elasticache-and-amazon-memorydb-announce-support-for-valkey/
    - https://sodkiewiczm.medium.com/elasticache-serverless-valkey-review-1e3329cfbfa0
    - https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/valkey-80-memory-efficiency/

Events
- All Things Open (October 27)
- AWS re:Invent mixer (Dec 2-6)
- KubeCon India (December 11) -- need volunteers!


Ecosystem + Community Updates
- Partner participation page

## October 1, 2024

Events
- OSSEU 
    - Valkey 8.0
- Valkey Developer Day 
    - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAV1X7hxH2Hv-JlT0HJLkpFCpk2ox3llh
- DjangoCon
- RailsWorld

Remainder of year
- All Things Open (October 27)
- reInvent mixer event (December 2)
- KubeCon India TBD (December 11)

Content updates
- Migration stories blog post


Ecosystem + Community Updates
- Slack Enterprise follow-ups
- Security Fix Release 10/1


## September 17, 2024
Team in Vienna, Austria attending OSSEU

## September 3, 2024
- Valkey Developer Day: Sepetmber 19th
    - We are promoting this across the Valkey social channels, AWSOpen, AWS Developer Experience, and via the Linux Foundation. Please have your teams promote so we can drive registration (thanks to Percona who has also boosted!)
        - Reg: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/valkey-developer-day/ 
        - Agenda: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/valkey-developer-day/program/agenda/
        
- Content updates
    - Valkey Messaging narrative review - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10nSI0bZGxpwWfPWTxsZ_bbD6X5-xUfzb/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103306990226190727485&rtpof=true&sd=true
    - 8.0 Press Release w/ 4 confirmed TSC quotes --> the LF will release this on 9/16
    - We have confirmed Valkey 8.0 inclusion in the OSSEU Keynote


## August 27, 2024
- Ecosystem + Community Updates
    - Enterprise Slack - on hold
    - Amazon Linux - on hold
    
- Event updates
    - GopherCon UK recap
    - KubeCon+ CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China --> Dirk Hohndel session
        - https://thenewstack.io/valkey-is-a-different-kind-of-fork/
    - NDC Copenhagen: Aug 28-30th 
    - Valkey Developer Day: Sepetmber 19th
        - We are promoting this across the Valkey social channels, AWSOpen, AWS Developer Experience, and via the Linux Foundation. Please have your teams promote so we can drive registration (thanks to Percona who has also boosted!)
        - Reg: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/valkey-developer-day/ 
        - Agenda: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/valkey-developer-day/program/agenda/
        
- Content updates
    - Valkey Messaging narrative review - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10nSI0bZGxpwWfPWTxsZ_bbD6X5-xUfzb/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103306990226190727485&rtpof=true&sd=true
    - 8.0 Press Release w/ 4 confirmed TSC quotes --> the LF will release this on 9/16
    - We have confirmed Valkey 8.0 inclusion in the OSSEU Keynote
    - Standard FAQ/guide for folks who volunteer at different events to ensure consistent messaging
    - Community deck available in G-drive - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_i7cUD0_A2_pf0xCaeq_rhXzIJgLfZ47/edit#slide=id.p1
    - RedMonk competitive analysis report



## August 13, 2024
- Ecosystem + Community Updates
    - Valkey 8.0 release candidate 8/2 --> https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-8-0-0-rc1/
    - Permissive use policy: Brand kit finalized from LF --https://github.com/valkey-io/assets
    - Enterprise Slack --> Next step: understand if this is the best path forward and determine which companies are interested in contributing to the fund
    
- Event updates
    - GopherCon UK: August 14-16th - dedicated lounge
    - NDC Copenhagen: Aug 26-3th - need additional booth volunteers
    - Valkey Developer Day: Sepetmber 19th - agenda in GDrive, live on OSS EU as add-on ($40). Stand-alone page being updated

- Content updates
    - Valkey 8.0 feature blogs
    - Press Release w/ TSC quotes

- Open issues
    - PR template submitted for participants page -- form is open
    - Create a standard FAQ/guide for folks who volunteer at different events to ensure consistent messaging


## July 30, 2024
- Ecosystem + Community Updates
    - Valkey 8.0 release candidate highly likely this week
    - Debian/Valkey work ongoing - working through license questions (https://github.com/orgs/valkey-io/discussions/830) officially unblocked
    - Permissive use policy: Minor updates required to website and a GitHub repo to host logos; Brand kit expected from LF by end of week.
    - GDrive set up: thank you Dolan! https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/11KEJiPhMfIE3e_NBx83NJ1EuLAL7Runz
    - Slack: Working through this with the LF. What companies are interested in contributing to the Slack fund? Slack costs are proportional to size of community. They will give you a price for the year, but it will continue to rise each year based on community growth. 
    
- Event Updates
    - WeAreDevelopers: Attended by 15k developers from across the stack; 18% of conference attendees stopped by the booth (gave out 1000 dongles the first day). College students in Linux clubs to big companies like Deutsche Telekom, Austrian Airlines, Heraeus Mining, Mastercard, and Shopware. 
    - Next up: FOSSY (August 1 - 4 in Portland) Tabletop booth
    - Valkey Developer Day (Thursday September 19): Now live on OSS EU as add-on ($40). Waiting on stand-alone page. Please register + tell people. Bigger promotion plan to come out once stand alone form is ready. Let's start softly promoting now.

- Content Updates:
    - July What's New: holding on this series unless we feel strongly about it 

Open Issues
- PR template submitted for participants page 
    - Dolan said to avoid Partners from a legal/IRS perspective
    - Participants is much better from a legal perspective - Madelyn will amend the PR template

## July 16, 2024
- Ecosystem + Community Updates
    - Valkey 8.0 release candidate ~ available next week
    - Canonical working with Debian to include Valkey 
        - Dev conf coming in the next two weeks in Korea and they will continue conversations. No blockers in Ubuntu 24.10. 
        - Ubuntu conf last weekend in October in the Hague. First time for booths. Michelle can work internally to have internal engineers that built Valkey on Ubuntu present. Open to open source and other Linux distros.
    - Community forum/connection: Slack (upgrading to paid subscription ~ $12k annual), Discord (free/blocked in China), Matrix (free/not stable in China) 
        - how to ensure continuity with paid subscription
        - Do Valkey qualify for an "free plan" (501 company in the US)? CDF has this and everything disappears after 90 days. This is a problem for some projects. LF is unable to get new projects onboarded to the free version. https://slack.com/help/articles/204368833-Apply-for-the-Slack-for-Nonprofits-discount
        - Has a matrix and discord already (on community page) and basically empty. Madelyn is watching them.
        - Redis community was on slack and Redis paid for that slack. Community/core developers did not want to do something else.
        - https://opencollective.com/
- Event Updates
    - Past: GopherCon North America: Very well received by Go community. 800 pax at event from USAA, Bloomberg, Openly, Bayer, Chase, Capital One
        - Migration story from Axios
        - Need: Go examples for Valkey (see here: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-redis/redis/v8 vs https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go)
        - Most common attendee questions: What is it?; For those that knew what it was: How do we know this is THE fork, there were a few. Is this similar to OpenTofu/will it run into the same legal complications? Are the client libraries all the same? Why should I migrate now if we don't need to upgrade Redis yet?
        - Percona has developer research on this topic they can share
    - Current: WeAreDevelopers World Congress: GitHub Activation zone and stand-alone booth; est 15000 attendees
    - Next Up: FOSSY (August 1 - 4)
- Content Updates
    - Bitnami Helm Chart blog LIVE on valkey.io! https://valkey.io/blog/using-bitnami-valkey-chart/
    - AWS blog in progress 
    - Percona has kindly offered time from their technical engineer to write migration stories from Redis to Valkey - thank you!
        - Follow-up from last meeting: #valkey-migration-stories slack channel started
        - Everyone who requested invites to the Slack channel should have them now
    - July What's New: How were submissions handled for this?
        - Kyle handled this and we arent sure how submissions were handled. Open call now.

Open Issues
- will there be a webpage for managed services? 
    - Discused with TSC - they are open to it
    - Could make a PR template for folks to submit this to
    - randomizer for random order on the page
    - Aiven could start by making the template and TSC can review 
    - liked the opensearch one https://opensearch.org/partners/
    - An example of what TODO group is using to handle join requests to the org: https://github.com/todogroup/governance/issues/new?assignees=anajsana&labels=member+onboarding&projects=&template=onboarding-general-member.md&title=%5BONBOARDING%5D+General+Member+-+%5BORGANIZATION+NAME%5D
- OSS EU colo
    - CFP or no? timing will be tough. Will be easier to recruit speakers ourselves.
    - Megan to submit the title/abstract


## July 2, 2024
- Ecosystem Updates
    - OTel Migrating to Valkey
        - Do we know of other CNCF projects? 
        - LF is working with CNCF to identify projects that were using Redis from license scanning perspective; Dolan can look into this. 
    - Amazon Linux
- Open Blog Post Process: 
    - How-to Guide Published: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING-BLOG-POST.md
- Content:
    - June Edition Published: https://valkey.io/blog/whats-new-june-2024/
- Events:
    - Staffing
    - Demos
    - Partners at events - how can we work together?

July 9 - 10: GopherCon North America [Chicago, USA]
July 17 - 19: WeAreDevelopers World Congress [Berlin, Germany]
August 1 - 4: FOSSY [Portland, USA]
August 14 - 16: GopherCon UK [London, England]
August 21 - 23: KubeCon + Open Source Summit Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
August 26 - 30: Copenhagen Developers Festival [Copenhagen, Denmark]
September 16 - 19: Open Source Summit Europe + **Valkey Co-Located Event** [Vienna, Austria]
September 23 - 25: DjangoCon US [Durham, USA]
September 26 - 27: RailsWorld [Toronto, Canada]
October 27 - 29: All Things Open [Raleigh, USA]
November 18 - 20: QCon San Francisco [San Francisco, USA]
December 11 - 12: KubeCon India [Delhi, India]

- Migration Stories: Create a mechanism for capturing these
    - Aiven will be migrating their service and developing tooling to help people migrate (may be open sourced)
    - "How do I migrate from Redis to Valkey?" Fan of getting this out now before things start to veer more 
        - There is much anxiety around this topic - its from project managers, budget impact, engineers - typical enterprise questions. A sequence of stories, different angles, different people. Repeating the message that its a simple replacement. 
    - Megan to start slack channel for this
    
- Open Topics
    - Valkey for Aiven free tier

## June 18, 2024

- Contributor Summit
    - 40 attendees, 13 companies
    - Topics
        - Valkey 8
        - Performance/Testing
        - Cluster Improvements
        - Extensibility
        - Clients
        - Modules
        - Corporate Contributions
        - Events and Community Outreach
- Press Release
    - Released this morning,  please share
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/valkey-welcomes-new-partners-amid-growing-momentum
- Valkey.io Documentation
- Events
    - July 7 - 10: GopherCon North America [Chicago, USA]
    - July 17 - 19: WeAreDevelopers World Congress [Berlin, Germany]
    - August 1 - 4: FOSSY [Portland, USA]
    - August 14 - 16: GopherCon UK [London, England]
    - August 21 - 23: KubeCon + Open Source Summit Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
    - August 26 - 30: Copenhagen Developers Festival [Copenhagen, Denmark]
    - September 16 - 19: Open Source Summit Europe + Valkey Co-Located Event [Vienna, Austria]
    - September 23 - 25: DjangoCon US [Durham, USA]
    - September 26 - 27: RailsWorld [Toronto, Canada]
    - October 27 - 29: All Things Open [Raleigh, USA]
    - November 18 - 20: QCon San Francisco [San Francisco, USA]
    - December 11 - 12: KubeCon India [Delhi, India]
- Events and Talking Spots
    - Kit for talking at conferences
    - List of events where we slots to talk about Valkey
- Content:
    - June Edition: Draft PR https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/pull/74 


## June 4, 2024

- Contributors Summit
    - This week (June 6/7)
    - Expected attendance 35-40
    - Seattle Meetup
- Press Release
    - New quotes, talk about contributor summit
    - Expected mid-next week
- Valkey in Linux Distros
    - Fedora 41
    - RHEL 10
    - Alpine
- Events
    - Collaboration opportunity
- What's New/Round up
    - [May edition](https://valkey.io/blog/update/2024/05/may-roundup/)
    - June Edition: Draft PR https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/pull/74 

## May 21, 2024

- Housekeeping / Meeting Cadence 
- Contributors Summit
    - June 6/7, Seattle
    - Pre-summit Meetup On June 5
    - Audience
    - See chat for link (please **do not share publicly**)
- Momentum & Service Announcement
- Helm Chart (Bitnami - https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/bitnami/valkey)
- Content
    - Roundups (Percona, AWS, Oracle, others?)
    - Website back on track with 60+ documentation pages
    - Migration on Fedora (in Review)
- Versioning and LTS - 5 yr security fixes, 3 yr support
- Conferences and presence (Percona Connect: Chicago/NYC)


## May 7, 2024
- Project updates
    - Governance has been approved by TSC [[link](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/GOVERNANCE.md)]
- Contributors Summit:
    - June 6-7
    - Seattle
    - Technical contributors
    - Tentative Agenda:
        - Goal setting
        - Prioritization for Valkey 8
        - Breakouts (ClusterV2, Modules, Threading, Governance)
        - Client Libraries
        - Organizational Contributions
    - Pre-summit Meetup On June 5
- Momentum Announcement
    - Immediately following Contributor Summit
    - Additional supporters 
        - Missed in previous Announcement
        - Other providers (Euroclouds)
        - Academic
        - Governmental
- Service announcements
- Events with Valkey presence
    - AWS Summit NYC (July)
- Company Commitment Numbers
    - AWS: Madelyn, few more now (looking to allocating existing people)
    - Aiven: Planning now 
- Content:
    - Migrating guides (priority)
    - Getting started guides
    - On Valkey.io & other places
- LTS
    - Working figure for 7.2.5 is 3yrs (not finalized)
    - Is 3 years enough? Security fixes for longer?




## April 23, 2023
- cadence - every 2 weeks
- Supporters
    - European clouds
    - Others?
- LF no slack instance
- company contributions
    - as a different meeting

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## `TEMPLATE` Date Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. .
2. .

### Welome + Housekeeping
* .

### Action Items Update
* .

### Valkey Project Updates
_Maintainer shares important updates surrounding the project, i.e. upcoming features or important releases/changes to the project._

* Upcoming Releases
* Other updates/changes to project

### Technical Engagements
_Input here if you are engaging with another project or company on their adoption or use case with Valkey and how this group can support. Also add in if there are any ideas of projects or companies we **should** be engaging with._

* .

### Content Engagements
_Input here if you are planning on Valkey having a presence at any events, online engagements, meetups, written blog posts, etc., and what help (if any) you may need from the working group._

* Events + Conferences
    * .
* Blog Posts + Videos
    * .
* Online Engagements, i.e. Webinars, Interviews
    * .


### Discussion Topics + Big Ideas for Valkey
_Input here if there is anything you wish to discuss for the group to brainstorm and collectively work on, i.e. Valkey Conference, moving Valkey to a funded Linux Foundation project with a governing board, etc._

* .

### Action Items
* .
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