---
title: Valkey Engagement Working Group Meeting
tags: community, Valkey
---
# 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.*
- previous notes https://hackmd.io/exrPbQS7TQmIvO3B1fVWpg?view

:::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 BLANK 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/)._
:::

## Dec 23, 2025 Agenda
Notes
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## Nov 25, 2025 Agenda
Notes
-Spring Data for Valkey - possible release 2nd week of Jan
-Valkey Admin - late Jan launch, possibly at Momento event in SF
-Glide 2.3 may also launch in Jan
-For these launches, request from Robert to ensure they are on all social channels; LF currently has access to Bluesky, LinkedIn, and X. We need access to any others (e.g. YouTube)
-Mas to send info to LF on Spring and Admin
-Crystal to start a new Slack channel for social media requests

## ~~Dec 2, 2025 Agenda~~

**Cancelled due to re:Invent**

### ~~Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)~~

### ~~Topics~~

## Nov 25, 2025 Agenda
* Presentation about Blog Aggregators (and [Planet for the MySQL Community](https://valkey-demo.oursqlcommunity.org/))
* Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KgIzxL7hflOslVXlRhxGXANzgOwxEWZRohZ2sihOf9Y/
Outcome
- URL for planet to replace the current one. https://planet.valkey.io/
- TBD Replace Repo (https://github.com/jfg956/valkey-planet/)
https://github.com/valkey-io/planet/ ?

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below

Laura Czajkowski (Percona)
Jean-Françpos Gagné ()
Bogdan Petre (Aiven)
Dan Brown (LF)
Crystal Pham (LF)
Dmitry Polyakovsky (Oracle)

### Topics

## Nov 18, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below
Laura Czajkowski (Percona)
Kyle Davis (kyledvs)
Dan Brown (LF)
Grace Lucier (LF)
Crystal Pham (LF)
Emily Olin (LF)
Martin Visser (Percona)

### Topics
AWS re:Invent who's attending?
2026 -
Keyspace Beijing
* house of Valkey event
* close to being sold out 253 max 260
* tracking links - snag a hubspot tracking link is missing on the main page to show the clicks :(
* 9.1 Q2...
* performance improvements
* new observaltity tool
* spring data valkey
* FTS

* Plan out schedule of release content so its not all clashing and overwhelming people
* Training Valkey assests created in Percona can we use these at a wider audience within the valkey community ?
* Educational content benefit the community
* Post on the Valkey website - valkey.io
* pre existing videos post to Valkey YT

* Content on the website under blog, can we make it easy for a CTA to get new content from the community on there.
* Use a social campagin to look for specific topics
* reward the contibutions by some sort of credit or reward.
* Where does these community hang out and discuss things so we can see these conversations and find those topics.
* we rely on newsletter as slack is very quiet
* slack or github (issues) for Q's
* Planet Valkey - Jean Francois Gagne https://valkey-demo.oursqlcommunity.org/
* where do people ask Q's these days as stackoverflow is dead
* Should we do more to get people to interact on slack!

* Everyone is able to pitch a blog to publish on valkey.io - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/issues/new?template=blog_post_template.md

## Nov 11, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
Kyle Davis (AWS)
Dan Brown (LF)
Emily Olin (LF)
Crystal Pham (LF)
Laura Czajkowski (Percona)

### Topics
* Keyspace Beijing
* 12/13
* Reg stored in China
* House of Valkey
* Which Press/Analysts
* Reporters attending re:invent? (kyle will take AI)
* Bouncers
* Music
* DJ
* Reinvent parties (LF will the AI)
* On Valkey Slack
* Banner on Valkey.io (Kyle will take AI)
* KubeCon EU
* Percona will be at both KubeCon
* Party at future event
* Sprint day?
* Cloud Native Rejeks
* Topic for future meeting: Who are we trying to talk to at events - whole meeting topic.
* Survey Follow up
* Dan / Kyle will talk
* Rotating Meeting Leadership
* Let's bring up in the Slack channel
* Cancelling some sessions during holidays
* FOSDEM
* Laura and Dan will on site
* Small drinks reception? Let's ask on the slack channel. Light weight.
* What night? LF has a reception on Sat..
* Get reservation ASAP

*

## Oct 28, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
* Kyle Davis (AWS)
* Emily Olin (LF)
* Mas (AWS)
* Abe Taha (GCP)
*

### Topics
* Survey https://www.research.net/r/valkey9-0
* Should we call it the Valkey 9 survey vs Valkey 9.0?
* Are you using Valkey currently
* Move question about Redis down: Maybe drop this entirely for an open ended.
* If not using Valkey, what do you using?
* Use case:
* AI workloads is too broad (split it out?)
* Leaderboard
* Streaming or Messaging
* Planning to migrate:
* Timeline as FiB
* Open end: Feature feedback/investments, wishlist for 9.1, what's missing, "What would you like to see in future versions of Valkey?", "Pain point? Data/technology"
* Geography/location
* Team/role? Developer/sre/etc.
* Re:Invent Social
* Registration
* Verification at the door
* Non-blocking for walk-up
* Bevy
* Secuirty at the door (3x) - no secondary desk for check in
* Process:
* Dual lane - pre-reg, reg at door.
* VIP list seperate
* Landing page for re:invent generally (talks, social)
* Keyspace Beijing
* Content Pipeline
* How to Valkey on various providers
* Are our blog posts too technical?
* Year in review blog post for 2025
* Dec is poor time but this kind of post works
* Growth of the community
* Organziations involved
* Valkey as a multi-cloud
*

## Oct 21, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
Kyle Davis (AWS)
Dan Brown (LF)
Emily Olin (LF)
Crystal Pham (LF)
Grace Lucier (LF)
Abe Taha (GCP)
Laura Czajkowski (Percona)

### Topics

* Valkey 9.0
* PR
* Diginomnica
* Lots of embargo agreers - new stack, itsfoss, freelance
* no tech target - but good sign that they responded.
* Happy with response
* Launch
* Flagship features vs throughput
* How can we do better for Valkey 9.1 (Target: 2026-03-29)
* Gamification? https://valkey-oss-developer.slack.com/archives/C089SN7Q4SH/p1760389546171509
* PII - we can do this if we're very explicit
* Social media
* How are we managing it?
* Topics for future meeting
* Events
* China
* Reinvent meetup
*

## Oct 14, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
* Grace Lucier, The Linux Foundation (PR), Crystal Pham The Linux Foundation

### Topics

* Valkey 9.0
* Going forward: Tuesday/Wednesday, except for holiday mondays then do Wednesday.
* GA delayed to the October 21, 2025 at 10 am PDT (confirmed with Madelyn/team)
* Press release -- with Valkey team for review (will have a group for review)
* Interest secured through embargoed outreach:
* diginomica, Alyx MacQueen -- reviewing release draft
* InfoWorld, Simon Bisson -- wants to include 9.0 in a column to be published October 16; team to discuss
* It's FOSS, Abhishek Prakash -- shared interview questions for Madelyn; PR team to share today for completion
* Prizes for GA launch
* Draft 9.0 blog https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/pull/390
* Open Source Unlocked Boston event (October 30, 2025)
* Media -- can the PR team organize an interview on this day with a local tech reporter (i.e. Shaun Sutner of TechTarget)?

## Oct 7, 2024

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)

Kyle Davis (AWS)
Dan Brown (LF)
Emily Olin (LF)
Crystal Pham (LF)
Roberto Luna Rojas (AWS)
Madelyn Olson (AWS)
Brie Craddock (AWS)
Abe Taha (GCP)
Grace Lucier (LF)

### Topics
- [Valkey/Redis CVE](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/redis-warns-of-max-severity-flaw-impacting-thousands-of-instances/)
- Should we do anything more for future? Proactive?
- Not a regular course of action
- Rapid reponse, reactive
- The litmus test: will this a marketing vuln
- One blog post about how Valkey handles security
- GitHub Discussion
- Valkey 9.0
- RC3
- Still on target for Oct 14

## Sept 30, 2025

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)

### Topics
- Valkey 9.0
- RC3
- Release Tenative to Oct 14
- Valkey Event landing page
- Analytics Data
- Booth Survey
- Waiting for LF
- Taco Bell Buy out
- LIVE MAS CACHE MORE Badge Button
- Plan to announce this
- Can get bloggers or journalists to talk it up
- Theo.gg
- Corey
- Adrian Bridgewater
- Sander
- Bart Farell
- Give materials ahead of time to the jouranalists
- Bigger jouranalists get what they need for news ahead of time
- Getting Jounalists
- Who is the access for them

## Sept 23, 2025

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)

### Topics
- Valkey 9.0
- RC2 delayed to _this_ week
- RC3 is likely
- Press Release for Valkey 9
- Booth Survey
- Valkey Event landing page
- Analytics Data

## Sept 16, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- kyle davis (AWS)
- David Östman (Ericsson)
- Crystal Pham (Linux Foundation)
- Emily Olin (Linux Foundation)
- Laura Czajkowski (Percona)
- Dan Brown (Linux Foundation)
- Pawel Piwosz (UpCloud)

### Topics
- Valkey 9.0 Launch
- RC2 due this week
- Social media?
- Events?
- Content?
- [HFE Blog post](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/pull/354)
- [Clustered DBs](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/pull/353)
- TBD Atomic Slot migration
- GA Blog
- Press Release for Valkey 9
- Need Spokespeople lined up
- Possible to be started now
- Embargo process - need timeline - must be week out
- Events:
- Aspara Conference
- [Nerdearla](https://nerdear.la/)
- [PyCon ZA](https://za.pycon.org/)
- [All things open](https://allthingsopen.org/)
- [MQ Summit](https://mqsummit.com/)
- TBD China-Based Event
- SymphonyCon
- ReInvent
- Open Source Summit Japan (Potential for a speaking slot)
- OTHERS?
- Helsinki Meetup / Nov TBD on 3 month candance via Upcloud & Aiven
- Boston Pecona Event / End of Oct
- Swag redistribution
- 2026 Events
- Bitnami Helm Chart
- Press?
- Do we have a quote for the brownout?

## Sept 9, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- Robert Luna (AWS)

### Topics
- Valkey event in China
- [Videos / Slides from Keyspace](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAV1X7hxH2HtZWc2YNQRMQe9FT9XTWemE)
- All things open
- Upcoming blog posts
- Investment
- HFE
- Clustered/multiple database
- Keyspace talk highlight?

## Sept 2, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- kyledvs (aws)
- Brie Craddock
- Robert Luna (AWS)

### Topics
- Open Source Summit EU recap and feedback
- Keyspace final reg: 77 (actual show numbers tbd)
- LF did a follow up if anyone opened the reg page
- Survey results?
- Co-lo nubmers may be skewed
- AV:
- Would have been better to lav mics
- podium mics didn't work well
- timing was far enough in advace
- Virtual speaker was hard to be successful
- Attendees wanted to be more techinal
- Multi-track
- Workshop was too easy, but the technical track too much
- Mark the talks into what level
- Backroom - mingle room for networking on casual presentations
- What's new in Valkey 9 was too fast
- What's happened in the last year
- Directional signage was weak (didn't have valkey on it)
- Contrib Summit reg: 26
- local was challenging
- TZ was bad for remote
- Seattle was better for local attendance (Seattle is better for devops engineers)
- Full vs half day
- Should it be on the same day as keyspace?
- Feedback on booth?
- Decent location; near a lounge
- We had good conversation and traffic
- Was it the right level of sponsorship?
- Should we do more with PostGres (pgconf.dev, pg-eu, pgconf-us)
- WG in LFX
- Blog post
- Event in China (Tencent)
- Nov 15

## Aug 19, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- Abe Taha (Google)
- Briana Swift (Percona)
- kyledvs (AWS)

### Topics
- Update: Valkey 9.0-rc1 out now!
- Contributor summit
- Virtual
- Keyspace
- On site reg
- Free vs Paid
- [Blog post](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYYt6Dw5DO6R_2xw4yQfqneh0e7V4uj8Gqm6SSlAuWQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.cwytymjp9hv2)
- Needs RC1 passage (Kyle taking action)
- Drafting in google docs, then submit for review to PR
- Targeting OSS EU
- Author Bio (Laurie)

## Aug 12, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- kyledvs (AWS)
- briana swift (Percona)
- Robert Luna (AWS)

### Topics
- Keyspace / Contributor summit
- Streaming at contrib summit
- Videos at keyspace (how do we post it)
- Blog https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYYt6Dw5DO6R_2xw4yQfqneh0e7V4uj8Gqm6SSlAuWQ/edit?tab=t.0
- post during OSS EU
- Publish on tuesday 26th

## Aug 6, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- kyledvs
- martin visser
- briana swift
- andrey glazkov
- brie craddock
- madelyn olson
- David Östman
- Abe Taha (GCP)

### Topics
- Recent Events
- Calendar
- Repeating Events
- SymphonyCon - Nov 27 AMS (Michal from Percona maybe?)
- Keyspace, Contributor summit, Open Source Summit EU
- Filling seats at Keyspace
- Invite all organiations to Contributors
- OSS EU / Who is sitting at the booth when
- Where are we sending people
- Valkey.io: When 2025 event page has been updated, working group members please let us know if they'll also be there (or want to join us/need a ticket)
- SOMEONE PLEASE UPDATE THE VALKEY.IO PAGE PLEASE!!! or create the /links (i like that)
- Content
- Make an issue: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-io.github.io/issues/317
- Swift blog post: https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-swift/
- Content series:
- 4 part series (1 published, one queued, part 3?)

## July 29, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)

- kyle davis (AWS)

### Topics
- Keyspace & Contributor Summit
- User conference: https://valkey.io/events/keyspace-2025/
- Contributor Summit: https://valkey.io/events/contributor-summit-2025/
- CFP update: 23 for Keyspace
- Promoting Valkey Bundle on the website
- Potential Blog post: Valkey Bundle or Valkey: which should you use?
- Redis 7.2 is now unsupported

## July 22, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
- kyle (aws)

### Topics
- Keyspace & Contributor Summit
- Valkey 9 Release & Plan
- Key features
- Atomic Slot Migration
- HFE
- Clustered Databases
- Opening Meeting & Channel
- Tencent
- China friendly meeting?
- Greater China Events/Activities

## July 15, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)

1. Robert Luna (AWS)
2. Abe Taha (GCP)
3. Kyle Davis

### Topics

- Keyspace & Contributor Summit
- Program
- LauraconUS 07/29-07/30 / Denver USA - Anyone can attend?
- Community meetings
- Find a cadence for an open call with tech and non tech folks
- Not set agenda

## July 8, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Lori Lorusso (Percona)
2. nigel
3. Robert Luna (AWS)

### Topics
- Swift in Valkey
- Open Source Summit EU Plan
- Who wants to help? Glad to include.
- Contributor Summit (planning meeting)
- Open signup with review
- Not for users, for contributors only
- Sign up form TBD
- OSS EU Conference
- 10x10 (Booth smaller than OSS NA)
- Keyspace (User Conference)
- Name
- Schedule
- CFP Plan Timeline
- July 10 open
- July 24 close
- July 31 decisions
- CFP Reviewers Needed
- Website
- Save the date on Valkey.io
- LF will have sign up website
- LF will assist in marketing for attendees
- Staffing Plan
- Who is coming to what?
- OSS EU ticket allocation (limited)

## July 1, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. nigel
2. Brie
3. Libby
4. Trak
5. Andrey
6. Madelyn (Captain Valkey)
7. Mas
8. Roberto
9. Dmitry
10. Lori
11.

- Open Source Summit Recap
- Overall conference went well from a connection standpoint
- Things moved quickly with everyone there
- Breakfast went well. 80+ attendees, 100+ registrations. Some had to be turned away because of capacity
- Press coverage:
- Valkey mentioned in discussions with The Cube and with Swap?
- Following up with journalists to arrange briefings with Madelyn
- Maybe need some AI angles for Valkey to get more attention and press coverage
- Lower attendance overall, not a lot of terribly specific questions about Valkey
- Good for maintainers and contributors
- Probably better turnout and response at OSSEU; plan to angle around CRA and data sovereignty to appeal to EU audience; plan to demo benchmarking speed and preview Valkey 9.0
- RPi demo was compelling; highlight the speed in booth graphics;
- OSSEU messaging
- focus on speed as differentiator
- speed of innovation/ amount of innovation because it's open source and multi-vendor
- data sovereignty
- LF Contract Update
- New version received yesterday
- Had a meeting during OSSNA about points of concern for LF Media contract
- Revised version going in Slack
- Concerns addressed about length of contract and engagement post 1 year if there isn't a new contract
- Cost would be comprehensive for generating press releases and things of that nature
- 4 part blog series
- First blog draft delivered
- Need to ask if we can add more about Valkey to it
- Valkey YouTube Channel questions
- https://www.youtube.com/@valkeyproject
- Can we add this to valkey channel https://www.youtube.com/live/6m_zmjEPClE?feature=shared
- Discussion of adding Kafka functionality through a new module

## June 17, 2025 Agenda

### Attendees (Please add your name + organization below)
1. Lori Lorusso (Percona)
2. nigel (AWS)
3. Trak
4. Libby
5. Mas

### Open Source Summit NA
Booth P5
- 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 (Lori will follow up with interal comms for OSS NA & FINOS)
- Onsite technical peeps for press outreach - Madelyn, Viktor - Trak will be there for hand holding at all potential briefings/interviews
- Valkey: An Investment in Open Source - blog - in review
- Onsite Activations -
** brunch (Tuesday - 7 - 10am) - LF is promoting via email
** Raspberry Pi - one for giveaway