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Agenda / Notes
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Rich Bowen brings a stakeholder review as the CentOS community manager:
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ju0fDUQinILpOCCoZKPQs6MHwgpk90XZS-NJ-kpuhg0/edit#slide=id.g4ef029a052_0_11
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ACTION:  Why do we participate in particular events?  Rich needs to know what we care about and why.
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ACTION:  Where does the Board want Rich to go this coming year?
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2018 list - FOSDEM, SuperComputering Asia (Singapore), FOSSAsia, Red hat Summit, Berlin Buzzwords, ISC Supercomputing …
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2019 tentative list - ORNL; Devconf; SCALE …
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Dojos
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FOSDEM is done, happy 15 years!
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ORNL (April)
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Locally organized (Chris Leighton), promoted, etc.
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Devconf.IN - tentative, need space at event
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Devconf.US - confirmed (August 14)
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Lyon (October, tentative) -- with Open Source Summit
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Dojos overall
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Process & budget has been moved from prototype to repeatable process that has been used by a few people now
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Meetups
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No progress made in 2018.
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Four groups exist but aren’t active
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May not make sense of itself
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Maybe participate in existing Linux groups within Meetup space
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Social media
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Med to large groups at - twitter, facebook, linkedin, youtube, reddit, centos forum
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@centosproject - 1800 to 5500 today
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Sentiment analysis trends positive toward the project
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Blogging
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31 posts in 2017 (2 to 3 pre month)
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54 in 2018
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12 of 104 on pace in 2019 (if can maintain)
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Expanded authorship
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Most SIG leads are producing content for the blog, such as promoting their work around releases
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Quality is high
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SIG work this year
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Analysis on activity, looking for inactive
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SIGs are beginning to issue reports, high quality content
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SIG meetup at CERN
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Proactive about contacting upstream projects not involved in SIG process.
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Newsletter
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Restarted after a decade, started in Summer 2018, issue every month since then
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A few volunteers for translation so far but not happened yet
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2019 goals
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More people engaged in authoring of newsletter, especially technical content
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Bootstrap a lightweight ‘ambassador’ program -- send people to events that Rich cannot attend.  Budget, canned messaging, to send to a regional event.
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Seeking non-RH involvement in SIGs.
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More cross-promotion within SIGs
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Discussion / Q&A
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KB - let’s message into G+ to make sure people find us from there
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KB - Dojos came up from desire to bootstrap local communities, but it’s hard to get it locally organized.  What is the opportunity around demographics?
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What does CentOS do for different groups?  Sysadmin communities, small infra setups -- installer optimization, spam management, etc.
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What is our unified CentOS Next (8) message?
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Lot of internal product developer relationships being worked currently
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Building SIG content to use as an ambassador at events
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Smoothing out the Twitter spikes with more regular engagement?
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Where to be this year?
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Developers are interesting but hard to get into
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Automation tooling ci/cd?
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Rich will need a technical partner for some of these events
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Open discussion post Rich’s presentation
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He’s doing a great job, people are saying so
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Sysadmin v. cloud admin -- we get traffic but involvement?
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Rasp Pi is a good story but not promoted
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Could we deliver a compelling platform into the Apache Foundation?
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SIGs
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George Dunlap -- how do I justify to my manager that this is worth spending time on?
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Value of a SIG & community driven by a vendor
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Variation for e.g.s ISVs, IHVs
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Vs. ‘come join your users’
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How is that for e.g. Facebook?
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