Starting this discussion well in advance so that we have plenty of time
to figure out what we want to do.
Looking back five years:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-promo/2014-July/001382.html
I'm hoping to do many of the same things that were suggested last time,
including:
* Birthday cakes at each Dojo event in 2019, starting at FOSDEM. (I'm
investigating adding this to our lunch at the Brussels Dojo.)
* Commemorative sports jersey in the style of the one in the above email
thread.
* Retrospective blog series, including thoughts from the project
founders, statistics over the years, and stories from users about how
their use of CentOS has evolved over the last 15 years.
* Possibly a refresh of our web site design (including a consistent
theme across wiki, forums, blog), incorporating a "15 years" message of
some kind.
If you'd like to help with this effort, or have other suggestions,
please speak up. The actual date of the birthday is 14 May 2019, but I
think we want to make it a year-long celebration, rather than a single
day event.
--
Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com
@CentOSProject // @rbowen
859 351 9166
We are pleased to announce that we'll be holding a CentOS Dojo at Oak
Ridge National Laboratories, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on April 16th, 2019.
ORNL is home to the fastest supercomputer in the world. It's also home
to a huge quantity of CentOS, OpenStack, Ceph, Gluster, and many other
open source projects that we love.
We are accepting talk submissions now:
https://goo.gl/forms/UBjcVbaqhwSg69Qj1
Please have a look at the schedule from our most recent Dojos -
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/CERN2018 ,
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/DevConfUS2018 - for some idea of
what kinds of talks are typically popular with our audiences.
We are also looking for help connecting with area businesses, both to
encourage them to attend, and also to submit their interesting use cases
as presentations.
If you'd like to help with the event in any way, please let me know, or
come discuss it on the CentOS-Promo mailing list.
--
Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com
@CentOSProject // @rbowen
859 351 9166