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CentOS Connect volunteering
by Shaun McCance 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hi folks, We could use some volunteers for staffing CentOS Connect at FOSDEM next month. If you're interested, we have a staffing grid up on the planning page here: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-events/-/issues/1 Thanks, Shaun

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Promo SIG meeting, January 5
by Shaun McCance 11 Dec '22

11 Dec '22

Hi all, I've scheduled a Promo SIG meeting for January 5 at 17:00 UTC. Here's the Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/uua-wjrc-gwj We'll discuss meeting times and cadence for future meetings in the meeting. I'll get an agenda put together after I get back from holidays. Cheers, Shaun

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CentOS web+docs working day
by Shaun McCance 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

Hi all, We're going to have a web+docs working day in Brussels on February 6, the day after FOSDEM. I'll get a planning page up soon where you can add your name if you're coming. In the meantime, if you want to come, plan your travel accordingly. Also, don't forget that we're hosting CentOS Connect on February 3, the day before FOSDEM. It's free, but please register. https://connect.centos.org/ Thanks, Shaun McCance CentOS Community Architect Red Hat Open Source Program Office

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Proposed promo meeting in Jan
by Shaun McCance 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

Hi everyone, There's a lot happening in Promo land. CentOS Connect at FOSDEM, FOSDEM itself, potential public budget, new logo and artwork, web revamp, docs work, et cetera. I really want to set up a monthly meeting cadence, like most other SIGs have. But I've just plain run out of time for December. So I'm going to get on the January ball before the holidays. Based on the time zones I know people in, and the calendars of Red Hatters I can see, I'm proposing a meeting on Thursday, January 5, at 17:00 UTC. That's 5pm in England, 6pm Central Europe, noon for me, 11am for Amy, 9am US west coast. If this works well, we can use this slot on first Thursdays. We can decide that in January. I'd prefer to do a video call, but if people prefer IRC, that's fine. Feedback please. Otherwise I'll just book it. Thanks, Shaun

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CentOS Promo SIG quarterly report for November newsletter
by Shaun McCance 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Dear Promo SIG, As documented in the wiki, we request that each SIG reports quarterly about the accomplishments of their SIG during the previous quarter. (You are receiving this because you are listed in the Promo SIG ACL on accounts.centos.org. If that is not accurate, you should take it up with your SIG lead. See https://accounts.centos.org/groups/) As you may be aware, your SIG - the Promo SIG - is on the list for November reports. See "Reporting" section towards the bottom of https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup I encourage you to have a look at the report produced by the Cloud SIG as an example of what we're looking for. It's not onerous - just an overview of releases and community activity over the preceding few months. https://blog.centos.org/2019/01/centos-cloud-sig-quarterly-report/ Reports can be submitted either directly to me, or, if you prefer, you can submit it as a blog post on blog.centos.org. See https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Promo/Blog for details about posting to the CentOS blog. The report will be included in the November community newsletter. As such I need it by Monday November 7, at the very latest. Thanks! Shaun McCance CentOS Community Architect Red Hat Open Source Program Office

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Proposal for a public budget process
by Shaun McCance 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

Hi promo friends, I've been working on a proposal to put the Promo SIG in charge of some budget for events. The always current proposal is on HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@shaunm/r1z7Y4Tyi Snapshot of the markdown pasted here for your convenience: # CentOS Promo Events This is a draft proposal to give the CentOS Promo SIG decision-making power over a portion of the CentOS budget for events. To ensure some authority and accountability, the Promo SIG would appoint from among its members a Promo Event Committee (PEC). ## Budget At the beginning of each calendar year, the PEC would set a budget for the year. This can be done by listing interesting events and estimating expenses, but funding requests would not have to be tied to the specific events used for budgeting. Some padding should be added to accommodate additional events. The PEC should engage the entire Promo SIG, as well as the wider community, when creating a budget. The PEC budget would come out of the Red Hat budget for the CentOS Community Architect, part of the Open Source Program Office. The Community Architect would not use the PEC budget for their own travel expenses, and they may have expenses outside the PEC. ## Expenses Expenses would be in three categories: * Sponsorship -- Sponsoring events for publicity or a booth * Swag -- Creating new swag or shipping swag to events * Travel -- Paying travel and lodging (not meals or other expenses) to send people to events All requests for CentOS budget should go thru the PEC, including travel funding for Red Hat associates (but excluding the Community Architect's own travel). ## Process The PEC would create a GitLab project and track requests as issues (propose gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/events). Each funding request would be filed as an issue, and we would have templates to ensure we get all the information we need. The PEC would then decide on the issue with two upvotes (or by a different process the PEC decides on), and the Community Architect would handle the logistics. The Community Architect retains the right to veto if Red Hat is unable to provide funding, and the Community Architect may also fast track a yes. This process is intended to be public, but if anybody needs some level of privacy, they may file the issue as private and explain their reasoning. Requests to fund the travel of employees of governments and state-owned agencies must be approved by Red Hat Legal, which the Community Architect would coordinate. Approvals for these cases are likely to be extremely rare. We would use a file in this repository to track budget against approved and actual expenses. After the event, the requestor or a sponsored person would be required to write an event report. (This requirement might be waived for small swag shipments.) We would provide a template for event reports.

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Enabling support for multiple authors in the CentOS blog
by Neal Gompa 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

Hey all, Davide and I discovered yesterday evening that the CentOS blog doesn't support declaring multiple authors for a blog post. We were wondering if a WordPress extension could be installed to add support for this? I'm not sure what the Fedora Magazine WordPress instance uses, but a quick search indicated that this plugin[1] might work for this purpose? [1]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/ -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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DevConf Dojo Event Report
by Shaun McCance 24 Sep '22

24 Sep '22

We held a CentOS Dojo on August 17 at Boston University. This Dojo was colocated with DevConf.US. It was our first in-person event since the pandemic, and we tried to include remote participants. In addition to live streaming, we relayed questions from remote participants. The recordings are available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usWZhLnJyA&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDP1RLkzZmLbp69… We had two talk lengths: long 40 minute talks and short 20 minute talks. This worked well in general, but we should consider tweaking the timing in the future. With one exception, the long talks all went over, ranging from 41 minutes to 51 minutes. (The exceptoin was one we deliberately put at the end because we didn't know how long it would take.) The short talks went both ways, ranging from 16 to 24 minutes. The short talks had 10 minutes between them, whereas the long talks had 5 minutes between them. I did this only to make everything line up on quarter hours. This could use adjustment in the future. We did, however, manage to finish on time. We used the Terrace Lounge in the George Sherman Union at Boston University. This room worked very well for our needs. It was set up for 50 people in a classroom setup. It had a small entrance hallway where people could grab coffee and snacks without disturbing the talks, and it opened to an outdoor terrace where people could get fresh air. We had optional (but strongly recommended) registration for in-person attendance, and we didn't check registrations at the door, so we don't know exactly how many people attended or how many walk-ins there were. I did periodic counts throughout the day. We usually had 20 to 25 people in the room, and probably had around 30 total people. Online participation had around 20 total people, with 10 to 15 online at any given time. We did a quick survey for online participants to get stickers mailed. That survey had 11 respondents. The A/V setup was great. The HDMI feed from presenters' laptops was fed into a splitter so it appeared on-screen and was available for the live stream. There was a nice camera at the back of the room. The video feeds from the camera and the presenter were fed into a simple HDMI switch, which then gave us HDMI to plug into the streaming laptop. This allowed us to switch between a room view and the slides. Boston University provided us a laptop to use for streaming, but I used my personal laptop because I already had it logged into the right accounts. The audio from the presenters' mics was also added to the HDMI for the live stream. We should try to replicate this setup at future events, even if other venues don't provide all the equipment for us. We streamed on YouTube. This was extremely easy to set up, easy to promote, and easy for people to join. I feel like it worked very well. However, there was a suggestion to use Hopin in the future. We've used Hopin for our all-virtual Dojos, and one of the nice things about it is that it gives remote participants a virtual hallway track where they can video chat, which is something we definitely lacked with the YouTube stream. On the other hand, a Hopin event requires more setup, and participants have to register. We should give serious thought to our streaming platform next time. I'm overall very happy with the turnout, with the high quality of the talks, and with the audience engagement.

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publishing a blog post: CentOS Automotive SIG, First Year in Review
by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

Hi all - I have this ready to go, but wanted to coordinate in case anything else is immediately pending. It is set to publish tomorrow 8am EDT, please let me know if it needs to be moved. https://blog.centos.org/?p=2858&preview=true thanks Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | jefro(a)redhat.com Red Hat Office of the CTO | Sr. Principal Community Architect, Automotive

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CentOS Hyperscale SIG in-person meetup announcement
by Davide Cavalca 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Hey Shaun, could you please include an announcement for the Hyperscale SIG meetup in the next CentOS newsletter? Here's the blurb, feel free to edit as you see fit: The CentOS Hyperscale SIG will be holding an in-person meetup on August 16th, 2022 at Boston University. This is the same venue hosting CentOS Dojo on August 17th and DevConf.us on August 18th-20th. The meetup is open to everybody interested -- you don't have to be a member of the SIG to attend, and we'd welcome participation from anyone interested in this space. The event will be held from 9am to 5pm in the GSU conference room 310 at Boston University. While this is an in-person event, we will do our best to setup a conference bridge so that remote participants can attend and interact as well. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/centos-hyperscale-sig-meetup-dojodevconfus-202… to help with the event planning. I'll post this to -devel shortly as well. Thanks! Cheers Davide

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