A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the CentOS Stream 9 launch messaging happen. ESPECIALLY those who helped craft the blog post.

We are live with the messaging, as of Friday morning. (Not ideal timing, but we will be re-amplifying today.)

SJVN did a nice article on it - https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hats-centos-stream-9-linux-arrives/ - and used a lot of the phrases from the article, which I was very pleased with.

And the website looks *amazing*. A HUGE thank you to Alain and Fabian for that. Just ... wow.

I will be sending out the December newsletter tomorrow, promoting this further. That's being drafted at https://hackmd.io/tva9SEQvRlWkzPmuJ-XBSw?edit today, if you want to help.

The conversation on r/CentOS and r/Linux was *mostly* positive. There were, of course, some trolls that emerged from their caves, but for the most part it was people who understood the message, and were largely positive about it. So that was nice, too.

Onward and upward. Shosholoza!

--Rich