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.
On 08/10/18 17:51, Rich Bowen wrote:
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.
That sounds like some great ideas ! :)
WRT "theme" refresh, I'd say that a common theme across all the web UIs/apps we have would be good, but, while being done for the "15 years", it shouldn't really in itself have that "15 years" string really in the design. It would rather need a specific logo maybe on the website, but the theme should be still working after 2019, otherwise we'd end up with something like the "new design" theme that we used everywhere (like even on the roll-up for Fosdem) but for several years :-)
Some Web UIs that we can refresh (or even do as nothing applied so far for some) : - www.centos.org - wiki.centos.org - mailman (lists.centos.org) - common headers for httpd servers serving content (mirror,cloud,vault,buildlogs,people, etc) - forums (www.centos.org/forums and fr.centos.org but I'd like to unify soon that somewhere) - ipsilon/idp (id.centos.org) - blog (blog.centos.org) - koji/cbs (cbs.centos.org) - mantis (bugs.centos.org) - docs (docs.centos.org)
And probably others
A couple of updates:
* We have a Happy 15th Birthday cake planned for the Dojo at FOSDEM.
* I have started a list of people who are available to interview about the "old days", and intend to do some interviews over the next few months. Historical perspective is great, but I'd also like to have some forward-looking stuff in there - as much as we can do that given our dependency on the upstream.
* I hope to made a small number of commemorative stickers to bring to FOSDEM. These will be mostly request-only, rather than just put out on the table. So, ask me when you see me!
--Rich
On 10/8/18 11:51 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
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.
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Fabian Arrotin -
Rich Bowen