[CentOS-promo] CentOS Stream 9 "launch" promotion

Sat Nov 27 13:43:26 UTC 2021
Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com>


On 11/26/21 12:10, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting more and more questions about the status of CentOS Stream 9. 
> IIUC, we can consider CS9 as released technically and just working on 
> the announcement or promotion part. Is that correct?When will this 
> launch be done?


Yes. that is correct.

As to when the launch will be done, the answer is in the rest of this 
thread, but basically boils down to "as soon as we can get all of the 
parts ready." I'm *really* hoping for next week.


> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 4:41 PM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rbowen at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Ok, here's what I've got for an initial draft of this page:
> 
>     https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw?view#Page-Content
>     <https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw?view#Page-Content> (Scroll
>     down
>     to the "Page Content" heading.)
> 
>     It's very lightweight, and we can, of course, update it over time and
>     expand it to more than a single page if desired.
> 
>     Your thoughts/comments/edits are appreciated.
> 
>     --Rich
> 
>     On 11/2/21 09:47, Rich Bowen wrote:
>      > Status update:
>      >
>      > We have a great blog post drafted at
>      > https://hackmd.io/@forbushd/BJC9Q9DSY
>     <https://hackmd.io/@forbushd/BJC9Q9DSY> which looks to me like it's
>      > (almost?) ready to go. Can we place have several of you review
>     this and
>      > +1 it and/or make any edits/comments?
>      >
>      > Personally, I think it's exactly the right length and depth of
>     detail,
>      > with links to all of the right places.
>      >
>      > Next, we need to put together the content for centos.org/stream9
>     <http://centos.org/stream9> which,
>      > because it can be updated going forward, can be launched when it is
>      > "good enough". I will be working on it this week, and would
>     appreciate
>      > any contributions to that process. I'll be doing that here:
>      > https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw
>     <https://hackmd.io/1K3sbGAyQjSZ1sg4VJBZbw>
>      >
>      > --Rich
>      >
>      > On 10/13/21 14:24, Rich Bowen wrote:
>      >> We are now at the point in the CentOS Stream 9 process that we
>     need to
>      >> do some kind of a "launch" promotional effort, so that people are
>      >> aware of the work that is being done here beyond the "Coming Soon"
>      >> message on the download page.
>      >>
>      >> If you are willing to participate in this effort, we will be
>      >> coordinating on the centos-promo mailing list -
>      >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo
>     <https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo> - so if you're
>      >> not subscribed, this is a good time to do so.
>      >>
>      >> We will be initially producing two things:
>      >>
>      >> * A blog post for blog.centos.org <http://blog.centos.org> (and
>     possibly one for a redhat.com <http://redhat.com>
>      >> property as well)
>      >> * Web content that will go at centos.org/stream9
>     <http://centos.org/stream9>
>      >>
>      >> Initial notes about what we're creating are here:
>      >> https://hackmd.io/RkOiWNmIQcWSubQ3emY0lg
>     <https://hackmd.io/RkOiWNmIQcWSubQ3emY0lg>
>      >>
>      >> We would like to produce this content within the next month -
>     end of
>      >> November latest. Launching this content would be coordinated with
>      >> launching the new visual/design work for our various websites.
>      >>
>      >> So ... y'all come help!
> 
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