2025 April 17: Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting

We will be starting this meeting in 1 hour.

Call in info, meeting agenda, meeting notes and recording can be found in the below gdoc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5dTSqe56chFhDSGNfg_MCy-LmseUs_S3ys_tg60sTs/edit?usp=sharing

Meeting notes:

Attendees: AT, Kris Stern, Bruno Verachten, Kevin Martens

Agenda:

  • GSoC 2025
    • 211 total submissions received.
    • About 160+ valid submissions after initial screening.
    • Need mentors to submit their grades by this Friday.
    • Interviews ?
      • Not all projects will need interviews if there is a clear chose for the Lead Mentor of the project
    • Mentor and Org Admin meetings next week to discuss grades & nail down selections. AT to send out reminder
    • Deadline to submit rankings to Google - April 29.
    • Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced - May 8
  • Contributor awards nominations closed.
  • Contributor spotlight stories:
    • JFrog - interview to be scheduled (AT)
    • In the queue for publish: Sacha, Ilan
    • Meg - no story in form. AT to check in email.
    • AWS - TBD
  • Semaphore msg
    • KS - have ideas to leverage our existing assets (success stories)
    • KM: their site looks like a business. Enhance our success stories. Spend our time to keep Jenkins modernize is more viable
    • BV: spend more time on other important projects