2025 February 20: Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting

Contributing Advocacy and Outreach
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Hi All,

The Advocacy & Outreach meeting will begin in 1 hr. Meeting agenda and call-in info are located at Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG. Meeting Agenda - Google Docs.

Meeting note and recording will be shared in this thread as well as in the gdoc after the meeting.

Thank you,
alyssa

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

Agenda:

  • GSoC 2025 - mentoring org application submitted!
    • AT will publish an online meetup for project ideas overview once we are accepted, Feb 27, 2025.
    • Project ideas overview JOM: March 5,6
    • 12 mentors
  • Contributor spotlight stories:
    • Sacha - AT will reach out to Sacha
    • Meg - AT will reach out to Meg
    • Tyler Croy - no response
    • Mic Neale - followed up, said ‘yes’ but haven’t seen submission
    • Oleg - said ‘yes’
    • Shlomo & Yaroslav - AT to reach out
  • Our WHY for 2025: Combat competition envy
    • Award opportunities…Thank you BV!
    • InfoWorld Bossie - July/August timeframe
    • SD Times 100 -
    • Geek Choice award - deadline Jan 3, 2025
    • Duke’s Choice award - Jenkins won in 2008. This is now an Oracle’s
  • Upcoming event: SCaLE Mar 6-9, 2025
    • Mark, AT, Basil will be staffing the booth
  • Strengthen community efforts updates