2025 Sept 4: Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting

Contributing Advocacy and Outreach
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Hello,

The Advocacy & Outreach SIG meeting will begin in 1 hour.

Agenda, call in access is at Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG. Meeting Agenda - Google Docs

Meeting notes and recording will be shared below after the meeting.

Thanks,
alyssa

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Attendees: Alyssa, Raunak, Bruno, Kevin, Kris,

Agenda:

  • GSoC

    • Final presentation recording is here
    • Evaluations:
      • AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources [eval due 9/8]
      • Improving Plugin Modernizer [eval due 9/8]
      • Extensions:
        • Improving Tekton Client Plugin for Jenkins [eval due 10/12]
        • Complete build retooling of jenkins.io [eval due 10/26]
        • Jenkins Domain specific LLM based on actual Jenkins usage using ci.jenkins.io data [eval due 11/2]
      • KM: suggest 10 min preso and may be 10 mins for Q&A afterwards. Extend meetup to 1hr 10 min

  • Contributor spotlight:

    • September story: Allan’s story posted
    • October: Ivan Calvo
    • KM:suggest GSoC mentors Q&A post. Kevin will start draft of Q&A
    • Nov & Dec: GSoc contributor stories

  • Raunak’s new contributor proposal

    • Onboarding for new comers, make Jenkins more inclusive by improving the onboarding of newcomers. Thinking to organize a weekly or bi-weekly meeting for newcomers, where we will be explaining and talking about what is Jenkins, how can one start contributing. Inspo. Navigating through the whole, plugin code base, just an overview of all the repositories, it’s, overwhelming for beginners.

  • Adv & Outreach members think it’s a good idea, questions for Raunak to think about are sustainability, time to plan & host, timezone differences. We’d be willing to help out in anyways we can (content, speakers, etc). But be aware there may be low showup rate. Commit is key. Have a stock of things to talk about (maybe content up to 12 months). Maybe, before starting anything grab some data, grab some content, invite some people, test the water to see if they would come. When you have enough material then you can start. Maybe start on a monthly basis. Have structured content for each session would be helpful, things that are beginner friendly.

  • Hacktoberfest planning

    • BV started planning doc for review

  • Election

    • Nomination end 9/22
    • AT AI: social