Advocacy and Outreach Sig Meeting - Feb 24, 2022

Attending: Alyssa, Jean-Marc, Mark Waite

Agenda:

  • Review Outreach programs [JMM]
    • Still need to do a PR for this
  • Remove Jenkins is the Way on jumbotron
    • We’ll replace this with GSoC and cdCon messaging
  • Jenkins is the Way site hosting and url
    • Damien suggested github pages, so no infrastructure or bandwidth to host the pages and it would still be inside jenkins.io domain.
    • MW will propose the above to the infra team to find a way to do it, and coordinate w Gavin to put it on a separate location and a separate github repository.
    • when we have new user stories we can put them there with pull requests, instead of doing the technique we’ve used in the past of taking things from a Google form, people will have to submit a pull request to share their story.
  • Jenkins GSoC online meetup: Feb 23, 2022 [completed]
  • GSoC: Next deliverables
    • Mentoring organization application submitted prior to deadline [completed]
    • March 7, 2022 - List of accepted mentoring organizations published
    • March 7 - April 3 - Potential GSoC contributors discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations
    • April 4 - 19: GSoC contributor application period
    • Question: May 12 GSoC contributor slot requests due from Org Admins (?)
    • GSoC mentor swag?
      • MW +1
      • JMM +1
  • cdCon:
    • Mark made 2 CFP submissions [completed]
    • MW Still committed to doing in person contributor summit. Jenkins has contributors in TX who may be able to help.
  • She Code Africa
    • MW to submit project ideas.
    • Several folks have expressed interest to be mentors. Ie Angelique Jard
    • Different this year, propose one of the mentees be project mgr working under MW’s mentorship. This isn’t coding but will be a useful skill
  • March 2022 JOM
    • Mark Waite still needs to schedule the Gradle Enterprise session
    • Mark Waite still needs to schedule the Launchable topic