Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting - February 9, 2023

Attending: Alyssa, Kris Stern, Jean-Marc Meessen, Mark Waite, Bruno Verachten

Action items:

  • Submit mentoring org application Feb 6. [DONE]
  • Jan newsletter published. Thanks to all SIG chairs [DONE]

Agenda:

  • FOSDEM’23: Recap [JMM, BV]
    • Recap blog post in progress. Thank you Bruno for the idea.
    • 4K stickers snatched up (stop the war, LBGTQ stickers were much appreciated)
    • 8K in attendance
    • BV’s hardware attracted a lot of interest. Good interests by attendees
    • JMM had a lot of discussion around GSoC. In EMEA this program isn’t much known
    • BV: OSS community just wanted to help each other.
    • Improvement for next year:
      • work on our messaging: what’s new in Jenkins
      • Bigger t-shirt sizes: M and larger
      • How to engage conversations, lots of convo on what’s the future of Jenkins? We had to improvise the conversation to users
    • Outdated roadmap on jenkins.io site was not a hindrance, but no help either
      • Mark Waite submit the roadmap update pull requests
    • Rotating slide deck on the screen at the booth
      • Mostly showing the UI proposal on separate tab
      • MiniJen cluster on another tab
      • Switched browser tabs to change presentation
    • Met many interesting users (CERN, home automation, etc.)
      • Embedded use is building with Jenkins but not deploying / testing
    • Face to face contacts were great
      • Olivier V, Oleg N, Alex B, and more
  • GSoC
    • We are planning the next phase - office hours, assuming Jenkins will be accepted into the program (announcement Feb 22). First office hour is estimated for Thurs Feb 23 where mentors discuss project ideas in detail.
  • Jenkins project not part of She Code Africa Contributhon 2023
    • Mark Waite needs to focus on Google Summer of Code 2023
    • Mark has notified Zainab Daodu that we won’t be participating
  • cdCon: May 8-9 in Vancouver, Canada
    • CFP is open, closes: Friday, February 10
    • There will be a Jenkins awards
      • Most Valuable Advocate
      • Most Valuable Contributor
      • Security MVP
      • AI: We’ll need to create a PR, tweet, LI for nominations
        • Nominations open: Wednesday, February 8
        • Nominations close: Friday, March 3
        • Voting opens: Wednesday, March 8
        • Voting closes: Tuesday, March 28
  • SCaLE 20X - (March 9-12, 2023) booth planning in progress
    • Mark bring a cluster of Pi’s to have Jenkins locally
    • Slide deck presentation
  • Announcement tweet for today’s security advisory
    • Command line git as bundled in our controller and agent container images
    • Mark Waite propose the tweet and LinkedIn posts
  • Bruno speaking about open source & Jenkins at a local university at 1PM UTC on Tuesday the 14th.