# Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting - February 9, 2023

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/advocacy-outreach-sig-meeting-february-9-2023/5700>\
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**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/advocacy-outreach-sig-meeting-february-9-2023/5700 "2023-02-09T19:33:20Z")\
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/c/cac1ddb31f071cc6211162883dc27961af6567c8.jpeg "Advocacy and Outreach SIG - February 9, 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG67gLwbuo8)

Attending: Alyssa, Kris Stern, [Jean-Marc Meessen](mailto:jmeessen@cloudbees.com), 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RF9yDFc4muf-dU9KFxXTR0BqWJPbhcLs9-mNJVyhjFk/edit?usp=sharing) 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  - Outdated roadmap on [jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) site was not a hindrance, but no help either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](https://community.jenkins.io/t/cdcon-2023-in-vancouver-canada-may-8-9/4956) in Vancouver, Canada
  - [CFP is open](https://cd.foundation/blog/2023/01/11/cdcon-2023-call-for-papers-now-open/?utm_content=234235239&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-1093255184044634112), 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](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/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](https://www.sciences.univ-artois.fr/) at 1PM UTC on Tuesday the 14th.