# Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting - July 27, 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Advocacy and Outreach\ **Tags:** meeting\ **Created:** [July 27, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/advocacy-outreach-sig-meeting-july-27-2023/8726 "2023-07-27T22:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alyssat](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/alyssat/32/132_2.png) [@alyssat](https://community.jenkins.io/u/alyssat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/advocacy-outreach-sig-meeting-july-27-2023/8726/1 "2023-07-27T22:41:19Z")
[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/2/22c62a90f0715e868833091275d15a4556d78ba7.jpeg "Advocacy & Outreach SIG Meeting - July 27, 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPE_pjf9z8I) Attending: Alyssa, Kris Stern, Jean-Marc Meessen, Bruno Verachten Action items: AT to follow up w/ GSoC contributors to drive blog post after JOM. [completed] Agenda: - GSoC updates: - Midterm[JOM recap blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/07/22/gsoc-2023-midterm/) published. Thank you Kris! - AT to do a tweet - We are now in second half of coding phase - JMM will set up 1:1 time with contributors and mentors - Set up date for the next JOM - final demo - Pending: revisit Mentor checklist in August - Upcoming milestone: - Aug 28, 2023 Final week: GSoC contributors submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation (standard coding period) - Sep 4, 2023 Mentors submit their final evaluation deadline - Sep 5, 2023 Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2023 announced - [DevOps World Tour 2023:](https://www.devopsworld.com/) - Mark is on the agenda to speak for the US locations: - “Business benefits of open source contribution” - AT will ask for a discount code for the Jenkins community. - July newsletter: Making good progress