Attending: Bruno, Mark, Kris, Kevin
Agenda:
- Contributor spotlight project
- First contributor spotlight story in PR
- Need to confirm the contributor site is live
- Discussed with Alyssa yesterday and will plan to publish every two weeks
- Highlight a contributor without overloading
- Gives some time for publication
- 10 responses already collected, several months of content
- Kris has been a great help assembling the final site
- Prototype site is linked from the GitHub repository
- Kris submitted infra help desk to integrate site build and deploy
- Thank you to the infra team for help to implement the Contributor Spotlight page.
- First contributor spotlight story in PR
- GSoC
- CDF is writing a blogpost on GSoC Application Guide for mentoring orgs. They’ve asked us (org admins) to review and provide input as they like to have it posted by mid next week.
- Kris is preparing to submit a pull request to add other ideas to www.jenkins.io
- Kris already did the work for Mark’s ideas
- Need a focused effort to attract mentors
- No projects without mentors
- Post the ideas quickly, recruit mentors immediately after ideas are visible
- Continue collecting ideas
- Tweets/LinkedIn guidance
- Jenkins governance board discussed if we would be better with some policy
- Guidance from the board suggested that developers are more interested in developer topics than in social topics
- How to write tests is more interesting that “Happy New Year”.
- Guidance from the board suggested that developers are more interested in developer topics than in social topics
- Focus on more developer technical tweets - This is where we need everyone’s help to flag and alert us of relevant articles in Advocacy and Outreach Gitter channel.
- Two tweets in the last two days with technical topics
- Tweet every blog post
- LinkedIn is the better place for social posting on technical topics
- Will steer away from US only social posts. Approaching holidays:
- Happy Holidays (December 25 )
- New Year
- Do we do 2 separate tweets or 1 tweet around December 25 “Happy Holidays, and All the Best for a Prosperous New Year.” ?
- Chinese New Year (Feb 10, 2024)
- Focus all posts on Jenkins things related to the topic of the post
- Happy holidays - Jenkins end of year, two weeks without a release
- Chinese New Year
- After the contributor summit in Brussels, could use Chinese New Year as a way to share the results
- Repost policy for interesting articles
- Propose it in the gitter channel, repost more widely
- Jenkins governance board discussed if we would be better with some policy
- DevOps Dozen award nomination
- Jenkins made it as finalist in the 2023 DevOps Dozen Awards for Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project.
- Help us to get the word out! Encourage your friends and colleagues to VOTE for Jenkins! (Go to item #9 to vote for Jenkins)
- So many options, can I skip voting on the other?
- Mark only voted for people he knew
- Next week is Thanksgiving in the US, expect some slow down and delay.