As per the SIG reporting guide, the Promo SIG offers its quarterly report for the period from Nov 1, 2018 through Feb 1, 2019
Purpose
The CentOS Promotion SIG exists to provide promotion, and consistent messaging, of CentOS, both at physical events and online.
Membership Update
In the reporting period, we have had participation from a handful of people. We are always looking for additional community participation in all aspects of this SIG, including, but not limited to, helping out at events.
Anyone interested in participating in the Promo SIG should subscribe to the mailing list.
Activity
The past quarter has been a slow one in terms of actual event participation.
We had a presence at the Supercomputing event SC18 in Dallas, Texas, where Rich Bowen interviewed some of the student cluster competition teams. Those videos may be seen on the CentOS YouTube channel.
We have also been working towards several upcoming events.
On February 1st, we will be holding the annual CentOS Dojo at FOSDEM, in Brussels. At the time of this writing, we have 125 people registered for the event. A followup event report will be posted here in the next 2 weeks.
In April, we are planning to hold a Dojo at ORNL, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. The schedule is coming together and we should be announcing more details immediately after FOSDEM.
Later in 2019, we plan to hold dojos at DevConf.US, and DevConf.IN. No details are available for either of these events, but should be announced in the next month.
Each month we publish the community newsletter. These may be read on this blog, and are listed in the wiki.
We are planning various things around the upcoming 15th anniversary of the CentOS project, including birthday cakes at various of our Dojos, and a series of interviews with people who have been around the project for many years. We hope to record some of these interviews at FOSDEM, and others both online, and at upcoming events during the year. If you would like to be interviewed, please contact Rich on the promo mailing list.
This has been a slow quarter for social media, as November and December often are. However, we continue to post content to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Reddit. With the announced retirement of Google+, we have discontinued posting content there.