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Publicity Cabal Minutes

January 22nd

Attendees

Angus Thomas Jaromir Coufal Jirka Tomasek Tzu-Mainn Chen Justin Clift Tomas Sedovic

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • blog post about TakeOff 2013 will be published today

Releases

  • Tim release page created, will publicize tomorrow if there are no objections
  • Next, do release pages for Deltacloud, ImageFactory, Conductor, Winged Monkey
    • Check to see if Deltacloud has their own release page; if so, just link to that
  • Talk with Website Cabal to see if release page can be linked to elsewhere in some logical fashion

Other

  • Jirka has uploaded two new Brno videos (Aeolus on Heat, Winged Monkey), we will blog

January 15th

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Matt Wagner
  • Tomas Sedovic

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • Red Hat Brno Dev Conference - confirm Justin's attendance
  • Open Source Data Center Conference 2013 - Justin Clift has an accepted talk, needs to confirm budget
  • Takeoff 2013 - Jaromir is presenting on Friday afternoon; tweet on Wednesday or Thursday

Sprints

  • Mainn will talk to Mike and Angus about upcoming Sprint work

Releases

  • Catch up with Justin on release planning

Other

  • presentations from Brno - Jirka has Michal Fojtik's Deltacloud presentation ready, will send link to Mainn
  • DevTools (Conductor on Ubuntu) - Mainn will ping Mike Orazi again
  • Amazon EC2 Outage - Matt has blog post ready; will publish on Wednesday
  • wiki has been moved to Github pages

January 8th, 2013

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Andy Fitzsimon
  • Justin Clift
  • Matt Wagner
  • Tomas Sedovic

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • FOSDEM - Martyn Taylor, Tomas Sedovic, Michal Fojtik have accepted talks; Mainn will blog
  • Red Hat Brno Dev Conference - Justin Clift, Jiri Stransky/Petr Blaho have accepted talks; Mainn will get talk info, blog pending confirmation of attendance
  • Open Source Data Center Conference 2013 - Justin Clift has an accepted talk, needs to confirm budget
  • Justin is creating a long term list of conferences for coming year
  • Tomas and Matt have submitted proposals for RH Summit

Sprints

  • Mainn will blog upcoming end-of-Sprint review, chase presenters for screencasts and summaries
  • Jirka will put screencast instructions up on wiki page

Releases

Other

  • presentations from Brno - more forthcoming
  • DevTools (Conductor on Ubuntu) - Mainn will ping Mike Orazi again
  • Amazon EC2 Outage - Matt will blog about this

December 18th, 2012

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • FOSDEM/Red Hat Brno Dev Conference - additional details, links to proposals added by Justin
  • Linux.conf.au - Andy sent details about accepted talk to Mainn, blog post created at http://blog.aeolusproject.org/aeolus-will-be-at-linux-conf-au-2013/
  • TakeOff 2013 - budget approved, Jaromir will send details to conference organizers and to Mainn
  • SCALE 11X - Richard Su submitted a proposal, should know by Dec 25th

Other

  • Imagefactory integration with Openstack - Tomas wrote a blog post at http://blog.aeolusproject.org/building-openstack-images-with-image-factory/

  • Sprint 1, Nov 2012 - Jirka has created a screencast of his presentation, will create wiki page detailing how to do so

  • Presentations from Brno - Jirka has created videos of presentations, will send links to Mainn

  • Aeolus Release - Will need to focus on this and coordinate with Release Cabal in January

  • DevTools (Conductor on Ubuntu) - Mainn will ping Mike Orazi again

  • Red Hat Summit - proposal notes are on Matt's whiteboard, due at end of year

  • we will be meeting on Thursday, January 3rd, to avoid missing two weeks

  • try to have fresh blog content appear over holidays

December 11th, 2013

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Francesco Vollero
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Andy Fitzsimon
  • Justin Clift
  • Matt Wagner
  • Tomas Sedovic

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • FOSDEM - proposals submitted, wait and see
  • Red Hat Brno Dev Conference - proposals submitted, wait and see
  • Linux.conf.au - Mainn will follow up with Andy/Dan about getting some information about their talk to publicize
  • SCALE 11X - Richard Su may have submitted a proposal, check and see
  • Red Hat Summit - proposal notes are on Matt's whiteboard, due at end of year

Sprints

  • Mainn will start tweeting
  • discussed various ways of video-cizing the end-of-Sprint reviews; consensus around having a Google hangout with presenters post-review, which can be recorded. Mainn will talk to presenters about setting this up.
  • talk to Website Cabal about separating out Sprint (and Release) blogs

Other

  • Presentations from Brno - Jirka sick today; follow upwith him to see if YouTube issues have been resolved
  • Aeolus Release - Justin will coordinate with Release Cabal to see which specific components are being released, and. . .
  • Debian and Aeolus - . . . pass this information on to the Debian developers
  • DevTools (Conductor on Ubuntu) - Mainn will ping Mike Orazi again
  • ImageFactory integration with OpenStack - Tomas will talk to Martyn Taylor about writing a blog post

December 4th, 2012

Attendees

  • Francesco Vollero
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Tomas Sedovic

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • FOSDEM - Tomas and Justin have already submitted proposals; Jaromir will be submitting a proposal about alchemy, Francesco about integrating Katello and Aeolus
  • Red Hat Brno Dev Conference - Tomas and Petr Blaho/Jirka Stransky have submitted; Justin may hvae
  • Linux.conf.au - Mainn will follow up with Andy/Dan about getting some information about their talk to publicize
  • Red Hat Summit - proposal notes are on Matt's whiteboard
  • TakeOff 2013 - Jaromir has a lightning talk about Alchemy accepted, waiting on budget approval

Other

  • Sprints - We will blog about Sprints at the start and the end. Mainn will follow up with Angus and Mike about what is being planned for each Sprint

  • Presentations from Brno - length of videos an issue; Jirka will have this resolved

  • Aeolus Release - upstream release in mid-January; start promoting in the beginning of January. TIM and OpenStack integration are the big items

  • Release (Other) - follow up with Justin to see if other components have upcoming release dates; Jaromir mentions that Alchemy is intended to be released monthly, but currently has a blocker

  • DevTools (Conductor on Ubuntu) - Mainn will talk to Mike Orazi

  • JRuby - Tomas has some ideas, will work with Francesco

  • Twitter - start twittering more to publicize our blog posts: beginning/end of sprint, etc

November 27th, 2012

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Andy Fitzsimon
  • Justin Clift
  • Matt Wagner
  • Francesco Vollero

Agenda Items

Conferences

  • University talk in Brno - Jaromir will send materials and notes to Mainn; Mainn will write up a blog post
  • FOSDEM - Francesco and Justin are preparing proposals. Look for the "FOSDEM 2013" entry at https://etherpad-aeolusproject.rhcloud.com/p/Aeolus_event_planning Other people are encouraged to submit proposals too.
  • Red Hat Brno Dev Conference - Mainn and Justin will work on crafting an email for the community
  • Linux.conf.au - Andy/Dan are invited to speak; will send notes for a blog post to Mainn, or blog about it themselves
  • Red Hat Summit - Matt will send a proposal

Other

  • Debian and Aeolus - Justin will 'rattle a few trees'
  • Presentations from Brno - Jirka and Mainn will work to coordinate blog posts with presentations and video; Matt will write up his notes for the wiki
  • Aeolus Release - upstream release in January; will need to think about promotion cycle when date firms up
  • Release (Other) - Justin will interrogate the Release Cabal regarding upcoming release dates for other Aeolus components
  • DevTools (Conductor on Ubuntu) - Mainn will talk to Mike Orazi

November 21st, 2012

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Andy Fitzsimon
  • Justin Clift
  • Matt Wagner
  • Tomas Sedovic
  • Francesco Vollero

Agenda Items

Election of a new Awesome

Justin and Tzu-Mainn agreed to share the responsibility. Tzu-Mainn will schedule the cabal meetings and manage the agenda. Justin will deal with issues relating to upcoming conferences etc..

Our Current Activities

  • Mike has got dev-tools to the point where Conductor can run on Ubuntu.
  • Jirka and Justin has continuing to work through the video from the Developer conference, preparing sections for upload to youtube.
  • Jarda is preparing to present Aeolus to a group of university students in Prague this Friday (23rd)

Social Media Review

  • Francesco has received feature requests via twitter. The requesters should be invited to open github issues
  • Angus will mail Nitesh to discuss closing down one of our two g+ accounts

Conference Agenda

Present Assets!

November 13th, 2012

Attendees

  • Angus Thomas
  • Jaromir Coufal
  • Jirka Tomasek
  • Tzu-Mainn Chen
  • Andy Fitzsimon
  • Justin Clift

Agenda Items

  • We reviewed, and accepted the proposal for the regular items for discussion (see above)
  • Angus proposed that:
    • Participants attempt to come to each meeting prepared with items for "Our current activities" and "News from Elsewhere"
    • We keep each meeting to 30 minutes
    • We aim for clear assignments of a specific task to a specific person
  • Angus proposed that this cabal should be open to anyone who wishes to attend, and does not require a formal membership list. The members are the people who show up.
  • No formal vote was taken, nor definitive agreement reached.
  • Advance notice of each meeting will go to the list. Last-minute notice, and general preparations etc. in #aeolus on Freenode
  • We discussed the best way to maintain records for this cabal, along with presentations etc., without reaching a clear decision.

Actions

  • We'll select an Awesome for this Cabal at the next meeting- Angus to arrange
  • Angus will update this page with a list of the social network accounts which the project maintains
  • Andy is contacting the organizers of the miniconf at http://linux.conf.au/ to propose a presentation on Aeolus
  • Mainn, with Matt, is going to begin gathering the presentation materials that we currently have
  • Justin is going to look for well-maintained lists of upcoming Cloud/OSS conferences
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