Hello all, I've been thinking about a few different ways we might want to try finding new users and contributors, so that our community can continue to grow. These three suggestions can be done right now: 1. GitHub We already have gcompat and libucontext mirrored to GitHub. If we make a clear note that we don't accept pull requests on GitHub, it may provide us more exposure if we have a mirror of our package repository there. This is used by projects like LLVM and Gentoo already. Since we are not using GitHub as a development platform, but instead only for exposure, I think it would not be too harmful. Additionally, we can disable the issue tracker and wiki tabs so that nobody accidentally tries to put information on GitHub; instead, we can redirect them to our actual infrastructure. 2. Better documentation Back in the 1.0-BETA1 release cycle, we had a real focus on writing documentation. However, with all of the important fixes and updates and changes we had to handle, including migrating our infrastructure at least twice, our documentation focus has waned somewhat. I believe we may be able to gain more exposure with better documentation. It would definitely differentiate us from a lot of other distros. Plus, now that we are using GitLab 12, we can have GitLab automatically build a documentation site from Git. This could allow us to accept external contributions for documentation much easier than the system we have now. 3. Relaunch Web site I feel like our current Web site, while it has served its purpose, is underserving us right now. The design could use some help, and the content flow doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If we could launch a better site, and one that talks about what our strengths are, we might be able to have more traffic. The following suggestions are for after 1.0 is released with Horizon: 4. LUGs We are a geographically diverse team, so we could each go to our respective Linux User Group (or similar meet-up) and give a talk about Adélie. LUGs are usually more than happy to accept talk proposals, and being able to have a developer of a real distro talk would be a real treat for them - and would let us help even more people. 5. Meet-ups and Conferences If one of us is going to go to, for instance, FOSDEM or OSCON, we could talk to others there about Adélie. There is also a yearly festival held in Oklahoma every year that focuses on projects that promote sustainability, and I would like to see if they'd be interested in having us there next year. 6. Reaching out to the press Linux Format. Phoronix. LWN. There are lots of open-source focused media organisations, and I'm sure a few of them would be happy to print a story about us. This could have a lot of impact. 7. Reddit AMA The /r/linux subreddit holds weekly AMAs with developers of Linux technologies. They have no "popularity" requirements, and they even featured AMAs with other distro devs before. We could hold an AMA with a few of us answering questions from the community about Adélie. 8. Certification The OpenPOWER Foundation has an "OpenPOWER Ready" mark and certified products list; the only requirement for an operating system to be listed is to support hardware that is "OpenPOWER Ready". This would include the Raptor Talos and Blackbird systems, so we've already met that requirement. We could continue focusing on our POSIX work. There are also vendor certifications (like HP, Dell, AMD). 9. Contacting hosting providers We could help people do more serving with less hassle and less cost by bringing Adélie to hosting providers. Amazon has community-built AMI support; Azure has a simple process for being listed. In addition, there are smaller providers, like Vultr, that already have a nice variety of distros and are welcoming of suggestions for more to provide. There is also an interesting hosting provider called GekkoFyre (https://gekkofyre.io/) that focuses specifically on running hosting for furries - and they specifically have a focus on helping furry-run technology projects. Since a number of our contributors (including me) are furry, we may be able to interest them. 10. More! I'd love to hear ideas from all of you. This community is so creative in everything we do, and I'm sure we could come up with creative ideas for promotion together as well. Let's discuss these ideas and others, and start putting our distro in front of more people! :) Best to you and yours, --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Project Lead, Adélie Linux https://www.adelielinux.org