Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more! A lot is happening already, so make sure you take a look below. *Quick notes!*- If you’re at CentOS Connect, don’t miss Elkhan Mammadli’s ta http://connect.centos.org/#almalinuxlk today http://connect.centos.org/#almalinux! - Attending FOSDEM? Catch me at this panel session on Saturday https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3113-rhel-and-centos-and-..., and Andrew Lukoshko’s talk on Sunday https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3161-almalinux-how-to-mak... ! - We’re hosting a CloudFest Hackathon https://hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/securing-more-infrastructure-by-easi... project to make OS upgrades easier! - We’ve made some updates to our ELevate project! You'll see it in the blog highlights below, or you can read the full blog post https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/. - The session recordings for AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqKzWfm6zylsIzLbFht2GpY50L7rqjAQ6 are now available! - We’ve also announced AlmaLinux Day: Germany https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/ (adjacent to CloudFest), and we hope to see you there on March 18th! *Latest from the AlmaLinux Blog*AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo recap, announcing AlmaLinux Day: Germany, and more! https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-02-01-aldt-recap/ Last December we hosted the very first AlmaLinux Day in Tokyo https://almalinux.org/aldt-2023/, and the session replays are now available! You can check them out in this blog post or on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxwhw6Q6ITc&list=PLqKzWfm6zylsIzLbFht2GpY50L7rqjAQ6. We’re also planning and attending a number of other events this year, including AlmaLinux Day: Germany https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/ (if you want to see the current list, it’s in this blog post). ELevate Project Updates https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/ We’ve made a number of updates to our ELevate project recently. In addition to RHEL and EPEL, ELevate now offers 3rd party repository support. We also launched a new version of ELevate, ELevate Next Generation (NG). Read more in this blog post! Q&A Videos + How to Get Involved https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-16-video-contributions/ To address some of the common community questions that we are getting, we are excited to share that we will be creating short Q&A videos that will be shared on some of our most common outreach platforms. Want to get involved? This blog post explains how you can! AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-26-almalinux-container-cloud-live-media-u... AlmaLinux OS provides a variety of cloud images, so we’ve been updating them to 9.3 and 8.9 versions. All Live Media images were also updated to versions AlmaLinux 9.3 and AlmaLinux 8.9. Learn more in this blog post! *Stay up to date and join us!* If you want to make sure you catch every update from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/ or subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/! You can also join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation https://almalinux.org/members/#apply here if you haven’t already. Thank you for such a great start to the year! benny Vasquez Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation *I am sending this message now because it suits me, but I don’t expect that you will read, respond to, or act on it outside of comfortable hours for your time zone.*