Hi there! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more. Quick notes: - Looking for new contributors!! - ELevate https://almalinux.org/elevate/ got a huge update! Read more below. - AlmaLinux is up for The Stevie® Awards’ People’s Choice award https://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/! If you’d like to support AlmaLinux with your vote, here’s a link https://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/ (and thank you!). You'll find us under the 'Government or Non-profit' category. Call for help! Our swag shop https://shop.almalinux.org/ needs a new tender! Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye for design? The Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s there and the costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us come up with some new designs for our Shop https://shop.almalinux.org/! Email benny at almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out. Help on the forums! The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has nearly doubled in the last 6 months, and that means there are more questions than ever to answer! If you have a few minutes, use the link lnx.rocks/forumhelp to help your fellow sysadmins, developers, and DevOps engineers with opinions, answers, and feedback. Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogSummer events recap We attended quite a few events this summer, including Southeast Linux Fest, Academy Open Source days, SIGGRAPH, and Flock to Fedora. Check out this blog post https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-28-summer-event-recap/ for a full recap of these events! From 1 to 400 mirrors; The AlmaLinux Mirror System Story In August of 2021 we first launched our new and improved mirror system, including the geo-location feature that allows users to automatically use the closest mirror to them. Since we launched, we’ve grown from around 100 mirror servers to over 400. We’ve also made a lot of improvements to the mirrorlist which supports over 1 million systems worldwide. Learn more on our blog https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-07-mirrors-1-to-400/! ELevate gets a huge update - now supports CentOS Stream 8 - 9, Scientific Linux upgrades, and hardware detection ELevate https://almalinux.org/elevate/ just received the biggest update since 2021 when the project was first announced! ELevateNG has been promoted to stable, and we received tons of community-contributed feedback. Read the blog post https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-08-elevate-release/ to dive into what has been updated. Upcoming Events August was fairly light with events, though we did attend SIGGRAPH and Flock to Fedora. Here’s what’s coming up for the rest of the year: - NERDEARLA https://nerdear.la/en/, September 24-28, 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina - All things open http://allthingsopen.org/, October 27-29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, US - Seagl https://seagl.org/, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US - SC (formerly Supercompute) http://supercomputing.org/, November 17-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, US If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a chance to connect with them! We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think we should be at) fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykds...! We’ll cover your travel and hotel. 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/! 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.*