Hi friends: I had a very cogent realization yesterday while doing final edits on the chapter "Announcing Software Releases". Bet you know where this is going ... tl;dnr ====== * We are releasing the 2.0 version of the guide tomorrow. Congratulations! * We are planning a big splash about the release for mid-January 2021. Cool! * Polish and content will continue to come in; splashy release will probably be 2.0.1 technically. *Whew* Here's the cogent part: ======================= Re-reading through everything but with an eye on the whole book has been a great experience these last few weeks. I got a chance to reflect on the many principles in the guide we've been following, and where we still have some work to do as a project. Sometimes it's a small thing. For example, I started adding "Signed-off-by: Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt;&quot; for a DCO to my git commit messages. (That is most likely going to be a recommendation in a future chapter on legal topics.) Sometimes it's a larger thing, like realizing that we really didn't prepare ourselves to announce a release tomorrow: https://www.theopensourceway.org/the_open_source_way-guidebook-2.0.html#_... There are a few key advantages in waiting for mid-January: * People are looking forward to getting away from work/tech in many of the places we are announcing to. There is a lot of tech news going on right now. Something announcing this week would be missed by much of our audience. * We can polish up a release announcement and materials to make it all a better splash. That helps us reach our audiences, too. * We can do a proper Press Release, if we wish. That would be cool. * Additional polish and material can continue with the guide as we close toward the date. * We might be able to do a bit of evolution on our branding by then.[1] The original reason for mid-Dec 2020 began in Oct 2019. The idea was to do a splashy release at a DevRel event this week. It continued to remain a good milestone for finishing the content. It turns out not to be a good milestone for making a splashy announcement in the year 2020. Oh, well, live and learn. :) Kind regards, - Karsten [1] -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://osci.io https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide