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This document outlines the activities, progress, and plans of the BEAR Working Group for Q1 2026, including community engagement, mentorship programs, and strategic initiatives. Signed-off-by: CyberJiuJiteira <107970777+Cyber-JiuJiteria@users.noreply.github.com>
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Hi @Cyber-JiuJiteria @marcelamelara, could you please include the following changes at the OSSAfrica Up Next section
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OSSAfrica Up Next
In the remainder of Q1 2026 and throughout Q2, we will:
- Ramp up social media engagement to increase awareness of OpenSSF technical and non-technical initiatives.
- Continue discussions around OpenSSF sponsorship and participation in OSCAFEST and/or AfricaCyberFest in 2026, including preparing CFP submissions for one or both conferences.
- Plan and host a variety of virtual and in-person events, with a focus on West Africa.
- Identify and connect with other open source communities across the African region.
- Attend and/or co-host events alongside other tech communities in Africa.
- Continue design and development of the OSSAfrica website and coordinate with OpenSSF Ops on branding, legal, etc on website.
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| ### Purpose | ||
| Our Community Welcome Calls are a monthly event in which we highlight maintainers and/or contributors from open source projects working groups to talk about their project. The goal is to allow for information sharing for new members to understand the project, current efforts, where the project needs help, and how to connect. Each month, we aim to host diverse projects to help spread the awareness of our OSS projects. | ||
| ### Current Status | ||
| We have changed direction from Office Hours to Welcome calls from Nov 2025 to this year. We had a dwindling attendance to the Office Hours and wanted to provide useful resources to the OpenSSF project for their onboarding projects, while also sharing the voices and journey of our community: |
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I very much like this approach of welcome calls as it combines onboarding of new community members with creating re-usable (I assume) overview material covering OpenSSF TIs.
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Co-authored-by: Marcela Melara <marcela.melara@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Marcela Melara <marcela.melara@intel.com>
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This document outlines the activities, progress, and plans of the BEAR Working Group for Q1 2026, including community engagement, mentorship programs, and strategic initiatives.