Prepare and document setup/process for FreeBSD RELEASE & Upgrade parties

[kfv]

As discussed on the FreeBSD Discord server, promoting major releases and educating community members on what's improved could be effective for catching up, advocating the project, representing the project's core values broadly, and developing the community.

We need to establish a sustainable procedure to host and finally archive formally scheduled live streams. On the other hand, community members are always welcome to stream on Discord (preferably by letting admins know beforehand - to avoid collisions), and there'll be no need to archive them.

The following checklist might take some time to finish, and any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

• [x] Develop a scheduling strategy (Release date 2021-12-06 Unknown time)
• [ ] Hands up for promoting the event from now onward on Twitter, IRC, elsewhere ...
• [x] Dedicate a Discord channel for Release & Upgrade Party
• [ ] Enrol Release & Upgrade Talks Speakers (might require an online form for accepting/reviewing applications)
  • This needs an owner champion
• [ ] Decide on the streaming platform and the streaming procedure (YouTube, Twitch, Discord, etc. - and integrations if any required)
  • [ ] Setup Discord music bot for background/ambient music
  • [ ] Probably need an MC/DJ for this, but full time not needed
• [ ] Document all of the above
  • Note, this item is to document what we do this time, so we can do it consistently in the future (and not have to repeat this issue)

[koobs]

The scheduled release date for 12.3-RELEASE is 2021-12-06 (PDT), with time not yet known. In the meantime I've:

• Created Live Discord Channel: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE Party (Invite: https://discord.gg/WMb9dBvhXj)
• Created Event on FreeBSD Discord (Link: https://discord.gg/4mu37XGa?event=917232163362070569)

We can probably start promoting the event on Twitter, so people can start hanging out before the party starts, while we organise the rest.

[koobs]

@bsdlabs/everyone Need hands up for promoting the event from now onward on Twitter, IRC, elsewhere ...

[koobs]

Holding off running this for the 12.3-RELEASE since we're behind a few days since release. Convert this issue into create and document a process for future releases.

[koobs]

Anyone can take and drive this.