Bootc Meetings and Status Updates 
As discussed in the bootc matrix channel, travier adjusted the weekly bootc initiative meeting time forward one hour. See updated calendar entry: SIGs - Fedocal
Derived OS Releases 
Adrian reports
UniversalBlue’s Bluefin Stable is now based on Fedora 41: Bluefin stable stream is now based on Fedora 41 - Bluefin and Aurora - Universal Blue
Jason Brooks announces
On the Universal Blue forum, Jorge Castro posted about Bluefin and Aurora Updates: Bluefin and Aurora Updates (KubeCon Edition) - Bluefin and Aurora - Universal Blue)
Jorge also posted a short reaction video about bootc and friends making their way to the CNCF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpMxFIIOa4.
Projects, Experiments, and Demos 
mrguitar says
On the Red Hat Developer Blog, Ben Breard & Tiffany Nolan wrote a post about 4 use cases for streamlining your OS using bootc. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/11/05/image-mode-rhel-4-key-use-cases-streamlining-your-os
Jason Brooks reports
On the the Red Hat Developer Blog, Alessandro Rossi explored how to create and deploy a RHEL image mode web server on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Build and deploy image mode for RHEL on OpenShift Virtualization | Red Hat Developer
Bootc in the News 
Ryan Brue (ryanabx) shared a link to a Red Hat blog post about bootc, podman, and other container projects joining the CNCF: Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Robert Sturla added a link to this post on the bootc project discussion board about the CNCF submission: Bootc to be contributed to the CNCF as a Sandbox project! · containers/bootc · Discussion #897 · GitHub
That’s all folks!
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