Meeting on May 15th

Attendees

• Link
• Claudio
• Michael
• Nuritzi
• Sri
• Oliver
• Rosanna

Roles

• Chair - Nuritzi
• Secretary - Michael
• PM - Oliver

Agenda

• Engagement hackfest at GUADEC proposal and promotion (Nuritzi)

  • https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Engagement2018

• Inviting members of the press to conferences (Nuritzi)
• GNOME Wiki project goals (Nuritzi)
• Social media note (Oliver)
• Engagement blog note (Oliver)
• Policy regarding news-item (Oliver)
• Possible upcoming interviews (Oliver)
• GNOME Asia 2018 Summit Note (Oliver)

Notes

Engagement hackefest

• Reviewing Engagement hackfest proposal for GUADEC
  • People (?) are interested in workshop for their first code contribution, so they can use it for their own workshops
    • Contribute to existing apps? Build new apps? Learn flatpak packaging?
      • Maybe just pick one for now
      • Maybe a few people could give a few different workshops

      • ACTION: Nuritzi to add coding workshop content to the Engagement hackfest as a separate session: TODO

        • Carlos, Bastian, Matthias, Philip Chimento, Rob Maqueen, Christian Hergert

        • ACTION: @Nuritzi to ask the above people if they could put together content for a hackfest: TODO

Press at conferences

• At GNOME Asia, somebody offered to write articles promoting it in India, but they would need travel sponsorship to attend
  • We haven't sponsored a lot of press, but have done so sometimes in the past
  • Should we try to make this a bigger, more official and documented, program?
  • Have we measured impact of these past sponsorships?
  • We don't normally measure impact, just monitor what they write
  • This should probably be separate from the travel committee
    • Requests would come from event organizers as a marketing resource
    • Should be part of an event's budget request

  • ACTION: [?] Request that conference organizers include press travel requests in their budget request: TODO

  • ACTION: @Nuritzi to ping David asking about he existing press travel request cases: TODO

GNOME Wiki project goals

• Proposing structural and design changes in our wiki
• It is currently difficult to get involved contributing here
• Create "portal" pages for each major section of the wiki

• Claudio and Nuritzi started a project brief https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HF1U_XUdjz8Ade3wAEfNrR7IgDqsZYIQiKiOCcIBoSE/edit

• What is the purpose of our wiki?
  • Fedora's wiki isn't meant for user-facing documentation
  • Is it just for us to collaborate, or is it for making content available to others?
    • Judging by the content, it's user-facing documentation
• Should redefine what tools we have for user documentation
  • We have the website which is specifically user facing
  • If the website is easy now to contribute to, should use it instead of the wiki

• ACTION: @Claudio to start filling out the project brief with specific goals and stakeholders: TODO

• Will check in again on this next week

Social media

• We should make sure that non-native English speakers use some process to help with copyediting posts
• It's been great to have the GNOME account retweet and like more posts, see more activity -- Oliver has been doing a great job at this

Engagement blog

• Has GStreamer Hackfest post now
• Engagement blog should have more shorter updates and people-focused content
  • Give perspective from people who attended events
• Should we promote hackfests in "official sounding" engagement blog posts?

Policy regarding news items

• Does it make sense to have author attribution on official news items?
• Other blogs with official news items make the author visible
• Not sure if this makes sense for the news blog, but this is already the case for the engagement blog

Possible upcoming interviews

• Sebastian about GStreamer Hackfest
• Oliver wants to interview a local contributor about THE GNOME Shell hackfest
• Link made a list of people we want to interview
  • Want to remain focused on diversity in who we interview (it's been patreon-heavy recently)

GNOME Asia 2018 summit note

• Should issue #20 remain on the Social Media & PR section, or move it to GNOME Asia board?

• Keep it as is