#Engagement Team Meeting 18 March 2016
Attended
- Zana
- Adelia
- Bastian Ilso
- Cassandra
Thank you's for the FSFE postcards
Action items:
@Zana will take a photo of the postcards and @Allan will tweet a thank you
Annual Report
Hard submission date: March 31st
Action Items:
@Adelia will send out an email saying exactly how many days are left to submit
@Adelia & @Zana have design ideas and will talk to @Jeff about these
@Cassandra to browse through photos and select the best ones
@Cassandra to message travel committee and suggest a reminder for licensing: travel-committee@gnome.org
Fundraising
Charitable trust donation acknowledgment
- Craigslist charitable fund previously said they didn't need public acknowledgmnet, but now welcome acknowledgment
Action Items:
- Need to create a news item to thank Craigslist charitable fund for continued support
@Zana to find out the difference between news item vs. adding to website as a donor
@Zana to poke @Andrea and figure out where to add that donor on the website
Friends of GNOME Redesign
Will wait until after the release for Zana and Allan to talk more about this
Outreach
- Bastian and 2 potential newcomers (working on GNOME calendar and GNOME builder)
- Local group: had 2nd meeting last week with about 7 or 8 people
Action Items:
@Bastian will type up some feedback on how to start a local group (& challenges he's encountered)
Handouts for release parties:
- How to stay connected with GNOME, how to get reinvigorated with GNOME, social media links
- Small questionnaire to ask what people are interested in and get a better idea of how to get people more involved
Action Items:
@Zana to send text to Cassandra for how to stay connected/get reinvigorated with GNOME
@Cassandra to create the handout document
Release 3.20 (& release notes)
Action Items:
- @Zana to touch base with Allan to see if there is anything else needed to cover for upcoming release
Video
- Going well
Sneak peak here: http://i.imgur.com/Pi4jqKv.png
- Waiting for voice over, but if Bastian doesn't receive it soon enough will have to move forward without it
Release Parties
- Not many parties up on the wiki
- Siska is planning a release party
Action Items:
@Siska to add release party to wiki
Conferences
New Free Software Conference: http://foss-north.se/
- Will be held in Gothenberg on May 26th; Coordinate for a speaker before April 12th
- Aim is to cover anything open source in the talks
- Since it's broad, could have a talk about GNOME updates and Linux Desktop
- Talk on XDG app or Wayland?
Call for papers until April 10th: http://foss-north.se/call-for-papers.html
Action Items:
@Bastian will send email to foundation list for people to submit papers
- Need to make a calendar with conferences with GNOME presence
Social Media
- Badge has been created but has a typo (should say release is on March 23rd)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/release-badge-320.png
Action Items:
@Zana to follow up on fixing badge