Marketing Meeting: 23 March 2012

• Date: Friday 23 March
• Time: 8:00am PDT / 15:00 GMT
• Place:

Agenda

• 3.4 release planning
  • Review draft release notes?
• Marketing calendar - we really need one, what's the best way to set one up?
• News site development (and thank you to Christy)
• Annual Report status
• Future marketing hackfest
• Websites

Minutes

3.4 release planning

• Discussion about publish an article on gnome.org with information about the 3.4 release before the actual release day
• Discussion about whether to publish the press release on gnome.org homepage or provide a link to the press release in a news story amid at users

ACTION: Emily to expand Allan's article that highlight the 3.4 RC and include a countdown to the official release and publish that article the same day as the RC is released.

ACTION: Sri to check with the sysadmin team so that they are ready for release day.

Marketing calendar

• Requirements: online, ability to plug it in to applications like gmail & evolution and share updates

• Discussion about using a solution bkuhn have hacked together, bkuhn will email files to Sri
• Setting up a marketing calender will involve the sysadmin team to some extent

ACTION: Sri to investigate if it is possible to use Zimbra as a solution.

ACTION: Czeller will look around and see if she can find an appropriate Wordpress calander plug-in.

News site development

• Close to being usable but still has a couple of issues including css and formatting

Annual Report

• Outstanding items include financial section and revamp of the design

• Discussion about the of the design, some thinks the current proposal is a bit wild and would prefer to use the visual style of the website, except for the front page

• Deadline for contribution to the annual report set to April 23, possible release date April 30

ACTION: Emily will send out reminders about the new deadline to all parties involved in the annual report.

ACTION: Andreas will talk to Daniel about the design and maybe work to make it look more like the website.

Future marketing hackfest

• We will probably have to wait until GUADEC in July

Websites

• Czeller will focus on the new friends of gnome website ($ is important!!), will fix news site bugs later