Engagement Team Meeting, September 27th 2021

Agenda

Corporate sponsorship for GUADEC went well, slower for GNOME Asia and general sponsors - Sponsorship- lets try to make some more noise.
We need as many points of contact and communicators as possible advertising for sponsorship in general and for events
help with sharing social posts and promoting, but also help with strategy and planning
Let's start hosting a small even every two months and welcome our community and other communties
Action item: need to pick a time and date for a launch and plan promotion on social and discourse - Melissa and Kristi will coordinate more details
We're alos rethinking the Friends of GNOME group. How can we make it more useful to the members and learn what they want out of the group.
Will start with a Friends of GNOME social hour during GNOME Asia
Action item: setup a future meeting to discuss possible perks for FoG

New page on foundation.gnome.org: https://foundation.gnome.org/jobs/
Event sponsors have the opportunity to share jobs with our community, but these currently only live on the event pages
We've built a new page on the website to capture these jobs and share them long-term
Would also be nice to include internships

We officially extended the CfP
We need more submissions
Registration is also open - but we have been focusing more on CfP
GNOME.Asia website is out of date - we don't know who has access to it or controls it
GNOME Asia twitter also needs to be updated - Melissa and Caroline can put together 5-10 tweets for them to share
GNOME Asia logo has been selected and announced through email - seems some submissions were missed or not notified, Kristi will check with this
For swag and merch either local team designer can work on this or art files can be sent to Caroline to continue merch design
Sponsors like to know registration numbers before committing, this information would be helpful

Doing some work on university outreach in Africa
Have recieved some notes that people would like to host outreach in their universities so will be reaching out to them
Hope this will increase our visibility and possibly help us get sponsors