Meeting on April 3rd

Attendees

• Nuritzi
• Neil
• Michael
• Siska
• Oliverp
• Sri

Agenda

• Check in about news items that need publishing (Nuritzi)
• Engagement blog note (oliverp)

• Events page wiki https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Events (Nuritzi)

• Note about social media (oliverp)
• Annual report check-in (Nuritzi)

• GitLab clean up (Nuritzi)

Notes

News Items

• Items that need publishing:
  • 1) GNOME Asia 2018 announcement
  • 2) GUADEC 2019 call for bids - draft

  • 3) GitLab announcement - draft

  • 4) GNOME Asia 2019 call for bids
  • update: GUADEC call for bids announcement is ready for review
    • Oliver: when will the locations be announced? Seems like GUADEC 2019 will be announced at GUADEC 2018 *we maybe want to decide a date
    • Ideally, GNOME Asia 2019 will be announced at GNOME Asia 2018
  • should we make both announcements at the same time?
    • Neil: it may be ok to put them together if we have to make the announcements close together
    • Oliver: there are different audiences, because of the geographical locations, so probably best to separate them
    • Neil: we need to understand the bidding process before we direct the community to go through the steps

    • ACTION: @Oliver to send the etherpad drafts to the engagement-list

    • ACTION: @Oliver, Nuritzi and others to draft the GNOME Asia 2018 announcement asap: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/gnome-asia-2018-announcement

Engagement Blog

• We have used the Engagement blog as a way to promote fundraisers in the past. There are are some other interviews ready to be published. Oliver has taken a look at the interview answers and it looks good.
• the contributor is really excited about having it published
• Only a few people have access to the blog, we need to get more people added as authors
• Last time, Alberto added the posts manually to Planet GNOME, we need to get this automated in the future

• ACTION: @Nuritzi to publish this one: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/52. Also to get more people access to the blog.

• ACTION: @Nuritzi to talk to Alberto about getting the blog on Planet GNOME in an automated way

• ACTION: @Oliver to upload photo for the blog to GitLab === Events page wiki ===

• Idea was to come up with small event types that could be hosted with a goal toward adding new contributors
• We have funding to pay for food and drinks as some of these events

• ACTION: @Michael to add venue considerations to the different event types [TODO]

• ACTION: @Michael to add link to GetTogether on Events wiki page [DONE]

Social Media

• Nice to see note about GUADEC posted on social media and the website
• We have some news item coming up to plan social media posts around
  • Post about Taiwan as the place for GNOME.Asia Summit 2018
  • Post about Almeria as the place for GUADEC 2018
• New distribution releases with latest GNOME coming up
  • New Fedora is coming out on May 1st
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be released on April 26, will contain GNOME 3.28 apps
• Can we setup a new Board on Gitlab to plan social media posts?

* For now use the social-media tag on the General board

• Would be nice to schedule blog posts in the same way
• @Oliver wants to be more involved in social media posting, needs Tweetdeck access

Annual report Update

* Most sections have an author, we have already received 1 draft article (the Release Notes one) so it's ready to review * We still need someone to do the chart graphics and visual layout -- our previous designer doesn't have a lot of cycles

• Can we ask the broader community to help with this? we should come up with a list of tasks

• ACTION: @Michael to come up with a list of tasks for designers to do and also come up with the assets that they would need [TODO]