Meeting on September 8th

AGENDA

Allan usually does the news post
Follow the example of past release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.24/
DEADLINE: Tuesday by the end of the day so we can publish it on Wednesday
ACTION: @Allan to try to get this done by Friday evening, if not, Emily will take it up. Sri and Neil to help with proofreading and editing.

We need a plan here, it's not just about posting on the day of
Link is writing a blog post about release parties and will circulate it to engagement-list for edits
ACTION: @Nuritzi to send Link some pictures from previous release parties
ACTION: @Link to help post an article about release parties on Monday
ACTION: @Zana to give Emily tweet deck access

In the past some people have emailed back to ask us to remove them from our list
ACTION: @Neil to email donors to thank them for their support

We're not touching it for now. If someone can update it, great, if not, then don't worry about it for the release day
We need to update the website to say that GNOME 3.24 is available: https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ on release day, we should update it with 3.26
ACTION: @Link to poke around and see if we can automate the Get GNOME page more
ACTION: @Emily to update the Getting GNOME page on release day

@Allan usually puts this together, we probably won't be able to have this for this release at the beginning
These are used by members of the press
See the examples before: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/ReleasePlanning#Release_Announcement
Most likely will not happen on the release day. If someone wants to try and do it, follow steps in the link above. You will need to collect screenshots from Andreas Nilsson and from the folder in Nextcloud. You can follow the example of previous screenshot packs.
ACTION: @Allan to finish taking screenshots for the release notes and upload them to Nextcloud

Bastian is working on this we need to know what the link will be
Video will go into release notes,
ACTION: @Emily to contact Bastian about the release video. Add that to the news item and also use in social media

We had a meeting earlier this week. The notes are here: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/Ubuntu_artful_migration_docs
Ken and team are going to do the documentation part
There will be weekly meetings
Tom is looking into adding a banner to gnome.org on Ubuntu's release day (October 26th) and it will be up for about a month
We'll do more of the banner in July for the next release
Target for docs is by September 20th so that it can be included in Ubuntu's Yelp
ACTION: Michael to get banner size from Tom and get banner from Andreas or Jakub