Meeting on June 9th

AGENDA

  •  June social media (Nuritzi)
  • Annual Report updates (Nuritzi)
  • Birthday Party check-in (Nuritzi)

ATTENDEES

  • Rosanna
  • Neil
  • Sri
  • Nuritzi
  • Emily

NOTES

Annual Report



  • Hard deadline for 1st draft by Friday the 16th

ACTIONS:

  • Neil: finding local printers, email about bugzilla
  • Emily to start reviewing Accessibility
  • Rosanna: give Neil Friend of GNOME data
  • Nuritzi: make sure Cassandra can find pictures, coordinate with Bastian about factoids

== Social Media == https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/Social_Media_Plan_June_2017

== Website ==

  • Could we have a place on the website that has a section featuring events and booths (Emily to talk to)

20th Birthday Party

  • Check to see if Bastian has helped to make a video for the video wall
  • Start a wiki page for 20th birthday celebrations all around the world
  • Check in with Matthias and Elvin to see if we can add recipes to the Recipes app for the Birthday party! ACTION: Emily to see if there's a way to integrate the Recipes app into 20th birthday
  • See if there are apps for projecting pictures live from the event

ONGOING

(Review and update list of ongoing Engagement team initiatives:https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/OngoingInitiatives)

Annual report

* Annual Report

  • Jeff willing to design
  • Ideas for special feature
    • 20th anniversary retrospective
      • Include forward looking statements about goals for the near future
    • Newcomer iniitiative / revamp
  • Available as supporting members - Nuritzi and Rosanna

=== Promoting the community's personal fundraising campaigns ===

  • There's a new patreon campaign around GTK https://www.patreon.com/baedert

  • We could definitely promote these things
  • We should align our promotions with their own promotions to create more momentum
  • Engagement blog might be a good place to have this showcased
  • We might want to send an email to the Engagement list / Foundation list and tell them we are open to promoting patreon campaigns in this way. Do this only after a few tries and after we see how it goes.
  • Does this conflict with the "Adopt a Hacker" program we have on Friends of GNOME? We should make sure we still promote our own programs
  • ACTION: @Nuritzi Reach out to the new person and see if they want to be featured on the Engagement team blog. See if the other 2 we know about also want this
  • ACTION: @Nuritzi to see if Cassandra can write the blog posts === Newcomers Initiative ===
    • Questions on newcomer's channel is now more about code vs how to build things
    • We have 3 or 4 new Polari contributors and that's really significant since we haven't
    • Carlos has been busy fixing a lot of bugs and making sure that it works on distributions. They're working on making more apps avaiable through the newomer's initiative
    • We shuold check in with Carlos and see if there's anything else that has been added for publicity purposes to help make sure we keep momentum
    • We might want to have some shout outs from maintainers / mentors from projects that want newcomers to join their projects
    • We might want to circle back feedback from newcomers about what their experience has been so far
    • How can we be more data driven? We can see how many new authors there are committing code. Emmanuele is doing git stats on GTK. We may need to read how many new contributors in this release.
    • Newcomer app teams. Maybe we can showcase some of the new work being done.
    • ACTION: @Nuritzi to check in with Carlos about any new developments.
    • ACTION: @Basitian to check in with newcomer app teams to see if they want to do a shout out or else showcase some of the new work being done in their projects.

20th Birthday

  • Invitations - Allan to poke people, not done yet.
  • Party Packs. Links to party pack ideas:
  • Photo wall / video wall at the venue: goo.gl/0Q80Pt

    • The venue has a huge video wall that we could put videos on. Maybe Bastian wants to do something for that? ;) Maybe this could be screenshots of older versions of GNOME

    • Bastian is in touch with someone from an old GUADEC and that person has a bunch of old footage. Bastian has plans for some video material.
    • Another idea would be to have an animated clip or something
    • ACTION: @Bastian will plan on making a video to play on loop for the Birthday party

* ACTION: @Allan to send out information for how to join the GUADEC Call next week to talk about 20th bday

SWAG Centers & Events

* Distribution centers around the world for swag requests to be sent out locally * Want to recruit people to run distribution centers (foundation members vs. anywho who communicates with the engagement team and shows commitment) * Include something like: If you're not a foundation member and still want to run a distribution center, reach out to the engagement team for help and support * Identify events near the distrbution center that will be targeted * ACTION: Reach out to GNOME Asia, GNOME Peru, etc. to start recruiting distributors, reach out to members in India * About 3 months prior to these events we should reach out to people and see if they can man the booth, make sure people are attending and have a plan * ACTION: Nuritzi to send an email to engagement-list and foundaiton-list to see if people have others that they target * ACTION: Biraj to add FOSS Asia to the 2018 list

Recipe hackathon all over the world

  • Could be great to do worldwide

  • Could we make this a competition? Most popular recipe as voted by Allan. :)

  • ACTION: Biraj start to think about how this would work. Biraj to go through the process of submitting one recipe successfully and then thinking about how we scale it.

Social Media

* Not ready to start new channels (i.e. instagram, snapchat, etc.) but may want to consider this in the future * ACTION: Reach out to Federico and Alberto for photos at the hackfest in late March * ACTION: Allan will archive photos that he took at the GTK hackfest in London * ACTION: Reach out to travel committee to request photos when someone travels @Cassandra - Set up a Flicker group for GNOME Project: https://www.flickr.com/groups/gnomesocial

COMPLETED

ARCHIVED

Engagement Budget

* List of conferences (will go on wiki) with estimated cost to better allocate funding for budget * Some conferences listed at top of notes from Feb 10: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/10-FEB-2017 * ACTION: Send out email to engagement list to see which conferences will be attended

=== This Week in GNOME ===

Extensions

  • Mario Wenzel (maweki) looked into this and wrote a page about the future of extensions: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions/Future

  • Notes from before:
    • Need to talk to core developers about extensions/implementing extension functionality (ex. GNOME weather w/ weather indicator)
    • Get the design team to give guidelines for extension developers - "do's" and "don'ts" since currently there isn't enough information on how to support extensions (esp. common use cases like indicators, status-menu-panels)

    • Already talked to Jakub during GUADEC with a mixed response ("extensions are >the wild west<, we didn't design it, we don't want to imply that this is ok")

    • Create a wiki page for extensions and extension community stuf
    • Would be nice to establish a mailing list for extensions #gnome-shell

    • Current page for Extensions: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions/StepByStepTutorial#knowingGnomeShell-API

Engagement/TeamMeetings/09-June-2017 (last edited 2017-06-16 16:00:22 by Nuritzi Sanchez)