Meeting on January 11, 2019

Attendees

• Claudio Santoro
• Nuritzi Sanchez
• Rosanna
• Oliver
• Sri
• Britt
• Caroline
• Mac
• Kristi

Agenda

• New Engagement Team GitLab updates (Nuritzi) https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement

• Sticker orders and SWAG Centers (Nuritzi)
• Academia Outreach initiative (Nuritzi)

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/Events/issues/1

• FOSDEM prep
• SCALE prep(?)
• Annual Report
• 2019 planning (continued) [follow up from Saturday]

Notes

New meeting time

• Oliver suggests that we move the meetng time/day https://framadate.org/

• ACTION: Sri to send a meeting poll for a new TIME

New Meeting Software

• Rosanna says that UberConference only allows maximum of 10 people

• Might want to try Neil's Uberconference line since he pays for it and has a 100 person limit. Need to check with Neil to see if the Engagement call conflicts with other meetings he may have.

• ACTION: Rosanna suggests using Neil's Uberconferece Line, let's give a check? Check other options.

New Engagement Team GitLab updates

• Check out https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement

• We have new boards for creating local Events and Requesting stuff in Official GNOME Conferences

  (https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/Events/issues), (https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Events)

Sticker orders and SWAG Centers

• There's a SWAG center in Peru we need to follow up with (Jose)
• Need to figure out which other SWAG centers there are,
• The existing ones are
  • Nuritzi (USA), Rosanna
  • Carlos (Europe) - no longer active
  • Jose (Peru) - has a full supply
• Future ones:
  • USA: Nuritzi, Rosanna
  • Europe: Kristi, Bastian
  • Brazil: Claudio, Georges
  • India: Umang, Shobha

• ACTION: Place orders asap, by next week for FOSDEM.

FOSDEM prep

• Kristi is working with Kat to help with this,
• Plan on adding more information about things that we'll be selling at FOSDEM
• We're still trying to figure out where and what time the GNOME Beers event will be,
  • GNOME Beers will be on Saturday, February 2nd but time and place are TBA

  • ACTION do a placeholder social media post about GNOME Beers

  • ACTION: @Kristi to check on marketing materials for this and ask @Caroline to create social media asset for GNOME Beers if needed.

Annual Report

• @Kristi sent out an email to the engagement-list about the Annual Report and is looking for volunteers
• Anyone else who is interested in working on this, please send feedback/questions/ideas by Monday or Tuesday of next week

Academia Iniative

• Shoba (?) is trying to organise Workshops for Students
• There is a Academia Initiative for getting Materials, Resources, and Tools for getting Students Engaged with GNOME

• ACTION: How to get Students involved in their local communities (Event templates), for creating Workshops etc

• ACTION: Create Guides for the Academia Iniative

• ACTION: Create a way of getting opportunities for Google Summer of Code, and Internships or Scholarships (Outreaching)

• ACTION: Create a Guide that allows the Students to understand about the Opportunities

• ACTION: Create a Brochure, and Marketing Material for the Initiative, Friends of Gnome, etc.

• ACTION: Create GitLab Issues and prepare GitLab for this initiative

• Interested People (For contributing to the Initiative)
  • Claudio (Brazil)