Meeting on January 16th

Attendees

• Bastian
• Neil
• Nuritzi
• Michael
• Sri
• Gilmar

Agenda

Discuss during the meeting

• What needs to be done for upcoming release (Nuritzi)

*Idea: Include preview images on social media (oliverp)

• Follow up on ubuntu migration banner (Nuritzi) 71k views,3k to the gnome wiki. We could use social media channels to talk about downstreams like distros.
• Engagement budget plan for 2018 (Nuritzi)
  • Scale 16x - get GNOME socks that is being at FOSDEM, and we can ship to Endless at $5 per pair.
  • Mail socks to Nuritzi.
  • We need a conference kit to spend money - Europe has two, we could send that.
  • Do we have stickers - we can use the money spent on FOSDEM to bring stickers to be distributed our swag centers.

Do during the meeting

• Make sure GitLab tasks are updated (Nuritzi)

Notes

Upcoming Release

• We should do some more internal promotion. Get people to meet their deadlines. Start collecting information about what the highlights are and gather some screenshots.
• Make a call for screen recordings, collaboration especially for the release video to record new features. In the past, Bastian has made a tar and read me to help people do the screen recording. Maybe can be a blog post for the beta and add the instructions on new features there.
• Maybe we can also make animated gifs.
• tweets about things on the major release notes, schedule these to come out before. Ask people to add it to a page before so we can tweet about it.

• Make sure there is a Release Party page so people can plan their parties (https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/ReleaseParties/ThreePointTwentyeight)

• The wiki page for the 3.28 release should be created in Feb

  • ACTION: Check with Allan to see when he'll be creating the page

Follow up on ubuntu migration banner

• There were 3K click throughs on the banner and 71K people who saw the home page

• ACTION: @Michael to ask the Ubuntu desktop team about putting the docs in their help center

Budget

• Reminder that we have a $3K budget for small events and general marketing $6K budget for 2018 $500 - for parties. Lot of trouble with reimbursements.
• How do you support people who do not have funds to pay for things. conversations on what we can think of, and proposing to the board.

  • LiberaPay could be an option

• Purchase a new conference kit for N. America (or send one from Europe over)