= Engagement Team Meeting on March 17th 2017=

Attended

• Allan
• Rosanna
• Nuritzi
• Neil
• Cassandra

Items from last time:

Google ads (Rosanna)

• Found their website (google.com/grants)
• We'd need to write a blurb and maintain keywords for them
• Would need pruning/maintainence every quarter or so
• Sri was going to check in with Justin to see if he has interest in handling this

News items (Allan)

• Release announcement done \o/
• Everything seems to be ready for the release
• Done

Release parties (Nurtizi)

• We have the page up about these
• Some people are asking for budget
• Possibly make more public?
• Could do with some info about how to do a release party
• Now for next release
• Social media assets for future releases (badges etc)
• Email from Biraj, Nuritzi to reply, point out new brand guidelines. Andreas or Bastian may be able to help with feedback

Branding meeting

• Postponed for now

Annual report (Neil)

Indian Government conference (Sri)

20th Birthday (Allan)

• Invitations - Allan to poke people, not done yet.

New things:

• Video almost complete
• Email out to FoG
  • Neil to check with Tobi if we just get a list of email addresses or need to use a system

Stickers

• Nuritzi has stickers!
• Some to be carried over by Endless folk for Neil/Allan to hand out at events
• Some for the hackfest

Hackfests

• GTK one Mon-Weds

• Rust one at end of month (29th -> 31st March)

• Use social media to promote, and keep an eye out for things that happen
• Promote FoG
• Makes hackfests etc possible
• Would be nice to get some pictures from the hackfests

Promote meetings

• Perhaps intimidating for newcomers?
• Public meeting once a month?
• Hangouts on air
• Need a list of things people can do
• Recruit people!
• Target designers etc?
• All - think up some examples of short tasks for newcomers
• Possibly make better use of the engagement blog (TIL: there's an engagement blog)