Meeting on August 18, 2017
Contents
Attendees
- Nuritzi
- Jeff
- Neil
- Rossanna
- Cassandra S
- Sri
- Apple
- Michael
- oliverp
Agenda
- LAS GNOME update (Nuritzi)
- Birthday Parties (Nuritzi)
- Annual report (Neil)
- GUADEC 2017 news item (oliverp)
- Picture Gallery (Oliverp)
Notes
LAS GNOME update
- Need to confirm venue
- Will move announcement to Monday Aug 21
Birthday Parties
- Encourage individual participation as well as local group parties
- ACTION: Tweet about blog posts and birthday parties organization page
Annual report
- Need to send an email asking if anyone wants to train to be a project manager of the next Annual Report
- Post a news item after the GUADEC post
GUADEC 2017 news item
- Have started on a news item/gallery
- Notice sent to Engagement Private
A sample of pictures from the event is available at Nextcloud https://cloud.gnome.org/index.php/s/Nk6Y5MR1hYOs97n
- Aim to publish the story around Wensday August 23
- Feedback/help with the news item is welcome
Picture Gallery
There seems to be limitation's with the current WordPress design (which makes it hard/tricky to create a good looking gallery)
- ACTION: Ask Tom if he can take a look at the gallery
GUADEC BoF Notes
Nuritzi transferred the notes to the wiki https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/31-July-2017
- We should divide responsibility for ongoing projects:
- Ubuntu Release - Michael
Website - Cassandra & Sri
- Local Groups - Nuritzi and Link
- Planet GNOME - Nuritzi
Ongoing Initiatives
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
- 20th anniversary retrospective
- Available as supporting members - Nuritzi and Rosanna
- UPDATE June 9, 2017
- 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 Friends of GNOME data
- Nuritzi: make sure Cassandra can find pictures, coordinate with Bastian about factoids
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
- UPDATE: June 9, 2017
- 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
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
https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/Social_Media_Plan_June_2017
Ubuntu shipping GNOME (tweet only) http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/ubuntu-17-10-daily-builds-gnome
Retweet Neil's keynote: https://twitter.com/COZCyT/status/872865628281085957
- Linking to patreon people's blog posts
- AGM annuncement (email invitation)
- Open Source Bridge
Website
- Could we have a place on the website that has a section featuring events and booths (Emily to talk to)
COMPLETED
STALLED PROJECTS
=== 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 (email sent asking)
Promote Engagement 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)
Promote Friends of GNOME
- Neil to check with Tobi if we just get a list of email addresses or need to use a system
- === Create Official Groups ===
- submit an application, having established trust (foundation member takes a look)
- list the official groups on a wiki or something (think about adding a section to the gnome.org website to create more visibility around local groups)
- They should:
* have at least one event a year * gnome release parties strongly encouraged * take part in social media-stuff (hashtags when their events are happening)