Meeting on 27th of March

Attendees

• Caroline
• Martin
• Kristi
• Britt
• Regina
• Rafael
• Oliver

Agenda

GSOC (Oliver)

• Deadline for student applications is March 31

• Idea list: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2020/Ideas

• Official timeline: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

• Can make sense to spread information about the project & initiatives

• Britt will post another message to twitter today @Oliver suggests doing more marketing around this topic - potentially blog posts and additional social media efforts

News worthy things (oliverp)

• Some interesting and read have posted to Planet gnome, including Tobias Bebards post "There is No “Linux” Platform (Part 2). https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/03/25/there-is-no-linux-platform-2/

  • comment: Tobias post can be interpreted as the case for and importance of GNOME.

• Christian continues to publish interesting notes about his work and efforts - (this month he have blogged twice about sysprof) https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/03/14/how-to-use-sysprof-to/ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/03/15/how-to-use-sysprof-to-part-ii/

University Outreach Progress (Martin)

• There is now a wiki available which includes a guide on how to organize events,

• link with info about the initiative is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/UniversityOutreach

• The link includes a list of people who are willing to guide the community,

Podcast initiative for GUADEC (Regina)

• Idea to some interviews GNOME People for GUADEC
• Group recommends more planning/strategy around this idea
• There is a suggestion to record all episodes before releasing any interview

Pan African GNOME Summit

• The event got canceled due to covid 19, the plan is to organize the event once the situation gets back to normal.