Engagement Team Meeting 3 March 2017

Attendees

• Bastian
• Allan
• Neil
• Rosanna
• Sri

Items from last time:

Release 3.24 Marketing

• Social media calendar has some info. Could do with some more info and content for the facebook part. Help welcome for more tweets.
• Ask desktop devel?
• Go through release notes, ask maintainers to do a nice blog post, and then we can publicise that - Neil/Rosanna/Nuritzi
• Stickers
• Allan saw a picture of the booth @ SCALE, it has some stickers
• Waiting on Nuritzi to check

Release notes

• Allan - notes are going reasonably well, big chunk of text is in the initial draft
• Next stage is to nag devs for text - to be done next week
• Wants them done early this year
• Help needed with screenshots
• Sri to help out with screenshots and getting details from devs re: GTK4 porting/prep work that's been done.
• The video doesn't focus as much on developer experience, see builder.
• Need to start the cycle earlier, as release notes and video cross-feed from each other

Release Video

• https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentythree/ReleaseVideo

• Music to be looked at next week
• Animations in progress, should have some samples of the style with the new branding
• Screencasting is coming in from community which means less work \o/
• Todo: nightshift light in control panel and recipies features
• All: Anyone who has pictures from events to send to Bastian

Branding meeting

• Waiting on Cassandra for an agenda
• All - please fill out framadate if you haven't already

• https://framadate.org/4dvpZA8E4RF6Lp5B

20th Birthday

• Frameadate to set meeting for next week will be sent from Cassandra
• GUADEC team working pretty hard on some of this

Conference planning

• Copenhagen - 18th of March Open source days - will have a booth (gnome flyers, merchendise, Bastian needs help coordinating for merch.; would love stickers for this and for release party)
• FOSS North - Bastian will speak about new release and representing GNOME - Bastian sent email with call for papers for both conferences
• Linux Fest North West May 6th - call for presentations going on (about 3,000 people, would be great to have a presence; Sri is willing to travel there)
• Linux Fest in Ohio (one of the biggest)
• Linux Fest South West
• Conference in India (International conference) - gives government exposure - already have people going; should give them talking points if possible
• Sri will send out to mailing list to come up with talking points for Indian conference (need to look up requirements; make sure attendees gather information as well)

Budgets

• Look at the blog post that rosanna wrote on how to ask for money

• https://blogs.gnome.org/zana/2015/11/21/ways-to-help-the-board-help-you/

New things:

Annual report

• Adelia is at SCALE, but may be willing to help organize the annual report. Rosanna to reach out and ask when she returns from SCALE
• Need to work out the lead time. Allan put together a fairly aggressive schedule on the wiki. 5 Weeks + 1 week printing. 6 weeks minimum.
• Hard deadline is the day before GUADEC (28th July)
• Thus starting ASAP would be good
• Reminder that this was actually for last year, so getting stuff sooner rather than later is good
• Avoid a lengthy schedule, as it may be a bit of a drag...
• Balance between length and PANIC.
• If people go to a conference, ask them to possibly write what went on in a wiki? Would make it easier to track where we've been.

Indian government conference

• 5 of us are going along, Sri leading
• Keeps Indian community active
• Talk about the platform
• Look at what's important to talk about
• Needs help working out icebreaker conversations?