Meeting on March 31st

Notes

UNIX Stickers

ACTION: Nuritzi to get back to them with color update

SWAG Distribution Center Wiki

We say we only allow Foundation members to become distribution centers but there aren't clear guidelines on how to become one. How do we measure contributions from non-technical contributions?

  • - Maybe it can be around starting initiatives in the Engagement team - Recruitment Drive: Should we have periodic membership drives? Do you know someone who should be a member but isn't?
    • - Blog: why it's good to be a member. - Social media blast - Email to Foundation-list

ACTION:

  • - Let's talk to the membership team and see if they have any suggestions for what it takes for a non-technical person to become a member - @Nuritzi - ask Cassandra to do a blog post - @Nuritzi and Zana write the email to Foundation list - @Nuritzi Email those interested in the Indian distribution center

Conferences and Events

Wiki pages are ok as they are for now 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

Tasks for Engagment Newcomers

Newcomers Tasks: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/GettingInvolved/NewcomersTasks ACTION: All of us should try to add things

Social Media for April

- Foundation membership drive campaign - Board of Directors (in May) - Maybe a post about Release Parties all over the world - Deadline for GSoC is on April 3rd - Twitter: Remind people today's the last day for Outreachy - GUADEC CfP ends on April 23rd - Retweet some of the GUADEC activity - Rust hackfest - Libre Graphics Meeting

Maybe a Bug Squash event again around Spring Cleaning?

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.

Ongoing meeting items (we need to clean this up)

(Review and update list of ongoing Engagement team initiatives:https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/OngoingInitiatives)

  • SWAG Distribution Centers

* 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

  • Engagement Budget

* List of conferences (will go on wiki) with estimated cost to better allocate funding for budget * Some conferences listed at top of notes from Feb 10: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/10-FEB-2017 * ACTION: Send out email to engagement list to see which conferences will be attended

  • Social Media

* Not ready to start new channels (i.e. instagram, snapchat, etc.) but may want to consider this in the future * ACTION: Reach out to Federico and Alberto for photos at the hackfest in late March * ACTION: Allan will archive photos that he took at the GTK hackfest in London * ACTION: Reach out to travel committee to request photos when someone travels @Cassandra - Set up a Flicker group for GNOME Project: https://www.flickr.com/groups/gnomesocial

* 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)

* Annual report (Neil)

* 20th Birthday (Allan) - Invitations - Allan to poke people, not done yet.

* 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)

* Friends of GNOME - Neil to check with Tobi if we just get a list of email addresses or need to use a system

Conference Packs Encourage members to be self-sustaining. These packs will be given to "official groups"

Links to party pack ideas: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Goodies https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty

- Shirts that they sell: - 2 to 3 free shirts for organizers, be open to special requests - Standard: 5 small, 5 med, 5 large, 5 xl, 5 xxl - open to other suggestions - Stickers - 100 - 200 stickers (whatever is easiest) - Other ideas - pens - GNOME business cards / postcards? - phone case for business cards (liv's idea) - brochures (we would need to figure out what to put on them. maybe a friends of GNOME?) - Tablecloths - 6 foot long rectangular table (see what the standard size is)

Official Groups: what does that even mean? - 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) - should we - have at least one event a year - gnome release parties strongly encouraged - take part in social media-stuff (hashtags when their events are happening)

GNOME.org website How do we change things on there? What's the process and how can we better levergage it?

Photos Create a photo guideline plan - for conferences (nomination for @Cassandra to look into)

Travel box (https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Box/NorthAmerica) Emily has it in Carrollton, OH Banner (table cloth and maybe a standup banner), & SWAG is the MVP. Timeline to get banner by September in time for LAS GNOME

@Zana - ping Kat about a banner for the US "travel box" will ask about getting the file @Sri - ping Emily and ask her if she can prepare the box for travel. Or else prepare it for someone to pick it up. - DONE 7/1

Licensing guidelines Allan is still working towards more clarity re: re-sharing creative commons photos on own social media Copyright assignment?

CONFERENCES

October 29th: Ladies that FOSS - https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Ladies_that_FOSS - Need one (or more?) volunteers to go and mentor a few first-timers

Action Items: - Need to make a calendar with conferences with GNOME presence - @gonyere & @Adelia FOR LADIES THAT FOSS: Need to send an email to the general gnome dev list asking for volunteers

SOCIAL MEDIA September Social Media Plan: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/September_2016_Social_Media

GNOME Asia Social Media - Nuritzi https://etherpad.g nome.org/p/social_media_coordination_ep

BACKLOG OF PROJECTS

THIS WEEK IN GNOME - Sri, John (mrmcq2u), Kunaal (kunaaljain) Main initiative page: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/this_week_in_gnome_2016

Extensions

Need to talk to core developers about extensions/implementing extension functionality (ex. GNOME weather w/ weather indicator) Get the design team to give guidelines for extension developers - "do's" and "don'ts" since currently there isn't enough information on how to support extensions (esp. common use cases like indicators, status-menu-panels) Already talked to Jakub during GUADEC with a mixed response ("extensions are >the wild west<, we didn't design it, we don't want to imply that this is ok") Create a wiki page for extensions and extension community stuf Would be nice to establish a mailing list for extensions #gnome-shell Current page for Extensions: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions/StepByStepTutorial#knowingGnomeShell-API

November Bug Squash

Wiki page with the details https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/BugSquashMonth https://wiki.gnome.org/Bugsquad/BugDays https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/10-FEB-2017

Engagement/TeamMeetings/31-MAR-2017 (last edited 2017-04-12 20:30:03 by Nuritzi Sanchez)