#Engagement Team Meeting 4 March 2016

Attended

• Nuritzi
• Zana
• Allan
• Adelia
• Cassandra

FSFE Postcards

• Thank you's for the FSFE postcards (zana)

Action Items:

• @Zana will take a photo of the postcards and @Allan will tweet a thank you

Germany Conferences

• Follow up with the german conference (muelli) pending: send emailblast to the foundation list

Action Items:

• @Nuritzi will find his email address
• @Zana will send an email if there is no response by Wednesday (March 9th)

Social media hackathon on March 5th in SF

• Joining: Adelia, Nuritzi, Zana, Cassandra, Oliver, Sri
• Social media plan for Friends of GNOME (preprepared messages?)

• Github marketing repository for images - https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing (this is primarily used for work in progress; please use the other links for recommended resources to use)

• Other events: GUADEC, GNOME Asia, Release, Election for board of directors, Hackfests pop up

• Check out: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/SocialMedia/Guidelines

Action Items:

• @Allan will add logo for Friends of GNOME to the request list for designer
• Need to make a list of items to add to the request list for designer

Annual Report

• Not ramping up yet

Action Items

• @Adelia & @Zana have design ideas and will talk to @Jeff about these

• Need to make sure text for articles is stored on the Wiki, need to maintain and manage this suggestion by gonyere

Fundraising

Friends of GNOME Redesign

• https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FriendsOfGNOME/RefreshInitiative

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome-2.png

• Will review text when website is ready but not live

• GnuCash (accounting software) vs. PayPal

• Will hold a video conference meeting to discuss further

Action Items

• Need to move computer that handles this onto GNOME infrastructure, off of Toby's personal computer
• Need to respond to donors, make sure they aren't taken for granted
• Need to draft templates so that they can be sent out to the private mailing list
• @GNOMESF will discuss this during Social Media Hackathon on March 4th

• Need to send out a note asking to make sure PayPal address is up to date (for gifts)

• Once there is a better infrastructure for collecting data: send personal emails for every 1 yr, 5 yr etc. milestone of donations; @zana and @aday to propose to the Board
• @cassandra to get photos for Friends of GNOME (tied into getting photos in general)

Outreach

• Nurizi wants to recruit more people, especially a designer

Release 3.20

• Try out GNOME at release party and see the new features
• If technical people come, have them install the updates for people that attend

• Draft of release notes here: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/three-point-twenty-release-notes

• How to distribute work? Divide up the features OR fill it in with notes to gradually evolve into full text

• Release notes are written in XML and stored in GitHub - reason is that it's translated

• Make sure we help add polish to the video script: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNineteen/ReleaseVideo