The Engagement's team Bof notes from GUADEC 2020
Attendees
ClaudioWunder (Engagement Team / Community Manager)
- Monica Ayhens-Madon
- Molly de Blanc (Engagement Team Fan)
- Ruth Ikegah
- Regina Nkemchor Adejo
Agenda
- Introduction
Everyone is great, tired, and doing cool things.<3 (IT'S 8 AM)
- Topics discussion
Review and action items
Possible Topics:
- Faces of GNOME
- Why we're doing this initiative?
- What needs to be done?
- How was to scale up a new social platform (Rocket.chat)
- How we manage PR/Communities (Reddit, Discourse)
- How we interact with our Community
- How we deal with trolls, problems, etc?
- How we created our Events Platform
- How we do GSoC
- What are the challenges?
- The Moderation Initiative
- Why is this important?
On-boarding process initiative
- Metrics CHAOSS
- What are the goals that engagement team should archive on 2021? Where would you like to see it in 1 year period?
- Metrics, FAQ, and transparency about internal decisions.
- Why Maintainers/Developers chose to do A,B,C
- Why it's important to publicly announce our technical decisions?
- GNOME.org Redesign
- What are we doing?
- What needs to be done? Content? Design? Etc...
Action Plans
- Faces of GNOME... What's next?
- What should we do to improve the Engagement/Conversion-Rate on our Communities
What can we do for GNOME.org redesign?
- How can we progress with the Moderation Initiative?
- What are the next steps for the On-boarding Initiative?
Faces of GNOME
- a face book (not a Facebook)]
this should move to faces.gnome.org at some point
- Namespace clash with Friends of GNOME (GNOME Faces, GNOMEies?)
Can you share the link to Gnomebook? j/k but can you share the link? https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Engagement/websites/contributors-index/
- design work needed
Props to @Sri and the Onboarding Initiative!
- What are criteria for joining?
- Manually approved and merged
- Must fit into a category
- Age minimum
Todo: define what counts as a "contribution"
- Someone needs to make sure things are up-to-date
- Set a schedule for updating
ACTION ITEM: Define qualifications for being listed and the procedure to become listed, Create an Issue on GitLab (@Claudio)
Rocket.chat
- We love it! Thanks!
- Technically not "official," but a lot of IRC use has been deprecated* (* no longer used)
Rocket.chat has some nice features. Good job, rocketchat!
ACTION ITEM: help teams state whether they use IRC or rocket.chat for their official communications and/or make a database/list
ACTION ITEM: Write a post for Engagement Blog about communication channels (e.g. rocketchat, discourse, etc)
ACTION ITEM: Update wiki to include list of channels on rocketchat/IRC
- Might end up being a big project
@Monica volunteered to spearhead -- tag @madhens on the Gitlab issue
Add directory to welcome message: https://chat.gnome.org/directory/channels-Announcement that we have moved the official conversation to Rocket chat.
Managing Communities
Reddit and Discourse aren't always easy to moderate, manage, and take care of
- Is Reddit an official GNOME communication channel? Unknown.
- If moderators of reddit leave then it will fall back on staff. Is the time of staff worth it?
Unique conversations happen on Reddit, which are valuable; lots of people are there.
@Federico provides example of how Rust uses it -- use it, people participate, when actual issues arise redirect to official GNOME channels
Events platform
We now use Indico. Thanks, @Britt et. all
- Sections/Categories specifically for official events; others exist for meetups, local events, etc
Onboarding Process Initiative
- CHAOSS project collaboration
- Asking: What does GNOME have to document? What can we measure?
- Relevant to GSoC work/etc.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/initiatives/scalable-onboarding
- Newcomers and mentor matching would be cool, but it's important to set expectations
- Engagement Team should allow new contributors go through the newcomers channel
G.O redesign
@Bart and @Britt are working on this
It's going to be in WordPress
Evan worked on terrifying @WordPress revamps for a while, so if you ever want to ping me
- Yay
ACTION ITEM: Set up check-in/update meeting, @Kristi
2021 Planning
- This will happen at a future meeting
ACTION ITEM: Run a poll to schedule meeting time @Kristi
- Plan working group meetings, and then in the monthly meetings groups will check in with everyone
ACTION ITEM: Discuss decision making process and division of labor @Kristi