LAS GNOME Meeting on Aug 23rd

Attendees

• Nuritzi
• Link
• Adelia
• Rosanna
• Sri

Agenda

• Quick sync
• LAS GNOME next year
• North American Summit / Hackfests we want to do

Notes

LAS GNOME Next Year

• Timing for 2018: Spring
  • Neil may have a calendar with all the events, ask him about it
  • We think Spring is a good target, but the groups bidding will have some say in the matter and help us pinpoint an exact date

Vision for LAS GNOME

• We want to incubate LAS GNOME with the unerstanding that it will grow beyond GNOME
• Initially, we may want to have it in North America (for at least 2 years), but eventually we want it to be international as it gets larger
• We may want to incubate LAS GNOME with the North American Summit and co-host the two
  • We may even want to co-host LAS GNOME and North American Summit with other Linux events
    • This might cause brand dilution, we can still talk at conferences to build recognition for LAS, but it'd be great to have one LAS conference that is a larger more singularly-branded event
  • There's a general consensus that co-hosting is a good idea at least for LAS GNOME and North American Summit
  • How would this work pragmatically? Give talks at a larger conference like SCALE and then have unconference events afterward
  • Branding / Messaging: The GNOME Foundation is having a North American Summit and the content for that will be LAS GNOME. We are hosting LAS at the North American Summit.

• When should we hold LAS GNOME? Weekdays or weekends?
  • who is our main audience for this conference?
    • free players, non-free players, ecosystem (includes distros), flatpak/flathub developers
    • We can decide the timing of this later: weekends vs weekdays... we should talk about this

Keep the ball rolling

• We should still move forward on: the website, registration software, targeted attenees, sponsors

Rebrand North American Summit

• Maybe call it the North American GNOME Event
• Name ideas:
• What is the goal / elevator pitch for this North American gathering

Relevant docs we talked about in the meeting

• Website copy updates needed: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/las-gnome-org-updates

• Master Logistics Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14VZwLTTLJ3B6vZ_sGmUUifAc8ol4_ltuDq3rHdDTzlc/edit#gid=1482883269

LAS GNOME Organizers Hackfest

• We think it'd be a good idea to get together as a group and plan the 2018 instance
• A lot of us who are interested in planning it are located in SF
• Proposed hackfest: Sat Sept 30 - Sun Oct 1
  • We would need a budget for Sri to fly out to SF and stay somewhere for 2 nights
  • We could use the Endless office

Next Steps

• Send email to Board about the plan to do a co-hosted event give a deadline of Friday
• Send to engagement-list and foundation-list on Friday
• Sri talks to sponsors - week of Aug 28th

  • create shared messaging: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/las_gnome_2018_messaging - by Sunday