LAS GNOME Meeting on Aug 23rd

Contents

  1. LAS GNOME Meeting on Aug 23rd
    1. Attendees
    2. Agenda
    3. Notes
      1. LAS GNOME Next Year
      2. Vision for LAS GNOME
      3. Keep the ball rolling
      4. Rebrand North American Summit
      5. Relevant docs we talked about in the meeting
      6. LAS GNOME Organizers Hackfest
    4. Next Steps

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

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

Events/LASGNOME/2017/Notes/Aug-23 (last edited 2017-08-24 00:45:10 by Nuritzi Sanchez)