GNOME BIRTHDAY PARTY PLANNING JUNE 16

https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20BD_JUNE_16

See Also

• Wiki - https://wiki.gnome.org/gnomebirthdayparty20

• Ideas - https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20th_Birthday_Ideas

Agenda

• Review progress on initiatives
• Create action steps with goals dates

Attendees

• Sri
• Cassandra
• Allan
• Neil

Next meeting on week of June 26th-30th

CURRENT INITIATIVES:

Social media

• 20th Birthday logo (used for social media, badges, website, invitations, swag, etc.)
• Invitation
• Hashtag (tweet what they like about GNOME, a birthday message, birthday party photos, etc.)

20th Birthday Swag

• T-shirts & stickers

• Still need a designer
• Want to spread on social media and on blogs
• Use this to plan some new merchandise
• Sell remaining shirts at FOSDEM

Tech timeline

• Photos
• Screenshots
• Use on updated birthday website

Birthday Party at GUADEC

• Get Miguel Icaza to either join or record a video - Sri reach out again since hasn't heard back
• GNOME Love Wall (birthday messages) - otherwise tweet - Cass to follow up
• Organizing activities with engagement team - Nuritiz and Julita - Cass to reach out/help

Birthday website

• Old website

• Website planning etherpad

• Website content etherpad

• Showcase contributors and contributions
• Reflect on historic moments
• Motivate current contributors
• Seeing people around the world contributing
• Ask for birthday gifts
• Social media coverage with hashtag

Birthday gifts

• Friends of GNOME
• Top Bugs to fix wishlist

Getting other groups involved

• Need a goal for how to get others involved
• Contact Bin Le
• Contact Florian (GNOME Espanol)
• Team in India
• Julita in Peru

Birthday video

• Approach members at birthday party
• Have people record "Happy birthday GNOME!"
• 15 sec. recording: get people to talk about a postive experience, why the project matters, a good/funny memory, etc.
• Cassandra to coordinate this at birthday party

Action Steps

• Sri to send out poll for next meeting on the week of June 26th - 30th

• [social media] - Cassandra will look into existing hashtags and send out options to Zana, Sri, and Allan, goal: decide on hashtag by June 23rd

• [social media] - 20th birthday grahic - Nuritzi will reach out to Endless designer by EOD June 16th

• [swag] - Allan to help coordinate swag with Sri and Cassandra

• [swag] - Decide which swag we want, and then we need to research cost for budget purposes

• [swag] - Brainstorm ideas and send to group that expressed interest in merchendise (Zana, Carla, Eleanor, Nuritzi, Bastian, Cassandra)

• [swag] - Allan reach out to Jakob for a more condesned swag-friendly version (Sri and Cass available to help with swag coordination)

• [swag] - Cassandra to ask Nuritzi for help in printing once graphic is ready

• [birthday websie] - Discuss plan to use the website at next birthday meeting

• [tech timeline] - Sri will reach out to Elvin to ask if she is interested in project managing

• [tech timeline] - Sri will give next update on June 23rd

• [birthday party at guadec] - GNOME Love Wall - Cassandra will follow up with GUADEC team to help make this happen

• [birthday party at guadec] - Reach out to Miguel de Icaza - Sri will follow up

• [birthday party at guadec] - Subevents, games, & newcomer subevents - Nuritzi will reach out to Julita to project manage

• [local groups] - Nuritzi and Cassandra to discuss goals and send out emails to local group leads

• [birthday wish list] - Cassandra will follow up with Zana; If Zana is no longer interested, Cassandra will reach out to Carlos and Bastian and see if they're interested