GNOME BIRTHDAY PARTY PLANNING JUNE 30
https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20BD_JUNE_30
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Agenda
- Review progress on initiatives
- Create action steps with goals dates
Attendees
- Emily
- Nuritzi
- Allan
- Sri
- Cassandra
Next meeting on July 7th @ 17:00 UTC
CURRENT INITIATIVES:
Social media
- 20th Birthday logo (used for social media, badges, website, stickers and t shirt) in progress by Kate
- #GNOMEparty will be our official hashtag
20th Birthday Swag
T-shirt designs so people can order their own & stickers
- Send out link to purchase on social media and on blogs ; also include on new birthday website
Tech timeline
- Looking for ISOs way to run this if possible
Sri is making progress & researching - will reach out to more people soon
- Delivery date: try for July 10th in order to get feedback; hard deadline is July 15th
Birthday Party at GUADEC
Welcome ceremony > Sit down dinner > Birthday cake (Federico) > Free night (raffle)
- Get Miguel Icaza to either join or record a video - Sri reached out but M.I. has not yet committed to a video/trip out to GUADEC
- Get trivia sheet to GUADEC team to get it done by July 14th
- GNOME Love Wall (birthday messages) - otherwise tweet - still waiting to hear back from venue
- Play music for an hour of just 1990s music. Maybe even songs debuted in 1997?
- Ask Federico some questions before he cuts the cake
Birthday website
- Add a link to Friends of GNOME and use it as a fundraising campaign as a main goal
- Add link to special edition swag
- 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
- Website should be up and running by July 18th, since that's 1 month before the actual birthday
Birthday gifts
- Friends of GNOME on birthday website
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
- Ask for board for up to $50 for birthday parties
- Swag packs
- Make assets available
- Start advertsing this before July 18th
- Ask for budget now
- Add note to website to request budget
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
[swag] - Nuritzi to follow up with Kate regarding logo for stickers and tshirt design
[swag] - Nuritzi to send proposed t-shirt sizes/numbers to Allan
[birthday website] - Sri to reach out to Tom to ask about ISOs
[birthday website] - Cass to follow up with Tom about featuring Friends of GNOME
[birthday website] - Need to add something about budget for local groups parties (content will be written by Cass with Nuritzi's help)
[tech timeline] - UNASSIGNED: On social media ask for screenshots to be sent in - ask people to send us their links (but where?)
[tech timeline] - Cass (with Nuritzi's help) will ask for an email address alias & who it should point to
[birthday party at guadec] - GNOME Love Wall - still waiting to hear back - if no response, need to come up with plan B
[birthday party at guadec] - Sri will follow up with Miguel de Icaza
[birthday party at guadec] - Trivia game needs to be complete ASAP (Nuritzi & Cass to create)
[local groups] - Nuritzi to ask for budget for 10 local groups to have $50 USD for birthday party each
[local groups] - Want to have assets ready for local groups to print stickers/t-shirts/balloons/etc.