GNOME BIRTHDAY PARTY PLANNING JUNE 16
https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20BD_JUNE_16
See Also
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
- 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