GNOME BIRTHDAY PARTY PLANNING MAY 12

https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20BD_MAY_12

See Also

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

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

Agenda

• Review what is on our list
• Decide on initiatives to prioritize
• Decide lead for each initiative
• Create action steps with goals dates

Attendees

• Sri
• Nuritzi
• Cassandra
• Teresa

Meetings held every 2 weeks in May & June

Meetings weekly in July

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, sunglasses, balloons, stickets, etc.

• Link from Teresa for sunglasses: http://promo.vistaprint.com/catalog/sports-leisure/sunglasses

• Still need a designer
• Want to spread on social media and on blogs
• Use this to plan some new merchandise

Tech timeline

• Photos
• Screenshots
• Use on updated birthday website

Birthday Party at GUADEC

• Get Miguel Icaza to either join or record a video
• Birthday invitation - done
• Photobooth here people can take their photos and add messages??
• GNOME Love Wall (birthday messages)
• Organizing activities with engagement team
• GNOME beers

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 board members, people from the past
• 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.

Action Steps

• Sri to send out poll for next meeting on the week of the 29th

• [social media] - decide on a hashtag - Cassandra will reach out to Zana if she is interested ; brainstorm options and send out a poll

• [social media] - birthday invitation - Allan Day - "Ask when can we ask you next?"

• [social media] - 20th birthday - creating assets - create logo applicable to swag, web badges, badges - Cassandra will reach out to Bastian to ask if he's interested; Nuritzi will reach out to Endless designer if Bastian can't

• [social media] - decide which swag we want, and then we need to research cost for budget purposes - Brainstorm ideas and send to group that expressed interest in merchendise (Zana, Carla, Eleanor, Nuritzi, Bastian, Cass)

• [tech timeline] - Sri will reach out to Elvin to ask if she is interested in project managing - next update: 5/19

• [birthday party at guadec] - GNOME Love Wall - Cassandra will reach out to local GUADEC team to ask if they have an update from the venue on if this can work

• [birthday party at guadec] - Reach out to Miguel de Icaza - Sri will reach out to ask if he can join the birthday party or if not if he can record a short video

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

• [birthday wish list] - Cassandra will reach out to Zana to see if she is still interested; If not, Cassandra will reach out to Carlos and Bastian and see if they're interested

• [birthday website] - Cassandra will reach out to Tom about the birthday website; Cassandra will reach out to Zana about content for website

• Email Engagement list in the next two weeks to send out initiatives list and ask if anyone is interested in project managing the ones no one has signed up for (otherwise they'll be dropped)