Minutes Engagement Meeting Feb 19, 2015

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Great meeting guys, and surprisingly good attendance.  Hope to build
on this.  Would be nice to see the regional teams participate next
time.  We'll try to work out some standard regional team business in
the meeting as standing agenda items.

Here are the minutes:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/19-FEB-2015

Text is here:
Attendees: Sri, Allan, Tobi, Bastian, ikey

GNOME 3.16 promotion

* Need people to do the press promotion, press release, need fresh
blood to do promotion -
   * We need to find quotes for press release, the problem is that we
have already hit up all the big people
      We havne't anybody from Fedora for a while, nothing from Igalia
since 3.8, cat from google? (no linus!), software conservancy, Matt -
landrover, Daniel Fore - Elementary OS,
* Bastian Hougaard will be doing the video
* Allan Day willl be working on the release notes -

Community promotion
  *Should we stop doing automatic posts to facebook, we need an avid
facebook person to maintain the page, Zeeshan? Or one of the other
volunteers (Flavia, Olav, Parth, Oliver)?
  * Karen Sandler has been nomiinated for women in opensource award
(by redhat), would be great to nominate her as we would get some good
exposure for GNOME -
http://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source
  * Conference outreach - who all is givng talks - Christian giving a
talk at SCALE, we have put in a keynote idea on trademark battle at
OSCON, and a builder talk as well, Cfp for Open Source Bridge, sri
volunteered to be on the plumbers papers committee
  * GNOME.ASIA summit promotion - need to help out in funding
  * research team to find out the things going on in GNOME that we can
promote via social media
* Talked about website, and how it should move towards more mission
oriented than technology based.  General agreement that this is the
right way to go, and that it would be good to form a team.  Allan
might hunt around for some web developers.  Fabiana and Andrea are
willing ot work on a website according to a conversation Sri had with
them, but it needs to have a set start and end time due to GUADEC
responsibilites.  The current plan now is to do it at a BOF at GUADEC
and come up with a first draft right then and there so that we have a
starting point that we can iterate on.
* We need to create new leaders and expand the engagement team in
order to effective in promotion, maybe have a research team that finds
interesting things to talk about, enthusiastic people like Flavia are
interested in doing things, but nobody is giving out tasks.  We need
to create that list.

* Annual Report 2014 - didn't have time to discuss

*Licensing of GNOME artwork - photography, art, video, screenshots,
etc - didn't have time to discuss