GNOME's 20th Birthday Sign Up

[Cassandra Sanchez <cassandra gnome org>]

Hi Everyone,

At last week's Engagement BoFs in Karlsruhe we began our planning for GNOME's 20th Birthday. Thank you to all those who joined and helped make them very productive meetings! You can find our notes here: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20th_Birthday_Ideas

We brainstormed some great ideas to move forward and now need to work on making them a reality. We'd love more people to be involved, so please take a look at the proposed projects and add your name next to any you're interested in helping out with: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/20th_Birthday_Projects. You can also add your name at the top of the etherpad with any skills you'd like to contribute (e.g. web dev, design, etc.). Please sign up by the end of the week so that we can move this onto a more organized wiki.

Feel free to reach out to me, or anyone else on the core team (Nuritzi, Bastian, Zana, and Carla), if you have any questions about any of the 20th Birthday projects.

Best,
Cassandra

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Skills:

• Sri - Merchandising, website

• Shaun - History, alumni

• Amisha - Design

• Carla - Design

Must Haves

• Social Media hashtag @Zana & Nuritzi, Visual: Carla

• Press for GUADEC @Allan?, Elvin reach out to network

• Organize birthday party at GUADEC @Carla

• Create a 20th logo/bade/birthday visual identity @Carla

• Local group listing @Nuritzi

• Coordinate with other groups (Peru, Asia, Hispano) @Nuritzi

• Birthday website update @Design: Carla, Dev: Philip, Organization and Strategy: Elvin

• Invitations to members and founders @Design: Carla, Organization: Zana

• Propose a "History of GNOME" keynote, special event, panel, or lightning talks @Zana to ask Jonathan, Nuritzi

• Announce birthday during opening ceremony of GUADEC @Nuritzi

• Tech timeline @Allan, Elvin, Joaquim

• Encourage/invite/fly-in alumni and founders to GUADEC @Nuritzi

• Ask community for old photos and videos (for birthday website) @Sri

• Birthday registry and post what they did on social media (GNOME retweets) @Zana

Nice to Haves

• Splash page for birthday for GNOME.org @Carla, Cassandra, and Nuritzi

• Live feed for birthday events (and on birthday website) @Social media team

• Party packs (@Emily Chen) @Nuritzi, Eleanor, Carla, Cassandra

• GNOME Beer @Allan, Alberto, Elvin

• Movie night @Nuritzi, Cassandra

• Birthday playlist @Sri to ask Justin

• Social media contest and community involvement @Social Media Group

• Merchendise @Carla, Cassandra, Eleanor, Bastian, Sri

• Traditions of GNOME, wiki, book, or something @Cassandra, Zana

• Equip people to represent us at conferences and mention birthday (posters at universities) @Nuritzi, Cassandra

• Set up easy way for people to give birthday money @Zana

• Countdown on HBD web to social media @Website update team

• Make a GUADEC App, links or merchendise, talk schedule, etc, look for conference template apps @Carla for content ideas, Sri to ask around, Elvin to ask around, Nuritzi, Outreachy coordination??

• VM running old releases @Philip, Sri to ask Emmanuele

• Patch in our calendar to show GNOME's birthday @Bastian to suggest it to maintainer

• Make a jingle for birthday

• Documentary @Sri to ask brother

• Google doodle + Fedora doodle @Nuritzi to ask around, Joaquim

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• Hardware (laptops, phones, etc.) @Sri

• Printed calendar of GNOME @Joaquim

• GNOME community cookbook @Elvin

• Social media games

• Zeeshan helicopter banner

• Pokemon GO teams

• Visions of GNOME 2037 @Philip