Re: Meeting Notes | #Engagement Meeting Feb 12th

[Allan Day <aday gnome org>]

Thanks for the minutes, Nuritizi! Especially useful since I had to miss last meeting.

Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis stanfordalumni org> wrote:

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Fundraising: Patreon & Friends of GNOME

Patreon account already set up for trial, but user-facing page not live yet. 

Email: patreon gnome org 

Password shared between stevepdp, kittykat and bastianilso 

Patreon will be a different way for people to donate. Kind of like Friends of GNOME. A lot of the people on the Friends of GNOME list aren't active members anymore, so we should update that.

I haven't heard about this before - could we have some more details? Note that Friends of GNOME has never been targeted at active contributors only.

ACTION STEPS:

• Set a meeting to talk about Friends of GNOME & Patreon levels @Zana and Steve

• Make sure that the gifts match Friends of GNOME and that levels are rethought. Consider adding keyboard stickers as gifts, mugs, pint glasses
• find new developers for Friends of GNOME: hand out a bunch of postcards then developers will send postcard to new donors.

• Update the Friends of GNOME website. https://www.gnome.org/friends/

Note that there has been discussion about this on the mailing list previously [1, 2, 3], and there are mockup for a new website design [4], which might be of interest in the very least.

Allan

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-August/msg00024.html

[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-April/msg00052.html 

[3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-November/msg00112.html

[4] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome.png