Re: #Engagemenet | Meeting Notes March 3rd 2016

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

This Tuesday is the SF start up happy hour.  This might be a good place to look for recruits and also get our name out.

Sri

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016, 1:15 PM Cassandra Sanchez <cassandra s 18 gmail com> wrote:

Hi Everyone, 

Here are the meeting notes from yesterday, Friday March 4th, 2016: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/4-MAR-2016. I'm also adding them below. Thanks for joining us!

We hope you'll join the next meeting, on Friday March 11th, 2016 @ 17:00 UTC, on #engagement.

Thanks, and have a great weekend!

Best, 

Cassandra

Attended:

- Nuritzi

- Zana

- Allan

- Adelia

- Cassandra

FSFE Postcards

- Thank you's for the FSFE postcards (zana)

• Action Items:

• - @Zana will take a photo of the postcards and @Allan will tweet a thank you

German Conferences

- Follow up with the german conference (muelli) pending: send emailblast to the foundation list

• Action Items:

• - @Nuritzi will find his email address

• - @Zana will send an email if there is no response by Wednesday (March 9th)

• 
  

Social media hackathon on March 5th in SF (NuritziS)

- Joining: Adelia, Nuritzi, Zana, Cassandra, Oliver, Sri

- Social media plan for Friends of GNOME (preprepared messages?)

- Github marketing repository for images - https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing (this is primarily used for work in progress; please use the other links for recommended resources to use)

- Check out: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/SocialMedia/Guidelines

- Other events: GUADEC, GNOME Asia, Release, Election for board of directors, Hackfests pop up

• Action Items:

- @Allan will add logo for Friends of GNOME to the request list for designer

- Need to make a list of items to add to the request list for designer

Annual Report

- Not ramping up yet

• Action Items:

- @Adelia & @Zana have design ideas and will talk to @Jeff about these

- Need to make sure text for articles is stored on the Wiki, need to maintain and manage this suggestion by @gonyere

Fundraising

Friends of GNOME Redesign

- https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FriendsOfGNOME/RefreshInitiative

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome-2.png

- Will review text when website is ready but not live

- GnuCash (accounting software) vs. PayPal

- Will hold a video conference meeting to discuss further

• Action Items:

• - Need to send out a note asking to make sure PayPal address is up to date (for gifts)

• - Once there is a better infrastructure for collecting data: send personal emails for every 1 yr, 2yr, 5 yr etc. milestone of donations @Zana and @Allan to propose to the Board

• - @cassandra to get photos for Friends of GNOME (tied into getting photos in general)
• - Move computer that handles this onto GNOME infrastructure, off of Toby's personal computer
• - Need to respond to donors, make sure they aren't taken for granted
• - Need to draft templates so that they can be sent out to the private mailing list
• - @GNOMESF will discuss this during Social Media Hackathon on March 4th

Outreach

- @Nurizi wants to recruit more people, especially a designer

Release 3.20

- Try out GNOME at release party and see the new features

- If technical people come, have them install the updates for people that attend

- Draft of release notes here: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/three-point-twenty-release-notes

- How to distribute work? Divide up the features OR fill it in with notes to gradually evolve into full text 

- Release notes are written in XML and stored in GitHub - reason is that it's translated

- Make sure we help add polish to the video script: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNineteen/ReleaseVideo

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