#Engagemenet | Meeting Notes 18-MAR-2016

[Cassandra Sanchez <cassandra s 18 gmail com>]

Hi All,

Here are our meeting minutes from today, Friday March 18th, 2016: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/18-MAR-2016. I'm also adding them below. Thank you to those who joined!

We hope you'll join the next meeting, on Friday April 25th, 2016 @ 17:00 UTC, on #engagement.

Thanks, and have a great weekend, everyone!

Best,

Cassandra

• Thank you's for the FSFE postcards

• Action items:

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

• Annual Report

• - Hard submission date: March 31st

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• Action Items:

• - @Adelia will send out an email saying exactly how many days are left to submit

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

• - @Cassandra to browse through photos and select the best ones

• - @Cassandra to message travel committee and suggest a reminder for licensing: travel-committee gnome org

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• Fundraising

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• Charitable trust donation acknowledgement:
• - Craigslist charitable fund previously said they didn't need public acknowledgmnet, but now welcome acknowledgment 
  

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• Action Items:

• - Need to create a news item to thank Craigslist charitable fund for continued support

• - @Zana to find out the difference between news item vs. adding to website as a donor

• - @Zana to poke @Andrea and figure out where to add that donor on the website 

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• Friends of GNOME Redesign

• - Will wait until after the release for Zana and Allan to talk more about this

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• Outreach

• - Bastian and 2 potential newcomers (working on GNOME calendar and GNOME builder)

• - Local group: had 2nd meeting last week with about 7 or 8 people

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• Action Items:

• - @Bastian will type up some feedback on how to start a local group (& challenges he's encountered)

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• Handouts for release parties:

• - How to stay connected with GNOME, how to get reinvigorated with GNOME, social media links

• - Small questionnaire to ask what people are interested in and get a better idea of how to get people more involved

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• Action Items:

• - @Zana to send text to Cassandra for how to stay connected/get reinvigorated with GNOME

• - @Cassandra to create the handout document

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• Release 3.20 (& release notes)

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• Action Items:

• - @Zana to touch base with Allan to see if there is anything else needed to cover for upcoming release

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• Video

• - Going well

• - Sneak peak here: http://i.imgur.com/Pi4jqKv.png

• - Waiting for voice over, but if Bastian doesn't receive it soon enough will have to move forward without it

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• Release Parties

• - Not many parties up on the wiki

• - Siska is planning a release party

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• Action Items:

• - @Siska to add release party to wiki

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• Conferences

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• New Free Software Conference: http://foss-north.se/

• - Will be held in Gothenberg on May 26th; Coordinate for a speaker before April 12th

• - Aim is to cover anything open source in the talks

• - Would really like GNOME speakers to increase target audience

• - Since it's broad, could have a talk about GNOME updates and Linux

• - Talk on XDG app or Wayland?

• - Call for papers until April 12th: http://foss-north.se/call-for-papers.html

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• Action Items:

• - @Bastian will send email to foundation list for people to submit papers

• - Need to make a calendar with conferences with GNOME presence

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• Social Media

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• - Badge has been created but has a typo (should say release is on March 23rd)

• - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/release-badge-320.png

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• Action Items:

• - @Zana to follow up on fixing badge