Ongoing Initiatives

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Ongoing Initiatives

This page tracks current Engagement Team initiatives, and is primarily used for team meetings. These are initiatives are in addition to its regular ongoing duties.

Current Initiatives

Conferences & Event Planning + SWAG Centers

Conference & event planning page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents
SWAG Center pages: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement

We want to gain more exposure for GNOME. The best way to do that is to empower our community to go out and represent GNOME at events and conferences. This initiative is one meant to help create a strategy around attending events and getting our name out there. Some ideas are helping to make sure people have SWAG and other items needed to have a great presence at events, as well as help with things like speech prep or making brochures that people can hand out to attract newcomers.

Backlog

Mission Statements & Goals for 2016

Define GNOME's mission statement
Define Engagement team's mission statement

Next Steps:

Plan a meeting specifically to talk about this. try to come up with a process that we can use
Think about which tools we would use to make this happen
Note: Needs buy in from the foundation members, core devs.

Onboarding

Owner: NuritziSanchez

Think about easier onboarding for Engagement Team and for GNOME
Quick questionnaire/poll of everyone who hangs out on #engagement as to what they'd be happy to help out with

Next Steps:

Create love bugs for engagement team!
Check out and consolidate the getting involved and tasks pages.
Think about using a different portal: http://whatcanidoforgnome.org/. Also check out the newcomers project tour.
Create some kind of landing page for people interested in joining the engagement team, similar to Newcomers, with mentors listed.

Mentors:

BastialIlso: merchandise + video making + marketing swag
Prth: friendly face + community outreach + regional focus: India
Zana: friendly face + directory assistance
Sri: friendly face + connector + regional focus: wider US
Nuritzi: friendly face + connector + social media + regional focus: SF Bay Area

Outreach

Create business cards with IRC channels for certain groups
Advertising the easy bugs at places like openhatch so they get widespread exposure
Outreach to universities - (we have had two talks at universities by GNOME members thus far)
Create marketing material individuals around the world can print and distribute

Next steps:

Nuritzi - Find Andreas' business card template
Sri - make a tour about how all the teams interact (has put the info together, but needs to be organized and made into an infographic)
Nuritzi - create GNOME SF Facebook group

Website

Owner: NuritziSanchez

Revamp the GNOME website to make sure it meets GNOME's high level goals +1 - Nuritzi (am going to see if new engagement team members want to take this on). Might also want to include http://whatcanidoforgnome.org/.
Use our website more tactically by talking about opportunities for volunteering and being involved
Tutorial: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Tutorials/LocalWGO

Next steps:

Sri to check with Andreas and Fabiana:
- Check process and documentation for new website contributors:
  - Check that the Wordpress tutorial is up to date).
  - Talk to the sysadmins if there are any technical obstacles to contribution.
  - Identify small bugs that are good for newcomers
  - Could one of them mentor a GSoC intern?
  - See if Andreas and/or Fabiana can help to mentor contributors, and review patches.
  - If Andreas and Fabiana's availability is a limiting factor, we need to try and recruit a new web site lead. Possible actions here:
    - Put out a call for volunteers - internal mailing lists, social media.
    - Investigate fundraising to pay for someone to do it.
  - Once we have contributors, we can work with them to create a plan and designs.

Action steps:

Nuritzi to send notes to marketing list email group. Ask Andreas to make changes.
Note: heard warnings about how the website is hard to manage / work on.
Think about hackfest at GUADEC
Various mockups sent to engagement list.
Schedule a meeting just on website development.

Fundraising: Patreon & Friends of GNOME

Owners: StevePearce & RosannaYuen

A Patreon account already set up for trial, but user-facing page not live yet. Aiming to go live around March 15th, pending sync with Friends of GNOME.
- Email: patreon@gnome.org
- Password shared between StevePearce, EkaterinaGerasimova and BastianIlsø
Patreon will be a different way for people to donate, like Friends of GNOME.
A lot of the people who are signed up to write postcards as part of the Adopt-a-Hacker level for Friends of GNOME aren't active members anymore, so we should reach out to developers and make sure that they are willing and able to write postcards.

Actions:

RosannaYuen and StevePearce should set up a Friends of GNOME meeting. See if AllanDay, TobiasMueller, BastianIlsø can participate too.
Sysadmin (puiterwijk) - can add StevePearce to the Wordpress.
Set a meeting to talk about Friends of GNOME & Patreon levels - StevePearce & RosannaYuen.
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/

Reference:

AllanDay says that we had talked about a revamp of Friends of GNOME website before:

Other ideas:

Friends of GNOME brochure / an easy way to help us get contributions and fundraise
SysAdmin brochure as proposed by Jeff

From community member: When you download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ the text "Your donation will fund Eclipse IDE development" and a form for paying with Paypal is provided. Would it be an idea to add such a page on download.gnome.org for GNOME Foundation fundraising?

Archived Initiatives

GNOME Shell Extensions

Outreach to people to help test GNOME extensions

Sri had to table this for 3.18, because it was in the middle of a deadline on some internal work. It was seriously bad timing, I will try to make another attempt for next release.

This will consist of getting recruits to help us test out the extensions. Sri knows most about this.

We should use social media to recruit. Before we do, we need:

target image for them to download and test
plan on what we are going to do with the feedback
know and communicate the process of contacting the authors and getting it fixed

More details and planning here: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/GNOME_Extensions_Testing_Sept_2015 Notes: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/BOFs/GnomeShellExtensions Action: Sri to speak to the release team about putting it on the timetable and making the image available

2016 Annual Report

Main initiative page: Annual Report 2015-2016

The Annual Report is a tool for us to fundraise. This is an annual activity and something we aim to get out by GUADEC in order to show our prospective sponsors.