Engagement team meeting call (March 2020)

[kprogri (Kristi Progri)]

Friday (March 27th) at 17:00 UTC we will have our next engagement meeting call.
Please feel free to add the topic(s) you would like to discuss about or give updates.

Etherpad link: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings

Join us here: https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement

See you then,
Kristi

[OliverPropst]

Notes;
Meeting on 27th of March

Attendees
Caroline
Martin
Kristi
Britt
Regina
Rafael
Oliver

Agenda

GSOC (Oliver)

• Deadline for student applications is March 31
• Idea list: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2020/Ideas
• Official timeline: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline
• Can make sense to spread information about the project & initiatives
• Britt will post another message to twitter today
• @Oliver suggests doing more marketing around this topic - potentially blog posts and additional social media efforts.

News worthy things (oliverp)

• Some intresting and read have posted to Planet gnome, including Tobias Bebards post "There is No “Linux” Platform (Part 2). https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/03/25/there-is-no-linux-platform-2/

• Comment: Tobias post can be interpreted as the case for and importance of GNOME.

• Christian continues to publish interesting notes about his work and efforts - (this month he have blogged twice about sysprof) https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/03/14/how-to-use-sysprof-to: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/03/15/how-to-use-sysprof-to-part-ii/

University Outreach Progress (Martin)

• There is now a wiki available which includes a guide on how to organize events,
• Link with info about the initiative is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/UniversityOutreach
• The link includes a list of people who are willing to guide the community,

Podcast initiative for GUADEC (Regina)

• Idea to some interviews GNOME People for GUADEC
• Group recommends more planning/strategy around this idea
• There is a suggestion to record all episodes before releasing any interview

Pan African GNOME Summit

• The event got canceled due to covid 19, the plan is to organize the event once the situation gets back to normal.