Here are the notes from the meeting enjoy.
Attendees
- Kristi
- Caroline
- Rosanna
- Sri
- Daniel
- Melissa
Agenda
- Last meeting:
- Chat Evaluation
- Social Hour
- GNOME Latam event
- Events update
- GUADEC
- LAS
- Challenge updates
- Google Season of docs
Meeting Notes
Chat Evaluation
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Deadline for survey is this Wedensday
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After deadline Kristi and Neil will evaluate data
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have recieved many responses
Social Hour
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First one probably second week of April?
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Would like to invite the winner of the Community Engagement Challenge as speaker
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@Kristi has other guest options as well
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Will update discourse with guest info
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Could possibly turn social hour into GNOME podcast - needs feedback on how to do this
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TODO: put out call to community to see if anyone is interested in contributing to a podcast - editing audio, etc.
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TODO: @kprogri Sri will ask Nathan Willis about this
GNOME Latam
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Took place March 27 (Sat)
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Talks were in Spanish and Portuguese
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@Daniel’s update
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Talking about how everyone can get involved in GNOME/open source if you’re not a developer.
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Translators, designers, etc.
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Was a great experience for many people who don’t speak English
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10 speakers
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Already thinking about GNOME Latam 2 - lots of interest from the people who attended
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@Sri: did you feel the event was well supported, was there anything else we could have helped with?
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@Daniel: getting the video off BBB could be more accessible
Event Updates
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GUADEC:
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CfP closing tomorrow (was extended by 1 week, has gotten more talks submitted)
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We’re fixing somethings on the Registration, but will open soon
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Molly is working on getting Sponsors - she has some who have already said yes to sponsoring
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working on some accessibility items - possibly a sign language interpreter, evaluating BBB for accessibility issues and getting in contact with BBB rep
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@Melissa working on conference activity ideas:
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LAS
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@Caroline looking into Merch for LAS
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Sponsorships and partnerships are doing ok - we have some new interest
Community Engagement Challenge
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@Deadline for the final round was earlier this month.
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Winners will be announced in live showcase on April 7 at 17:00 UTC (https://events.gnome.org/event/75/)
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We would like help promoting the showcase - share the link and invite people!
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Also looking for more people/companies who might be interested in sponsoring a new challenge, if you know of anyone reach out to Melissa, Caroline, or Molly (https://foundation.gnome.org/team/)
Google Season of Docs
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@Sri and @kprogri working on project, submitted application to Google
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Will have answer from Google on April 16
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Need to promote on social, news, etc to get more interest from technical writers