Re: Brief interviews with gnome contributors

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I know everyone on that list. I assume Ken is Ken Van Dine. Let me know if need 
an interview on everyone on that list.

sri

On Jun 6 2019, at 11:16 am, mdeblanc  wrote:
>
> I think fortnightly, for the time being.
> I was looking at the ticket Rosanna referenced
> (https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/General/issues/93). I don't
> know most of these people, and their current activity level. Can someone
> help me get in touch with them?
>
> Cheers,
> Molly
>
> On , Britt Yazel wrote:
> > I think this is a great idea that has been a long time coming, thanks
> > for doing this! How often are you looking to post? weekly?
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:52 PM mdeblanc  wrote:
> > > Hi Engagement List,
> > > I'm Molly, the new(ish) strategic initiatives manager at the GNOME
> > > Foundation. I'm working on a few things that are potentially
> > > relevant to
> > > the engagement team, especially interviews with GNOME contributors.
> > > I'm
> > > doing short interviews with contributors, which I'd like to post to
> > > the
> > > engagement blog. I wanted to see what other people thought of this
> > > before going ahead and doing so.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > > Cheers,
> > > Molly
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REMINDER: Engagement meeting TODAY at 20:00 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Fri, Jan 18, 20:00 UTC


Hi All,

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting on
Friday, 2019-1-18 (Jan 18th) at 20:00 UTC.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via voice call.
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Best,
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Proposed Agenda
  * FOSDEM prep
 * SCALE prep(?)
 * Annual Report
 * Follow ups from last meeting
 * New tickets/existing tickets

If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the
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[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
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REMINDER: Engagement meeting Jan 11th 2019 20:00 UTC (TODAY)

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Fri, Jan 11, 20:00 UTC


Hi All,

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting on
Friday, 2019-1-11 (Jan 11th) at 20:00 UTC.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via voice call.
You can join the call by clicking the link below or dialing in on your
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about that item.

Best,
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Proposed Agenda
 * 2019 planning (continued) [follow up from Saturday]
 * FOSDEM prep
 * SCALE prep(?)
 * Annual Report
 * Follow ups from last meeting
 * New tickets/existing tickets

If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the
team!

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Make sure you know what time 20:00 UTC is in your timezone. You can use
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If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous
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We look forward to meeting you!

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[1] https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
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REMINDER: Engagement meeting Friday Jan 4th 2019 - 20:00 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sriram Ramkrishna s...@gnome.org via gnome.org

Fri, Jan 4, 20:00 UTC


Hi All,

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting on
Friday, 2019-1-4 (Jan 4th) at 20:00 UTC.

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Best,
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Proposed Agenda
* Introductions (w/Kristi)
 * 2019 planning
 * FOSDEM
 * Annual Report
 * Follow ups from last meeting
 * New tickets/existing tickets

If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the
team!

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[2].

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@sri

Make sure you know what time 15:30 UTC is in your timezone. You can use
Time & Date [3] to help you.

If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous
meetings here: EngagementTeam Meetings [4].

We look forward to meeting you!

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[1] https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
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[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings
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No meeting this week

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

FYI - no meeting this week.  Enjoy your holidays, and we'll see you next week!

sri
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Re: REMINDER: Engagement Team Meeting Dec 14, 2018 20:00 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I have a conflict today and won't be able to run the meeting.  If
someone could do that for me, that would be awesome.  I might show up
if my other commitment ends early.

Cheers,
sri

On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 20:41 -0500, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> Sriram Ramkrishna s...@gnome.org via gnome.org 
> 
> Fri, Dec 14, 20:00 UTC
> 
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting on
> Friday, 2018-12-14 (Dec 14th) at 20:00 UTC.
> 
> At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via voice
> call.
> You can join the call by clicking the link below or dialing in on
> your
> phone: 
> 
> Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement
> Optional dial in number: 857-216-6156
> 
> PIN: 62777
> 
> (or try dialing this: +18572166156;62777
> 
> 
> You can find the editable version of our agenda here: Engagement
> Meeting Agenda [1]. If you have anything you'd like us to talk about,
> please add it along with your name in parenthesis so we know who to
> ask
> about that item.
> 
> Best, 
> Sri
> 
> 
> Proposed Agenda
>  * Engagement Blog
>  * Planning for next year
>  * Follow ups from last meeting
>  * New tickets/existing tickets
> 
> If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
> We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the
> team! 
> 
> To join the engagement team meeting, make sure that you have an IRC
> account and join the #engagement channel. IRC setup instructions are
> here: Getting In Touch [2]. 
> 
> If you want to chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC:
> @nuritzi.
> 
> Make sure you know what time 15:30 UTC is in your timezone. You can
> use
> Time & Date [3] to help you.
> 
> If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous
> meetings here: EngagementTeam Meetings [4].
> 
> We look forward to meeting you!
> 
> Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at
> least
> an hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30
> minutes
> to set up. You may want to try using a web-based client, like IRC
> Cloud
> [5], first and then ping someone on IRC for help setting up a native
> client.
> 
> 
> [1] https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings
> [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
> [3] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html 
> [4] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings  
> [5] https://www.irccloud.com/ 
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Re: FOSDEM booth

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 23:28 +, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 23:23 Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:
> > How things going with the FOSDEM booth?  Have we got all the
> > logistics
> > nailed down?
> 
> We need more stickers by FOSDEM and the t-shirt design by start of
> Jan.

OK, we'll address the t-shirt design in tomorrow's engagement meeting. 
I will see if we can get Carlos (which owns the swag center in Europe I
believe) to print out some more.  Is there an existing ticket for the
swag request?  If not, can you create one with what you think we'll
need and we can get that taken care of.


> 
> > By FOSDEM, Purism will have a dev kit for the librem 5.  What I
> > would
> > like to do is, is use it to show off GTK+/Libhandy to show that
> > GTK+
> > can now be used for different screen sizes.
> > I'm asking if it is okay to display that hardware with the
> > understanding that it is only going to show off GTK+ capabilities
> > rather than talking about the Librem 5.
> 
> We don't really have the space… but let's chat over IRC? Maybe we can
> work something out. But the space is already a really big issue.
> 

OK, no worries.  I'll reach out to you tomorrow and work out any
possible logistics.

sri

> > My focus here is to show off the platform not the hardware.  The
> > other
> > advantage is driving booth traffic with something unique.  My
> > intent is
> > to to leverage the dev kit, but if it is perceived as Purism taking
> > advantage then let's nix it.  But I'd like to know if this rings
> > any
> > alarm bells.  
> > 
> > OB: I am a Purism employee - secondly, FOSDEM does not allow
> > corporate/business to have booth etc.  So they can't have their own
> > booth.  I'm being clear on that so that you can gauge intent.
> > 
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REMINDER: Engagement Team Meeting Dec 14, 2018 20:00 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sriram Ramkrishna s...@gnome.org via gnome.org 

Fri, Dec 14, 20:00 UTC


Hi All, 

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting on
Friday, 2018-12-14 (Dec 14th) at 20:00 UTC.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via voice call.
You can join the call by clicking the link below or dialing in on your
phone: 

Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement
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You can find the editable version of our agenda here: Engagement
Meeting Agenda [1]. If you have anything you'd like us to talk about,
please add it along with your name in parenthesis so we know who to ask
about that item.

Best, 
Sri


Proposed Agenda
 * Engagement Blog
 * Planning for next year
 * Follow ups from last meeting
 * New tickets/existing tickets

If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the
team! 

To join the engagement team meeting, make sure that you have an IRC
account and join the #engagement channel. IRC setup instructions are
here: Getting In Touch [2]. 

If you want to chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC:
@nuritzi.

Make sure you know what time 15:30 UTC is in your timezone. You can use
Time & Date [3] to help you.

If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous
meetings here: EngagementTeam Meetings [4].

We look forward to meeting you!

Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at least
an hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30 minutes
to set up. You may want to try using a web-based client, like IRC Cloud
[5], first and then ping someone on IRC for help setting up a native
client.


[1] https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
[3] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html 
[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings  
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FOSDEM booth

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

How things going with the FOSDEM booth?  Have we got all the logistics
nailed down?

By FOSDEM, Purism will have a dev kit for the librem 5.  What I would
like to do is, is use it to show off GTK+/Libhandy to show that GTK+
can now be used for different screen sizes.

I'm asking if it is okay to display that hardware with the
understanding that it is only going to show off GTK+ capabilities
rather than talking about the Librem 5.

My focus here is to show off the platform not the hardware.  The other
advantage is driving booth traffic with something unique.  My intent is
to to leverage the dev kit, but if it is perceived as Purism taking
advantage then let's nix it.  But I'd like to know if this rings any
alarm bells.  

OB: I am a Purism employee - secondly, FOSDEM does not allow
corporate/business to have booth etc.  So they can't have their own
booth.  I'm being clear on that so that you can gauge intent.

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Remiinder: GNOME Engagement Meeting - Friday 20:00 UTC - Agenda (tomorrow)

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sriram Ramkrishna s...@gnome.org via gnome.org 

Fri, Dec 7, 20:00 UTC


Hi All, 

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting on
Tuesday, 2018-12-07 (Dec 7th) at 20:00 UTC.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via voice call.
You can join the call by clicking the link below or dialing in on your
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You can find the editable version of our agenda here: Engagement
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please add it along with your name in parenthesis so we know who to ask
about that item.

Best, 
Sri


Proposed Agenda
 * Engagement Blog
 * GNOME Website Redesign
 * Upcoming Social Media/GNOME Events 
 * Brief mention of This Week in GNOME
 * Planning for next Year
 * Follow ups from last meeting



If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the
team! 

To join the engagement team meeting, make sure that you have an IRC
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If you want to chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC:
@nuritzi.

Make sure you know what time 15:30 UTC is in your timezone. You can use
Time & Date [3] to help you.

If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous
meetings here: EngagementTeam Meetings [4].

We look forward to meeting you!

Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at least
an hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30 minutes
to set up. You may want to try using a web-based client, like IRC Cloud
[5], first and then ping someone on IRC for help setting up a native
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[1] https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
[3] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html 
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Reminder: Engagement Meeting today at 20:00 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hey falks, this is a reminder that we have an engagement meeting today
at 20:00 UTC.


Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement
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 Proposed Agenda:

* Go through stuck issues on Gitlab and set timelines.
* Discussion onpriorities for end of the year - possible budget discussions
* Update on annual report

If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the team!

To join the engagement team meeting, make sure that you have an IRC
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If you want to chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC: @nuritzi.

Make sure you know what time 20:00 UTC is in your timezone. You can
use Time & Date [3] to help you.

If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous
meetings here: EngagementTeam Meetings [4].

We look forward to meeting you!

Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at
least an hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30
minutes to set up. You may want to try using a web-based client, like
IRC Cloud [5], first and then ping someone on IRC for help setting up
a native client.


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[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
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Re: Fractal December hackfest social event

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 09:22 +0100, Daniel García Moreno wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to organize a dinner for people participating in the next
> fractal hackfest [1] in Seville.
> 
> Currently we're 5 people confirmed for the hackfest and we can count
> with at least 3 local people, so I'm estimating about 8-10 person.
> 
> The budget will be used to pay the dinner of the first day and some
> beers. I'll try to organize the dinner in a special place to show the
> unknown secrets of the city.
> 
> I don't know exactly the budget yet, but I think we should need about
> 100€ for that dinner.

HI  Daniel,

Let me get back with you on this.

sri

> 
> Regards
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/FractalDecember2018
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New meeting time - Friday 20:00 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Seems like the best time, although sadly our fearless ED would not be
able to make it, but that's okay, he can always participate in some
other way.

In an case - the next meeting will be Friday, November 23, 2018.  I
know that Thanksgiving holiday week, so let me konw if some of you
can't make it.

Cheers,
sri
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Re: Time to get our engagement meeting back on again

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 12:44 AM Link Dupont  I think you forgot the URL to the framadate. :P
>

Oops you are right !

https://framadate.org/i6J3286gmrEFM5NW

There you go !

Sri


> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna 
> wrote:
> > Hey folks!
> >
> > Just want to get started getting our engagement meetings going again.
> > We had a good long while from the LAS and plenty of time off and now
> > it
> > is time to get back to it! :-)
> >
> > Here is a framadate and if you would be so kind to fill it out.  I'm
> > not interested in meeting next week, but I would like to get a day of
> > the week and a time figured out things.  We got a lot to do!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > sri
> >
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Time to get our engagement meeting back on again

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hey folks!

Just want to get started getting our engagement meetings going again. 
We had a good long while from the LAS and plenty of time off and now it
is time to get back to it! :-)

Here is a framadate and if you would be so kind to fill it out.  I'm
not interested in meeting next week, but I would like to get a day of
the week and a time figured out things.  We got a lot to do!

Cheers,
sri

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Re: GUADEC announcement - need help

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 6:16 AM Ekaterina Gerasimova via engagement-list <
engagement-list@gnome.org> wrote:

> Hi engagement team,
>
> we have set the GUADEC dates and location and I would appreciate if
> someone could volunteer to (or help) write announcements, publish them
> and also publicise via social media.
>
> We would like to announce towards end of this week. If you're
> interested, ping me directly!
>

We have a volunteer who would be happy to work with you.  Mac, who is on
the list can help create the announcement.  Feel free to introduce yourself!

Sri


>
>
> Thanks
> Kat
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Facebook account details

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Does anybody have access to the facebook account?  I need it to create the
instagram account.  Any help would be appreciated. :)

sri
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Re: Upcoming news items

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Yes, we had the wonderful Felipe Borges who has created a issue.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/90

We probably need to do a round especially concluding the GNOME/Rust
hackfest and the CfP.

If nobody assigns to the tasks to themselves, then I'll take it.

sri

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:12 AM Ekaterina Gerasimova 
wrote:

> Hi, is there any chance that the engagement team could publish some
> stuff to promote the GUADEC CfP please?
>
> On 13 April 2018 at 12:53, Oliver Propst  wrote:
> > The Engagement team are working on a couple of news items that are
> supposed
> > to be published in a not to distant future.
> > A draft for the GUADEC 2019 call for proposals is specifically available
> in
> > WordPress.
> >
> > https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/gitlabpartnership_announcement
> > https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/gnome-asia-2019-call-for-bids
> >
> > --
> > -mvh Oliver Propst
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Meeting Minutes - 04/10/2018

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

= Meeting on April 10th =

== Attendees ==
Nuritzi
Siska
Michael
oliverp
Sri
Link

== Roles ==
Chair: Nuritzi
PM: Sri
Secretary: Michael

== Agenda ==

 * Small event funding questions

   -  * Should we pre-pay them for expected expenses, or only reimburse
   after the event?

 * Engagement meeting note-taking process (Nuritzi)
 * Update on GitLab project for social media (Nuritzi)
*News publishing process note - (oliverp)
*Upcoming news items - (oliverp)
*Upcoming Engagment blog posts (oliverp)

   -  *Regarding storage of resources (oliverp) - Question specfic to use
   of our Nextcolud instance


https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/Social-Media-and-PR/issues/4
(oliverp)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/Social-Media-and-PR/issues/6
<>


== Notes ==

=== Small event funding ===
 * Trial a pre-paid program, re-evaluate after paying out $500(?)
 * Should requests be made to the public engagement list, or a private
method?
 * Trying to setup an Engagement Committee to evaluate requests
   * Waiting on approval from the Board to setup the new committee
 * Need a Wiki page for reports on spending
   * Where should we put this? Engagement pages or Board pages?
   * ACTION: Nuritzi to ask the board where to put these.
   * ACTION: Nuritzi to adjust small events policy to include pre-paid
amount program
   * ACTION: Nuritzi to adjust mall events policy and reimbursement policy to
request a PR/Social Media promotion issue to be opened in Gitlab
 * VOTE: allow people to request pre-paid amounts. Re-evaluate at $500 USD
   * Michael: +1
   * oliverp +1
   * link +1
   * sri +1
   * Nuritzi +1
   * Siska +1
   VOTE PASSES Unanimously


=== Note taking process ===
 * Do we assign a note taker? Round-robin? Always collaborative?
 * Put notes in Gitlab or on the wiki?
   * Put meeting notes archive on the wiki
   * Convert actions into tasks/issues on Gitlab
(Community/Engagement/General project)
 * How structured should our meeting be? Should we have chair, secretary,
etc?
   * We are starting to have more functional roles (like treasurer) that
need specific assignment
   * Gives people opportunity to get more involved
 * Should we publish minutes to the engagement list? Just ask people to
subscribe to the wiki?
   * Concern about mailing the list with action items that might be slow in
being implemented
   * Concern about not many people subscribing to the wiki
   * Conern that if we start publishing to the engagement list we set an
expectation that we will always do this
 * For now we will publish to the enagemenent list and evaluate it as it
goes
 * We don't have enough regularly attending people to commit to a formal
process, volunteers welcome
   * People who do regularly attend are already over-extended with work
 * For now, for note taking only: we will have a main note taker per day
and someone else to take notes when that main note-taker is leading a topic
 * ACTION: Oliver to publish the notes to the wiki
 * ACTION: Sri to convert notes to GitLab for today's meeting and publish
notes to the engagement list

=== Update on GitLab project for social media ===
 * New board is ready to be used. People will make requests and they will
go to backlog. That person should provide text and as much info as
possible.
  * Tags: There are tags for specificl social media where we want to
promote the item, for example, facebook, twitter, gnome blog, engagement
blog, etc
  * Issue templates: We need to figure out how to create these to help
guide people through making a good request
  * Columns:
* Accepted
* Drafting
* Ready
* Scheduled
 * ACTION: Michael to ask Carlos to create an issue template for
Social-Media-and-PR board
* ACTION: Oliverp to write a informative mail to list about GitLab for
Social media


=== News publishing process ==
 * Oliver had a task to publish news draffts to public list
 * Concern about publishing etherpad link to a public list because anybody
could edit them
   * Can get a read-only link from the  button at the top of the etherpad
 * ACTION: Oliver to create issues in the new social media board to track
posting news items to the blog
 * ACTION: Nuritzi to review GUADEC blog post so it an be published
 * ACTION: Nuritzi to create issue for GUADEC blog post in new social media
board
 * Reviewed #5 and #6 on the SM-PR board, reassigned to relevant owners


=== Uploading images, Gitlab or Nextcloud ===
 * GNOME members have access to a hosted Nextcloud instance which can be
used to upload photos so they don't take up space on Gitlab
 * Embedding large images in a Gitlab issue can break the layout
 * Not everybody has access to upload to the NextCloud
 * People with access can take images from Gitlab and upload them to
NextCloud

   - * So we can keep all GNOME images on GNOME infrastructure and make it
   easier to find them

 * Let people put images anywhere and put links to them in Gitlab

Re: engagement hackfest

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:45 PM Link Dupont <l...@sub-pop.net> wrote:

> Who's going to LinuxFest Northwest in April?
>

I am.  Christian is going too.  That's the only GNOME people thus far.

sri

>
> On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 05:41 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > Agreed!
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:19 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
> > > Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> > > > I'd like to start on an engagement hackfest.  Mostly I'm interested
> in
> > > > fixing our website and wiki.  I'd like to use the notes from our last
> > > > hackfest we had a couple years ago because I think we had some good
> > > > information there that I feel we didn't quite follow up the last
> time.
> > >
> > > This is a great idea, Sri. It's been far too long since there's been a
> > > dedicated Engagement Hackfest.
> >
> > Let's try to figure out a good time then.  I'd like to do it before
> GUADEC if
> > possible.  We'll need to figure out a location and month.  More
> importantly,
> > an agenda.
> >
> > I would start building better process, the beginnings of a new website
> design
> > with a purpose.  that might be too big of a scope for the two or three
> days?
> >
> > Once we nail down what is important to us to focus on what we want to
> work on.
> >
> > sri
> >
> > > Allan
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Re: engagement hackfest

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Agreed!

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:19 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> > I'd like to start on an engagement hackfest.  Mostly I'm interested in
> > fixing our website and wiki.  I'd like to use the notes from our last
> > hackfest we had a couple years ago because I think we had some good
> > information there that I feel we didn't quite follow up the last time.
>
> This is a great idea, Sri. It's been far too long since there's been a
> dedicated Engagement Hackfest.
>

Let's try to figure out a good time then.  I'd like to do it before GUADEC
if possible.  We'll need to figure out a location and month.  More
importantly, an agenda.

I would start building better process, the beginnings of a new website
design with a purpose.  that might be too big of a scope for the two or
three days?

Once we nail down what is important to us to focus on what we want to work
on.

sri


>
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engagement hackfest

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I'd like to start on an engagement hackfest.  Mostly I'm interested in
fixing our website and wiki.  I'd like to use the notes from our last
hackfest we had a couple years ago because I think we had some good
information there that I feel we didn't quite follow up the last time.

We could do it either in Denver, SFO, or some other place.  It seems most
of the engagement people are in the U.S.  But it would be nice to get
people from Asia involved.

How about we do something either prior to GUaDEC or afterwards.

One other possibility is doing it during LAS or after LAS.

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Re: No more release notes for me

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Allan!

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:02 AM Allan Day  wrote:

>
> Fast-forward six years, and I've been the principle author of the
> release notes for pretty much every GNOME 3 release - that's 15
> releases in total. I think that it's well time for me to pass the
> baton on to someone else, so I've decided that GNOME 3.28 will be the
> last time that I take charge of the release notes.
>

Thank you for doing them all these years!  Much appreciated!


>
> I'm giving you all plenty of notice, so that you can plan for 3.30.
> Also, I'll still be around to advise, and I'm happy to onboard anyone
> who wants help getting started. However, I don't intend to be the
> primary author in the future.
>
>
Totally respect this decision and it gives a chance for someone else new to
the team to take over and do them.  Let's try to figure out how to do them
for the next year and see who would be willing to them forthwith.

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Re: How to get involved in GNOME

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:40 AM Ekaterina Gerasimova 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> in a way, this is a bug about filing a bug. My housemate was
> complaining about something in GNOME not working so I asked her to
> file a bug.
>
> She couldn't actually find how to file a bug because the information
> was not where she was expecting to see it.
>
> Her first stop was the "get involved" page on gnome.org. She was
> expecting to find  a "file a bug" link.
>
> Having failed, she searched for "bug" on gnome.org using the search
> bar. That also did not come up with anything useful.
>
> I eventually pointed her to the link in the footer, but having watched
> her try find this information on her own, I would like to suggest that
> the "get involved" page is updated to help users give us feedback more
> easily.
>

This is excellent information.  It does seem bizarre that we have no way to
file a bug from the front page.  We do  need to think about how to make a
more useful website that does better volunteer capture.

I think though fixing the "file a bug" should be a priority.  I have
created two bugs, one in engagement list -
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/61 and a
matching bugzilla bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793490.

Let's fix it up for now and then we can think about how a redesign would
address some of these issues when it comes to volunteer capture.

sri

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Re: GNOME 3.28 Release Marketing

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:47 AM Allan Day  wrote:

>
> Things that we usually do for releases include:
>
>- Release notes
>- Screenshots for the release notes and screenshot pack
>- News story for gnome.org
>- Email Friends of GNOME donors
>- Social media plan
>- Release video
>- Support release parties
>
>
> Some tentative deadlines for this:
>
>- 28 February - release notes finished and released to the translation
>teams
>- 7 March - send press packs out under embargo
>- 14 March - publish news story and release notes, email Friends of
>GNOME donors
>
> This is a slightly more aggressive schedule than we've done in recent
> years, but it is really what we should be doing in order to give
> translators enough time and to allow press outreach to happen.
>
> How does that sound?
>
>
>
Stick them on issues, and we'll get them figured it out.  One thing I would
like to do is to reach out with VM preview images to various media people
and have them take a look at it so we have a lot of reviews on roughly the
same time.

One other new thing is to see if we can get on podcasts.  It would be great
to see you or Carlos and Neil out there.  We haven't traditionally done
that kind of outreach but I think it would be good to do that.

I would do it, but I'm already doing podcasts on behalf of System76 and
Pop!_OS and I don't want to muddle messaging or confuse people but I can
certainly help with messaging for these things and it will be fun.

As for the social media plan, it would be good to have some highlights and
teasers in social media if we can do that.  Build up some anticipation.

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Re: Can we publicise these two campaigns?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:29 PM Nuritzi Sanchez <nurit...@stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:

> *@Oliver*, during Engagement meetings we had decided to put fundraisers
> for these on the Engagement Blog, not on gnome.org since gnome.org is
> more for news on the project. Here's the one we just did on pippin:
> https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2018/01/22/gegl/
>

I just publicized planet on twitter.  We probably want to talk about it
using twitter and G+.  I feel like that we need to put facebook on
auto-pilot and just focus on these two platforms.

sri


> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:05 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> There are a couple of Patreon fundraising campaigns going at the moment.
>>> It would be great to do some publicity for them:
>>>
>>> https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
>>> https://www.patreon.com/pippin
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't htink we know about tanuk.  But pippin we are aware of and you
>> can see the progress at:
>>
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/2
>>
>> I know we just had some activity on this issue the past couple of days.
>>
>> Both are for the developers of software that is important to GNOME.
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed.  I think we need someone to open up an issue for this in order
>> for us to work on it.  We have this issue:
>>
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/28
>>
>> If you have any thoughts on the matter on the process of promoting
>> patreons and librepay.
>>
>> sri
>>
>> Thanks!
>>>
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Re: Can we publicise these two campaigns?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:05 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There are a couple of Patreon fundraising campaigns going at the moment.
> It would be great to do some publicity for them:
>
> https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
> https://www.patreon.com/pippin
>
>

I don't htink we know about tanuk.  But pippin we are aware of and you can
see the progress at:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/2

I know we just had some activity on this issue the past couple of days.

Both are for the developers of software that is important to GNOME.
>
>
Indeed.  I think we need someone to open up an issue for this in order for
us to work on it.  We have this issue:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Engagement/General/issues/28

If you have any thoughts on the matter on the process of promoting patreons
and librepay.

sri

Thanks!
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Re: community input...

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:16 AM Tobias Mueller 
wrote:

> Hi.
>
>
> On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 22:26 -0300, Felipe Ferreira da Silva wrote:
> >  but I think the lack of a more accessible medium of communication is
> > required.
> I don't think it gets more accessible than email and IRC.
> At least from the technical side of things.
> Email has been around for as long as the Internet exists. We have
> tooling to deal with it and it's not going away anytime soon.
> IRC is an open enough protocol with many different clients serving
> different needs.
>
> I do see that the UX around these tools is not necessarily what pleases
> people nowadays.  And I may even go as far and claim that email is not
> going to be fixed anytime soon.  But with open technologies like email
> and IRC, we can control most of the UX around it.
>
>
In general, we do want to have presence in those others.  eg mastodon, and
other places.  Managing them is an interesting problem.


> My impression is that we expanded the number of communication channels
> with the growth of the project but haven't scaled down whenever the
> project shrank.  It might be worthwhile to go through the mailing lists,
> IRC channels, Wiki pages, Bugzilla components, and so on, and evaluate
> whether we can reduce the overhead by removing some options.
>
>
Please create an issue in gitlab if there is a task there.  Seems like if
we want to close out IRC channels and mailing list that should go into the
sysadmin issue list.  It will be easy to get the project involved from
there without resorting to the mailing list.

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Re: Ongoing Meeting Times | Tuesdays at 15:30 UTC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hey all, reminder that the meeting is in 30 minutes. :)

sri


On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:33 PM Nuritzi Sanchez <
nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Thank you all for voting on the best time for ongoing Engagement meetings.
> According to the poll, the best time for ongoing meetings seems to be 
> *Tuesdays
> at 15:30 UTC*.
>
> *Upcoming Holiday Schedule: *
>
>- *Next Meeting:* (tomorrow) Tuesday December 19th
>- No Meeting: Tuesday, December 26th
>- No Meeting: Tuesday, January 2nd
>- *Regular meetings starting*: Tuesday, January 9th
>
> If we feel like we need a meeting the week of the 2nd, we can try to
> schedule it -- so let me know if you guys have something urgent to discuss.
>
> Happy holidays, everyone, and talk to you soon!
>
> Best,
> Nuritzi
>
>
> About the new meeting time
>
> I'm hoping that choosing 15:30 UTC will at least partially work with both
> Anna and Rosanna's schedules. This would mean that Anna might be able to
> join for the first 30 minutes and Rosanna the last 30 minutes. If this new
> time means that neither of them join, we can tweak the schedule further to
> improve it.
>
> For those of you curious, here are the results of the poll:
> https://framadate.org/y5gqe72X9hbbYgvC
>
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community input..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

We don't really have any structure when it comes to talking about community
input.  For instance, I see a lot of people talking about HiDPI issues and
how some applications like GIMP and Inkscape are hard to work with.

It would be good to collate these experiences and use it to drive GNOME
goals for the next cycle so that community at least knows that their input
drives some of what we prioritize during the cycle.  We can also add
downstreams to the conversation as well.  Traditionally, we've never done
this and frankly I find the whole process very opaque.  At the same time,
it works for the most part...

I don't want to do anything now, but I thought I would put my thoughts on
this and see if we could talk about it at GUADEC as a topic.

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Re: GitLab for the engagement team

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:07 AM Carlos Soriano  wrote:

> Answering one of your questions, you can use gmail or github accounts to
> log in, not need to create a new account. The UI should be self explanatory
> [0] (if not, tell me). If you have GNOME account please log in using that
> instead.
>
>
So far, gmail works, but github does not.  (meaning I can't create an
account using github according to one of my peeps here at work who wanted
to contribute)

sri

> Also, let's please not make random mentions to "marketing team"... as of
> now, it's just the Engagement Team and we also do marketing activities.
>
> I didn't understand this, what random mentions?
>
> [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/users/sign_in?redirect_to_referer=yes
>
>
> Best
> --
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> GNOME Foundation
> Treasurer, Board of Directors
>
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez <
> nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> Thanks to you and Sri for helping us get this started! I've wanted to
>> move to a kanban board / PM system for a while now and this is exactly what
>> I was hoping for. I think we need to discuss how to use it better and start
>> creating documentation, but what we have so far is a good start.
>>
>> Some other things we should figure out:
>>
>>- How can we make it easy for people to make accounts and join the
>>Engagement project? Many will not be familiar with this kind of system, so
>>we'll need step-by-step instructions.
>>- Does everyone have the same permission level?
>>- Can we make multiple boards for the Engagement team? Also, let's
>>please not make random mentions to "marketing team"... as of now, it's 
>> just
>>the Engagement Team and we also do marketing activities.
>>
>> Apart from that, we all need to understand that there will be a learning
>> curve for adopting this new tool. We may need to run workshops (in person
>> or virtually) to get people started using GitLab. We also need to create
>> some kind of newcomers guide on our gnome wiki to help people get started.
>>
>> Overall, I'm really excited about the potential of this! I think that
>> it's not just about current developers being motivated to participate in
>> Engagement work, but also the other way around -- the more that Engagement
>> folk can participate in the same tools that the rest of the community is
>> using, the more likely they are to start working on other aspects of the
>> project. I've seen a lot of interest from people who have wanted to join
>> the Engagement team initially, but have hopes of easing their way into more
>> development-oriented work.
>>
>> Looking forward to chatting more about this during our meeting in 15 mins
>> :) I'll include the call info below in case others want to join too.
>>
>> Best,
>> Nuritzi
>>
>>
>> Engagement Call Info
>>
>> *Friday, December 1 @ 16:00 UTC*
>>
>> *Join the call:
>> https://www.uberconferen
>> ce.com/gnome-engagement
>> *
>> Optional dial in number:  <857-216-6156>857-216-6156 <857-216-6156;62777>
>> PIN: 62777 <857-216-6156;62777>
>>
>>
>> Please see the agenda here: Engagement Meeting Agenda
>>  [1], and here's
>> a copy of the proposed items so far:
>>
>> *Discuss during meeting:*
>>  * Mozilla joint announcement for university clubs
>>  * GitLab for Engagement workflow
>>  * Events in 2018 / SWAG Center expansion
>>  * Patreon check-in
>>
>> *Do during meeting:*
>>  * Social media for December
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Carlos Soriano 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Since I was not subscribed before, I cannot reply to the main GitLab
>>> thread. I want to put here the advantages and disadvantages I see of using
>>> GitLab for the engagement team.
>>>
>>> I believe using GitLab for the engagement team will help improve some of
>>> the weakest parts. I focused on the interaction of the engagement team and
>>> the rest of the community, the tracking of dates, and assignee to tasks.
>>>
>>> I think one of the biggest issues has been the interaction with the rest
>>> of the community . The engagement team is mostly a mailing list and IRC,
>>> but it's not close to any other part of the developer community and I have
>>> the feeling it didn't work as much as it could. Seems the developers ended
>>> up not interacting much with the engagement team, and the other way around.
>>> With GitLab you will be using the same infrastructure as the rest of the
>>> community and the developers can take a look what you are doing, how do you
>>> work, and what things have been happening to take as an example. Also,
>>> developers will be used to the infrastructure and will be more likely to
>>> interact with the engagement team. You can see this change already happened
>>> in 

Re: [Foundations] Net neutrality for FLOSS

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 PM Nuritzi Sanchez 
wrote:

> Would we promote this article on GNOME social media? It wouldn't be an
> official statement, but we could say something like "Read about how Net
> Neutrality might affect FLOSS projects like GNOME and how you can help
> [insert link to article]."
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
Absolutely!!

sri

Best,
> Nuritzi
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Molly de Blanc 
> Date: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 12:58 PM
> Subject: [Foundations] Net neutrality for FLOSS
> To: foundati...@lists.freedesktop.org
>
>
> Hi!
>
> With net neutrality in the United States being at such immediate risk,
> we (at the FSF) have been talking about the relationship between net
> neutrality and user freedom, free software projects, and organizations.
>
> A significant number of project contributors live in the United
> States.[1] That map is, admittedly, a little outdated, but it provides a
> powerful (IMO) visual that demonstrates the sheer volume of
> contributions that come out of the US. (Yeah, I know github isn't the
> best dataset to try and capture a full picture, but it's an easy one. :P)
>
> [1]: http://davidfischer.github.io/gdc2/#languages/All
>
> Especially looking at ISP offerings of limited internet services (i.e.
> lower user pricing for access to only certain websites/services) and
> paid fast lanes for those hosting, we're looking at a serious threat to
> people making their first contributions; starting, launching, and
> sharing projects; the ongoing and growing success of projects and web
> services; and our organizations as well.
>
> If you haven't already, I hope you'll think about reaching out to your
> members, communities, and people about the upcoming decision on whether
> the FCC will gut the Title II classification that is the closest thing
> we have to net neutrality protection in the US.
>
> While I'm not sending this email as a representative of the FSF, I did
> write this thing there[2], highlighting some of the actions people can
> take.
>
> [2]: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-for-net-neutrality
>
> Cheers,
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Using GitLab for project management

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Hi Folks,

We've been using Gitlab now a couple of weeks and I'm looking for feedback
on how people feel about it?  I have personally found it quite good and I
have gotten more participation from outside the engagement team as it is
the same system that other GNOME developers use.

In addition to Gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME we have created
http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME-Community for non-technical projects so that
we will be able to store assets as well as being abl to create templates
for issues and what not.

Going forwar, I would like to use this as our primary interface for social
media.

Thanks,
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Re: No meeting tomorrow..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

This was for last week, Neil. ;)

srk

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:31 PM Neil McGovern <n...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Afraid I'll be speaking at a mini DebConf in Cambridge, so apologies
> from me!
>
> Neil
>
> On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 10:58 -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> > Sunday would work!
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri@ramkrishna.m
> > e> wrote:
> > > Sadly, I have some work that needs to be done during the same time
> > > frame and
> > > I won't be able to run the meeting.  I would be happy to setup a
> > > meeting on
> > > Sunday like last time?  What do people think?
> > >
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No meeting tomorrow..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sadly, I have some work that needs to be done during the same time frame
and I won't be able to run the meeting.  I would be happy to setup a
meeting on Sunday like last time?  What do people think?

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no meeting today

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I have a number of things I have to do today, some even GNOME related. :-)
So I'm going to cancel the meeting unless someone wants to run it.  I will
have a follow up engagement meeting on Sunday if people want to do attend
that.  Details will follow.

This week, was spent working on social meda posts for the various patreons
that you can find at http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement/issues.

If you want something to do for the engagement hour, please take a look at
them.  We need to figure out when to post them.  Nuritizi suggested making
December Patreon month which I thought was a good idea.

Other things that you can use your spare time for is working on bug squash
month and see how many of them been squashed and maybe post on the bug
month squash issue some metrics that we can use to tweet using the GNOME
account.

Georges created a GNOME brasil twitter account.  So we'll need to figure
out how we manage social media accounts going forward.  Ideas are welcome.
It might be worth putting it as an issue as well that we can work on.

Finally, I'm really loving using the gitlab issue system as I feel a lot
more productive and many things have been done. I never feel confused on
what is in flight.

Cheers,
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Re: Promoting pippin's Patreon campaign

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:24 AM Debarshi Ray  wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 08:01:52AM +, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:56:51AM -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
> > > We've already reached out to him and talked about doing some promotion
> for
> > > his Patreon at the end of this month / early July when his interview
> comes
> > > out. I'll add you to that thread in case you want to assist and be
> part of
> > > the planning.
> >
> > So, July came and went by, and we are now in November.
> >
> > I won't be surprised if pippin's interview doesn't get published any
> > time soon. It is part of a series of interviews with GIMP contributors
> > that Jehan organized at WilberWeek. However given his recent hardware
> > woes [1], he might not be able to get to publishing the rest of those
> > soon. I haven't even seen him in #gimp for a while.
> >
> > Given this reality, can we put something up on our end in the near
> > future?
>
> Ping.
>
> Last Friday, Sri said that he has "set the wheels in motion"
> (thanks). Is there anything left for me to do?
>

Actually yes.. I do have an issue setup at:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement/issues/2

Could you add yourself to it?  Basically, I need to do some editing on the
original texts so it is a little more towards a general audience than what
it has.  Think you can help me?

I should have added you to the issue, something I need to fix for the
future.

sri


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Re: [Engagement] Relaying out bug fixes news via social media

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:00 AM Alexandre Franke  wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Umang Jain 
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
>
> Hello,
>
> I apologize in advance for sounding like a buzzkill, but I do not
> share the enthusiasm about this. I do agree with the general idea,
> just not the proposed form.
>

That's fine, a good idea should be able to stand up to a challenge
otherwise how would we know it is any good?


> > We have come up with an idea in the area of social media outreach and
> > it would be glad if you can share your views on it. The idea is to
> > relay news out in the social media whenever any bug/issue is fixed via
> > dedicated GNOME Bugs' Social Media Channels (thereafter referred as
> > SMC).
>
> With some curation? Because otherwise I really don’t see any value in
> this and people that want to see everything should just subscribe to
> commits-list.
>

Well, if it was not curated we would create a GNOME Bugs twitter that
people can subscribe to.  We would not use the GNOME account for this at
all as it would be total spam.


> > GNOME Bugs' SMC are not created yet and will be separate from main
> > GNOME handles. You can take a look at LibreOffice's bug channel [1].
> > [1] https://twitter.com/LibreOfficeBugs
>
> That LO channel is noisy. I would take it as an example of what not to aim
> for.
>

Only if you want to subscribe to the LibreOfficeBugs, not necessarily LO.
If that is noisy that is a different issue.


> > Although, based on the severity of the bug/issue, the main GNOME
> > handle can retweet/relay the link on it's own account. The idea is to
> > keep a separate bug SMC is:
> >
> > * Not to make main GNOME handle very noisy
> > * To have automated GNOME bugs SMC
>
> Please don’t make it automatic. That’s a sure way to make it noisy and
> uninteresting.
>

We could add some parameters that might could make it more interesting to
publish.


> > I think that most of us agree that social media is the fastest way to
> > get information out.
>
> Can we also agree that social media are flooded with content and that
> people waste a lot of time on them skimming through it to find
>
>
Sure, we can agree on that as well.

> Therefore, as far as code development is
> > concerned, it takes a while till the information is actually relayed
> > out. Mostly, until someone blogs about it and then pick up by other
> > blogs and so on..
>
> You need to find balance between the current lack of communication and
> the overwhelming flood of an automated feed.
>

I agree, we definitely can discuss this further.


> > We can get fast here and be more verbose about the work that goes into
> > everyday. In addition to that, we want it to be automated; similar to
> > [1]
>
> Again, this is a bad idea.
>
> We did have something that was called the [commit
> digest](https://blogs.gnome.org/commitdigest/), a weekly blog post
> highlighting the most interesting code changes, and it was good.
> That’s what you should aim at. Twitter or blog posts doesn’t really
> matter, but the curation aspect is key to make it good. Unfortunately,
> Frédéric Peters was the only one putting in the time that requires and
> after quite a while he moved to other things.
>

What made it good?  What was the work involved around it?


> > Now comes the most interesting part. It would be really great if we
> > can mention "Newcomers" and their internet handle in the bug SMC link;
> > That should really make them feel special as they can show to the
> > world that they have done something great and brag!
>
> Sure, that is a good idea.
>

How about we do this as the first step then?  That would give the curated
content, and also the ability for newcomers to share something.  It should
address most of your concerns, yes?

sri


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Re: testing a new process for social media

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 9:05 AM Rosanna Yuen <z...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Is there documentation/walkthrough as to how this process would work?
> Especially for those of us who have never used gitlab before?
>


> Otherwise this seems like another technical barrier to entry for what
> should be a relatively nontechnical task.
>

Not yet, as I'm still familiarizing myself with gitlab.  It'll try to
document something this week and we can poke at it and see if it is the
right tool.  I'm hesitant to add new tools because it just adds more burden
to the sysadmin team.  But I think something to track it as a ticket I
think would be useful than none at all.

sri


> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
>> Carlos Soriano was kind enough to create
>> http://gitab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement, and so you can now create
>> issues for things like we want to advertise.  As a test, I have put in
>> November Bug Squash Month -
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement/issues/1.
>>
>> This way we have some way to track the things that need to be done and
>> close them out easily when complete.
>>
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Re: testing a new process for social media

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:51 AM Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
> > Carlos Soriano was kind enough to create
> > http://gitab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement, and so you can now create
> issues
> > for things like we want to advertise.  As a test, I have put in November
> Bug
> > Squash Month - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement/issues/1.
> >
> > This way we have some way to track the things that need to be done and
> close
> > them out easily when complete.
>
> Cool. How does that work exactly? You seem to imply that we will keep
> a single issue for the whole Bug Squash Month campaign. How do we e.g.
> plan tweets that need to be sent out or track those that have been? An
> issue in a bugtracker is supposed to be a single task and one closes
> it when they’re done with it, which allows progress to be tracked.
>

I'm still learning it myself.  So, my hope is that I can come up with a
solid process where people can put requests in and we can monitor the queue.

There is a TODO setup there, and hopefully that will help.  A process is
better than no process which is what we have right now.  If Gitlab doesn't
work for us then we will find something else that will.

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testing a new process for social media

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Carlos Soriano was kind enough to create
http://gitab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement, and so you can now create issues
for things like we want to advertise.  As a test, I have put in November
Bug Squash Month - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/engagement/issues/1.

This way we have some way to track the things that need to be done and
close them out easily when complete.

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Re: [Engagement] Relaying out bug fixes news via social media

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 4:26 PM Bastian Ilso 
wrote:

> Hey,
>
>
> I love the idea! If there are graphical attachments (fx mockups) on a bug,
> it might also be interesting to attach those too in the automated message
> to create some visual interest.
>
>
>
Yes, definitely something we can add there as well.

sri

-Bastian
>
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Umang Jain 
> wrote:
>
> Hi there, We have come up with an idea in the area of social media
> outreach and it would be glad if you can share your views on it. The idea
> is to relay news out in the social media whenever any bug/issue is fixed
> via dedicated GNOME Bugs' Social Media Channels (thereafter referred as
> SMC). GNOME Bugs' SMC are not created yet and will be separate from main
> GNOME handles. You can take a look at LibreOffice's bug channel [1].
> Although, based on the severity of the bug/issue, the main GNOME handle can
> retweet/relay the link on it's own account. The idea is to keep a separate
> bug SMC is: * Not to make main GNOME handle very noisy * To have automated
> GNOME bugs SMC I think that most of us agree that social media is the
> fastest way to get information out. Therefore, as far as code development
> is concerned, it takes a while till the information is actually relayed
> out. Mostly, until someone blogs about it and then pick up by other blogs
> and so on.. We can get fast here and be more verbose about the work that
> goes into everyday. In addition to that, we want it to be automated;
> similar to [1] Now comes the most interesting part. It would be really
> great if we can mention "Newcomers" and their internet handle in the bug
> SMC link; That should really make them feel special as they can show to the
> world that they have done something great and brag! Again making that
> automated would require some thought in organizing that kind of process so
> Carlos Soriano would give better perspective. But all in all, this stuff is
> great for newcomers engagement and outreach. This discussion actually
> happened in Telegram "GNOME Engagement" channel this evening. So, it would
> be great if you can share your views/consensus here. [1]
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Re: No engagement meeting tomorrow..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017, 8:13 AM Umang Jain  wrote:

>
>> 1) Provide the dimensions for printing in Asia/India
>>
>
> ​I couldn't get in touch with vendors yet here at my place, as it is
> Diwali time and business is mostly closed. Things should be better next
> week as they open up.
> Although I have looked up a famous online place which use to such things
> like printing visiting cards, banners, stickers etc. You can upload your
> own designs there.
> So I maybe try to give it a shot first before finalizing my word on the
> quality of their work. Other than that, I will be visiting offline shops
> too and try to get details and their sample probably.
>

Awesome!  Thank you for the update.  :)  we also need to investigate
shipping swag between countriea

>
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No engagement meeting tomorrow..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Unfortunately I will not be able to make it next week because I have a
personal errand that I can't multitask at the same time.  If someone wants
to do the meeting in my stead I will have no objection. :-)  But otherwise,
please use the time to follow up on last week's items.

1) Provide the dimensions for printing in Asia/India
2) How to advertise the swag centers so people can use it to get swag
3) social media engagement - I believe there was going to be a proposal on
what to do for Asia, and possibly some thoughts on new designs.

Some follow ups:

It seems that gnome asia twitter account might be linked to Emily Chen.
So, I'll try to follow up with her on access to the gnome.asia twitter.

Other things we talked about is how to talk about GNOME in social media and
finding things to talk about through the twitter channel.  We don't have a
good system for that.  But we should definitely  be talking about Bug
Squash Month on twitter!  But more than that we need to be following along
on bugs that are being squashed, and put some metrics etc.

I hope that has given some of you some ideas.

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REMINDER: Engagement meeting Friday Oct 20, 2017

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting
tomorrow, *Friday,
2017-20-10 (October 20th) at 16:00 UTC*.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via video chat. You
can join by clicking the link below or dialing in on your phone:

*Join the call: https://www.uberconferen
ce.com/gnome-engagement
*
Optional dial in number: 857-216-6156 <857-216-6156;62777>
PIN: 62777 <857-216-6156;62777>


Please see the agenda here: Engagement Meeting Agenda
 [1]. We will do any
new member introductions first, then go over any new meeting items, and
lastly, sync on the ongoing initiatives. If you have anything you'd like us
to talk about, please add it to the agenda.

Best,
Sri


If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the team!

*To join the engagement team meeting*, make sure that you have an IRC
account and join the #engagement channel. IRC setup instructions are
here: Getting
In Touch  [2].

If you want to chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC: @nuritzi.

*Make sure you know what time 16:00 UTC is in your timezone*. You can use Time
& Date  [3] to help
you.

If you feel comfortable, add yourself to the "New Member Introductions"
section of the agenda. We'd love to say hi and learn more about who you are
and what you're interested in.

If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous meetings
here: EngagementTeam Meetings
 [4].

We look forward to meeting you!

*Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at least an
hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30 minutes to set
up. You may want to try using a web-based client, like IRC Cloud
 [5], first and then ping someone on IRC for
help setting up a native client.*


[1] https://etherpad.gnome.
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Re: Project management software

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:13 PM Nuritzi Sanchez <nurit...@stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:

> Hey Sri, I was hoping to take a look at GitLab's kanban board since I
> actually do think it could work for engagement and marketing and it could
> then help people unfamiliar with that structure to be more comfortable in
> participating in dev teams later on. At Endless, we've moved our marketing
> and community teams to our kaban board tool (Phabricator).
>
>
OK.  I've been using dapulse and I'm really enjoying it.  Way better than
anything I've used thus far, but it isn't open source.

Could we set up a test case? Maybe that's something we can look into
> together at GNOME.Asia.
>
>
I will try to see.. but I don't have a ton of time this week.

sri


> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:36 PM Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I'd like to start moving away from the wiki for our project management
>>> and
>>> > move to something that is focused on team based things.  I did some
>>> > evaluation, and I'd like to propose fluxday.io.  It is very similar
>>> to what
>>> > we are using at work, which is dapulse which I've been digging a lot.
>>> I
>>> > just feel that what we have is clunky and hard to use and is not
>>> efficient.
>>> > Tell me what you guys think?
>>>
>>> Like I always say to my customers when they come to me and ask me for
>>> this or that tool: what is the problem you are trying to solve?
>>> “Project management” is not an acceptable answer. ☺ I’m never opposed
>>> to any tool (software license and privacy are not an issue here since
>>> it’s Free and we would host our instance) but one should use a tool
>>> because it is the right one for their task at hand, not because it
>>> looks cool.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I am definitely trying to solve a problem.
>>
>> We are doing project management through a wiki and etherpad.  This is a
>> horrible way to set and figure out the tasks.  While there is no native
>> client for project management we seem to be blessed with many open source
>> project management software that we can try out and see if we can help
>> track our tasks.  We don't have a lot of resources, and having software
>> that maximizes our productivity given our constraints is a good thing.  For
>> instance, GNOME releases would be a lot more easier if we have all that
>> mapped out with tasks already set.
>>
>>
>>> Same logic applies to kanban boards (someone recently said we should
>>> use gitlab because it has kanban boards).
>>>
>>
>> We could look at it, but gitlab doesn't really deal well with engagement
>> and marketing I would reckon right?  I'm willing to look at existing things
>> we have already.. I will look into gitlab's kanboard stuff.  Although I'm
>> not that impressed with kanban.
>>
>>
>>> > I'd like to try to spin up a docker instance somewhere and see if we
>>> can
>>> > test it.
>>>
>>> Sure, testing is always good.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> sri
>>
>>
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Re: Project management software

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:36 PM Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
> > I'd like to start moving away from the wiki for our project management
> and
> > move to something that is focused on team based things.  I did some
> > evaluation, and I'd like to propose fluxday.io.  It is very similar to
> what
> > we are using at work, which is dapulse which I've been digging a lot.  I
> > just feel that what we have is clunky and hard to use and is not
> efficient.
> > Tell me what you guys think?
>
> Like I always say to my customers when they come to me and ask me for
> this or that tool: what is the problem you are trying to solve?
> “Project management” is not an acceptable answer. ☺ I’m never opposed
> to any tool (software license and privacy are not an issue here since
> it’s Free and we would host our instance) but one should use a tool
> because it is the right one for their task at hand, not because it
> looks cool.
>

Yes, I am definitely trying to solve a problem.

We are doing project management through a wiki and etherpad.  This is a
horrible way to set and figure out the tasks.  While there is no native
client for project management we seem to be blessed with many open source
project management software that we can try out and see if we can help
track our tasks.  We don't have a lot of resources, and having software
that maximizes our productivity given our constraints is a good thing.  For
instance, GNOME releases would be a lot more easier if we have all that
mapped out with tasks already set.


> Same logic applies to kanban boards (someone recently said we should
> use gitlab because it has kanban boards).
>

We could look at it, but gitlab doesn't really deal well with engagement
and marketing I would reckon right?  I'm willing to look at existing things
we have already.. I will look into gitlab's kanboard stuff.  Although I'm
not that impressed with kanban.


> > I'd like to try to spin up a docker instance somewhere and see if we can
> > test it.
>
> Sure, testing is always good.
>

Indeed.

sri


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Project management software

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I'd like to start moving away from the wiki for our project management and
move to something that is focused on team based things.  I did some
evaluation, and I'd like to propose fluxday.io.  It is very similar to what
we are using at work, which is dapulse which I've been digging a lot.  I
just feel that what we have is clunky and hard to use and is not
efficient.  Tell me what you guys think?

I'd like to try to spin up a docker instance somewhere and see if we can
test it.

Website is: http://fluxday.io/

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Fwd: NOTES | Engagement Team BoF at GUADEC 2017 (action needed)

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Ubuntu migration,  I think we have some work we need to do this week in
regards to the website to prepare for the Ubuntu release.  We probably need
to get some resources together to make this happen.

Supposedly, we need a website going by October 8th?  Anyways it is in the
notes, but I don't think we have assigned anybody to project manage this.
Any volunteers?  It will be difficult for me as I will be traveling this
coming week, but can do the needful to get things prepared.

Actually we probably need to go through those notes and as Alexandre said
change how we do our meetings so we just start using them as working
meetings since we seem to be adding work. :-)

sri

-- Forwarded message -
From: Nuritzi Sanchez 
Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:54 PM
Subject: NOTES | Engagement Team BoF at GUADEC 2017 (action needed)
To: marketing-list 


Hi All,

Sorry this write-up is really late - it's taken a few weeks after GUADEC to
catch-up properly :) Here are our BoF notes from GUADEC
 [1], complete
with next steps in as neat a fashion as we could muster them. Feel free to
keep tidying the page up or adding anything we missed.

*If you were at the BoF, please take a look at the notes so you remind
yourself which actions are yours.*

*The Plan*
Over the next few weeks, we'll be prioritizing and further breaking down
some of the projects that we talked about. If you're interested in working
on any of them, or have questions, please let us know.

Since there's so much to do, some of these projects may stay in the backlog
for now. If you're particularly passionate about one of the projects and
want to help push it along, we welcome your help!

The idea is that we will work in smaller groups, scheduling meetings as
needed to execute on the various projects. The weekly Engagement calls are
meant to help us all sync up on the various initiatives and plan the
overall strategy for our team's work.

*Weekly Engagement Calls*
We've kept the weekly Engagement Team calls on Fridays at 16:00, but are
totally open to moving them.

*@All *- If you'd like to be part of the regular calls but can't make them
now, can you please respond letting us know your interest and your location
/ time zone? We may have to get creative, but I'd love for us to be more
inclusive to those interested.

Thanks!

Best,
Nuritzi

p.s. Some of you may not have attended the BoF, but you'll find yourself in
our notes anyway (most likely in the action steps area) because we were
very ambitious and had wishful thinking. :)

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/31-July-2017



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Re: @planetgnome Twitter account?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:51 AM Bastien Nocera  wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 21:21 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> > Hi Bastien,
> >
> > I'm not sure if anyone answered you off list, but I don't see
> > @planetgnome listed on the Engagement Communication Channels page[1]
> > (I'm sure this list is not exhaustive, though).
> >
> > @planetgnome is following Nuritzi though, so maybe Nuritzi knows?
> >
> > 1: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Channels
>
> Nobody answered.
>

I'm wondering if Alberto knows...

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Re: 3.26 release marketing - outstanding tasks

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:52 PM Link Dupont  wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Allan Day  wrote:
> > Screenshot pack: this isn't essential, but if someone wants to do it,
> > there are instructions on the wiki [3] and you can see what we've
> > done in previous releases. You'll need to combine the screenshots I
> > took (which are in Nextcloud) with Andreas's and the ones from the
> > release notes.
>
> I noticed an inconsistency in the screenshots in the 3.24 pack. Some
> are taken with HiDPI while others are clearly not. Is there a desired
> DPI and resolution that all screenshots should be taken at?
>
>
I would just go with HiDPI but not sure what resolution and DPI that would
be.

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SCALE CfP

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SCALE call for papers is open.  Anybody interested in putting some talks
there?

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Reddit IAMA to support release

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

We had talked in today's engagement meeting about doing an IAMA in
/r/IAMA.  I was going to do it, but I would of course prefer if we had a
group of people willing to help answer questions.  I figure that we can set
some ground rules about what questions we won't answer.  Although I've
noticed that in these IAMAs people tend to pick and choose anways.

It is a new kind of engagement for sure, but it's worth trying out once and
see what the experience is.  As I said I'm willing to do it, but sometimes
I don't always know what I'm talking about off the top of my head and it
would be nice if people can flag questions worth answering.

I'm thinking I will put myself on whatever queue the IAMA people have.  Let
me know what people think and whether they can help.

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Re: Seattle GNU/Linux Conference SeaGL

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:01 AM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:

>
> Since I am a broke-ass hombre, I will try to ask for the travel committee
> for funding for the hotel room for two nights.  I'm hoping that the cost of
> this trip will be less than 150 dollars.
>

I'm reaching out to Software Freedom Conservancy and see if I can share a
room and offer to pay for half of the stay.

Also, I have given our logo to them to put on their conference website as a
"non-profit" partner.  That should give us some good publicity.  If you can
brainstorm some good demos with flatpak/flathub/builder that would be cool.

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Seattle GNU/Linux Conference SeaGL

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Howdy all,

I am thinking of attending this conference, and I have procured permission
to have a GNOME booth.  The attendees for this conference are a perfect
compliment for GNOME since it is a Free Software conference.  I would of
course love to give out stickers (of which I have, yay)  I also have some
old t-shirts from last year's GUADEC, but I could probably use some more to
sell.

Since I am a broke-ass hombre, I will try to ask for the travel committee
for funding for the hotel room for two nights.  I'm hoping that the cost of
this trip will be less than 150 dollars.

Yes, I will put the event on our events page. :-)

Conference webite is http://seagl.org/


Cheers,
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Re: 20th Birthday meeting poll for next week

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

So.. only Allan (thanks Allan) has signed up for a meeting about this.. :-)
 How bout we set it for the same time as last week?  That would be 17:00
UTC, right after the engagement meeting?

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:17 AM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:

> Meeting poll for meeting next week!  :-)
>
> https://framadate.org/ZrvH4TccZPBEDRBC
>
> sri
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20th birthday meeting link

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Please just use the existing uberconference:

https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement

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All Things Open - 2018

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

We need to make sure that we have a few people going to All Things Open.

They have a pretty good speaker line up -  I think the only thing 'GNOME'
related is Michael talking about Endless.  Not sure what Owen Taylor is
going to talk about, I'll ask him though.

I have gone ahead and put it in
https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2018

Thanks,
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Re: poll for 20th birthday meeting this week

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Looks like that is Friday at 10:00am PST  - 17:00 UTC I believe.  After the
Engagement meeting.

Thanks all!

sri


On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:24 PM Cassandra Sanchez <cassandra.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for sending it out, Sri!
>
> - Cassandra
>
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
>> the times are PST, since currently I think only three are involved and we
>> are all on the same time zone.  But if others want to show up, please put
>> your name in!
>>
>> Please finish by end of day if you can.
>>
>> https://framadate.org/FlchgFgsuFh5AjJN
>>
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Sorry, engagement meeting is on right now

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sorry looks like I propagated the original mistake.  The meeting is on
right now.  Sorry for the confusion folks.

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Engagement Meeting Today Friday 19th 2017

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi everyone,

This is a quick reminder about the GNOME Engagement team meeting
tomorrow, *Friday,
2017-05-19 (May 19th) at 17:00 UTC*.

At that time, join the #engagement channel and join us via video chat. You
can join by clicking the link below or dialing in on your phone:

*Join the call:
https://www.uberconferen
ce.com/gnome-engagement
*
Optional dial in number:  <857-216-6156>857-216-6156 <857-216-6156;62777>
PIN: 62777 <857-216-6156;62777>


Please see the agenda here: Engagement Meeting Agenda
 [1]. We will do any
new member introductions first, then go over any new meeting items, and
lastly, sync on the ongoing initiatives. If you have anything you'd like us
to talk about, please add it to the agenda.

Best,
Sri


If you're new to GNOME or the Engagement Team...
We'd love to have you join our meeting and get to know part of the team!

*To join the engagement team meeting*, make sure that you have an IRC
account and join the #engagement channel. IRC setup instructions are
here: Getting
In Touch .

If you want to chat before the call, just email or ping me on IRC: @nuritzi.

*Make sure you know what time 17:00 UTC is in your timezone*. You can use Time
& Date  [3] to help
you.

If you feel comfortable, add yourself to the "New Member Introductions"
section of the agenda
 [1]. We'd love to
say hi and learn more about who you are and what you're interested in.

If you're curious, you can take a look at notes from our previous meetings
here: Engagement Team Meetings
.

We look forward to meeting you!

*Note: if you're new to IRC, you should set up your IRC account at least an
hour before the team call since it will take around 15 - 30 minutes to set
up. You may want to try using a web-based client, like IRC Cloud
 [4], first and then ping someone on IRC for
help setting up a native client.*


[1]  
https://etherpad.gnome.

org
/p/
engagement
-team-
meetings

[2]  
https://wiki.gnome.org/Com

munity/GettingInTouch/IRC

[3]  
https://www.timeanddate.co

m/worldclock/meeting.html

[4] https://www.irccloud.com/
[2]  
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stackexchange community for GNOME

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hello engagement team members!  I need help pushing this stack exchange
community to help build a knowledge base on the GNOME platform!

If we can use twitter and other social media, to get people to click on
this link:
https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/109823/gtk-and-gnome?referrer=jPuOAsszR3FdMlqW5m8Y-A2

That would be awesome!  I want to be able to really build a great community
to help coders write applications in GNOME.

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Re: [guadec-list] 20th Birthday Celebration at GUADEC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Whoops!  I swear, me and dates.  Thanks for the correction.

Sri

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 6:40 PM <nurit...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, that works for me too. Although, Sri, its Tuesday, not Monday!!
>
> ..
>
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>
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:38 AM Sam Thursfield <sss...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez
>> <nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>> > The Engagement team has been talking about several initiatives to run
>> for
>> > GNOME's 20th Birthday celebration this year, and some of those include
>> doing
>> > things at this year's GUADEC. We know that you guys are already
>> planning on
>> > some activities and it'd be great to sync up.
>> >
>> > Would it be possible for some of us to attend your regular meeting next
>> > week? Can you confirm that it's Monday at 17:00 UTC?
>>
>> Next week we'll be meeting at 16:00 UTC (17:00 BST) on Tuesday 2nd
>> May. Does that work for you to discuss the 20th birthday celebration?
>>
>
> Looks like 9:00am PST Monday.  That works for me.
>
> sri
>
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Re: [guadec-list] 20th Birthday Celebration at GUADEC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:38 AM Sam Thursfield  wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez
>  wrote:
> > The Engagement team has been talking about several initiatives to run for
> > GNOME's 20th Birthday celebration this year, and some of those include
> doing
> > things at this year's GUADEC. We know that you guys are already planning
> on
> > some activities and it'd be great to sync up.
> >
> > Would it be possible for some of us to attend your regular meeting next
> > week? Can you confirm that it's Monday at 17:00 UTC?
>
> Next week we'll be meeting at 16:00 UTC (17:00 BST) on Tuesday 2nd
> May. Does that work for you to discuss the 20th birthday celebration?
>

Looks like 9:00am PST Monday.  That works for me.

sri

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Linuxfest Northwest

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

As promised, here is the event page filled out:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2017/LinuxfestNorthwest

http://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2017/

If you can look at the first link, please fill out anything that is missing.

Thanks!
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Cosimo on Lunduke Hour

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Check it out :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2agoFhgSLaY=youtu.be

Good job, Cosimo!  Stellar job! :D

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Thanks for the kind words

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Ryan,

I was just reading this article -
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/system76-new-era-ubuntu-desktop

and just wanted to thank you for the kind words about GNOME in the
article.  We always welcome good press! :D

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Re: 3.24 release notes available for checking

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 2:16 PM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The release notes for the upcoming 3.24 release are now available for
> checking. Please give them a read over and either make corrections
> directly, or send them through to me.
>
> I'm looking to finalise them on Monday - sorry for the short notice.
>
> The notes are attached as two PDFs, or you can view them online at:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/?h=gnome-3-24
>

Great work!  I couldn't really see anything wrong with what was written.
The only thing that caused me a bit of confusion was that Rust was included
as a build system.  I'm assuming that wasn't an oversight and Rust actually
does have a build system that is supported vs support for the language Rust.

sri


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>
> Thanks,
>
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Talking points for e-government conference

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Next week is the ICEGOV conference.  Which will give us some advantage of
talking with members there.
A couple of things:

* The schedule is fixed and so we have no opportunity for adhoc
presentations (e.g. BoFs)  Also, most of them is one long sessions.  Feel
free to tweet and react to things being said in the presentation as a way
to talk about solutions.  There is no dedicated track on open source so we
have to virtualize it in some way.

* twitter handle/social media is @ICEGOV and hashtag #ICEGOV2017

Some things to push:
* GNOME or Free Software desktop
   * Support of Indian languages
   * Indian knowhow and ingenuity
   * Indian companies can support
   * Active translation community
* Open Data and formats
* GNOME Foundation supports Indian women and men through the Outreachy and
GSOC programs

In any case, I hope everyone going has fun and can have some good
conversations.  We should be doing a lot of listening as well so that we
can understand the needs of government and what improvements we can do have
a useful role in it.

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Talking points for indian e-government conference

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A number of senior and junior members of GNOME are going to the eGovernment
conference next month and one of the things we had discussed was providing
talking points for members to talk with conference attendees mostly as a
guidance on what we find important today to talk about.  But of course,
folks should be able to talk about whatever excites them about the platform.

So to level set, this is what we believe is important:

* GNOME software stack
* Flatpak
* GNOME Builder

That will handle the applications portion.  We could also push in general
for a GNU/Linux solution.

Any others?
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Re: [GNOME-India] Indian govt requesting participation

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:08 AM Kunaal Jain <kunaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any updates on this?
>

Yes, Amit should be contacting each of you regarding the conference.  I got
a mail from him last night. (I guess your morning) So you should be seeing
something.  If you haven't in a couple of days, let me know.

sri


>
> On 3 February 2017 at 14:33, Arun Raghavan <a...@accosted.net> wrote:
> > On 3 February 2017 at 08:56, Nirbheek Chauhan
> > <nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan
> >> <nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
> >>>> Amit asked me for contacts, so I assume he will handle the details
> once I
> >>>> make the introduction.
> >>>
> >>> Great! I'll just note that Nov 3rd is the last date for open
> >>> registration, and that's likely IST, so it might be good to get
> >>> confirmation on this tomorrow.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Of course I meant Feb 3rd (today), not Nov 3rd. ;)
> >
> > I'm happy to attend too.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Arun
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Talking points at Govt conference

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Several Indian GNOME members are going to an open source government
conference: http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/content/icegov-2017 next month.

This is our opportunity to talk about the GNOME platform to various
government agencies in Asia.  I'd like to discuss some ice breaker 'talking
points' for conversations with the attendees and then let the natural
exuberance of our community to shine through given that most of the people
going are senior members.

It is always nice to make sure that we are focused on what we feel is
important.  So let's make the best of this opportunity and brainstorm and
see if we can get our platform as an option in emerging economy.

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New meeting time for Engagement Meetings

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Fridays at 17:00 UTC seems to be the new time.  Thanks everyone.

If this comes as a surprise to you,  I am willing to look at it again
Monday.  But for now that is time.

Thanks!

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readthedocs CFPs ends today

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

So apparently today is the last day for CFP for readthedocs in Portland.
Do we have anything we want to talk about in regards to that?

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Fwd: Booth at SCALE?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

So, SCALE is next month, and I really would like someone to go there.
Outside of FOSDEM, SCALE has been good to us in the past.  I seem remember
Christian going last year.

I'd rather we get a local person, but barring that someone from California,
and barring that I can probably go.  But we'll need to do it soon otherwise
there won't be any good motels...

sri

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Date: Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 12:50 AM
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Hi Sriram,

Would GNOME be interested in a booth at SCALE?
I noticed we didn't have you on the list for March.

www.socallinuxexpo.org

Regards,
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Indian govt requesting participation

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hello folks,

Amit Savant from the Indian govt would like to invite GNOME community
members from India and is looking for people who could or want to be
invited.

They will be formally be launching  OpenForge in the International
Conference on eGovernance (ICEGo017:
http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/content/icegov-2017)

I would love to see participation on our end, and most of all talk about
the GNOME software stack to government folks.  An invitation by the govt to
the GNOME community would really open the door for GNOME.  I'm hoping some
saavy would be willing to attend!

Thanks,
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Re: Immigration ban

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:04 PM Nuritzi Sanchez <nurit...@stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:

> I think this is more of a question for the Board, since the statement
> would have to be from the GNOME Foundation.
>
> I actually already put it on our Board agenda for tomorrow, but let me
> know if you think that it's not something for the Board to get involved
> with.
>
>
The board should definitely sign off on it.  But I wanted to bring it up.
There are other GNOME Foundation members who also want to see something
like this.

sri


> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
> The Linux Foundation sent out a press release against the immigration
> ban.  I think we should also follow suit and also craft something that
> talks about our inclusiveness.
>
>
> https://www.linux.com/blog/linux-foundation-executive-directors-statement-immigration-ban
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Immigration ban

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The Linux Foundation sent out a press release against the immigration ban.
I think we should also follow suit and also craft something that talks
about our inclusiveness.

https://www.linux.com/blog/linux-foundation-executive-directors-statement-immigration-ban
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Re: Shall we restart our engagement meetings?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

possible Agenda items:

* Agenda
* Goals for this year?
* Updates from team members
* GNOME 20th anniversary
* Permanent meeting time

If you have others let me know.

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

sri

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:45 AM Nuritzi Sanchez <nurit...@stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:

Hey guys,

Let's try using Uberconference for this call:

https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement
Optional dial in number: 857-216-6156 <(857)%20216-6156>
PIN: 62777


Talk to you soon!

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
wrote:

We have a winner!   Based on the current set of people who responded... it
seems Mondays at 19:00 UTC is the best time.

For those who did not respond, I hope this time works for you.  If not,
please put in your information and we can discuss it again tomorrow!

See you tomorrow at 19:00 UTC! :D


sri


On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 AM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
wrote:

Please fill out the poll so that we can find the best time for everyone.
Be warned people in Asia might have to endure past 10pm meetings.
Hopefully not a problem.

https://framadate.org/ee7DvEeQnzrjAwXc

Please fill out by
*Sunday January 30th 2017*
I will follow up on Saturday and make sure everybody has completed the
poll. :)

Thanks!

sri

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:54 PM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:

It's been awhile, shall we restart our meetings?  I'm happy to take over
and run them.

sri


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Re: Shall we restart our engagement meetings?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

We have a winner!   Based on the current set of people who responded... it
seems Mondays at 19:00 UTC is the best time.

For those who did not respond, I hope this time works for you.  If not,
please put in your information and we can discuss it again tomorrow!

See you tomorrow at 19:00 UTC! :D


sri


On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 AM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
wrote:

> Please fill out the poll so that we can find the best time for everyone.
> Be warned people in Asia might have to endure past 10pm meetings.
> Hopefully not a problem.
>
> https://framadate.org/ee7DvEeQnzrjAwXc
>
> Please fill out by
> *Sunday January 30th 2017*
> I will follow up on Saturday and make sure everybody has completed the
> poll. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> sri
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:54 PM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
> It's been awhile, shall we restart our meetings?  I'm happy to take over
> and run them.
>
> sri
>
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Re: Support GNOME in India and South Asia

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:23 PM Balram Pariyarath  wrote:

> Hello Sri,
>
> Thanks for replying! :)
>
> Sounds great, so cool that you are involved in the Debian community.
> Perhaps you can tell us what attracted you to GNOME?
>
>
> Debian is what actually made me love GNOME. I worked on a self proposed
> idea with Debian which involved making a GNOME extension for my
> application. I am currently working on an IPA for GNOME 3 which will make
> the systems more interactive and helpful. It also involves a medium to
> communicate between different systems running the program.
>
>

Sounds fabulous!  It's so cool where love of one community leads you to
another.


> That sounds great!  Come see us on our #engagement channel on
> irc.gnome.org, and chat with us and we can figure out what sort of things
> you are interested in and come up with some projects.
>
> Also keep in mind that we have an GNOME Indian list too -
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-in-list
>
>
> That's cool! I have subscribed to the list. Let me also give a brief into
> on my thoughts about maintaining the community.
> What I aim of achieving through this is a better environment, especially
> for newbies to get started with open source projects, maintain a profile of
> what they are doing support such activities in colleges and once in a year,
> may be, bring them all together for a national level fest.
>

We definitely need more people like you to help us when it comes to
onboarding folks.  You can also talk with Carlos Soriano, he heads up the
Newcomers project (http://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers) and is passionate about
helping people get started in GNOME.  I am sure he would welcome your
participation in you're interested in onboarding new people interested in
coding/translating/documenting parts of GNOME.



> While I started working on my GSoC project last year, my mentor went
> missing and I couldn't find a reliable source of guidance around me. I had
> to do learn all the stuff by myself, mostly through my mistakes. It took
> almost 2 weeks before I could get a thorough grip of my project. Had I
> found a good guide from here, I could have saved much more time. So the aim
> is to connect these people, through online medias.
>

Yes, that must have been very frustrating experience.  I hope you raised
the issue to the GSOC coordinator on that score.


> Association with GNOME can ensure incoming of more project ideas, input
> from a more experienced network of people and finally a valid certification
> for the students who work with us.
> There will be provision for colleges to open a club franchise in their
> college, through our portal, so that we can bring all of them under one
> tree.
>

We've had discussions about setting up local communities.  We have them but
they are fairly inert at the moment because we haven't built up a critical
mass of people to build that network.  We need dedicated people who the
time to stick with building that infrastructure.  It isn't always easy.  It
can be done, but it has to be a persistent drum beat, something you kind of
attached yourself to, and to extend the metaphor, dance to.


>
>
> In addition, I have an opportunity for you to be involved with the Indian
> govt as well working on open source projects.  Perhaps you could champion
> GNOME for us there?
>
>
> Sure. That sounds interesting! I'll be happy to help you guys in anyways
> possible!
>

I just sent out mail regarding new meetings times.  Please fill out when
you would be available.  I should probably have put some evening hours in
the U.S. if that helps those who are living in Asia.


>
>
> I see that you had mentioned FOSDEM.  Will you be there?
>
>
> Not Exactly. I'll be appearing as an online speaker for the event as I
> cant make it to Belgium within the short period. I'll be there at FOSSASIA
> for sure.
>
>
Ah, ok!  Good to know, we usually have one or two contributors who go to
FOSSASIA.

sri


> Regards,
> *Balram Pariyarath*
> *Fellow | Google Summer of Code 2016*
> *CS Head | Excel 2016*
> *Chairman | IEDC-MEC 2016*
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Re: Shall we restart our engagement meetings?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:34 AM Cassandra Sanchez <cassandra.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for sending out the framadate, Sri! :)
>
>
Vacation time is over!  Let's get to work! :D

sri


> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
> Please fill out the poll so that we can find the best time for everyone.
> Be warned people in Asia might have to endure past 10pm meetings.
> Hopefully not a problem.
>
> https://framadate.org/ee7DvEeQnzrjAwXc
>
> Please fill out by
> *Sunday January 30th 2017*
> I will follow up on Saturday and make sure everybody has completed the
> poll. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> sri
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:54 PM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
> It's been awhile, shall we restart our meetings?  I'm happy to take over
> and run them.
>
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Re: Shall we restart our engagement meetings?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Please fill out the poll so that we can find the best time for everyone.
Be warned people in Asia might have to endure past 10pm meetings.
Hopefully not a problem.

https://framadate.org/ee7DvEeQnzrjAwXc

Please fill out by
*Sunday January 30th 2017*
I will follow up on Saturday and make sure everybody has completed the
poll. :)

Thanks!

sri

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:54 PM Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:

> It's been awhile, shall we restart our meetings?  I'm happy to take over
> and run them.
>
> sri
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Shall we restart our engagement meetings?

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It's been awhile, shall we restart our meetings?  I'm happy to take over
and run them.

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Fwd: LinuxFest Northwest 2017 Call for Papers is Open!

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

What topics should we bring it up?  Also we have many other Linuxfests that
we need to be present at.  I really hope that we can coordinate volunteers
to show up to these things.

sri

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This seems like an opportunity.

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

This seems like an opportunity.

https://openforge.gov.in/

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Re: When should we tweet?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:52 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson 
> wrote:
> ...
>
> Is there an easy way to track visibility, impact etc. of twitter posts?
> Apart from the obvious counting the number of favs and retweets?
>
>
> There are a bunch of tools that can calculate the best time to tweet. Most
> of them require that you give them access to your account. Would we be
> happy to do that? (I did try one that didn't require access to our account,
> but it told me we didn't have enough posts/retweets for it to be able to
> work.)
>

Possibly?  It would be nice to be able to come up with tools ourselves like
this and possibly help other projects who might want to do the same thing.


>
> Either way, I think we'd have to try posting at different times of the day
> prior to running any analytics, in order to have some data to work from.
> This could be an argument for being a bit more random in the times of day
> that we tweet (ie. three posts a day, eight hours apart, but varying the
> "base" time).
>
>
We really need a tool that will allow us to schedule posts on twitter.
That way, you can write 3 versions of the same tweet on the spot and them
schedule them for tweeting.  Otherwise, you have to be more focused about
the tweeting which I feel will be harder to accomplish.

sri


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Re: Feedback needed for gnome.org homepage redesign

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:14 PM Tom Tryfonidis  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I was working on the new FoG pages and in the meantine i played with the
> homepage redesign of gnome.org. Here is a screenshot [1], it's the same
> layout as we have now with a new menu bar and rearranged content.
>
> I would really appreciate hearing your opinion and thoughts about the 
> prototype.
> Of course, there is plenty of room for improvement here that i'm willing to 
> talk about.
>
> Cheers,
>

Looks great!  A nice tweak. :)

I would like to add that I would really like to radicalize the entire front
page to something that is more in fashion today.  I think we've had this
particular design now for about 5 years and probably is ripe for a
re-design.  Of course, I've talked about this before..  I have time to
help!  (until I get employed :-)

sri


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> Tom
>
> [1] http://i.imgur.com/16JYo3h.png
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Re: KDE 20 year anniversary

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That's great!  We should say something about it :)

sri

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:38 AM tong hui <tongh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> last Saturday, I participated KDE 20th anniversary in Beijing, the
> following are photos links, and a report by Linux.cn.
>
>
> https://dn-linuxcn.qbox.me/data/attachment/album/201610/17/184815v3vpfovyazfrvp0p.jpeg
>
>
> https://dn-linuxcn.qbox.me/data/attachment/album/201610/17/184705rtlxhckfitifdfdz.jpeg
>
> https://linux.cn/article-7871-1.html (Chinese Only)
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:35 AM, tong hui <tongh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I will participate KDE 20th celebration at Beijing tomorrow, and give a
> small talk about GNOME and GNOME Foundation.
>
> https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Parties/KDE_20_Anniversary#Beijing
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
> It would be nice to congratulate the KDE Project on their 20 year
> anniversary today!
>
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KDE 20 year anniversary

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It would be nice to congratulate the KDE Project on their 20 year
anniversary today!

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Re: Looking for someone for an interview

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:57 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've been contacted by someone who wants to do a video interview about
> GNOME, for a Linux/open source web series. It's fairly short notice -
> ideally they'd like to speak to someone today or over the weekend.
>

Yeah, I'm on the press contacts too..


>
> We need someone who can talk about high-level GNOME project stuff - what
> we're about, where we're going, relations with other desktop projects, and
> so on.
>
>
Well I volunteered to talk, although I am mostly want to talk about LAS
GNOME.  I could talk about high level GNOME project stuff if we identify
what that is.

I can also talk about some relations with other desktop projects, but I
don't have a ton of context except for the desktop projects like elementary


> Is there anyone here who can do that? Or do we have any ideas for
> individuals we should approach?
>

Were you planning on one of those?  I volunteered to be one.

sri


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Re: Ideas for gnome.org

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:43 AM  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> This got me wondering: if the blog part of the site was moved elsewhere,
> would there be any reason to continue using Wordpress for gnome.org?!
> With the blogging part being taken care of by a separate site, maybe we
> could go with  more minimal solution for gnome.org. Having experienced
> this type of website setup for flatpak.org, I have to say that it's a
> really nice way to work, and it could make it easier to do a redesign of
> the website.
>
>
I am all for doing something completely different.  Doing a minimalistic
web site is the way to go.  One question, if we move the blog part, that
would make the content static.  How do we drive people to the website or is
that even a goal now?

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Re: blog post..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Oh, I thought I posted it on this mailing list..

Here it is again:

Returned from GUADEC and again it was a wonderful time.  Big kudos to the
organizing team putting together a great conference!  For me to meet
everyone is such a adrenaline rush, and I always feel so pumped when I come
back.

Speaking of conferences, I spent a lot of time volunteering to understand
the mechanics of running a local conference since you know, I have one of
my own that is coming up in a few short weeks.  Libre Application Summit
presented by GNOME or LAS GNOME conference.

To say that starting a new conference with a new purpose is hard is an
understatement.  It is incredibly difficult to put a formal conference
together.  We did West Coast Summit for two years to make sure that this
conference idea works.  Huge kudos to openSUSE for giving the initial
funding for this conference and taking a chance on my idea and vision of
where I wanted to take this conference.  I will say the same for the board
as well for enthusiastically embracing LAS GNOME and the concepts behind it.

We live in a world of changing demographics and as a project we need to
adapt to them.  LAS GNOME is an attempt to show the world that desktops
matter in this new world of containers, cloud, and consumer devices.  No
longer will we placidly write software and release them, but instead we are
going to lead.  With nearly 20 years of experience writing desktop software
and plumbing, we are at parity with Windows and OSX.

LAS GNOME has two main goals - 1) Outreach to companies, government, and
organizations and build relationships with them and have them guide our
efforts in building an application market based on the Linux kernel. 2)
Outreach internally to the kernel, userspace maintainers, and existing
application organizations like Mozilla and Open Document Foundation and
help improve the application story by improving the OS and creating the
kind of conditions that would create a measurable application market for
devices running the Linux kernel.

Here is the thing - people, companies and organizations should know about
desktop projects.  We are the user space engineers of the Linux operating
system.  KDE created khtml which turned into WebKit and is now Blink and
now one of the most popular webapp framework today.  GNOME's influence can
be seen in dbus, systemd, logind, gstreamer, pulseaudio and various other
core pieces of userspace.  See http://www.gnome.org/technologies.  Moving
forward, flatpak is here and that too will have influence on how we think
of applications today.  The fact of the matter is, anything that gets put
forth on a desktop project is going to be in every Linux based operating
system out there.  Nobody has more clout than we (desktop projects) do in
what goes into a distribution.  Do not underestimate our worth.

LAS GNOME will be in Portland, Oregon - Sept 19-23rd at the Eliot Center.
The schedule is finalized except some tweaks here and there and now working
on some great BoFs on open source marketing, linux graphics drivers,
OpenQA/OBS, flatpak enabling/workshop, and hopefully a string of others on
in the plans.  Companies and individuals can expect a week of being able to
talk with everyone across the Linux eco-system and understand how to get
started in a single place.

I also want to thank everyone who have been working so hard on this
conference.  We've overcome so many obstacles and continue to overcome them
as they arrive.

Finally, I want to thank the Foundation for sponsoring me to GUADEC and
allowing me to network with my community about LAS GNOME.

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:39 PM Emel Elvin Yıldız <emelelvinyil...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Which blog post you are talking about?
>
> --Elvin
>
> On 1 September 2016 at 00:25, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
>
>> What did people think of my blog post?  Okay to send out?
>>
>> sri
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blog post..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

What did people think of my blog post?  Okay to send out?

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Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:27 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
> ...
>
>> What do you mean, 'avoiding crossing the streams'?  I'm sure we can do
>> some promotion at the conference and certainly there should be an
>> opportunity to have a release party with conference attendees :)
>>
>
> I would like to avoid relatively trivial posts about the conference being
> published in close proximity to the release announcement. This should be
> fairly easy to solve if LAS GNOME uses its own media channels and whoever
> handles the release announcement has control over the GNOME channels,
> though.
>

Sure, we can stay out of the GNOME account for the LAS GNOME stuff during
that week.  Hopefully we can gain enough followers that.  But I think for
certain things, for instance, let's say that we had Linus meeting with
desktop developers, that I would want to put on the GNOME twitter account.
That would probably fall into a non-trivial post.  Same with any important
thing that came out of the BoFs.


>
>  ...
>
>> The big area where we need people to chip in is with social media. It
>>> would be great to have a plan there.
>>>
>>>
>> Looks like we have a volunteer for that as well!  I won't be able to help
>> this time as I will be busy with LAS GNOME.  So finding some new blood to
>> help with this is probably in order.
>>
>> I can try to reach out and see if we can find more volunteers for that?
>> But if Lene wants to help with a plan, I won't stand in their way. :)
>>
>
> Yes, it would be fantastic to have volunteers for this! Let's see if
> Nuritzi or Rosanna have some ideas for how to get them started...
>
>
Sounds good.

sri


> Allan
>
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Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:23 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> GNOME 3.22 is scheduled for release on 21 September - that's three weeks
> from now. The main things we need to have for the release are:
>
>- Release notes
>- Release video
>- News post for gnome.org
>- Screenshot pack
>- Update the screenshots on the website
>- Social media coverage, running up to the release and immediately
>afterwards. LAS GNOME is happening at the same time so we'll need to figure
>out how to avoid crossing the streams...
>
>
What do you mean, 'avoiding crossing the streams'?  I'm sure we can do some
promotion at the conference and certainly there should be an opportunity to
have a release party with conference attendees :)


> Bastian is already on the case with the video. I'm happy to take the lead
> with the release notes, but would really appreciate some help, particularly
> with screenshots and the screenshot pack.
>
>
Andreas is in for that...


> The big area where we need people to chip in is with social media. It
> would be great to have a plan there.
>
>
Looks like we have a volunteer for that as well!  I won't be able to help
this time as I will be busy with LAS GNOME.  So finding some new blood to
help with this is probably in order.

I can try to reach out and see if we can find more volunteers for that?
But if Lene wants to help with a plan, I won't stand in their way. :)

sri


> Thanks,
>
> Allan
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Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:42 AM Lene Raastad 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have just signed up to help, so you don't know who I am right now..
> so hello, and nice to meet you all :) (now you know who I am)
>
>
Welcome!!


> I would love to help out with social media and creating a plan!
>
>
That's great, we could use more people doing that.  We don't really have
enough of those and our resources are already tight with LAS GNOME
promotion.  The engagement team is largely the LAS GNOME people too.


> Do we have a budget behind it?
>
>
We don't usually have a budget, but that could change.. I think we would
really like to use things like adsense to see get more eyeballs.  If you
have any idea how to have more eyeballs on our releases we would love to
hear.

We have meetings every Friday, so you should consider joining one of them
and introduce yourself!

sri


> Lene :)
>
> On 30 August 2016 at 11:35, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
>
>> On 2016-08-30 12:23, Allan Day wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Bastian is already on the case with the video. I'm happy to take the
>>> lead with the release notes, but would really appreciate some help,
>>> particularly with screenshots and the screenshot pack.
>>>
>>>
>> I'm happy to help with the screenshots, as usual.
>> - Andreas
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engagement-team notes | Engagement Meeting July 29th

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

*A**GENDA*
*Proposed meeting duration time:* 60 mins

* Promotion for GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 - posted links on social media
(Facebook, Twitter, G+) (DONE)
* post Julita's post (DONE)
* Annual Report - to the printers
* SCALE - opportunities available for non-profit -
* Event box  - we need to finish ths up

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Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:57 AM Mike Gorse <mgo...@suse.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there standard literature, etc. that GNOME hands out at these
> conferences, or is there a document on the wiki that explains this?
>

Look in http://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement

Some of the new things like flatpak and application distribution that we
are pushing are not in there.  I will help you with that as several people
need to be trained to talk about it.


>
> Also, has someone contacted Texas Linux Fest? It just occurred to me
> that maybe I was supposed to do that and I haven't.
>

Can you go ahead and do it?  Please CC me on it.  Thanks for reaching out!

sri


>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
> On Monday 2016-06-13 18:44, Scott Reeves wrote:
>
> >Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:44:46
> >From: Scott Reeves <sree...@suse.com>
> >To: Mike Gorse <mgo...@suse.com>, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org>,
> >engagement-list <engagement-list@gnome.org>,
> >foundation-list <foundation-l...@gnome.org>,
> >Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> >Subject: Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016
> >
> >>>> On 6/1/2016 at 11:14 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> I've been contacted by Texas Linux Fest, who want to know if we'd like
> to
> >>> run a GNOME stand this year. It sounds like a great idea to me - are
> there
> >>> any volunteers?
> >>>
> >>> The event is 8-9th July in Austin. We need to get back to them no later
> >>> than 20th June.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I would like to underscore the importance of being visible in our
> >> community. :)  Please seriously consider this if you live in the area,
> we
> >> will give you all the support you need to help set up.
> >
> > Hi Sri,
> > Mike Gorse is willing to run this booth.
> > Would you like to coordinate the details on a specific list or private
> conversation ?
> >
> > Scott.
> >
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Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 4:45 PM Scott Reeves <sree...@suse.com> wrote:

> >>> On 6/1/2016 at 11:14 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I've been contacted by Texas Linux Fest, who want to know if we'd like
> to
> >> run a GNOME stand this year. It sounds like a great idea to me - are
> there
> >> any volunteers?
> >>
> >> The event is 8-9th July in Austin. We need to get back to them no later
> >> than 20th June.
> >>
> >
> > I would like to underscore the importance of being visible in our
> > community. :)  Please seriously consider this if you live in the area, we
> > will give you all the support you need to help set up.
>
> Hi Sri,
> Mike Gorse is willing to run this booth.
> Would you like to coordinate the details on a specific list or private
> conversation ?
>

Excellent!   If he can join engagement-list that would be best.   We can
work on planning with him.

Sri

>
> Scott.
>
>
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