Fedora Marketing Team Meeting Minutes 2017-02-14

Meeting Time

This week's Marketing Meeting will be led by jflory7.

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#topic Agenda
- #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2017-02-14
- #info (1) Roll call
- #info (2) Announcements
- #info (3) Action items from last meeting
- #info (4) Tickets
- #info (5) Upcoming tasks
- #info (6) Open floor

#topic Roll call
- #info Name; Timezone; Other sub-projects / interest areas

#topic Announcements
- #info === "Community Promotion Ads - 2017" ===
  - #link http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4337/community-promotion-ads-2017
  - #info mattdm submitted a series of community ads to the Unix StackExchange site, featuring the Fedora Magazine and each Fedora edition. To be featured on the site, ads need to have six or more votes. If you have a StackExchange / StackOverflow account, please log in and add your vote!
- #info It's been a quiet week across the media world for Fedora. No new articles or coverage of anything this week, but we haven't hit an exciting period yet as far as press coverage goes. The alpha is just around the corner, though!

#topic Action items from last meetings
- #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-02-07/marketing.2017-02-07-14.01.html
- #info How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward.
- #info === [IN PROGRESS] Amita / dhanesh95 Research the Mozilla marketing team / efforts to see what kind of work and activities they do for their release cycles, and then leave a comment in ticket #242 for discussion at next meeting ===
  - #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242#comment-75600
- #info === [COMPLETE] mailga Prepare / create the Fedora 26 talking points wiki page and update the link for it on the main Marketing wiki page by next week's meeting, 2017-02-14 ===
  - #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points
- #info === [COMPLETE] jflory7 File a new ticket for Council sub-project report in next month ===
- #info === [IN PROGRESS] jflory7 / x3mboy Discuss possibility of using a bot to sync social media platform (e.g. FB / Twitter / RSS) to Fedora Projects News Telegram group ===
  - #action jflory7 / x3mboy Discuss possibility of using a bot to sync social media platform (e.g. FB / Twitter / RSS) to Fedora Projects News Telegram group

#topic Tickets
- #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issues?tags=meeting
- #info === Ticket #242: "Update release activity steps / process on the wiki" ===
  - #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242
  - #info Picking up on past discussions with regards to retooling ourselves to being a more effective and productive Marketing Team. New insights from Mozilla courtesy of Amita and dhanesh95, as well as OSAS from bkp.
- #info === Ticket #245: "Create Fedora 26 talking points" ===
  - #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/245
  - #info mailga has created the Fedora 26 talking points wiki page, but it has a lot of trimming and prettying to do, as we discussed. See bex's comment in the ticket with regards to how we present this talking points instead by audience instead of by edition.
  - #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points
- #info === Ticket #246: "Prepare report for Council sub-project report" ===
  - #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/246
  - #info Marketing is tentatively on the hook for a sub-project update in March. We'll want to begin mapping out our current status, future plans, and anything we'd like to request help from the Council on. Also relevant, see our last sub-project report with croberts on YouTube as a review.
  - #link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP6GXsjM7AA

#topic Upcoming Tasks
- #link https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-26/f-26-marketing-tasks.html
- #info (1) Change Checkpoint: Completion deadline (Tue 2017-02-28)
- #info (2) Create Talking Points (start: Tue 2017-02-28)
- #info (3) Proposed Changes Profiles (start: Tue 2017-03-07)
- #info (4) Email WGs to solicit bullet points for Alpha release announcement (start: Thu 2017-03-09)