Fedora Marketing Team Meeting Minutes 2016-12-13

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

To help improve the flow of the meeting, using the IRC Meeting Protocol is encouraged, as modeled by the EMEA Ambassadors.
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#topic Agenda
- #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2016-12-13

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

#topic Announcements
- #info === "Fedora 25: Bleeding edge and bloody brilliant" ===
  - #link http://www.techrepublic.com/article/fedora-25-bleeding-edge-and-bloody-brilliant/
  - #info If you've been waiting for a reason to come back to Fedora, here's why the 25th iteration might be the perfect time.
- #info === "Remembering a friend: Matthew Williams" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/remembering-matthew-williams/
  - #info RIP Lord Drachenblut
- #info === "Elections 2016: Nominate community members to Fedora leadership" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/elections-2016-nominate-leadership/
  - #info Nominations due today
- #info === "Fedora 26 release dates and schedule" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-26-release-dates-schedule/
  - #info Dates set for next cycle

#topic F25 Marketing Retrospective
- #info === "What did we do right?" ===
- #info === "What can we do better?" ===
- #info === "Where did we have gaps?" ===
- #info === "How can we bridge those gaps?" ===
- #info === "What ideas or wishlist do we have for F26?" ===

#topic Action items from last meetings
- #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-12-06/marketing.2016-12-06-14.02.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 === bkm to look at cleanup and establishment of marketing pages for new F26 cycle ===
- #info === (Complete) bkp to contact ambassadors and get feedback on marketing retrospective ===

#topic Tickets
- #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issues?tags=meeting
- #info === Ticket #241 ===
  - #info "Fedora Magazine feed fails to validate"
  - #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/241
  - #info From ryanlerch: The issue with the feed here is that that url has the & in it, but not in a cdata block, or using an xml entity (&). Unsure how to fix.
- #info === Ticket #242 ===
  - #info "Update release activity steps / process on the wiki"
  - #link https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/242
  - #info x3mboy to poll lost to see about altering release activities page to a more action-oriented table like the one at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_tasks?rd=Docs_Project_tasks, or some variant in-between

#topic Upcoming Tasks
- #link https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-25/f-25-marketing-tasks.html
- #link https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-26/f-26-marketing-tasks.html
- #info (1) Marketing Retrospective (due: Tue 2016-12-06)
- #info (2) Cleanup Marketing wiki from previous releases (due: Tue 2016-12-20)
- #info (3) Cycle Marketing wiki pages for current release (due: Tue 2016-12-20)
- #info (4) Change Checkpoint: Completion deadline (testable) (due: Tue 2017-02-21)