Fedora Marketing Team Meeting Minutes 2016-03-30

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

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

#topic Announcements
- #info === "Announcing Fedora’s Diversity Adviser" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/announcing-fedoras-diversity-adviser/
  - #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MD4ZRYN4IQSW5AFOZR57CLDZOH3LE5V3/
  - #info The Diversity Adviser position is officially filled by long-time contributor María "tatica" Leandro. Learn more about the position, what work is going on, and a little bit more about tatica in the Community Blog.
- #info === "“I contributed!” 2015 Gource Video Series (3/3)" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/i-contributed-2015-gource-video/
  - #info Contributor Bee Padalkar (bee2502) wrote a report on the Community Blog analyzing all contributions in Fedora via a visualization with Gource. This is a cool way to put contributions to an easily digestible video!
- #info === "FOSSASIA 2016: Singapore" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fossasia-2016-singapore/
  - #info Fedora attended the FOSSASIA conference this year in Singapore. Ambassador Woo Huiren (GIANT_CRAB) wrote a brief report on the Community Blog about the experience.
- #info === "Fedora was at PyCon SK 2016" ===
  - #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-was-at-pycon-sk-2016/
  - #info Fedora recently attended a Python event in Slovakia! PyCon SK 2016 recently finished up and Miro Hrončok (churchyard) wrote a brief report on the Community Blog.

#topic Action items from last meetings
- #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-03-23/fedora_marketing.2016-03-23-21.07.html
- #info === jzb working on Fedora Marketing Python objective ===
- #info === [COMPLETE] decause follow-up with jflory7 after he's done travelling ===
  - #action jflory7 Follow up on previous action items (see Remy's email)
- #info === decause ask mattdm about GNOME release ===
- #info === [COMPLETE] decause deliver the F24 Alpha Release announcement by Monday 3/28 ===
  - #link https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-24-alpha-released/
- #info === [COMPLETE] jzb work w/decause to deliver text version and document process on Marketing wiki ===
- #info === [COMPLETE] bkp poke folks with Python experience to review brochure. ===
  - #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2016-March/019193.html

#topic Tickets
- #link https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/12
- #info === Ticket #219 ===
  - #link https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/219
  - #info "Create Python talking points for Ambassadors"
- #info === Ticket #222 ===
  - #link https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/222
  - #info "Publicizing "Fedora affiliates" (or groups using Fedora)"
  - fale: Any progress on creating an initial draft of a process?
- #info === Ticket #223 ===
  - #link https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/223
  - #info "Create Social Media Accounts for Fedora on Diaspora and GNU Social"
  - Do we have people who can monitor these platforms? Can we set up a presence there? Do we have a potential audience there as well?
- #info === Ticket #210 ===
  - #link https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/210
  - #info "Magazine Categories - Reorganization?"
  - Idea is to add new categories while preserving old ones for all former articles (or would we rather rename existing categories to the "best fit" new category?). jflory7 is willing to complete this if a current Magazine admin is able to grant privileges. cc: stickster / ryanlerch?

#topic Upcoming Tasks
- #link https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-24/f-24-marketing-tasks.html
  - #info Current / upcoming tasks:
    - #info (1) Proposed Changes Profiles (due: Tue 2016-04-05)
    - #info (2) Update and Package Firefox Bookmarks (due: Thu 2016-03-31)
    - #info (3) Tag Updated Bookmarks Package for Fedora 24 (due: Thu 2016-03-31)
    - #info (4) Beta Freeze (00:00 UTC) (due: Tue 2016-04-19)