TWiki Marketing Meeting, 25 Feb 2008

Logistics

• Place: IRC Server chat.freenode.net, channel #twiki_marketing
• Time: 21:00 GMT
• Previous/Next meeting: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x02x11, TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x03x10

Attendees

• PeterThoeny (facilitator)
• ArthurClemens
• MichaelCorbett (minutes)
• SvenDowideit
• LarsEik
• KoenMartens
• VickiBrown
• SueBlake
• KennethLavrsen

1. Blogging

• Champion: VickiBrown
• Supporting topic: TWikiBlogAndNewsletter

• VickiBrown volunteered for the Blog Champion. A vote was taken and she was approved.
• VickiBrown to set up Twitter feed.
• PeterThoeny to check on the #twiki twitter user.
• MichaelCorbett proposed a “half baked blog” page.

• Action item review:
  • PeterThoeny: add big rss icon to .org home and encouraging note to particitape
  • MartinSeibert: create English summaries for available Weblog-Entries in German (done)
  • VickiBrown: create a BlogIdeas page.
  • create a link to this page from the Blog page
  • Open - Someone needs to create a blog entry about the importance of blogging for TWiki.

2. Usability & Home Page Redesign

• Champion: ArthurClemens, CarloSchulz
• Co-Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topics: NewNavigationModelForTWikiDotOrg, WebPageAudience, WebPageAudienceSiteStructure, UsabilityIdeas

• ArthurClemens showed the new design at NewNavigationModelForTWikiDotOrg
• TWIKI.NET skin will be made available as open source (i.e. free to use) in the next few days.
• There was discussion on whether the TDO site should replicate the out of the box experience for standard TWiki. In other words, should we make it so the standard skin shipped as default looks the same as the TDO site? Main.MichaelCorbett invites anyone present at the meeting to update this if their understanding of the discussion was better than his.
• ArthurClemens to create a page with the work items that are required for the Front Page Makeover.

3. Testimonials

• Champion: RodBeckstrom, MichaelCorbett
• Supporting topic: YouTubeDemoContest2008

• Action item review:
  • MichaelCorbett and AmirShobeiri define a (short) list of criterias
  • Marketing team to brainstorm ways of promoting the contest.
  • PeterThoeny create a box on the TDO homepage promoting the contest.
  • MichaelCorbett to write blog entry re the contest.

4. TWiki.org Performance

• Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topic: NewTWikiOrgServer2008

• Sun still has not delivered the three webservers and the NAS storage server

• Action item review
  • PeterThoeny: create and maintain topic in Codev web on (delivery) status
  • PeterThoeny: update twiki.org to 4.2 within the next two weeks

5. Merchandising

• Champion: Vacant
• Supporting topic: TWikiMerchandise

• A Spreadshirt account for TWiki has been opened

6. TWiki Meetups

• Champion: AmirShobeiri
• Supporting topic: TWikiMeetUps

• FOSDEM meet up was attended by 2 people.

IRC Log

• TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x02x25.txt: IRC log of marketing meeting 25 Feb 2008

Back to: TWikiMarketing

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Feb 2008

Discussion

Did someone log the meeting? Could you attach the IRC log as TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x02x25.txt?

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Mar 2008

Done.

-- KoenMartens - 02 Mar 2008