TWiki Marketing Meeting, 19 May 2008

Logistics

• Place: IRC Server chat.freenode.net, channel #twiki_marketing
• Time: 19:00 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• Action items: TWikiMarketing
• IRC log: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x05x19.txt
• Previous/Next meeting: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x05x05, TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x06x02

Attendees

• PeterThoeny
• KennethLavrsen
• MartinSeibert

1. Usability & Home Page Redesign

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

• small steps
• start creating landing pages in the TWiki web and start populating those; live

2. Blogging

• Champions: VickiBrown
• Supporting topic: TWikiBlogAndNewsletter

• Soliciting more blog posts. How?
  • Link from Support page? no
  • Better if WE answer a support question which is unusual and give a hint to blog about it

3. Testimonials & Contest

• Champions: MichaelCorbett, AmirShobeiri
• Supporting topic: YouTubeDemoContest2008

4. TWiki.org Performance

• Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topic: NewTWikiOrgServer2008

• this week we will configure load balancing
• we've run into problems with nas (sun storagetek) configuration; best case in 2 weeks we are up and running with new servers
• Sun and twiki.net will issue a press release on the hardware donation of 100k Sun equipment

5. TWiki Meetups

• Champion: AmirShobeiri
• Supporting topic: TWikiMeetUps

• 3rd Silicon Valley meetup May 16; live broadcast had technical difficulties; we have a tape; will post extracts on youtube
• next meetup is in Moscow
• Berlin (Summit) and Porto upcoming
  • CarloSchulz to drive the berlin user meetup with help from MartinSeibert

6. Brainstorming for ideas

• Twitter-Action
  • All: Join the Twitter-friends by adding http://twitter.com/twikiorg as a contact with your twitter-users.
  • Existing "followers": Twitter more about TWiki. For examples: If you have committed new code or fixed a bug, twitter it.
    • TWiki keyword automatically grabbed from followers
  • Twitter accepts RSS feeds via twitterfeed. We can feed the Blog page RSS to twitter
    • needs password
• Skype-Action
  • Purpose: Offer an additional channel for quick questions and provide quick answers. As Skype is "always on" on a lot of computers, the conversations will be spread faster this way.
  • All: Join the public Skype-chat and answers questions there also. (Prerequisite: A skype installation on your Computer.)
• Is anybody willing to take over these tasks?
  • VickiBrown: Write blog entry on TWiki-merchandising-products like T-Shirts.
  • VickiBrown: Someone needs to create a blog entry about the importance of blogging for TWiki.
  • VickiBrown: Make sure, that the Wikipedia-Entry for TWiki is linked wherever Wikipedia talks about Corporate Wikis (in en.wikipedia.org).
  • Untaken: Create an agenda for the TWiki Summit in Berlin in September. We should start to collect possible topic ideas also.

Action items

• Review action items listed at TWikiMarketing

Back to: TWikiMarketing

Discussion

I will try to be present. Can't promise for sure yet ...

-- MartinSeibert - 18 May 2008

After talking to myself for ten minutes i found out that I've been disconnected. Cant reconnect. Sorry

-- CarloSchulz - 19 May 2008