TWiki Marketing Meeting, 22 Sep 2008

"TWiki, the open source wiki for the enterprise."

Logistics

• Place: IRC Server chat.freenode.net, channel #twiki_marketing
• Date & Time: 2008-09-22 19:00 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• IRC log: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x09x22.txt
• Previous/Next meeting: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x09x08, TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x10x06

Attendees

• PeterThoeny
• KennethLavrsen
• CarloSchulz
• MartinSeibert

1. Usability & Home Page Redesign

• Champions: ArthurClemens, CarloSchulz
• Co-Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topics: TWikiOrgRenewalWorks2008ToDo, NewNavigationModelForTWikiDotOrg, WebPageAudience, WebPageAudienceSiteStructure, UsabilityIdeas
• Working topics: DraftWhatIsTWiki (the only text topic under construction), TWikiOrgSkin (with DraftWhatIsTWiki integrated) as discussion topic for the new look and feel
• All the participants of the Marketing meeting loved the new designs at TWikiOrgSkin a lot. We say "Thank you, Arthur!"!
• We would change the two boxes in one box with two buttons. Just like Wikipedia does it:
  
• Question: Is the is skin meant to be for all wiki pages or just the customer facing ones? This has implications on sidebar, tagging, last change info etc.

2. Blogging

• Champions: VickiBrown
• Supporting topic: TWikiBlogAndNewsletter
• No news here. But Kenneth wants to create a blog post within the next days.

3. TWiki Meet-ups

• Champion: ?
• Supporting topic: TWikiMeetUps
• No news here.

4. Merchandising

• Champion: WillNorris
• Supporting topic: TWikiMerchandise
• No news here.

5. Brainstorming for Ideas

Action items

1. MartinSeibert: Create a proposal for German TWiki Marketing Website (open)
2. MartinSeibert: Write a suggestion on how TWiki can cooperate with Search Engine Bots without lowering the server performance. (open)
3. MartinSeibert: Come up with set of questions for the survey in Codev before performing it. (done - see Link)
4. PeterThoeny: Reply to will's t-shirt proposal.
5. PeterThoeny: Explain why there is a need for a registration on twiki.org. I do not want to change anything. But we have to give reasons why a registration is needed. (see this: Screenshot, Video).
6. VickiBrown: Investigate a pref setting for meta description and one for meta keywords in Blog web

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