TWiki Marketing Meeting, 2013-01-11

"TWiki, the Open Source Enterprise Collaboration Platform."

Logistics

• Place: IRC Server chat.freenode.net, channel #twiki_marketing
• Date & Time: 2013-01-11 18:00 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• IRC log: TWikiMarketingMeeting2013x01x11.txt
• Previous / Next Meeting: TWikiMarketingMeeting2012x12x14 / TWikiMarketingMeeting2013x01x25

Attendees

• DavidAllen
• PeterThoeny
• RamnathABanerjee
• VickiBrown
• HideyoImazu
• RichMorin

• Facilitated by DavidAllen
• Notes taken by PeterThoeny

1. Marketing (Re)focus Discussion

• Creation of TWiki Application Repository / Showcase
• Supporting topics - TWikiMarketing, TWikiAppInstaller
• Discussed aspects of local TWiki app repositories (and how they may override twiki.org and other app repositories)
• Discussed modification to TWiki config / configure script to add / enable / disable official repositories
• Discussed how other open source projects (such as Debian / Ubuntu) manage apps through package managers (Synaptic, Ubuntu Software Center) and packaging formats (.deb)
• Discussed use of app management control file directives like "suggests" "recommends" and "replaces" and their interaction with other app packages. These directives are also used in Debian-style package management

2. Blogging

• Champions: VickiBrown
• Supporting topic: TWikiBlogAndNewsletter

3. TWiki Meet-ups

• Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topic: TWikiMeetUps

4. Open Discussion / Ideas

5. Action items

• DavidAllen to send PeterThoeny emails with sample .deb / control files for feature analysis

Back to: TWikiMarketingMinutes

-- DavidAllen - 2012-12-13

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