Agenda
@garbas has left the team after founding it in 2020 and leading it to redesign nixos.org and focus marketing efforts on developers as a target audience. Thanks a lot!
@djacu wants to reset the team a bit and collect what’s going on.
Attendees
@djacu @crertel @avocadoom @fricklerhandwerk @flyfloh
Notes
@djacu The website is … what is the status now? What stage of the site enhancement are we at? We migrated the build tools a while ago.
@avocadoom Maybe we could add new features like dark mode.
@avocadoom No other concrete features right now.
@avocadoom There is clear issue of ownership
@avocadoom We have a lot of open issues; would be good to go through them and address them or close them.
- There was a marketing meeting mid December.
- @tomberek gave me the go ahead to start closing issues.
- Meeting notes from mid December
@fricklerhandwerk proposes to request a budget from the SC to hire someone to own and manage aspects of the marketing team
- @avocadoom asked for funding last year but that got rejected
- @fricklerhandwerk: situation has changed; based on discussions with the @tomberek (going back to October 2023) every team should have a budget,
@crertel How do we select a new lead?
@fricklerhandwerk and @djacu proposing @idabzo to be the new team lead
@fricklerhandwerk let’s contact @idabzo and create a private matrix room to start personnel/budget discussions.
@djacu returning to @avocadoom’s earlier concern about handling contributions that are out of scope or change too many things at once
- Make clear goals for what we want to do
- Have a list of things people can work on if they cannot attend the meeting (use the issue tracker). Make sure the task is well scoped.
- Also had some issues with infra, such as GitHub not allowing previews by external contributions
- @frickerlerhandwerk: Seems it would help if we got some help on the infra side there?
- We need a golden path for new people to contribute successfully.
- We need a quick and painless path for maintainers to say “no” gracefully, so they can burn down their ever-growing queues.
@djacu will figure out the calendar and move it to Monday at 1800 UTC.