TWiki Marketing Meeting, 20 Oct 2008

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

Logistics

• Place: IRC Server chat.freenode.net, channel #twiki_marketing
• Date & Time: 2008-10-20 19:00 GMT (Convert the start for your time zone)
• IRC log: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x10x20log.txt
• Previous/Next meeting: TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x10x06, TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x11x03

Attendees

• PeterThoeny
• MartinSeibert
• OliverKrueger
• VickiBrown
• RichMorin
• MartinCleaver

1. Usability & Home Page Redesign

• Champions: ArthurClemens, CarloSchulz
• Co-Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topics: TWikiOrgRenewalWorks2008ToDo, NewNavigationModelForTWikiDotOrg, WebPageAudience, WebPageAudienceSiteStructure, UsabilityIdeas

• no comments besides "go for it" with Arthur's design.

2. Blogging

• Champions: VickiBrown
• Supporting topic: TWikiBlogAndNewsletter

• new newsletter coming soon.

3. TWiki Meet-ups

• Champion: PeterThoeny
• Supporting topic: TWikiMeetUps

• Time for another Silicon Valley meetup - by end of year.
  • any other regions that could organize a meetup?
  • maybe something social, such as a "TWiki First" meetup on the first Tue of every month?

4. Merchandising

• Champion: WillNorris
• Supporting topic: TWikiMerchandise

• no comments

5. Rich Morin topics

• consultant page. RichMorin would like to see this using TWiki app technology. eg, have each consultant list their time zone tags for specialties, etc., with summary page based on a formatted SEARCH.
• apply more TWiki app technology to the plugin pages.

5. Brainstorming for Ideas

• MartinCleaver: UseTWikiDotOrgPageSubscriptionsToRetainCommunity, install SubscribePlugin in twiki.org, PleaseInstallPluginsAtTWikiDotOrg

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 www.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

Back to: TWikiMarketing

Discussion

Sorry I could not make it. A home construction project came in the way. I can see I need to write some blogs for the news letter

-- KennethLavrsen - 21 Oct 2008