Evergreen Outreach Committee Meeting
July 5, 2023 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific

Attending: Laura Barry, Kat Dannehl, Rogan Hamby, Stephanie Leary, Debbie Luchenbill, Kathy Lussier, Andrea Neiman (minutes), Kathryn Nesbit, Olivia Scully

Called to order 4:02pm ET

  * Website (Stephanie)
    * Nothing to report
  * Press releases 
    * Kat D. will be taking over press releases
  * Social Media (Kathryn)
    * Rogan gave an overview of historic social media activity and possible priorities going forward.
    * Question about new blog posts posting to Twitter / Facebook etc. - this had been via Evergreen Planet - culprit likely a broken plugin
    * Stephanie: we can still automatically post to FB; but not Twitter
    * Social media & queue are here: https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=outreach#social_media
  * Evergreen Seeds podcast[[https://feeds.captivate.fm/evergreenseeds/]] (Rogan)
    * Capturing the stories & history of Evergreen
    * Rogan suggested this as a press release idea - Kat will work on this as well as a blog post
    * Stephanie will suggest a wordpress plugin for the podcast
    * Laura will provide constructive feedback and promotion of the podcast
    * Currently audio only, but Rogan will look into making mp4 files as well as include auto-captions
      * Debbie and Laura can help with transcripts
  * Hack-a-way
    * Rogan is following up on whether or not there are rooms left in the block
  * New Biz
    * Discussion: what to follow Twitter?
      * Mastodon probably most viable but runs afoul of the GDPR
      * Orgs like Koha, Internet Archive, etc. are on Mastodon
      * BlueSky? Spoutible? Lemmy? Substack?
      * Rogan points out that it's valuable to at least secure our namespace on new socials - Rogan will create EG community accounts on some of these services & work on a better way to share passwords.

Meeting adjourned at 4:29pm ET