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 podcasthttps://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