Outreach Meeting at Hackaway

Tuesday 2024-11-12 1:30pm

Attending: Scott Angel, Ruth Davis, Rogan Hamby, Stephanie Leary, Kathy Lussier, Andrea Buntz Neiman (minutes)

Agenda: Review & discussion of community website survey responses

• Survey responses
• ACTION: Ruth will investigate Slack pricing for the community
• Discussion of barriers presented by IRC
• Consider making more use of the blog to show meeting summaries & recordings, etc.
  • ACTION: Stephanie will create a tag for Seeds podcast and collocate those
• ACTION: Stephanie will create a survey about communications channels for collaboration (Slack, IRC)
• ACTION: ABN will update agenda to include discussion of moving off IRC for dev meetings
• Strong preference for "module" based pages (circulation, cataloging, etc.)
• Strong preference among survey respondents for more sales-y / marketing content
• Also preference for introductions & onboarding for new users
• Two audience groups:
  • Marketing: potential users; decision makers; evaluation; "how do I get it?"
  • Community: current & new users; information; onboarding; "how do I do it?"
• Possible different subdomains for two groups? Or keep it all on the main site & tailor content / make it modular?
• Would like to see some screenshots or other elements needed for each audience group?
• Discussion of listservs, GPLS domain ownership, etc. No need to move this now.
• ACTION: Stephanie will work on content strategy & extract useful information from our old website working doc
• Also consider sharing specs on the public webpage; and sharing RFPs as well

Meeting adjourned 2:34pm.