Evergreen Outreach Committee Meeting 4 p.m. Eastern 2025-12-03

Attendees: Rogan Hamby, Debbie Luchenbill, Kathy Lussier, Misty Morse, Andrea Buntz Neiman (minutes)

Minutes

Meeting called to order at 4:04pm ET

• Inspirational Reminder - Be the piranha you want to be.
• Introductions
• Review of backburner items (Rogan)
• Press releases (Andrea)
  • PR sent for Membership in November
  • PR needed for post-Hackaway - Rogan will send text
  • PR sources - ABN will ask Laura B.
  • PR in January for Conference?
• Social Media (Kathy)
  • Conference would appreciate our assistance with Social Media
  • Kathy: does Conference or Outreach post to the blog? Rogan: it's Conference.
    • Debbie will follow up with Conference Committee about 2026 Conference blog posts & social media
  • Putting some posts out there; working with Publer to coordinate posts
  • Paid Publer will allow you to schedule posts as well as schedule the first comment (if on Facebook)
  • Paid Publer is relatively inexpensive
  • Kathy has also looked at LinkedIn for the Evergreen Community but this is not straightforward. Options include:
    • Company (Koha Community has this)
    • Product (Koha does not have this - individual support providers can name Koha as their product)
    • Group (some OS communities do that)
    • Kathy's recommendation: a Company page for TEP community; and a Product page for the ILS. Kathy will manage both. Outreach Committee agrees.
• Youtube Site
  • Debbie would like to take this on; she will contact Katie or Galen for an evergreen-ils account
• Miscellaneous:
  • Calendar change from "Developer" to "Development" Meeting to make this more inclusive
  • Kathy will be orchestrating a social media challenge in advance of the in-person conference
  • Misty will be helping with the Annual Report wrangling

Meeting concluded at 5:02pm