outreach:meetings:2023-07-05:minutes
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
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