By Private Profile ac3990a1 on 2020-12-22 14:28 in Joomla! Volunteer Engagement Team

Volunteer Engagement Team Meeting Minutes

November 30th, 2020 at 18:00:00  UTC

Scheduled length of time: 1 hour

Participants: Davide Messia, Shirielle Williams, Marianela Queme, Laura Gordon, Chris Keen, Llewellyn van der Merwe

Apologies:  Hugh Douglas-Smith, Patrick Jackson, Niels Braczek, Wilco Alsemgeest, Daniel Dubois, Ruchika Nagarkar, Luca Marzo, Marco Dings, David Aswani,  Benjamin Trenkle, Mark Bender

Assistant Team Leader: all members present agree to Patrick taking the role as ATL.

Meeting time: what is a suitable time to get the majority of the team to meet.
Try to plan the meeting so at least representatives from Dept. of workgroups to attend. Very important that the Workgroups find a joint time.

Skills need for Joomla volunteers: Through teams or in general identify and publish skills etc needed / wanted to contribute to Joomla. Learning paths and links to resources.

Evangelist group: Llewellyn would like to be involved.

Incentives for companies supporting Joomla!: encourage companies to assign time from their employees (progs etc) in return for recognition (listing, visibility on our sites etc).
Reduce barriers and improve visibility to companies that support J! In this way.

New working group?

Listing of not Joomla events: for example companies that hold meeting or events, find a ‘place’ where these listings could be shown

Help wanted page: improve the Help wanted page and create personas for users and non joomla users. Currently 12 interviews, shortly the workgroup will get together to review the results and decide on further actions / progress.

Community Open listings: thanks for restructuring the community openings article. 

Thanks / New Years Card: Marienella will provide the text and graphics. Davide will contact Yves Hoppe regarding the card company.