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16:00:20 <joostvb> hi all, welcome to publicity team meeting
16:00:28 <joostvb> please say hi if you're here
16:00:35 <jbr> hi
16:01:32 <joostvb> jbr: welcome. i'll wait a few minutes for more people to show up
16:01:57 <disaster2life> hello!
16:02:18 <AnupaAnnJoseph[m]> Hi
16:02:22 <jipege1> hi
16:03:04 <charles> hi
16:03:14 <charles> sorry for being late
16:03:18 <joostvb> charles: np :)
16:03:26 <eamanu[m]> Hello!
16:03:38 <joostvb> #topic https://pad.debian.net/p/tasks_and_events_for_the_coming_months
16:03:55 <joostvb> i've put that on the agenda, i believe it's mainly the work of jipege1
16:04:00 <disaster2life> 3 minutes is late?
16:04:01 <tarzeau> hi
16:04:10 <joostvb> happy we're having this pad page now
16:04:44 <disaster2life> yeah this pad looks really well done and helpful for keeping track of everything, should pay attention to that ;p
16:05:17 <joostvb> :)
16:05:21 <jipege1> You just need to remember to feed it regularly and keep an eye on it.
16:05:31 <charles> MiniDebConf Beijing is happening really really soon!
16:05:33 <jipege1> :)
16:05:37 <joostvb> jipege1: yup, exactly
16:05:58 <joostvb> i guess we can move on to next topic?
16:06:22 <charles> I think we can do 2 micronews this weekend (one for CfP and other for registrations)
16:06:40 <joostvb> charles: yes please!
16:07:07 <joostvb> charles: would you have time for that?
16:07:40 <charles> ack, will send some proposals for review and comments this evening or tomorrow by lunch (GMT-3 time)
16:07:46 <charles> yeah, I think so
16:07:49 <joostvb> excellent
16:07:53 <disaster2life> thanks charles!
16:07:54 <jipege1> +1
16:08:05 <charles> #action charles will send micronews proposals for minidc Beijing
16:08:18 <joostvb> charles++
16:08:30 <charles> do we know who is the contact for minidc Beijing?
16:08:49 <joostvb> good question, lets try to handle that after this meeting ok?
16:08:54 <charles> yeah
16:09:02 <charles> moving on?
16:09:06 <joostvb> #topic VM @ press.debian.net
16:09:11 <disaster2life> billchenchina is the one who has been working on it that I know
16:09:19 <joostvb> disaster2life: tnx
16:09:41 <joostvb> this vm: it's doing some stuff for our bits/micronews/machinery, right?
16:09:44 <joostvb> charles: ?
16:09:59 <joostvb> i saw a press useraccount on it
16:09:59 <charles> yes, we still need it to relay toots from micronews rss feed to mastodon
16:10:03 <disaster2life> also the feed2toot i believe?
16:10:04 <joostvb> check, tnx
16:10:41 <disaster2life> ah is feed2toot the program on a seperate machine?
16:10:50 <joostvb> i'll keep having an eye on that machine press.d.n
16:10:56 <charles> joostvb: thx!
16:11:33 <joostvb> ok, i'm moving on i guess
16:11:54 <charles> disaster2life: yes, feed2toot run on this VM to consume rss feed from micronews.d.o and relay it to mastodon. The cron job checks every five minutes if there is new stuff on the rss feed
16:12:00 <charles> I think that is the TLDR
16:12:22 <joostvb> charles: tnx
16:12:24 <disaster2life> ah, thanks, makes sense
16:12:31 <joostvb> #topic DPL had some plan to refresh delegations
16:12:52 <joostvb> i added another url to the agenda, invitation from sruthi
16:13:21 <joostvb> #action joostvb act upon https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/82d717d5265417d6a6a431546a19d29fe6f08b88.camel@disroot.org
16:13:53 <joostvb> and charles : tnx for adding the expiration date
16:14:09 <charles> I think the main question is if we are going to change things now or not
16:14:14 <joostvb> but i guess this topic is mainly for the delegates
16:14:42 <charles> I'm happy to see many people here, so we have potential new delegates here in the future :-)
16:14:49 <joostvb> o yes!
16:14:50 <charles> joostvb: yeah
16:15:18 <charles> joostvb: is your action to ping the delegates about this?
16:15:31 <joostvb> yes, to agree upon a time
16:15:48 <joostvb> i'll mail a proposal
16:16:23 <joostvb> #topic meeting for onboarding new people
16:16:24 <charles> oh, wait
16:16:26 <joostvb> o?
16:16:40 <charles> I think that call for a meeting was for debconf
16:16:51 <joostvb> a _physical_ irl meeting?
16:17:01 <charles> yeah, I believe so hahahahahhaah
16:17:04 <joostvb> zomg
16:17:09 <joostvb> *blush*
16:17:09 <disaster2life> it was yes- though I believe shes interested in generally having recurring meetings with delegates and teams
16:17:11 <charles> XD
16:17:11 <eamanu> :o
16:17:45 <joostvb> hrm, ok, i guess we can ask her anyway; i believe it would be useful
16:17:54 <joostvb> i'll think about it :)
16:17:56 <charles> yeah, sure :_
16:18:02 <charles> ops, :)
16:18:20 <joostvb> ok...
16:18:31 <joostvb> we were at "meeting for onboarding new people"
16:19:05 <joostvb> we (or i) could try to get a date/time
16:19:16 <joostvb> irc? video?
16:20:05 <disaster2life> jitsi feels more personable?
16:20:26 <joostvb> yes, if it works it's great
16:20:28 <charles> no opinions on the format, but maybe we could do jitsi
16:20:39 <joostvb> we could also schedule 2 sessions maybe?
16:20:55 <joostvb> first jitsi?
16:21:03 <disaster2life> depends on the spoons whoever does them mainly would be able to get I assume?
16:21:56 <disaster2life> but yeah I think two meetings two formats would be nice perhaps?
16:22:02 <joostvb> i myself will be present, but _very_ happy to leave the talking to someone else :)
16:22:23 <charles> joostvb: there is no escaping from it! :p
16:22:29 <joostvb> hehe
16:22:35 <jipege1> About delegation, without waiting for a meeting, we can each of us state in a message whether or not  wish to continue servingas a delegate
16:22:44 <joostvb> jipege1: yes!
16:22:59 <charles> jipege1: yeah, no problem for me
16:23:16 <joostvb> #action jipege1 joostvb charles AnupaAnnJoseph[m] state in a message whether or not wish to continue serving as a delegate
16:23:23 <AnupaAnnJoseph[m]> jipege1: Yes from me as well.
16:23:25 <jipege1> +1
16:23:25 <disaster2life> i'd make myself available to be present but I would be closer to new people I assume than not-
16:24:01 <joostvb> disaster2life: cool
16:24:46 <charles> joostvb: should we follow up in a mail thread about the public onboarding meeting, the date/time and format?
16:24:57 <AnupaAnnJoseph[m]> Maybe we can have multiple on-boarding meetings to accommodate different time zones.
16:25:11 <charles> AnupaAnnJoseph[m]: yes! That would be wonderful!
16:25:45 <charles> (maybe we can also ask sruthi to announce it on the DPL talk later this month)
16:25:48 <disaster2life> localised publicity meet introductions sounds wonderful :)
16:26:02 <joostvb> charles: i feel we first should have a date where enough of the delegates can make it?
16:26:16 <AnupaAnnJoseph[m]> joostvb: +1
16:26:24 <jipege1> +1
16:26:26 <charles> joostvb: sure (in case we get all the details right first)
16:26:46 <charles> (it was just my excitement talking ;-)
16:26:54 <joostvb> :)
16:27:03 <joostvb> #action joostvb get a date for a jitsi session for new people
16:27:26 <joostvb> moving on?
16:27:32 <charles> yeah
16:27:41 <joostvb> #topic Improving the visibility of "Bits from Debian" on the Debian homepage
16:27:58 <joostvb> jipege1 wrote about it @ https://pad.debian.net/p/PublicityMeeting202610-keep
16:28:58 <joostvb> jipege1: anything from you about this?
16:29:04 <jipege1> I realized that it wasn't easy to find our blog from the Debian website.
16:29:31 <joostvb> we could propose a MR for the webteam?
16:29:41 <charles> jipege1: me too! Just now I realize it's the "Blog" button on the top navigation bar
16:29:52 <jipege1> no more than our instance on Mastodon
16:31:05 <joostvb> if you scan the fronpage from topleft, it's the 2nd and 3rd things you see
16:31:18 <joostvb> so i'm not quite sure it's so hard to find?
16:31:29 <joostvb> or is the name maybe not explicit enough?
16:31:33 <disaster2life> I mean we talked about some of this at debconf, generally more of our presence would be nice? think thomas was there talking about it at least
16:32:03 <joostvb> our instance on mastodon is maybe not "official" enough?
16:32:12 <joostvb> since we use framapiaf services, not our own?
16:32:38 <joostvb> not debian.social , i mean
16:32:40 <disaster2life> I think thats fine many projects do that
16:33:05 <jipege1> https://framapiaf.org/@debian The Universal Operating System.
16:33:05 <jipege1> This account replicates news posted from our official news feeds:
16:33:19 <joostvb> anyway, we can talk to webteam about that; it indeed would be nice if fediverse thing was more visible from www.d.o
16:33:25 <charles> I think the options are many here, some examples would be add a new section of micronews and/or bits together with "Project News", revamp www.d.o/News/ to point to micronews, mastodon and bits in a more explicit way,
16:34:02 <joostvb> yup
16:34:45 <disaster2life> charles was it thomaslange or someone else from the www team?
16:35:04 <charles> yeah, it was Thomas Lange
16:35:43 <disaster2life> ah, I am sure he would be happy to help with the changes then :)
16:36:19 <charles> the point he was making is that w.d.o/News was only about point releases and we could use it more since it has a broader audience
16:36:20 <joostvb> any "#action" here or not yet?
16:36:57 <jipege1> The number and type of items appearing in the announcements and news sections are currently limited. This was not the case when the Debian Project news section existed
16:38:26 <jipege1> We could perhaps discuss this on the mailing list.
16:38:42 <charles> jipege1: that was exactly my thought
16:39:15 <charles> maybe I can do this
16:39:19 <joostvb> \o/
16:39:32 <jipege1> and share with the webteam
16:40:15 <joostvb> #action charles start a discussion on the mailing list on "Improving the visibility of "Bits from Debian" on the Debian homepage", share with webteam
16:40:20 <charles> is it ok if we start the discussion first on debian-publicity@l.d.o and then move to webteam when we have something more concrete?
16:40:22 <disaster2life> that'd be nice, I'll try and help though I am not quite sure what all we have to action with this item in the exact goals
16:40:28 <joostvb> charles: sure! perfect
16:40:35 <disaster2life> yup!
16:40:37 <jipege1> charles +1
16:40:40 <charles> ack
16:41:04 <joostvb> moving on...
16:41:25 <joostvb> #topic Any Other Business
16:41:45 <joostvb> disaster2life: you added a note on DebConf news, want to comment?
16:41:57 <disaster2life> yup!
16:42:33 <disaster2life> I realised this year its quite a hassle for anyone and everyone to get updates and especially information that should be on the website about the conference onto the page and not just into Debian channels
16:43:19 <joostvb> one would have to make a salsa MR?
16:43:47 <disaster2life> I haven't had time to explore this, but I think infrastructure already exists to have the website (wafer) consume and display items from an RSS feed, I think it'd be nice and make the website more easily updated if we could create that feed and curate it along with orga and local team to have it be more useful
16:44:09 <disaster2life> joostvb: yeah the current way we use it seems only to be markdown files that require the whole salsa MR
16:44:19 <joostvb> i like this rss-plan
16:44:36 <disaster2life> I'd like to make it a whole bunch easier if we can make it to update everything without having to through md files
16:45:06 <joostvb> but i guess this would be debconf-team territory, right?
16:45:08 <disaster2life> yeah- think daily mails and announcements should automagically just go on there and not just on the mailing lists, we could also seperately publish that rss feed for personal use
16:45:39 <disaster2life> I think its a crossection of us publicising stuff like all the talks AND debconf-team
16:45:55 <joostvb> a yes, i c
16:45:56 <disaster2life> when I figure out if the RSS things work, i'll bring that up there too
16:46:30 <joostvb> would be pretty nice indeed
16:46:55 <disaster2life> yey! just thought to brought it up since its been in just my head for the past months working on other stuff!
16:47:02 <joostvb> :)
16:47:14 <disaster2life> thats all for me :)
16:47:19 <joostvb> thanks!
16:47:28 <joostvb> anybody else?
16:47:43 <charles> disaster2life: it's an awesome plan! I don't think I have spoons to help, but would support if you want to tackle this one
16:48:28 <disaster2life> thank you! Hopefully shouldn't be hard, will just require cross corporation between everyone :)
16:48:46 <joostvb> disaster2life: there's also e.g. https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/ : it's the same technology as the main debconf i believe
16:48:51 <disaster2life> just need to figure out if the RSS feed subscription works, and if not, patch it
16:48:58 <joostvb> disaster2life: you could try to get it working @ a minidebconf first
16:49:06 <disaster2life> joostvb: it is! that'd be good too
16:49:41 <charles> disaster2life mentioned something that I also felt during debconf, I don't think communication between all the teams invloved in debconf was good, like there were some changes in the schedule we didn't notice and micronews about a talk that was changed
16:50:04 <charles> I don't know how to solve it
16:50:08 <joostvb> communication is difficult :)
16:50:45 <charles> but I thought it would be helpful to at least say it out loud to see if we can reach a solution together
16:50:45 <disaster2life> that portion I have no clue how we would deal with ;p
16:51:00 <disaster2life> I haven't dealt with the schedules part of wafer, but i'd be interested in improving that
16:51:10 <joostvb> saying it out loud is step nr. 1 indeed
16:51:19 <disaster2life> yeey!
16:51:36 <joostvb> ok, let's wrap this up; people are welcome to hang & chat of course
16:52:06 <charles> thanks for chairing joostvb! And thanks for being here!
16:52:16 * joostvb bows
16:52:20 <AnupaAnnJoseph[m]> +1
16:52:26 <jipege1> +1
16:52:38 <disaster2life> thanks for chairing and everyone for their work :)
16:52:45 <joostvb> thanks all for joining!
16:52:49 <eamanu[m]> Thanks everyone!
16:53:02 <joostvb> #endmeeting