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Old meeting agendas
[edit]For more recent meeting agendas, see Communications committee#Meetings.
Sat 16 September: Agenda
[edit]- Post-election communications
- OTRS status report
- Presskit distribution into languages
- Committee structure
Sat 26 August: Agenda
[edit]- Membership
- Communication improvement between other committees/operational teams
- Upcoming Board elections
- Press release prior to elections
- Press release post elections
Sat 12 August : Agenda
[edit]- Wikimania followups
- Press conference analysis
- New contacts gained : US, international
- Press kit reactions & updates
- Evaluation of the working of the comcom.
- Topics raised on Wikimania about the committees
Sat 22 July : Agenda
[edit]- Updates on upcoming notices, elections, &c
- Wikimania press, briefing & announcements at wikimania
Sat 15 July : Agenda
[edit]- Updates on upcoming notices :
- Board elections announcement update
- Single signon/login
- Coordinating site notices (end of wikimania; board elections; fund drive)
- Press briefing & announcements at wikimania
- Press kit update : new stats
- ePhil award & request
Sat 8 July : Agenda
[edit]- Board elections announcement
- End of Wikimania site notice
Sat 1 July : Agenda
[edit]- Wiktionary press release
- Promotion & Translation newsletter
- New wiki
- OTRS and unblock-en mailing lists
- Disclaimer for new privacy policy
- Angela's resignation from the board and board elections
Sat 24 June : Agenda
[edit]- OTRS organization and management
- Press kit
- WMF Statistics
- Site notice
- Media contacts/volunteer press contacts
- New business
- Advertisement from TBWA\
- SugarCRM site
Sat 10 June : Agenda
[edit]- What time will this meeting be?
- ...
Sat 3 June : Agenda
[edit]- Press kit (put off)
Old business
- Site-wide messages (Wikimania, Single login, Fund drive)
- Fund drive organization?
New business
- Future press releases (Summer of code, Software updates, Wikimania, Design contest, other contests, events, awards, CEO)
- Planned interview campaigns (around an embargoed release: setting aside fixed timeslot for interviews, telling mags and major pubs in advance of the release)
- Post-release, crisis specifics
- Members/advisors & mail
Sat 27 May : Agenda
[edit]- Fundraising
- Press kit
- Foundation website
- Wikimania
- Google Summer's of Code
Sat 20 May : Agenda
[edit]- Publicity for Wikimania
- Registration, opening (May 21)
- Free content media contest (co-sponsor with cc, fsf)
- Keynotes (updates of speakers & sponsors, more detail)
- Subthemes : cit-journalism day, wikis in education, 'intro to...'
- Targeted interviews w/ JW
- Todo: Identify how/where to archive copy, note distribution lists, track responses
- Schedule for spring/summer press releases (Meetups, milestones, contests, tech landmarks)
- Summer int'l writing contest, wikinews contest
- 1000 FAs, Commons (750k?), Wiktionary (1m multi), Wikisource (100k multi), Wikibooks (50k modules multi), Wikinews (20 langs)
- WiktionaryZ launch, Wikiversity (call for input?)
- Reports : Usability study / redesign news; wrapup from Wikimania; ...
- See below for translations of local releases
- Translation: of global releases into core languages
- Requirements for lead time and quarantine. Do we do simultaneous releases?
- Translation: of local releases into English
- German, French, Chinese
- Ex: WP University, Baidupedia
- Budget update, detail
- Banners, posters, stickers, buttons, leaflets, display-boards
- Website maintenance
- Foundation website (approving membership, content updates)
- Wikimania website (style, content, links & backlinks)
- Mediawiki website (style, content, integration with other help)
- Press Kit update
- Statistics update
- Erik Z, Dake, other; toolserver, off-server; coordination
Sat 13 May : Agenda
[edit]- Publicity for Wikimania
- Budget
- Responses to Baidu launch
- Details of the resolutions presented to the Board
Sat 06 May : Agenda
[edit]- Scope : Review proposed statement of committee scope
- Schedule : Review proposed meeting schedule
- 1400 and 2300 UTC
- WMF.org : Access/updating wmf.org as part of internal communications/translation promotions per Aphaia
- Note for OTRS - JAWP is one month behind, may wish to move to OTRS? per Aphaia
- New business:
- Internal : Wikimania update and releases
- Internal : Single login update
- Promotion : Budget
- Press : Reacting to major press (Ex: Time 100)
- Translation : policy discussion within Projects (Ex: recent Commons thread)
Sat 29 Apr : Agenda
[edit]- Review proposed statement of committee scope
- Status reports from the projects
- Publicity needs of the chapters (see comments from WMA)
- Helping out Wikimania
- Monthly schedule for meetings - WalterB
- Future press releases
- Wikimania registration
- Single user login
- Press Subcommittee
- revoking press contact W.v.k?
- Corporate Design and promotion (i.e. en:Wikipedia:Banners and buttons in various languages). Clarifying logo permissions and defining which use is acceptable (proposal: acceptable: [1], [2] not acceptable: [3], [4], [5], [6])
Sat 22 Apr : Agenda
[edit]- forwards to the list form journalists; who is suppose to anwser them? Is that on-topic on the list (why not OTRS?)
- the sub-committees; what are the suppose to do?
- Review proposed statement of committee scope
Sun 16 Apr : Agenda
[edit]- Approve minutes from previous meeting
- Wrapup from last week
- Upcoming press releases & announcements
- Long-term announcements (single login)
- Meeting times this month
- New business
Sat 8 Apr : Agenda
[edit]- Project logos, slogans, and descriptions in all languages. (Slogans), enforced style policy
- Communication with Schwartz (and other advisors)
- Mailing list additions : how-to, and pending requests
- Meeting next week; 15 april 01:00 UTC -> move to 16 april 01:00 UTC or earlier/later?
Sat 1 Apr : Agenda
[edit]- Translation in many languages : tools and workflow to encourage this; core language identification. Mailing list.
- Project logos, slogans, and descriptions in all languages. (Slogans), enforced style policy
- Communication with Schwartz (and other advisors)
- email sent. Sj
- Wrapup from last week
- Upcoming press releases
- Long-term announcements (single login)
Sat 25 Mar : Agenda
[edit]- Leftover business from previous meeting
- How to ensure confidential communication (mailing list/IRC/wiki)
- Planning how to disseminate information on project-wide changes, such as single sign-on
- Publicity issues for changes like stable versions, article validation
- Issues currently being discussed on mailing list
- Specific announcement content; language and translations.
- Wikimania translations
- Attracting volunteers who aren't used to wiki
- Dates and times for the IRC-meetings for the coming weeks
Sat 18 Mar : Agenda
[edit]- Leftover business from previous meeting
- Issues currently being discussed on mailing list
- how to ensure confidential communication (mailing list / IRC )
- Planning how to disseminate information on project-wide changes, such as single sign-on
- Publicity issues for changes like stable versions, article validation
- Additional business
- New members?
Sat 11 Mar : Agenda
[edit]Public Relations
- Press releases
- Schwartz PR : how to leverage, what to ask
- Assuming legal OKs it, add Emily Fisher, account officer at Schwartz, to communications committee mailing list
- Future press releases : contact lists (de software; wiki lists; other)
- Have Schwartz PR look over press releases in advance
- Press contacts (needed in all languages, countries)
- Make sure all communication committee members have foundation logins
- Have the communications committee take over primarily maintaince of the foundation wiki
- Make http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room complete
- Deploy a complete list of press contacts somewhere private until such time as good contact software is found by SJ
- Schwartz PR : how to leverage, what to ask
- Processing requests & stories
- OTRS queues : press, language subqueues; other?
- Coordinating responses (press kit, standard replies to new FAQs)
- Responses to the press : coordinating letters to the editor, &c.
- Look into getting a free PR-Newswire account
- Information dissemination
- Addition of a foundation goings-on column to the signpost
- Someone (Amgine?) needs to poke Jimbo/Danny about writing a weekly or semi-weekly column in the signpost about what is going on at the foundation level
- Addition of a foundation goings-on column to the signpost
Changes
- Upcoming changes
- Single sign-on : warning, announcements
- Changes to Projects (wikisource, wiktionary, 9-11 wiki, &c)
- Regular changes (review procedures)
- Software upgrades, site downtime
- Policy changes (local, global)
- Elections (local, global)
- Project voting (local, global)
Sun Feb 26 : Agenda
[edit]- Meeting procedures
- Communications subcommittees
- Press
- Interview contacts (don't need to be on committee to be a press contact)
- Interest in press subcomm - Amgine to contact whether interested in press contactship, or subcommittee membership.
- Media guides : how to give an interview; separating personal from project responses
- FAQs for media interviews etc.
- Press to maintain list of resorces, contacts
- Jimbo to be informed of /all/ press releases before publication
- Press releases : logbooks - to be organised by the Press subcommittee
- 1mil en:WP articles - underway - Press committee will oversee
- Promotion & translation
- Intro sentences of related press releases need to be clear and concise
- Internationalisation
- More people in minority languages/regions would be useful
- New members - SJ will find out what role they are intereested in (suggestions from amgine; other polyglot suggestions welcome)
- Multilingual posters
- Committee chair
- Michael Snow nommed, accepts.
- Letterhead, business cards?
- Zanimum is working on the former, perhaps also the latter. JamesF and Delphine may have other designs.
- New WMUK material : work out how this can conform to visual guidelines
- New members added to subcomms:
- Mailing lists : make list private, no-archive
- Find a dev who can change this.