This is our monthly DNN Awareness meeting where we converse about our goals over the past month and set expectations for the next month to help raise awareness of DNN across all ecosystems. Want to join us and help? https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community/participate/advisory-groups/awareness-advisory-group

1. DNN EAG - AWARENESS
A DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group

2. ATTENDEES
• Will S.
• Joe C.
• Francisco P.
• Scott K.
• Don G.
• John S.
• Tycho de W.
• Scott K.
• Clint P.
• Jay M.
• Jeremy F.
• John C.
• Phil C.

3. AGENDA
• Review Primary Goals
• Progress Since Previous Meeting
• Set Goals for Next Month
• Review Long Term Goals
• Open Forum

4. PRIMARY INDIVIDUAL GOALS
• Keep in constant contact
• (Co-)Champion something
• Do at least 2 things a month
• Generate a snowball effect

5. CHAMPIONS: UPDATES
• User Group Program
• Increase Social Activity
• Blogs
• YouTube Videos/Tutorials
• Training Course
• Curriculum
• New/Updated Extensions
• .Com & .Org Website
• Theme Creation
• Community Dashboard
• Speaker Program

6. INCREASING SOCIAL ACTIVITY
• Mission: Increase the number and quality of social channel
interactions related to DNN
• Champions: David P., Clint P., Will S., Francisco A., Kelli K.
• Still needs a champion?
• Dependent upon what happens with the dashboard

7. BLOGS
• Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere
• Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Francisco A.
• Still need a champion?
• Clint
• Kelly posted a blog about DNN Docs yesterday
• https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/156703/dnn-docs-preview-
is-live
• https://dnndocs.com/
• Will
• https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/156696/dnn-hangout-
interviews-matt-rutledge-about-his-open-source-participation

8. VIDEOS/TUTORIALS
• Mission: Increase the number of videos available that show people
how to be successful with DNN
• Champions: Don G., David D., Aderson O., John S.
• Will
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-8BL61vB0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTRSMZTTsg
• Don (no commercials )
• Aderson: DNN News
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bfQiMgi_o0
• EasyDNN: Block Builder
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMq8dTGJhI

9. VIDEOS/TUTORIALS (CONT’D)
• Clint
• SoFried: Mandeeps Live Visualizer (structured content)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMunTHvkVg
• Don (for commercial)
• Wants to see examples of people that are doing a great job of surfacing users
(people logging into websites.
• Tycho: has a 2sic/2sxc example (customer portal(s))
• Jeremy: https://www.thetaphialpha.org/

10. NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS
• Mission: Increase the number of new/updated open source
extensions
• Champions: John S., Jay M., Vicenç M., Jeremy F., David P., Francisco
A.
• John
• No updates
• Sign-off to get resources from his company to do awesome stuff for DNN
(document and themes)
• ^^^ Woo hoo! ^^^
• Clint: http://clintpatterson.com/Blog/Blog-Details/PostId/513/why-businesses-
should-contribute-to-open-source-software

11. NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS (CONT’D)
• Jay
• Building an open source structured content solution to hopefully be added to
the core
• Expecting a POC to be ready by next week’s MVP meeting (for demo)
• Looking for help (not yet on GitHub)
• Chat about it with him on the #goals-extensions channel
• ?

12. CURRICULUM
• Mission: Create a reusable curriculum that can be deployed to
various types of schools worldwide to introduce DNN to kids
• Champions: Loukas B., Clint P., Will S., Don G.
• Still need a champion?
• (champions not in the meeting)

13. TRAINING/COURSES
• Mission: Create at least one training course for DNN on external
learning platforms
• Champions: Will S., Tracy W., David P., Don G., Loukas B.
• (champions not in the meeting)

14. THEMES
• Mission: Increase the availability & quality of open source DNN
themes in the ecosystem
• Champions: Tracy W., Loukas B., Francisco A., Waldo M.
• (champions not in the meeting)

15. SPEAKER PROGRAM
• Mission: Create a program where speakers & user groups can match
w/ each other, including session resources
• Champions: Joe C., Tracy W., Loukas B., Will S.
• In need of a champion again?
• Channel: #goals-speaker-program

16. USER GROUP PROGRAM
• Mission: Create a user group program w/ tools to help user group
leaders start, run, and grow DNN-based meetings
• Champions: Will S., David P., Jon B., Don G., Mark B., Daniel V.
• Will
• Wireframes/plans already finished
• Will be creating blog/video looking for help to build this

17. COMMUNITY DASHBOARD
• Mission: Create a dashboard that measures & shows the community
activity, trends, and health from across mediums
• Champions: Jay M., Jeremy F., Will S., Francisco A.
• Jay
• Same update as last month
• We still need to make the output available for review (on .org?)
• It’s in the (new) Trello board as a task
• https://trello.com/c/Qfc3MB89/24-51-community-dashboard
• Trello: https://trello.com/b/n5ZgQFSn/dnnsoftwareorg

18. DNN .COM & .ORG WEBSITE
• Mission: Update DNNSoftware.com to highlight community and
apply consistent DNN messaging across the website
• Champions: Tycho W., Jay M., Don G., Jeremy F., Thompson K.
• Channel: #goals-dnn-websites
• Tycho (PMing this… Woo hoo!)
• Parsing the decisions that have been made already
• Wiki is not being migrated (moving relevant content to DNN Docs)
• Need a SSO solution to authenticate users from .com to .org
• John may have a solution to help
• You can help too: https://trello.com/b/n5ZgQFSn/dnnsoftwareorg

19. AWARENESS: MONTHLY GOALS
• Next Month
• 5 blog articles published
• 8 YouTube videos/tutorials
• Q1 2019
• 1 training course
• 8 new/updated open source extensions

20. AWARENESS: LONG-TERM GOALS
• 1H 2019
• 18 new blog articles
• 24 new tutorial videos
• 2 new training courses
• 14 new/updated DNN extensions
• EOY 2019
• 37 new blog articles
• 48 new tutorial videos
• 4 new training courses
• 28 new/updated DNN extensions

21. OPEN FORUM
• Tycho
• Uploading a copy of a website he created (not completely open source)
• Donation/crowd-funding website in the Netherlands
• Removed personal data
• Allows the website owner to designate target to raise (e.g., $2,500)
• Download/Info: https://www.gratisdonatieplatform.nl/
• He can offer the cleansed backup for you to use to create your own version of this
website using the backup as a starting point
• Jeremy
• DNN Docs: software version(s)
• Has version 8 content already in markdown
• Clint:
• The team is going to build a feature that allows for language, version, and edition choices in the
documentation
• Send a note to Kelly Ford for updates on this featre

22. OPEN FORUM (CONT’D)
• John
• Doesn’t know when and where EAG meetings are occurring
• A central place would be nice to know when/how meetings are occurring
• Will:
• Ecosystem/.org page for events to be listed
• Add meeting info to the group landing page