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DNN Awareness Meeting December 2018

The DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group meeting focused on reviewing current goals, progress, and setting future objectives related to community engagement, content creation, and development initiatives. Key missions include increasing social media activity, publishing more blogs and tutorials, updating training courses, and enhancing DNN themes and extensions. Champions were assigned for various tasks to drive engagement and ensure ongoing progress within the DNN community.

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DNN EAG - AWARENESS A DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group
ATTENDEES • Will S. • Clint P. • Jeremy F. • Don G. • Francisco P. • John S. • Tracy W. • Tycho W. • Daniel V. • Loukas B. • David P. • Alessandra D.
AGENDA • Review Primary Goals • Progress Since Previous Meeting • Set Goals for Next Month • Review Long Term Goals • Open Forum
PRIMARY INDIVIDUAL GOALS • (Co-)Champion something • Do at least 2 things a month • Generate a snowball effect • Keep in constant contact
CHAMPIONS: UPDATES • Community Dashboard • Speaker Program • User Group Program • Increase Social Activity • Blogs • YouTube Videos/Tutorials • Training Course • Curriculum • New/Updated Extensions • Homepage/Messaging • Theme Creation
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 • Beta version is working and he’s going to put it up for us to see • Uploading to Azure this morning • Will give the group a link later today • Will • Will ping Jay about this later today
DNN HOMEPAGE & MESSAGING • Mission: Update DNNSoftware.com to highlight community and apply consistent DNN messaging across the website • Champions: Jay M., Don G., Jeremy F., Thompson K. • Jay • Finalized the document • Will • We’re meeting with Andy to discuss the plan
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 need a champion? • @DNNAwareness exists • Clint • Jon Galloway is going to keynote DNN Summit! • DNN Summit has a lot of tweets/posts going out • https://www.facebook.com/DNNSummit/ • https://twitter.com/DNNSummit
INCREASING SOCIAL ACTIVITY • Don • Sprocket is RT’ing/sharing it all • Says he did it all himself • Will • Using the event to contact clients
BLOGS • Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere • Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Francisco A. • Still need a champion? • Clint • Anna D. blogs are coming • Tycho is posting a lot recently • Hammond is posting about DNN Summit • Daniel is a machine! • Francisco continues to translate blogs • David • https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/04/announcing-net-core-3- preview-1-and-open-sourcing-windows-desktop-frameworks/ • https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/building-an-open-source-net- foundation-2fa0fb117584
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. • Aderson O. • Monthly DNN chat • Open Friday • TADUG meeting (2) • Don • “DNN Does That” series • Showing DNN websites doing something specific
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 • Loves Slack so MUCH! :D • Spent the month feeling guilty :D • Dreaded this meeting!
NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS • Daniel • Core modules are still getting updated • All of the popular ones are 9.2+ compatible • Releases: Feedback, Site Log • Next: Revamping the Blog module • Requested: Banners module • Will • DNN-Connect User Management module • Works in DNN 9.1.x and will update it for DNN 9.2.x soon
CURRICULUM • Mission: Create a reusable curriculum that can be deployed to various types of schools worldwide to introduce DNN to kids • Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Loukas B. • Still need a champion? • Loukas • University is having to get MS licenses • Looking for events at the schools (ideally MS-related) • There is one next week
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. • Tracy W. • Moved DNN Training Academy (DTA) to a new platform • Working on some new videos • Persona Bar, configuration, user/page management, module basics, Liquid Content, workflows, localization, theming… • But wait, there’s more… :D • Over 100 videos • Clients are purchasing access for their entire team
TRAINING/COURSES • Clint • DNN Summit has a lot of training • Includes: Tracy, Alessandra (Diva), Will, Anthony, Scott, Ryan
THEMES • Mission: Increase the availability & quality of open source DNN themes in the ecosystem • Champions: Tracy W., Loukas B., Francisco A., Waldo M. • Tracy / Alessandra • Bloxx Free (community), also has a “pro” version • Daniel • Built a DNN-branded Jekyll theme for GitHub pages • In the DNNCommunity repo area • https://dnncommunity.github.io/jekyll-theme-dnn-community/
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?
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. • Will S. • We need to schedule a meeting to move this forward :P • On my plate. • Don • ChicagoDNN.org is updated
AWARENESS: MONTHLY GOALS • Next Month • 5 blog articles published • 8 YouTube videos/tutorials • Q3 2018 • 1 training course • 5 new/updated open source extensions
AWARENESS: LONG-TERM GOALS • 1H 2018 • 18 new blog articles • 24 new tutorial videos • 2 new training courses • 10 new/updated DNN extensions • EOY 2018 • 37 new blog articles • 48 new tutorial videos • 4 new training courses • 20 new/updated DNN extensions
OPEN FORUM • Will • Next meeting we will spend most of the time talking about goals for 2019 • Please come to the meeting with goals/ideas • DNN Store • May have some updates in the next month • Can we show store extensions in the DNN admin UI? • Was in DNN 8 and prior • Persona Bar needs to be updated to add the feature back • Potentially have an update notification • Someone will create an RFC issue in GitHub • Store responsiveness needs some work