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• Review action items for last call
  • David to find out list of plugins we have installed on wiki
    • Ry documented those in the comments of this page.  Does someone want to review and see which ones could support the work we are wanting to do?
      • The Google Drive/Docs and Google Calendar plugins look like the most useful for us
      • Jim talked how we can install others or create our own
      • We probably want to avoid billable plugins where possible
  • David to find out how to allow non-admins to subscribe to calendar
    • The calendar settings are set to make the calendar public, but that button only seems to appear to people who have edit access.
    • However, the button just points to an .ics file that seems to be publicly accessible: https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/meetups/ics/2157661/665592640/feed.ics
    • So we can provide that link as needed here on the wiki or in other locations (such as descriptions on YouTube posts)
    • Can someone confirm that they can subscribe using the link above?
      • Discussion:
        • The weekly update on the meetup list about this week's meetings is helpful and so is the invitation for each meetup that also gets sent to the list. 
        • The big remaining challenge is converting UTC times to the local group's local time – how do we remove that extra step we're making people do to find out when events are happening?
        • One way to address this is to include the Meetup calendar feed in the weekly email of upcoming virtual meetups that organizers send to their groups.  So when a person subscribes to that feed it shows up in their local time.
  • David to find out from Meetup rep about best practices for adding presentations to an event page – file upload is no longer supported?  Is there integration to add presentations to Google Drive from the event page?
    • Discussing response from Meetup rep.  File uploading not currently available and they suggest using our own repository.  There is also no way to upload a file from the event page to our own repository, so this would require an organizer to leave their group and go to a separate tool.  Maybe the Meetup API could let us integrate this somehow so people could upload presentations while working on their events in their group pages?
  • Jon to offer best practices for posting meetup recordings on the YouTube channel and suggest new processes
    • ...Discussion: David shared the YouTube recommendations Jon made recently and we discussed if the scope of this group includes improving meetup content on YouTube as well as improving content on the wiki
  • Gerhard to look into Meetup API to see what we can do with it
    • Discussion: The API seems straight forward to use and gives us all of the information from events.  How can we use this to improve the experience?  Does this help us promote out upcoming events or help us organize content from past events?
    • The group thinks the retrospective use of the API is most useful.  Jim said if past meetups are tagged, then having a filterable search of all past meetups would be really helpful – people could do a knowledge search.  For example, show me all of the meetups that covered Sawtooth or whatever topic.
  • David to send a calendar invite for next call
    • Do we want to keep this at bi-weekly for now or move to monthly?
• Other agenda topics (feel free to add)
• Action items:
  
  • David to add the meetup calendar feed to the weekly upcoming meetups email so group members can subscribe and get meetup info in their own time zones
  • David to talk to Jon about sharing his YouTube recommendations with this group and bringing next steps to this group to work on
  • Jim and Gerhard to look at how to create a Confluence plugin that uses that Meetup API to create a searchable knowledge base of past events
  • David to send a reminder to the meetup list about uploading presentations to the Google Drive – this doesn't solve the overall problem though of not being to upload presentations when creating events on meetup.com – a longer term solution could be to create out own event creation app that integrates every tool we use

Agenda and notes from planning call on Thursday, May 14th at 9:30 AM pacific

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