Developer relations team: meeting updates

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[thibaudcolas]

2023-05-12  -- New team! Kickoff

Attendees: Sævar, Meagen, Loveth, Thibaud, Tiago, Damilola

Highlights

• We quickly reviewed current developer relations efforts in the Wagtail world
• Made a list of ideas and voted on what we would like to be doing (as a team and individually)
• Up next: further refining items that got the most votes (Official swag, Wagtail Space, starter project templates, evangelising i18n capabilities, etc)

Actions

• Thibaud share invite for Discord
• Thibaud share info about DevSwag FreeWear https://www.freewear.org/
• Thibaud New doc w/ suggestions ordered by fruit
• Everyone Flesh out items you feel like adding notes to
• Thibaud Doodle for regular meeting times

Agenda

• Welcome & introductions
  • Thibaud
    • Wagtail since 2018, core team, Torchbox
  • Tiago
    • Django dev since 2009, based in Portugal, Berlin before
    • Wagtail since 2014! Full time for 2 years, with DEPT, working on Irish equivalent of NHS
  • Sævar
    • Overcast, Iceland. Also doing some Rails. Wagtail since 2014
    • Wagtail Space in Iceland
  • Meagen
    • Torchbox, North Carolina. wagtail.org redesign, rebuild, content
    • Content for website!
    • Promoting good products
  • Loveth
    • Based in Nigeria. Got involved as part of Outreachy internship.
    • Wagtail community stood out. Get Wagtail more well known (Wordpress)
  • Damilola
    • Nigeria, also got involved through Outreachy. Sense of belonging in community. Spread knowledge of Wagtail.
• Intro to current developer relations efforts
  • docs.wagtail.org
  • Wagtail Space & sprints
  • wagtail.org
  • Made with Wagtail
  • awesome-wagtail
  • Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, Outreachy, 
• How the team works
  • Initial plan: open membership, 45-min chats every two weeks to provide feedback and take actions.
  • 6 months membership
• Slack vs. Discord
  • Move over somewhere else in advantage of openness
  • GitHub Discussions
  • Discourse
  • Rails is amazing
  • Slack contents indexed for public usage?
• What do we all want to achieve with the team?
• Votes: 🍊 Meagen, 🍎 Sævar, 🍐Damilola, 🍒 Tiago, 🍋 Thibaud, 🥭Loveth 

Ideas shared so far:

• Comms channels
• Figure out where everybody is: community groups (Discord, Reddit, Telegram, TikTok?) 
• Slack -> ??? migration (openness, indexing)🍋🍋🍋🍐🍒
• Events
• Supporting Wagtail Space events 🍎🍊🍋 🥭
• Plan another Wagtail Space. NL 2022 was awesome! We probably need to give FourDigits a rest and find another sponsor, or perhaps take a community-driven approach🍋🍒🍎🥭
• Wagtail Space vs. Sprint? Conference with talks or just a sprint? Are there different levels of events that require different levels of commitment? 
• DjangoCon US collab?
• Other
• Produce Official Wagtail Swag 🍎🍋🍐🍒🥭 🍊 
• Perhaps consider using the FourDigits designer who created the Wagtail Spaces NL apparel, which was amazingly good-looking
• Overcast can offer a designer as well 🍒🍋
• https://www.freewear.org/
• Helping produce feature videos 🍒🍊🍐🥭
• Longer ones for knowledge, shorter ones for awareness
• TBX doing video production w/ a freelancer
• "Pitch Wagtail to your boss" slide deck 🍒🍊 
• Wagtail starter project templates 🍒🍎🍐🥭🍋
• Too much focus on admin in docs. Spend more time on showcasing different patterns for the front-end pages built w/ CMS
• Authentication reqs
• Consider people coming from Django vs. direct Wagtail
• Custom models
• Wagtail already excels on DX, but we could do more to help people create nice-looking pages. Provide examples or skeletons using Bootstrap, Tailwind, and some of the more popular React component libraries (MUI, Chakra, Mantine) 🍒🍊🍐🍎🍋🥭
• Developer experience survey 🍒🍊🍎🍐🍋🥭
• Have a wiki where FAQ can be showcased and filtered based on the features.🍋🥭
• Host regular Twitter spaces and feature different people as speakers especially those using Wagtail for their business. 🍒🍐🥭
• Have a top contributors kind of thing that can be shared on social media🍐🥭
• Speak about Wagtail in open source event and open booths.🍊🍐🥭🍎
• Support existing developer advocates🍐🥭🍎
• LinkedIn page for Wagtail🍋🍐🥭
• Tutorials
• Maintaining ready-to-use Wagtail tutorials or workshops 🍒🍎🍊🍐 🥭
• Tutorials and how-tos for developers🍊🍒🍐
• Support Damilola's tutorials project🍊🍐🥭
• Create tutorials on the different features of Wagtail 🍒🍐🥭
• Wagtail x Django Girls collab 🍒🍊🍐🥭
• Provide deployment tutorials for main platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Fly, DigitalOcean) 🍒🍊 
• Other other
• Cool examples of Wagtail to share on Wagtail.org 🍎🍊 
• Ambassador program (create kit for "ambassadors" to share and promote Wagtail then give them recognition for their efforts)🍊🍐🥭
• Contributor recognition program (reward and shout outs for developers who help make Wagtail awesome)🍊🍐🍎🥭
• Give out swag!
• Shout outs on blog?
• Work experience on LinkedIn?
• Amplifying social media posts 🍒🍊🍐🥭
• Production sites usually require supporting services which can be overwhelming for beginners. Provide examples of how to setup email sending, caching (with Redis or Memcached), scheduled tasks and async tasks (with Redis and other message queues) 🍒🍎
• Wagtail ADMIN as a platform: provide more information about how to create pages inside the admin using the same design system that is used by the rest of the Admin 🍒🍊 
• Evangelise i18n and l10n capabilities. Wagtail is very powerful in this area, but it is a bit more complex than it looks. Highlight the pitfalls and recommend best practices 🍒🍊🍎🍋🥭
• OpenCollective - Wagtail donations, how we spend the most 🍋🍊🥭
• Weekend plans
• Strawberries!
• Percussions!

[ordigital]

Slack and Discord are both bad choice in my opinion. The best idea is to rely on self-hosted services that do not restrict access to history. Rocket.chat has still Community Edition that is free with unlimited users ( RocketChat/Rocket.Chat#31149 (comment) ).

[thibaudcolas]

2023-06-09

Attendees: Sævar, Meagen, Loveth, Thibaud, Damilola

Highlights

• General agreement start custom templates will be a very positive change

Actions 

• Thibaud Follow up with FreeWear on Wagtail designs on their shop
• Thibaud Expand upon existing post on Discussions: A command line Blog generator OR UI based predefined templates to select. #10221 
• Saevar Experiment w/ templates & share on post
• Everyone Share post w/ community & specific people who already maintain project templates
• Meagen Reach out to Michael Yin about project templates
• Meagen Make a list of people who might be interested based on awesome-wagtail
• Thibaud Document calendar setup & usage
• Meagen Figure out where on the site to put the calendar
• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready

Actions reviews

• ✅ Thibaud share invite for Discord
• ✅ Thibaud share info about Wagtail swag on FreeWear https://www.freewear.org/
• ✅ Thibaud New doc w/ suggestions ordered by fruit
• ✅ Everyone Flesh out items you feel like adding notes to
• ✅ Thibaud Doodle for regular meeting times

Agenda

• Official swag (https://www.freewear.org/ or otherwise)
  • Colors not to worry about (Thibaud will hold Ben accountable)
  • Established company. Submit designs & mention OpenCollective / GitHub Sponsors
• Examples or skeletons using popular front-end tools
  • Support for custom templates in wagtail start command #10423
  • Which tools? Most obvious: Bootstrap / Tailwind
  • Target people starting out specifically?
  • Start a discussion in GitHub to ask for suggestions / raise awareness
  • Reach out to people with project templates (Michael Yin, Overcast?)
  • How does this compare with existing template solutions
  • Start simple, only one or two page models
  • Configurable template wizard ("Bootstrap? [y/n]"?)
  • Ask in #package-maintainers?
  • Heads'up ahead of future releases https://github.com/AccordBox/wagtail-tailwind-blog 
• Contributor events calendar
• Useful! Concern: keeping it up to date
  • To be documented
  • Added everyone from team
  • Public page / share the link on site?
• Django developer relations
  • Wagtail ambassador?
  • Invite people interested in those things for Django to join our team / our meetings?
• Recruiting tutorial testers for https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/wiki/Google-Season-of-Docs-2023
  • Support channel share so we find people getting started
  • Slack as a recruiting tool (so we find people who are already involved)
  • Survey / application form for people to tell us what their skill level / background is
  • Initial filter for interest
  • Workshop on specific ideas?
• Supporting Wagtail Space event

[thibaudcolas]

2023-06-23

Attendees: Tiago, Loveth, Thibaud, Meagen, Damilola

Highlights

• Planning for Wagtail Space 2023 as an online event.
• New Contributors calendar page – will likely turn into a new website page with information for contributors.

Actions

• Thibaud Follow up with FreeWear
• Saevar Experiment w/ templates & share on post
• Meagen Reach out to Michael Yin about project templates
• Meagen Make a list of people who might be interested based on awesome-wagtail
• Meagen Draft community resources page on website
• Loveth & Tiago review calendar documentation / plan
• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Meagen Doodle and-or calendar invites for Wagtail Space planning

Actions review

• ✅ Thibaud Follow up with FreeWear on Wagtail designs on their shop
• ✅ Thibaud Expand upon existing post on Discussions: A command line Blog generator OR UI based predefined templates to select. #10221
• Saevar Experiment w/ templates & share on post
• ✅ Everyone Share post w/ community & specific people who already maintain project templates
• Meagen Reach out to Michael Yin about project templates
• Meagen Make a list of people who might be interested based on awesome-wagtail
• ✅ Thibaud Document calendar setup & usage
• ✅ Meagen Figure out where on the site to put the calendar
• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready

Agenda

• Template opportunities Wagtail CRX? Springload? Torchbox?
  • https://github.com/thibaudcolas/wagtail-tutorial-template
• Mastodon / social feeds integration on website
  • Meagen exploring
• Contributors calendar
  • Feedback from Loveth: This calendar contains events that Wagtail might sponsor or speak at. If we want to keep this, it would be nice to migrate all external events related to Wagtail into this calendar.
  • Community resources section/page on website? Or dedicated calendar page?
    • Polished list of links to send new contributors to.
  • Outline:
    • Logo
    • Key links
    • Contributors guide from LB: 🗺️ Guide for your first contribution #10070
• Wagtail Space 2023
  • Online better than nothing!
  • Not much time to prep things for 2023, & existing events on calendar
  • DjangoCon Africa 6-11 November
  • Conference – one-two days of talks?
  • Target first week of November for Wagail Space? Late November is US holiday season already. December is Christmas.
• Wagtail Space planning session soon w/ participants from past events
  • Firm up the date & plans for 2023
  • Planning committee
  • Infrastructure so this is sustainable
  • Central place that other people can reuse (Wagtail Space Nigeria?)
    • Building a community in Nigeria
    • Funding for local events
    • Big Django community in Nigeria
    • Check who comes to DjangoCon Africa, CHAOSS
  • Code of conduct
  • Wagtail AI logo
  • Wagtail Space can be a half day hanging out at the library
• Branding repository

[thibaudcolas]

2023-07-07

Attendees: Aman, Tiago, Meagen, Damilola, Loveth, Thibaud

Highlights

• Aman came to say hi!
• FreeWear are keen to work with us to provide a shop for Wagtail merch

Actions

• ✅ Thibaud Follow up on garment designs with Ben then FreeWear
• ✅ Thibaud Nudge Sage for template support in next release
• (vacation) Saevar Experiment w/ templates & share on post
• Thibaud Figure out Springload contact
• Meagen Figure out who looks after Puput
• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Thibaud Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access
• Meagen Survey for hosting platforms / partnerships

Actions review

• ✅ Thibaud Follow up with FreeWear on Wagtail designs on their shop
• ✅ Thibaud Expand upon existing post on Discussions: A command line Blog generator OR UI based predefined templates to select. #10221
• (vacation) Saevar Experiment w/ templates & share on post
• ✅ Everyone Share post w/ community & specific people who already maintain project templates
• ✅ Meagen Reach out to Michael Yin about project templates
• Meagen Make a list of people who might be interested based on awesome-wagtail
• Meagen Draft community resources page on website
• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Loveth & Tiago review calendar documentation / plan
• Meagen Doodle and-or calendar invites for Wagtail Space planning

Agenda

• Introductions
  • Welcome Aman!
• Stickers / swags
• Templates
• Contributor page on website
  • Reference page with links to all our resources
  • Wagtail wiki
    • Translations
    • Maybe call out other specific sections?
  • Wagtail FAQ page
  • First contribution guide
  • LB’s pull requests post
  • User guide
  • Calendar page
  • Wagtail Space – how to run yours
  • Branding / logo usage & permissions
• Platforms / partnerships
  • How to deploy – often neglected
  • https://platform.sh/
  • https://fly.io/django-beats/
  • Heroku left a void now that they have no free tier
  • Tiago: Azure, AWS (EC2, EBS, EBS Docker, Fargate), DO
  • Aman: AWS
    • (Scary for beginners)
  • Important to know which ones require a credit card or not
  • https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ ?
    • Not sure what to think of the service
  • Surveying community?
    • Slack, GitHub, Twitter?, Mastodon
    • Reach people where they are
    • Google Forms?
  • Existing docs: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/deploying.html#deploying-wagtail
  • (it’s called Partner Marketing)
  • Zapier?

[thibaudcolas]

2023-07-21

Attendees: Meagen, Damilola, Tiago, Loveth

Actions

• Do the thing

Actions review

• ✅ Thibaud Follow up on garment designs with Ben then FreeWear
• ✅ Thibaud Nudge Sage for template support in next release
• (vacation) Saevar Experiment w/ templates & share on post
• ✅ Thibaud Figure out Springload contact
• Meagen Figure out who looks after Puput
• (vacation) Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Thibaud Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access
• ✅ Meagen Survey for hosting platforms / partnerships

Agenda

• Wagtail Space Recap
• Survey draft for platforms
• Mugs on the shop. Do we want mugs? YES!
• Upcoming DjangoCon US and Africa – there will be 3 people presenting "Wagtail" talks I believe (Meagen for a workshop, @Scotchester for a talk, @Sage for a talk). I think this would be a good occasion to discuss how we can support speakers in our community (for example this could be providing them with a virtual meetup to rehearse, or offering to review their material, or providing branded slides – or maybe just a #speakers support channel)

Notes

• Yes, we want mugs!
• Feedback on survey
  • Added a few more platforms
  • Alphabetical order for platforms
  • Meagen committed to sharing survey draft in Slack channel
• Wagtail speaker recruitment and support
  • Perhaps we can provide lists of speaking ideas for people
  • Group thinks that Slack channel is a good idea
  • Focus now on 2024
  • Not so keen on branded slides
  • Would be okay to provide suggestions on links to share and promote

Other things

Tiago is keen to help out with advanced Wagtail configuration

Next JS has a great examples folder in their GitHub

Maybe do a GitHub folder and guides around

Tiago starting a new job on August

Tiago would also like to see more resources on frontend

Tiago would like more visuals in the Wagtail documentation

Suggest we remove screenshot bottleneck.

[thibaudcolas]

2023-08-04

Attendees: Thibaud, Meagen, Damilola

Highlights

• We’re all keen to spend time researching alternatives to Slack due to long-standing issues with it, more recent concerns about activity levels, and the usefulness of having more of our conversations publicly accessible.

Actions

• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Thibaud Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access
• Meagen Figure out who looks after Puput
  • bashu has been active on GitHub / Slack

Actions review

• Meagen Figure out who looks after Puput
  • bashu has been active on GitHub / Slack
• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Thibaud Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access

Agenda

• Survey
  • Expecting to run through August
  • First link out in this week’s newsletter
  • Lots of options
  • Will be able to use the results for GSOD
  • Survey to learn from for regular developer survey
  • 1h free consulting prize draw
• Community resources page
  • Going live today
• Slack activity
  • Feedback on potential topics to cover
  • General feeling energy levels are down
  • Mental load for Wagtail regulars due to expert-to-newbie ratio
  • Recent influx of newbies making this tougher
  • 3 month history potentially a consideration here?
    • Alternative – Discord – not as user-friendly? Discourse? Zulip?
    • Factor: Google-ability
  • Sisyphus-driven-development
  • Opportunity to try another platform
  • Consideration: people taking their questions to AI rather than Slack support
  • Other consideration: we want our content to be AI-indexable
  • Support conversations happening on company Slacks – annoying, but potentially also due to our 3 months history
• Release candidate downloads
• Roadmap updates
• Opportunities for Tiago
  • Feedback in our conversations is good
  • Tutorials for more advanced site setups
  • “Wagtail in production”
  • To revisit in about a month once things settle
  • Meagen will also have more guidance on what content to refresh

[thibaudcolas]

2023-08-18

Attendees: Meagen, Thibaud, Tiago, Damilola

Actions

• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Thibaud Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access
• Meagen Start a doc with contributors rewards program (criteria)
• Thibaud Contact FreeWear about contributor rewards orders
• Thibaud Thread about Twitter Spaces in Slack
• Thibaud Thread about Slack alternatives in Slack

Actions review

• Thibaud Share Django proposal once ready
• Thibaud Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access

Agenda

• FreeWear update
  • Received samples
  • Publicising the shop
    • Slack & newsletter & social media
  • Keep this to our group to avoid bikeshedding
  • UFO designs – are we allowed to use it?
    • Let’s assume we are
    • There are precedents (Wagtail Space)
  • Indigo missing?
  • There’s no requirement to use the same colors but here’s what we’ve done so far for reference. Our last batch of hoodies was with:
    • Light grey
    • Black
    • Blue silver / Slate blue (#516b80)
  • And in the past we’ve also had the following:
    • Indigo, our main brand color, #2E1F5E
      • We should get that one
    • Teal, our secondary brand color, #007D7E
      • We should also get that one
    • Pink (don’t have the reference)
      • Divisive
    • Purple (don’t have the reference)
• Rewarding contributors
  • Criteria
    • Participation to our official teams / working groups
    • Event organization
    • Participation to outreach programs
    • “Occasional” contributions? If we can figure it out
  • Contribution packs
  • Shop logistics
    • Put in the contributor’s mail address for delivery?
    • Or voucher code system prepaid by Wagtail for e.g. 10 stickers or hoodie
      • So contributors can autonomously order
• Wagtail on socials
  • Fediverse? Yes
  • Threads? Non
    • https://www.instagram.com/wagtailcms/
  • BlueSky? Meagen is there
• Twitter Spaces
  • Or is it “X Spaces”?
    • Mastodon Spaces?
    • Unsure about the appeal in the US due to Twitter drama
    • Abroad, likely more popular
    • Likely to remain popular
    • Bluesky – where the sci-fi geeks go
  • Let’s give it a go
  • Recorded material
  • More geared towards beginner
  • Moderation considerations

[thibaudcolas]

2023-09-01

Attendees: Thibaud, Meagen

[thibaudcolas]

2023-09-29

Attendees: Damilola, Thibaud Meagen

Actions

• Thibaud & Meagen Message our first contributor to say thank you (on Slack)
• Thibaud Poke people for feedback on Discussions posts

Actions review

Agenda

• #finances Slack channel
• Open Collective transparency
  • New #finances channel
  • First financial contributor
• Discussions forums

[thibaudcolas]

2023-10-13

Attendees: Tiago, Damilola, Thibaud

Actions

• Thibaud Research existing options for Slack - GH Discussions sync
• Thibaud Think of how to encourage participation with roadmap (feedback, votes)
• Thibaud Roadmap design feedback to Ben
• Thibaud Ask Scott
• Tiago Review roadmap #88
• Damilola Review roadmap #88

Actions review

• Thibaud & Meagen Message our first financial contributor to say thank you (on Slack)
• ✅Thibaud Poke people for feedback on Discussions posts

Agenda

• GH Discussions feedback
  • Like spelling reforms :)
    • People already happy on Slack don’t need this
    • People who aren’t aware of Slack do
  • Automate this so it’s sustainable
    • Hesitant to do this early
    • Bot? Custom or existing tool
• Roadmap feedback
  • Card interface not the best?
  • Cards that don’t have “Sponsor this” – are they already sponsored, or not needing sponsorship?
  • Search improvements
    • Postgres plugin to replace separate search backends?
      • https://docs.paradedb.com/blog/introducing_bm25
      • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809126
      • Part of Postgres-aaS offering
  • Way for us to get feedback about those features
  • Voting
  • Sense of status / progress “In progress” / “Done”
  • Kanban-style “inbox” over current state
  • “Needs contributions”, and who is assigned
  • Already sponsored

[thibaudcolas]

2023-10-27

Attendees: Tiago, Damilola, Thibaud, Meagen

Actions

• Thibaud Research existing options for Slack - GH Discussions sync
• Meagen Message our first financial contributor to say thank you (on Slack)
• Thibaud Roadmap feedback discussions to core team
• Thibaud Roadmap design feedback to Ben
• Tiago Second round of review for roadmap #88
• Damilola Review roadmap #88
• Meagen Create survey for Wagtail users to add to New in Wagtail 5.2
• This group – Give feedback on release survey
• Thibaud Add Survey link to New in Wagtail 5.2

Actions review

• Thibaud Research existing options for Slack - GH Discussions sync
  • Zulip
• Thibaud & Meagen Message our first financial contributor to say thank you (on Slack)
• ✅Thibaud Poke people for feedback on Discussions posts
• ✅Thibaud & Meagen Message our first financial contributor to say thank you (on Slack)Thibaud
• ✅Think of how to encourage participation with roadmap (feedback, votes)
• Thibaud Roadmap design feedback to Ben
• ✅Thibaud Ask Scott to review
• ✅Tiago Review roadmap #88
• Damilola Review roadmap #88

Agenda

• Roadmap feedback
  • Extra data: “Needs contributions”, and who is assigned
  • Reach the right people? (editors, rather than devs thinking for them)
  • Careful with collecting feedback which might frustrate people if there is no follow-through
  • Community needs vs. Wagtail builders’ needs (in particular Torchbox)
  • Gutenberg story with WordPress
  • Torchbox Torchbox Torchbox Damilola Outreachy Outreachy Outreachy
  • “Vote with your wallet”
    • More options with Wagtail being financially independent
      • People coming together to pay for
      • Bulk image upload option? (Nick)
    • Crowd-funding (Vince e-commerce)
  • “Vote with your contributions”
    • Lincoln Loop in the US? DjangoCon
• Release notes feedback
  • Developer release notes
    • Timeline page to catch up on multiple releases at a time
    • Common scenario for people to do multiple upgrades in a row
  • More links – introduce footnotes perhaps?
  • Introduce more screenshots in the docs
    • Fit with Diátaxis?
    • Coen’s screenshot automation
    • Document the screenshot taking process
    • Chaos engineering
• DjangoCon
• Wagtail tutorials user testing

[thibaudcolas]

2023-11-10

Attendees: Damilola, Tiago, Sævar, Thibaud

Actions

• Thibaud Link to meeting notes from calendar
• Thibaud Backlog Roadmap page improvements (“Needs contributions”)
• Thibaud Add a note in roadmap docs to make titles accessible with less context

Actions review

• Thibaud Research existing options for Slack - GH Discussions sync
• Meagen Message our first financial contributor to say thank you (on Slack)
• ✅Thibaud Roadmap feedback discussions to core team
• Thibaud Roadmap design feedback to Ben
• ✅Tiago Second round of review for roadmap #88
• ✅Damilola Review roadmap #88
• ✅Meagen Create survey for Wagtail users to add to New in Wagtail 5.2
• ✅This group – Give feedback on release survey
• Thibaud Add Survey link to New in Wagtail 5.2

Agenda

• Tutorial progress
  • Documentation: GSoD - A complete tutorial on how to build your Portfolio site with Wagtail #11217
  • Season of Docs
  • Congratulations
    • https://wagtail--11217.org.readthedocs.build/en/11217/getting_started/tutorial.html#congratulations
• Fly.io collab
  • Problems with PowerShell
  • WSL support?
    • Most devs will be using WSL?
    • Temporary workaround until Fly.io fixes their issues
  • Support target for tutorial?
• Roadmap
  • Should make sense to someone with no technical expertise if possible.
  • Devs can dig deeper for technical details.
  • Polish Dark Mode
  • Kurwa?
  • Finish Dark Mode
• 6.0 major version number bump
  • What’s the big feature to justify upgrading?
  • Reasoning: SemVer, ElasticSearch 5-6 support
  • Options
    • Best candidate: Universal listings improvements
      • Good candidate for a rebranding
      • Tie with dashboard improvements
        • Wagtail dashboard enhancements #8325 (comment)
        • Dashboard needs more Polish
    • Right-To-Left languages support
      • Big deal for people who need this
    • Accessibility checker in page editor
      • ???
• “New in Wagtail 5.2 survey”
  • Feedback on guide website: https://guide.wagtail.org/admin/feedbackadmin/?feedback=&page=702
• Bakery demo website
  • Feedback from Vince
  • Love the site but design a bit too clever
    • Make it simpler
  • Topic: bread
    • Too whimsical / not practical enough?
    • More boring / practical better
  • Theme
    • Boring Bootstrap theme
    • Use a WordPress theme
    • Theme-able bakery
    • “WordPress has themes”
  • Headless mode demo site to ride the wave of modern front-ends
    • “I don’t want to write another Django Template in my life if I can avoid it. I hate Django Templates. Once you get components it’s so obvious”.
    • Chakra UI
  • HTMX?
  • Tailwind?
  • Since Django (and Wagtail) are front-end agnostic. How can we

[SebCorbin]

How can we... ?

[saevarom]

@thibaudcolas stopped taking notes mid-sentence 😆

[thibaudcolas]

:) you got me. Too many good points and I lost track!

[thibaudcolas]

2023-11-24

Attendees: Damilola, Thibaud

Agenda

• Google Season of Docs

[thibaudcolas]

2023-12-07

Attendees: Victoria, Cynthia, Damilola, Thibaud, Meagen

Actions

• ✅ Meagen to research workshop opportunities in the local US
• ✅ Meagen and Thibaud to come up with task list for revamping the Bakery Demo and what works best for new contributors
• Damilola to think about ways we can track Wagtail mentions in Slack and other things
• ✅ Thibaud email freewear

Actions review

• ✅ Thibaud Link to meeting notes from calendar
• Thibaud Backlog Roadmap page improvements (“Needs contributions”)
• ✅ Thibaud Add a note in roadmap docs to make titles accessible with less context

Agenda

• Tutorial promotion in the New year
  • Local meetups in the UK, Thibaud
  • Local meetups in the US?
  • Communities
    • SheCode Africa
    • Django Discord
    • PyLadies
    • Python Discord
    • Reddit /r/django
  • Potential collaborators
    • Traelor CMS
    • CodeRed
  • Workshop opportunities
    • Coders of Color (UK)
    • Women Who Code
    • Girl Develop It
    • Django Social
    • Virtual workshop
  • Blog post
  • Social media promotion
  • Video recordings?
  • Virtual workshop probably at the end of February
• Bakery demo actions
  • Want the demo to be more compelling
  • Three angles
    • Design
    • Wagtail features (large backlog of pull requests)
    • Content of the site (should we change the topic from breads to something more universal?, Thibaud working on it with Rachel at Torchbox and using AI to create swappable of content)
    • Damilola and Cindy interested in content
    • Victoria interested in writing
    • Incentive: feedback from experienced editor(s) (Meagen w/ Damilola on Season of Docs)
• Video and blog content in the New Year
  • Lots of Meagen and Thibaud currently
  • Keen to bring on board new writers – what would be helpful?
    • Writers want to be seen, and make sure what they write as seen.
    • Give people a clear idea of how large the audience is
    • Victoria example: freeCodeCamp
    • Provide a list of topics
      • Tips list
• Swag update
  • Thibaud email FreeWear
• Damilola wants to look into tracking our mentions

[thibaudcolas]

2023-12-22

Attendees: Victoria, Chiemezuo, Damilola, Thibaud, Tiago

Actions

• ✅ Thibaud Backlog Roadmap page improvements (“Needs contributions”)
• Meagen and Thibaud to come up with task list for revamping the Bakery Demo and what works best for new contributors
• Damilola to think about ways we can track Wagtail mentions in Slack and other things
  • Connect Twitter to Slack – so we can track mentions, comments, our own tweets
• Tiago Review Django’s social media working group proposal: Initial proposal for social media working group. django/dsf-working-groups#6

Actions review

• ✅ Meagen to research workshop opportunities in the local US
• ✅ Meagen and Thibaud to come up with task list for revamping the Bakery Demo and what works best for new contributors
• Damilola to think about ways we can track Wagtail mentions in Slack and other things
  • Connect Twitter to Slack – so we can track mentions, comments, our own tweets
• ✅ Thibaud email freewear

Agenda

• Share Django proposal once ready: Initial proposal for social media working group. django/dsf-working-groups#6
• Split into two calendars w/ everyone having access
  • Keep the one calendar: Wagtail events
• DjangoCon Europe 2024
  • Tiago attending
  • Thibaud hoping to attend
  • Damilola keen on public speaking
• Introductions! Chiemezuo
• Start a doc with contributors rewards program (criteria) | FreeWear
  • FreeWear shop
  • Bulk order of stickers
  • Wagtail.org showcase page
• Advanced tutorial
  • Tiago: Well done!
• Calendar
• Plans for 2024
  • Google Season of Docs 2024
    • More how-to guides
    • Potentially do an audit so we can identify gaps. Possibly address the most obvious gaps
    • https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/2022/participants
    • ​​https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants
  • Google Summer of Code 2024
    • Chiemezuo considering other applications in the future
  • Outreachy May 2024 – Outreachy December 2024
    • Would be great but need to raise funding
• Documentation topics / things developers would want to read
  • Integration with specific technologies
  • Django lesson learned: no integration
  • Tiago’s lesson: bet on several technologies
  • Specific topic: creating pages with code
  • Next.js examples, integration with specific technologies (all of them)
  • HTMX!!!!!!!!!!
  • “How to integrate HTMX”
    • Should be easy to make examples for Wagtail / Django
  • “How to integrate Tailwind”
    • Great for people who don’t feel comfortable with CSS
  • Front-end components with Django
  • Hosting – “the pain of deploying Django”
    • Developers not sysadmins / ops people
    • Important to promote Wagtail
    • Comparison with WordPress / LAMP stack single-click hosting
• Wagtail Space 2024
• AI! AI here, AI there https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-ai
• Chiemezuo – New to Python & Django
  • Contributing & learning enough to answer more support questions
  • Wagtail Space Nigeria

[thibaudcolas]

2024-01-05

Attendees: Cynthia, Loveth, Meagen, Thibaud, Damilola, Sophia, Chiemezuo

Actions

• Thibaud & Meagen Catch-up about bakerydemo actions + add to backlog
• Tiago Review Django’s social media working group proposal: Initial proposal for social media working group. django/dsf-working-groups#6
• ✅ Thibaud Check paid Twitter tools to track Wagtail mentions
• Cynthia, Loveth, Damilola Add 4 events: CHAOSSCon, OscaFest, DevFest, DjangoCon(s)
• Loveth Write a “talks I’d like to see” style blog post, either for one event or general Wagtail
• Thibaud Write a “Accessibility talks I’d like to see” blog post
• Meagen Write a “talks we’d like to see” blog post for Wagtail.org
• Thibaud Create “2024 events” list
• Meagen Think of where we post our 2024 events list
• Thibaud Invite people to event-planning-2024
• Thibaud Organize retrospective for the next meeting

Actions review

• Thibaud & Meagen Catch-up about bakerydemo actions + add to backlog
• ✅ Damilola to think about ways we can track Wagtail mentions in Slack and other things
  • Connect Twitter to Slack – so we can track mentions, comments, our own tweets
• Tiago Review Django’s social media working group proposal: Initial proposal for social media working group. django/dsf-working-groups#6

Agenda

• Twitter on Slack – no longer an option. Thank you Elon.
• Events in 2024
  • Google Season of Docs 2024
  • Google Summer of Code 2024
  • Outreachy May 2024 – Outreachy December 2024
• Slack channel from Meagen to coordinate on event proposals
  • PyCon US 2024
  • Make sure we don’t miss deadlines
  • Python Web Conference – is it happening?
• Any local / online events people planning to attend this year?
  • Damilola
    • CHAOSS Con
    • OscaFest
    • DevFest
    • DjangoCon – first time!!
  • Chiemezuo
    • DevFest
  • Cynthia
    • DevFest
    • OscaFest
  • Loveth
    • DevFest – fun last year
    • OscaFest
    • CHAOSS Con (maybe)
  • Meagen
    • PyCon US 2024
    • All Things Open
    • Open Source(Sauce?) 101
    • DjangoCon US
    • Wagtail Space US
  • Thibaud
    • FOSDEM 2024
    • DjangoCon Europe 2024
    • DjangoCon Africa 2025
    • (Wagtail Space NL)
  • Sophia
    • Women Devs in Groningen
    • SheSharp(?)
• Jeff Triplett’s post: https://jefftriplett.com/2023/djangocon-us-talks-i-d-like-to-see-2023-edition/
• Introduction
  • Sophia
    • Software developer, joined Wagtail Slack a few months ago, got to know Wagtail thanks to Damilola
    • Interested
• Events
  • Add all of the above to shared calendar
    • DevFest Abuja / DevFest Lagos
      • Different dates
  • Add CfP dates
  • Where
• Talks I’d like to see posts
  • Loveth: local event or all things Wagtail
  • Thibaud: accessibility
  • Meagen: wagtail.org / Wagtail Space promotion
  • Chiemezuo: will feel more comfortable after having attended more events
• Event planning channel: private for now
  • PyCon US
  • Wagtail Space
• Group membership term – 6 months
  • End-of-year overview of how things are going in our community
  • Track of progress of the group
  • Survey? How the group works
  • Roadmap / reflection on how the year was and future plans for the group

[thibaudcolas]

2024-01-19

Attendees: Loveth, Meagen, Thibaud, Chiemezuo, Cynthia, Damiola

Actions

• Loveth Write a “talks I’d like to see” style blog post, either for one event or general Wagtail
• Thibaud Write a “Accessibility talks I’d like to see” blog post
• Meagen Write a “talks we’d like to see” blog post for Wagtail.org
• Thibaud Create “2024 events” list
• Meagen Think of where we post our 2024 events list
• Thibaud Invite people to event-planning-2024
• Thibaud Organize retrospective for the next meeting
• Thibaud Add new members to the team (missing Victoria’s GitHub account)
• Thibaud Share list of GSoC projects from past w/ Cynthia

Actions review

• ✅ Thibaud & Meagen Catch-up about bakerydemo actions + add to backlog
• Tiago Review Django’s social media working group proposal
• ✅ Thibaud Check paid Twitter tools to track Wagtail mentions
• ✅ Cynthia, Loveth, Damilola Add 4 events: CHAOSSCon, OscaFest, DevFest, DjangoCon(s)
• Loveth Write a “talks I’d like to see” style blog post, either for one event or general Wagtail
• Thibaud Write a “Accessibility talks I’d like to see” blog post
• Meagen Write a “talks we’d like to see” blog post for Wagtail.org
• Thibaud Create “2024 events” list
• Meagen Think of where we post our 2024 events list
• Thibaud Invite people to event-planning-2024
• Thibaud Organize retrospective for the next meeting

Agenda

• Celebrations for Wagtail birthday – 10 years of Wagtail
  • Collage of contributors / hero content
  • Ongoing effort to keep track of contributors over time
  • Ask people for their feedback / thoughts about Wagtail
  • What format? Video or blog post?
  • Collage first draft: https://gist.github.com/thibaudcolas/d342d678f0e62d0e7b12c7e6041ecbe5
  • Short video – w/ face + text?
    • Ways to automate
  • all-contributors: https://allcontributors.org/
  • CONTRIBUTORS.md: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.md
  • Twitter or Instagram format w/ sequence of slides 4 or 9?
    • Video w/ slides?
  • Screenshots / before-after content
    • https://github.com/thibaudcolas/wagtail-bakerydemo-archive
    • https://static-wagtail-v2-0.netlify.app/admin/pages/68/edit/
    • https://static-wagtail-v5-2.netlify.app/admin/pages/68/edit/
    • Thread down memory lane of StreamField
  • Canva
    • Example from Cynthia
    • Example from Meagen
• Google Summer of Code 2024
  • 238 expressions of interest so far
  • Need ways to work with so many people, contributions that don’t require too much support until we have 30-40 people
  • Among this group, some will already have been involved in the Wagtail Slack / contributing
  • https://wagtail.org/blog/5-simple-ways-anyone-can-contribute-to-wagtail/
  • GitHub Stars
  • Social media activity
  • Review Damilola’s new tutorial
  • Communicate number of contributions as a minimum to be considered as a participant
  • Chiemezuo
  • Looking for mentors too
    • Project idea decided by mentors
• Django social media working group