The DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group met to discuss progress on goals to promote DNN awareness and adoption. Updates were provided on initiatives championed by various members, including the community dashboard, social media activity, blogs, videos, extensions, curriculum, and themes. Near term monthly goals were set for new content in these areas. Long term goals through 2018 aim to increase the volume of blogs, videos, extensions, training courses, and community engagement. The group also discussed ongoing technical issues and opportunities for the DNN platform.

1. DNN EAG - AWARENESS
A DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group

2. ATTENDEES
• Will S.
• Aderson A.
• John S.
• Loukas B.
• Thompson K.
• Tycho W.
• Francisco A.
• Jay M.
• David P.
• John B.
• Jeremy F.

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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?
• Aderson
• Been pushing DNN Open Friday for 4 weeks now
• 10 AM – 2 PM EST, Fridays
• DNN workspace in Slack: ask, answer, share
• 249 messages in the 3rd week
• https://deskpal.com/open

8. BLOGS
• Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere
• Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Francisco A.
• Still need a champion?
• Tycho
• Topic: Content security policy and security headers
• David
• Has a blog coming up
• Will
• Have 2-3 blogs coming this month
• Theme: Favorite open source extension?
• Loukas
• Alessandra will be doing one soon
• Francisco
• Continues to translate blogs to Spanish

9. YOUTUBE 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.
• 5 video tips over the past month
• Monthly DNN chat
• Open Friday
• TADUG meeting
• Will S.
• 5~ How To’s videos
• Scheduling the resurrected DNN Hangout next week
• Loukas
• Will be doing videos in Greek

10. NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS
• Mission: Increase the number of new/updated open source extensions
• Champions: Jay M., Vicenç M., Jeremy F., David P., Francisco A.
• YAAAAAYYY! John S. working on a strategy for us.
• Will S.
• Hotcakes Commerce 3.2.1 is coming in the next week or so
• David P.
• nvQuickComponents
• Andrew H. has contributed 2 new components
• nvQuickPulse launched
• Android/iPhone mobile app for DNN extension visibility/discovery
• Shows stats that aren’t on GitHub
• Use topics and description: “DNN (formerly DotNetNuke)”

11. 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
• The university he’s working with doesn’t know anything about Windows server
(building their first one now).
• The university and staff are really liking DNN
• Seminars will begin soon
• Will be doing DNN videos in Greek

12. 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.
• No updates this month, but it should be launched?

13. THEMES
• Mission: Increase the availability & quality of open source DNN
themes in the ecosystem
• Champions: Tracy W., Loukas B., Francisco A., Waldo M.
• Tracy W.
• Not here this month
• David P.
• nvQuickTheme has yet another new released
• Community is really helping push

14. 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.
• Joe C.
• Not here this month

15. 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.
• Looking for someone to champion the development for this
• David P.
• Trying to organize a meeting for this
• A repo has been created
• https://github.com/DNNCommunity/DNN.Meetups
• Join the #goals-ug-program channel to help us

16. 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
• People have had a lot of updates to the plan document
• Slack Channel: #goals-dnn-site-msg
• Will
• We need to finish the plan and then place a request to DNN Corp for access

17. AWARENESS: MONTHLY GOALS
• Next Month
• 5 blog articles published
• 8 YouTube videos/tutorials
• Q3 2018
• 1 training course
• 5 new/updated open source extensions

18. 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

19. OPEN FORUM
• Tycho
• DNN uptime issue
• Have requests to build apps and want to use DNN as the back-end
• David has experience with this
• Will
• DNN website CDN cache is getting updated
• It will be moving as well
• DNN Summit: will doing module development training
• Loukas
• DNN forums & Q&A activity
• Post in #community-help