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.
• Clint P.
• Jeremy F.
• Don G.
• Francisco P.
• John S.
• Tracy W.
• Tycho W.
• Daniel V.
• Loukas B.
• David P.
• Alessandra D.

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
• Uploading to Azure this morning
• Will give the group a link later today
• Will
• Will ping Jay about this later today

7. 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

8. 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

9. INCREASING SOCIAL ACTIVITY
• Don
• Sprocket is RT’ing/sharing it all
• Says he did it all himself
• Will
• Using the event to contact clients

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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!

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. TRAINING/COURSES
• Clint
• DNN Summit has a lot of training
• Includes: Tracy, Alessandra (Diva), Will, Anthony, Scott, Ryan

17. 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/

18. 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?

19. 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

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

21. 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

22. 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