This is the slide deck from our June 2018 meeting for the DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group that focuses on generating more awareness of DNN.

1. DNN EAG - AWARENESS
A DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group

2. ATTENDEES
• Will S.
• Aderson O.
• Clint P.
• Alessandra D.
• Francisco A.
• Jeremy F.
• Mark B.
• David P.
• Jay M.

3. AGENDA
• Review Primary Goals
• DNN-Connect
• 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. DNN-CONNECT 2018 CONFERENCE
• DNN-Connect.org
• 31 May – 03 June
• https://www.dnn-connect.org/events/2018
• Discussed in last night’s TADUG meeting (Clint P.)
• David P.
• Really great conference (best ever?)
• Content was incredible (great sessions on a wide range of topics)
• Great conversations were being had (platform, community, etc.)
• More spread out than previous EU events
• All sessions were professionally recorded (slides too)
• Getting posted to the DNN-Connect YouTube channel
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNxcAyA6Ib812ZrXuk6yBEQ

6. HOTCAKES COMMUNITY TOOLS REVIEW
• Coming from Hotcakes.org
• Donated by Arrow Digital
• Will S.
• Forward the source to Jay
• Jay will try to look at this over the weekend
• Goals to be properly defined over Slack
• Clint P.
• There’s a Jira item for it
• The tester said there’s a bug
• Ben Z. needs a link to the GitHub
• May be waiting on Will (and Jay)...

7. CHAMPIONS: UPDATES
• Community Dashboard
• Speaker Program
• User Group Program
• Increase Hashtag Usage (social)
• Blogs
• YouTube Videos/Tutorials
• Training Course
• New/Updated Extensions
• Homepage/Messaging
• Curriculum
• Theme Creation

8. 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.
• Still in limbo (kind of)
• Will sent source to Jay M. (yesterday)
• By next meeting:
• We should have defined what we’ll be measuring
• That should result in a plan forward

9. 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.
• Not much traction since last meeting due to not being able to get the
meeting setup for everyone
• Should have a meeting within the next two weeks for next steps
• Next Steps
• Will to setup a meeting specifically making sure Jay and Thompson are in attendance
• Everyone to review comments and add their own comments
• Slack Channel: #goals-dnn-site-msg

10. 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.
• Clint P.
• Thinks Aderson is doing a great job with Clipisodes 
• Next one may be about upgrades
• Will S.
• FB groups continue to be very active
• Need to recruit an official Champion for this
• David P.
• @DNNAwareness account has a few more followers

11. BLOGS
• Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere
• Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Dennis S., Francisco A.
• Will S.
• Blogged about the previous meeting
• Plan to have 2-3 more over the next two weeks
• Should we be using other mediums, like Medium?
• Francisco A.
• Continues to translate blogs en Español
• EPT is going to follow his example

12. BLOGS (CONT’D)
• David P.
• About to blog about how horrible WP is for security (BLEH!!!!)
• Everyone RT and share this
• Cross-posting: is that still a good thing?
• Clint P.
• Mitchel Sellers Example: suggests that people ghost write for others
• Aderson O.
• We pick a theme for the month (e.g., upgrades)
• All content will be related to that topic

13. 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.
• 2-3 questions that became videos over the past month
• 3 tips of the week
• Most efforts were around the conversion from Evoq to Platform (1.5 hr)
• Already on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjtzIfCowLYXb76lcDD6edV-dUEnbG2Ew
• Mic has been dropped!

14. NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS
• Mission: Increase the number of new/updated open source extensions
• Champions: Jay M., Vicenç M., Jeremy F., David P., Francisco A.
• Will S.
• Hotcakes Commerce 3.2 released
• Helped fixed a bug for SQL View Pro 5.0
• Began using Matt R.’s DNNGenerator (Yeoman) for creating MVC/SPA modules
• https://github.com/mtrutledge/generator-dnn
• David P.
• nvQuickTheme adoption continues to increase (DNN-Connect helped)
• Aderson O. posted a few videos about it

15. 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., David D., Don G., Loukas B.
• No updates or traction on this yet
• We need a leader for this! 

16. 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.
• No updates – team not here, really

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 isn’t here

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.
• Joe has been running this, and we’re having a meeting soon

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.
• Looking for someone to champion this

20. USER GROUP PROGRAM
• David P.
• Might be able to help get the development started
• Clint P.
• Mitch is trying to get access to GitHub accounts/repos for community members
• Next Steps
• Find someone to be “the” champion
• Will to hand off the work he’s done so far
• Determine the repo name in Slack
• Create the repo in GitHub

21. AWARENESS: MONTHLY GOALS
• Next Month
• 5 blog articles published
• 2 YouTube videos/tutorials
• Q1 2018
• 1 training course
• 5 new/updated open source extensions

22. 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

23. OPEN FORUM
• Jeremy F.
• Contribution to the silence :D
• Clint P.
• DNN Awards update from Jon B.???
• https://www.dnnawards.com/
• Will S.
• Jon B. hasn’t been on Slack in a bit
• David P.
• The DNN Awards site has been released, but may not yet be active