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.

1. DNN EAG - AWARENESS
A DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group

2. ATTENDEES
• Will S.
• Jeremy F.
• Clint P.
• Joe C.
• Loukas B.
• Francisco A.
• Tycho
• Tracy W.
• Jay M.
• EPT
• David P.
• JR B.
• Aderson O.

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. DNN FORUMS
• Clint
• Majority of the core module forums have been marked as read-only
• Posts still exist for SEO
• Unable to create new posts
• Visitors are pointed towards the respective GitHub issues area
• EPT

6. HOTCAKES COMMUNITY TOOLS REVIEW
• Coming from Hotcakes.org (donated by Arrow Digital)
• Jay M.
• Reviewed the code
• Turned this into a SPA module (WOOT!)
• Looking at adding integrations for tracking
• Where to put the source? GitHub > DNNCommunity

7. 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

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.
• (see earlier slide)
• Will
• Combine the slides for next month

9. 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.
• @DNNAwareness
• RT’s everything with #DNNCMS
• Clint P.
• Began the regular thank you posts to community members
• David P.
• No updates
• Will S.
• No updates

10. BLOGS
• Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere
• Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Francisco A.
• Clint
• Oliver H. posted about DNN 9.2.1 RC (everyone: please test)
• Sebastian L. posted about GDPR
• David P. posted about web components
• Francisco A. continues to translate blog posts to Espanol.
• Matt R. wrote about dnn-generator
• Lots of replay blog posts
• Need a solution for old corporate blogs/link & retain content
• Call out to EPT for a Dutch blog post! 

11. 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.
• Posted 4 videos over the past month
• Will S.
• Will be doing some how-to’s very soon
• Will be resurrecting the DNN Hangout (co-host, format, name TBA)

12. 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.
• New version of Media module 5.0 (it has been tested against 9.2)
• David P.
• nvQuick(everything) coming or released
• EPT
• List of open source extensions on DNN-Connect.org
• More than 100 extensions listed so far
• Jay M.
• Will be releasing an updated X3 URL Management soon (SPA!)
• KOI can help for CSS framework dependencies

13. 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
• School is reopening soon and they will meet to discuss
• 20 August campus reopens

14. 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.
• Transferred everything from old platform to a new platform
• Should be done sometime in August
• DNN Training Academy
• Kajabi

15. 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.
• A community theme and a speaker/portal theme
• Community theme will be released next week
• Within two weeks, they can do a theme for the speaker portal
• David P.
• Metro 7 theme was released

16. 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.
• Working with Loukas on a documented plan
• Includes potential theme updates
• Still in the planning phase
• Should have something in Sept.

17. 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
• 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

18. 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.
• Presented his research and proposal at the end of the meeting

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

20. 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

21. OPEN FORUM
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