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.
• Daniel V.
• David P.
• Jeremy F.
• Jay M.
• ?

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
• .Com & .Org Website
• 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
• Have not made a lot of progress on this since the last meeting
• It’s in the (new) Trello board as a task
• https://trello.com/c/Qfc3MB89/24-51-community-dashboard
• Trello: https://trello.com/b/n5ZgQFSn/dnnsoftwareorg

7. DNN .COM & .ORG WEBSITE
• 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
• Initial page hierarchy has been created and private put onto the website
• Looking for help and feedback at DNN Summit next week
• Will
• Can create a Survey Monkey survey to get feedback outside of DNN Summit as
well
• Daniel
• Will improve the core modules if necessary to accommodate

8. DNN .COM & .ORG WEBSITE (CONT’D)
• Jeremy
• Should we include commercial modules or tools external to the ecosystem?
• Will: We should avoid commercial extensions at all costs. External tools would
need to be reviewed on a case by case basis.
• Seems to be a consensus about this already
• David
• Asked about extensions
• Will: Forge it!

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.
• Still needs a champion?
• {Crickets…}

10. BLOGS
• Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere
• Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Francisco A.
• Still need a champion?
• Daniel V.
• Caught up on the blogs about TAG meetings and open source extensions
• Francisco P.
• Working on blog posts about evolution of core modules

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.
• Daniel V.
• Announcing that he’s not ready to announce videos about the core modules
(maybe before the next meeting)
• David P.
• Doing a nvQuick(video) series :D
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUdwFd0hs-3imdNXV-
eHEVMXPKxyjoYDW

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.
• Jeremy
• 2sxc
• Active Directory
• Brian Dukes: A whole bunch of JS library updates
• Security Analyzer is officially archived (built-in to DNN 9.xx)

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?
• ?

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.
• ?

15. THEMES
• Mission: Increase the availability & quality of open source DNN
themes in the ecosystem
• Champions: Tracy W., Loukas B., Francisco A., Waldo M.
• David (nvQuickMan)
• Released nvQuickTheme 2.0 (it’s so hot!)

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.
• In need of a champion again?

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.
• We’ll get to that after DNN Summit

18. AWARENESS: MONTHLY GOALS
• Next Month
• 5 blog articles published
• 8 YouTube videos/tutorials
• Q1 2019
• 1 training course
• 8 new/updated open source extensions

19. AWARENESS: LONG-TERM GOALS
• 1H 2019
• 18 new blog articles
• 24 new tutorial videos
• 2 new training courses
• 14 new/updated DNN extensions
• EOY 2019
• 37 new blog articles
• 48 new tutorial videos
• 4 new training courses
• 28 new/updated DNN extensions

20. OPEN FORUM
• Will
• DNN Summit is next week! :D
• Jay
• Is DNN 9.3 out yet? (no, in RC still – looking at the first week of Mar now)