Weekly meeting notes (2022-01-21)

[kevinswiber]

2022/01/21

Attending: Neal Caidin, Beth Loft, Jesse Casman, Kevin Swiber, Marsh, Stu

Agenda:

• New member announcements:
  • Treblle, Optic, APIIDA, Flotiq
  • Drafting Treblle and Optic. None scheduled yet, expect posts in Feb
  • Marsh: Obvious member benefits, how can we raise a better awareness of who's joining? Expanding on that is a fertile topic.
• Beth from Ably (OAI member company) - UK meetup
  • Promotion of event
  • Promotion of initiative goals
  • Any templates in terms of Meet-ups?
  • In-person, March-April timeframe in London
  • Should talk more about event strategy for 2022.
• From the PR/Comms plan, list of targets for Thought Leadership interviews (slide 7)
  • Interview member, topic is technical trends, not a personal profile, possibly place it externally in developer-focused publication
  • Planning to do 6 interviews in 2022
    • Example
  • Looking for some level of vetting from Marketing Committee. Here’s the proposed list. Go ahead and start contacting? Changes to the list?
    • From TSC - Uri Sarid, Marsh Gardiner, Ron Ratovsky
    • From BGB - Darrel Miller, Jeremy Whitlock
    • Isabelle Mauny, Jerome Louvel
    • Ben Hutton, JSON Schema
    • Non OpenAPI - Fran Méndez at AsyncAPI
    • Someone building popular tooling:
    • Roles of API itself in the industry (vertical, horizontal), is there more to be done?
• Twitter community update: from 0 to 182 in week 1.
  • What should we talk about?
  • How do we leverage it?
  • How do we stir up community contribution?
• New Marketing GitHub account: https://github.com/OAI/Marketing