2020-06-04 10-20-21 PDT Mandeep Alright. 2020-06-05 14-25-36 PDT Mandeep Hi, So I tried to find my way around GitLab but I am still not very comfortable using that platform. Is it possible that we could communicate over e-mails till the time I understand the security, work flow & privacy settings around GitLab? 2020-06-04 10-19-03 PDT Mandeep I can join via text, right? 2020-06-04 10-22-28 PDT Mandeep I will check that as well. 2020-06-04 10-20-06 PDT Mandeep team_vectors? 2020-06-06 09-53-59 PDT Mandeep Yes, SEO plan will be ready in a couple of days & I already have few ideas that should be able to help us. I will put all of this together in an email. 2020-06-04 10-18-15 PDT Mandeep I will be able to join the meeting but don't think that the actionable plan for SEO will be ready by then. It will take me around 2-3 days. 2020-06-04 10-02-15 PDT Mandeep Sure, I can look after SEO side of it. I also design E-mails & manage social channels for my full time job. I can also look after that for Inkscape. 2020-06-04 10-19-58 PDT Mandeep & the meeting's here? 2020-06-04 09-56-42 PDT Mandeep My focus is on digital side of the marketing but I handle other aspects as well. 2020-06-05 14-27-21 PDT Mandeep Thanks. 2020-06-04 09-47-21 PDT Mandeep Hi, Thanks for reaching out. I have requested for the access. I have majored in marketing and have been working for a few years in the marketing field for various kinds of companies, helping them with their SEM. SEO, Content, E-mail marketing etc. 2020-06-04 10-01-09 PDT Mandeep Yes, Agreed! We won't be able to compete against them in terms of the resources that they have. 2020-06-04 10-23-30 PDT Mandeep Nice talking to you, I will catch up with you during the meeting. Do let me know if there is something I can help with. Thanks. 2020-06-04 10-09-01 PDT Mandeep You can provide me access for whichever platform you need me to manage. So our goal is to get more users & keep the project floating & growing, Understood. 2020-06-04 10-11-32 PDT Mandeep I will share what we should do in terms of SEO, in a couple of days & then we can work towards it. 2020-06-04 10-10-43 PDT Mandeep For e-mails, platforms like mailchimp, moosend etc. do provide some sort of basic and free functionality upto 2000 contacts. We can use their services and promote inkscape. Maybe we can have a sign-up form on our website, segment the audience and optimize the emails per user behaviour. 2020-06-02 15-02-09 PDT Ryan Gorley When you get a minute, let me know a little more about yourself and background and let's find a way to put your talent to good work. I'm glad to have you! 2020-06-02 15-01-36 PDT Ryan Gorley If you don't have a GitLab account, please create one and then request access to that group. You'll a lot of prior projects, meeting topics, ideas, etc. in the Issues. 2020-06-04 10-04-42 PDT Ryan Gorley It may be worth it. 2020-06-04 10-21-04 PDT Ryan Gorley https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-vectors.lists.inkscape.o... 2020-06-04 10-18-41 PDT Ryan Gorley That's alright. It will be nice to have you introduce yourself at least. 2020-06-04 10-24-16 PDT Ryan Gorley Likewise, and I certainly will. Thanks for joining us. I'm glad to have you onboard! 2020-06-06 09-35-28 PDT Ryan Gorley Thanks for joining our meeting. I'd love to put your expertise to work. Do you think you'll have some ideas to share before our next meeting? I'd love to hear them. 2020-06-04 10-20-09 PDT Ryan Gorley Yes, in the #team_vectors channel 2020-06-06 09-57-54 PDT Ryan Gorley Sweet. I'm glad to see you connecting with Michele about keywords as well. 2020-06-04 10-07-11 PDT Ryan Gorley Something to keep in mind, that I had to learn, was that the important social good brought about the project aside, the project itself really doesn't benefit directly from more users. We should get the tool out there for people, because that is the right thing to do, but we need to optimize for conversions in the form of contributors (and to a lesser extent donations). 2020-06-04 10-04-18 PDT Ryan Gorley I think it would be great to get additional eyes on social media. We've never done anything with emails. I think that could be interesting. It will be a little more difficult to get off the ground because we'll have to get infrastructure put in place, which is a struggle right now. 2020-06-04 10-00-57 PDT Ryan Gorley There is much more than search optimization we need, but that is definitely something you would bring unique expertise on. 2020-06-04 10-19-32 PDT Ryan Gorley Yeah, the meeting is all text. 2020-06-02 15-00-18 PDT Ryan Gorley Hi @Mandeep . Thanks for reaching out. I'm sorry to take so long getting back with you. I run a small creative agency (https://freehive.com) and we've been really busy the last few weeks. I come from a marketing background as well. In fact, the Vectors came about in part because I came asking the same question you have and no one was really doing any marketing work for the project.

Here is a small survey I put out around then to understand better who was using Inkscape, and where they saw the value in the application: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hz_Q6epUfUJXO0w_XZGZ8GRDOOpzjl_kXe9H...

Give it a look if you like. You can also find a lot of our business on GitLab at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors 2020-06-04 09-59-56 PDT Ryan Gorley We're not exactly in competition with the commercial tools on the market, and I don't really feel like we need to be of that mindset, but rather we should help as many people as possible discover Inkscape and make the choice for themselves. 2020-06-04 09-58-33 PDT Ryan Gorley I haven't gotten this off the ground, in part because I've been the only one with any experience with it, but I would love for the project to make a more deliberate effort to optimize for search phrases that will help us get found more often. 2020-06-04 10-14-01 PDT Ryan Gorley There is a lot of resistance from certain quarters within the project to using proprietary tools, just so you know. I think an email would be good though. 2020-06-04 10-19-27 PDT Ryan Gorley When you are ready to publish your plan, just create an issue in the "General" subgroup of our GitLab group and post what you have there. It supports markdown. 2020-06-04 10-20-43 PDT Ryan Gorley Oh, and we do have a group mailing list if you want to get reminders on meetings. It is at... 2020-06-05 14-26-19 PDT Ryan Gorley Yeah, sure. My email is ryan@freehive.com 2020-06-04 10-08-28 PDT Ryan Gorley Donations are less valuable right now because the project hasn't really figured out how to spend that money on anything but hackfests. We're figuring that out, but contributions of time and talent go much further right now. 2020-06-04 10-16-53 PDT Ryan Gorley An initial dive into what we can do on the SEO front would be awesome. We tried to pick a time for our meeting that works for most quarters of the world. Someone said it is pretty late in your timezone. Is it doable? 2020-06-04 09-57-09 PDT Ryan Gorley Nice