= Progress call: 17:00 UTC =

	* Marketing team
		* What to do in marketing:
			* Resolve confusing message
			* Marketing communications infrastructure
				* For fund raising and recruiting
				* Sales (find out what success is, reach out to people, keep ideals like freedom in context)
			* Step 0: Create a funnnel for more marketing help
				* Create a constant onramp for marketing/volunteers
				* Create a page on the website - a call to action page
			* Pick a group to target on initially
				* Get to know the community (listent form them with surveys etc.)
			* Give higher profile to talks and other efforts, etc.
			* Encourage people to reach out and talk about !FreedomBox
				* Provide them with the slides, etc.
			* Oursourcing marketing with funding
				* Sponsoring podcasts, etc.
			* Upstream software projects promoting !FreedomBox
			* Hardware vendors promoting !FreedomBox
			* FSF RYF Certification
			* Social Media, Reddit
			* Produce short explainer videos about specific topics
			* Identify areas for improving the software
			* Engage with non-government organizations
			* Discussion from 2 years ago
				* https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/issues/1944
			* Madiha from !FreedomBox Foundation, Profetik and Paul Allen to become the initial team and point of contact for marketing effots
				* Others to helpout (including sunil)
			* Kickstarting the team
				* Official communication through Foundation only
				* Hardware partnerships etc. through Foundation only
				* A workflow will be discussed
				* Have as little road blocks to the team as possible
					* Trust the team to excericise caustion and restraint and empower them fully
				* Other channels like mailing list, Reddit, forums, etc can be taken up community
	* Other topics:
		* Release plan for Bullseye freeze (James)
			* v21.1 release on Jan 25th
				* Upload to buster-backports on Jan 29th
				* tahoe disabled, tt-rss still enabled
				* If any critical bugs are found, we can make a point release.
			* Bullseye soft freeze Feb 12th
			* v21.2 release on Feb 8th -> move a few days earlier
			* Later releases
				* Small fixes on debian/bullseye branch
				* Normal releases: Upload to experimental until Bullseye release
			* Milestone
				* https://salsa.debian.org/groups/freedombox-team/-/milestones/30