Add notes from April meeting

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-# Community WG Notes - February 2025
+# Community WG Notes - March 2025
 
 **Watch the replays:**
 [GraphQL Working Group Meetings on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1igyLx8foHhWZk2u1SthsW1weH3VA7l)

notes/2025/2025-04.md

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+# Community WG Notes - April 2025
+
+**Watch the replays:**
+[GraphQL Working Group Meetings on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1igyLx8foHhWZk2u1SthsW1weH3VA7l)
+
+Agenda:
+
+[https://github.com/graphql/community-wg/blob/main/agendas/2025/04-Apr/10-community-working-group-april-2025.md](https://github.com/graphql/community-wg/blob/main/agendas/2025/04-Apr/10-community-working-group-april-2025.md)
+
+## Determine volunteers for note taking (1m, Host)
+
+- Benjie
+- Jeff
+
+## Check for [ready for review agenda items](https://github.com/graphql/community-wg/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Ready+for+review%22+sort%3Aupdated-desc) (5m, Host)
+
+- Will be covered by agenda.
+
+## "Empowering the community" defined (Uri - 5 mins) requested by Doc
+
+- Unblock and empower community initiatives
+- "To support the people who are already doing stuff in any way we can"
+- i.e. rather than incentivising inactive people to become active, and rather
+  than assuming we know what people want, let's find out from the people who are
+  doing things what they actually need/want.
+- Benjie: sometimes individuals, sometimes group based - defining what it
+  means - spec, docs, site, reference implementation, dev tooling; w/in
+  Foundation projects
+- Then ppl doing tools like servers, clients, atc
+- Then ppl who like to share the word of GraphQL, empower others, do talks,
+  attend events
+- Sometimes more specific - one person needs support vs. a category or community
+- Jeff: can we provide some guidance eg to those who submit a talk proposal; can
+  we tell people’s stories, help giving them some structure or helping them to
+  “pitch in”;
+- “We’re here, we’re not scary, and we will help you!”
+- Doc: Mentorship programs - ppl volunteer to mentor, can pair maintainers
+  looking for help w newcomers who want to figure out how to contribute
+- “Getting from 0 to 1 is the hardest part”
+
+## Survey (Doc and Martin)
+
+- Gartner/etc do "State of X, Y, Z" which may imply it's vendor focussed
+- Sacha runs "State of …" which are all developer surveys, which was the case
+  for State of GraphQL
+- Sacha's codebase is OSS, but isn't well documented and he's offering to do a
+  walk through (and maybe accept some contributions)
+- Issue: no-one has stepped up to accept this walk-through; he's offered to do
+  it now, he may not be available in future
+- How might we find TS developers?
+- The Guild have already done some PRs against that codebase, but alas they
+  don't have any availability.
+- Uri: We can support people who are already doing things, but we struggle to
+  find people to do things to start with
+- Benjie: It took quite a while to find new maintainers for GraphQL.js, though
+  we have a few now.
+- Doc is going to try and find some TS developers to do the walk-through
+
+## Update for [issue 22](https://github.com/graphql/community-wg/issues/22) (making content selection more transparent) (Jem - 5 mins)
+
+- Jem: how to make content selection and conf planning more transparent - fit
+  nicely to what Benjie and I worked on w committee - launch an initiative
+  called Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) - Netherlands, Amsterdam companies,
+  trying to get them involved in the talk selection process
+- Last year talks were rated by TSC - focused on talk quality, speaker
+  reputation, their opinion of GraphQL on the stage
+- This year, more focus on excitement, what might be different
+- Updated a section on GraphQL website explaining the “how” (not the “who”) -
+  public info where none was there before
+- Please help to share the initiative, get people to sign up!
+- What’s the sweetener? Tee shirt? Bowtie? Level of effort? Time commitment
+
+## Calls for comments on the Ambassador scheme [PR 64 issue 1](https://github.com/graphql/community-wg/pull/64) (Jem - 10 mins?)
+
+- Nominations on rolling schedule
+- Perhaps first before or during the conf?
+- Benjie: levels of community - this is the “broader” side - tutorials, video
+  content, articles w/ technical writing
+- Jeff: zero to one - let’s remain flexible and get someone interested, work
+  with them
+- Doc: different goals - some want to speak, some want to do social media, video
+- Jamie Barton for example
+
+## Short update on the [new graphql.org design initiative](https://github.com/graphql/community-wg/issues/21) (Uri - 10 mins)
+
+- (no notes taken, but lots of conversation)