Ok, I updated and chopped text. If I was going to add any back, it'd be in the plans for 2009. If I was going to cut more text it'd be in the about sections.
(We could also cut some text from the about-foundation page in the friends page. Or at least bold the parts I didn't cut.) GNOME The GNOME Project is: + a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment accessible to all, + a powerful application development framework for software developers, and + a set of free software applications for mobile devices. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, is Free Software, and developed as Open Source software. The GNOME project encompasses many applications from the desktop to multimedia applications for end users to development tools. See http://projects.gnome.org/ for the entire list. The GNOME Foundation The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation sponsors GNOME-related technical conferences, represents GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, helps create technical standards for the project and promotes the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors to GNOME, who vote once a year to elect the GNOME Board of Directors who run the Foundation. The Foundation has two people on staff, an executive director and an administrator. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. Why join the GNOME Foundation as a sponsor: 1) Open source technologies are forming the building blocks of desktop and mobile computing platforms. 2) The foundation provides a conduit to the developers. 3) As an advisory board member, through regular phone meetings and an annual face to face meeting, you will have a high-value communication channel with the GNOME community, through the board of directors. 4) The advisory board also provides the ideal forum for improved collaboration on areas of common interest among distributors of the GNOME products. 5) By joining the GNOME Foundation and sponsoring GNOME, you will create good will among GNOME developers. They know that the GNOME Foundation fees go towards things that help GNOME developers like hackfests, sponsoring travel to conferences, and system administration resources. 7) General press. If you wish you can be part of GNOME related initiatives and announcements throughout the year. Sponsorship fees are $10,000/year. The advisory board is made up of sponsor company representatives and meets in person annually at GUADEC and holds regular teleconference calls throughout the year. Most sponsors also provide additional funding for specific programs like events and programs targeted at specific technologies. During 2008, the GNOME Foundation was able to help bring a free and open source desktop to the world by doing the following: * Participating in the Google Summer of Code program in which 30 students and mentors participated. * Running an Accessibility Outreach Program that resulted in improvements in documentation, magnification, and mouse control through a webcam. * Held several hackfests, which was widely seen as successful for tasks like planning the future of GTK+ and the GNOME user experience. * Held several large worldwide developer conferences to enable developers to collaborate effectively and to educate new users and developers. In 2009, we could use your help to accomplish the following: * Produce more end-user-focused technology and features through technology-specific hackfests. * Continue to provide a place for our sponsors to discuss their GNOME-related plans. * Organize a usability study focused on GNOME technologies used by all people, including children, users in developing nations, and people with accessibility needs. * Provide travel subsidies to bring our worldwide community of volunteer developers together. * Have more active dialogs between our sponsor companies and our developers through monthly advisory board meetings. * Hold a joint GUADEC/Akademy conference, a Free Desktop Summit, in order to encourage collaboration and common specifications. * Ensure that there is a free and open source stack for mobile devices by working with other mobile groups to define and produce GNOME Mobile. * Hire a system administrator to provide the on-call support that would give our volunteer developers and volunteer administrators the resources they need to keep the GNOME project moving forward. * Support local conferences such as GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin America), the Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au (Australia), and Forum GNOME. * Start an internship program aimed at exposing business students to the free and open source software world and bringing their expertise to some of the marketing and business challenges we have. * Support the community in defining and executing a release plan for GNOME 3.0. Thanks for your interest. For more information please see http://www.gnome.org/foundation. To follow up, please contact: Stormy Peters Executive Director GNOME Foundation sto...@gnome.org 970-481-2076 On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:53 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: >> - The text says "The Foundation has over 400 members, all contributors >> to GNOME, who vote once a year". >> >> Actually we now vote every 18 months > > We had a single 18-month period to put the new board elections > closer to GUADEC so that the new board can use GUADEC to get > face time early in their term. Now that they're more closely > aligned, we'll have our regular annual elections again. > > -- > Shaun > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list