Hi! I've launched a blog where I plan to talk about my work for the GNOME Foundation as executive director:
http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/ I've just published the following post, the first, I hope, of many! Hopefully the blog will also be on the planet soon. -Karen > So were just over 3 weeks into my full time stint at GNOME. I feel a > little bad about the fact that its taken me so long to get a blog > going, but it took some time to settle on a name and make a > hackergotchi that looked at least ok! (I wont list these as > accomplishments ) > > I think for the next couple of weeks I may just post a few things now > and again as I remember them so you can get an idea of what Im > working on as I get oriented. Im still very new, and even though > Ive been involved with GNOME as a lawyer for a couple of years, Im > really still learning about the Foundation, the community and the > software (though I should note that I have been a user and fan for > over five years). > > So, in no particular order, a few of the things Ive done: > > * I set up quite a lot of calls with people in the GNOME community > some contributors and some advisory board member representatives. > There will be many more of these to come I think. (I hope! So far > its very helpful to hear from people what theyre thinking about > GNOME) > > * I contacted someone using the GNOME name in a domain name and > reminded them of our trademark guidelines. After some initial fuss, > they agreed to transfer the domain name. Ive got a few more of these > to do. They take some research to be confident that youve got your > facts right before writing. And hopefully these people will channel > those efforts to contributing to GNOME. > > * I got the foundation unsuspended in the state of California (this > is where being a lawyer helps!) Due to I think a very old situation > of missed filings, this needed to be corrected. Thanks to James > Vasile and Marc Miller at SFLC and Rosanna Yuen at GNOME > > * I read up on git. Yes, Ive been an svn user primarily in the past, > so it was time. That and I need to update GNOMEs website. > > * I did some prep work for the panel Im moderating at the Desktop > Summit on Copyright Assignment, a very hot topic these days. > > * I talked to Marina about the great work she and Stormy and a lot of > others have done with the GNOME Womens Outreach Program. I was > totally inspired by the program and its success so far. We talked > about what we can do at the Desktop Summit, and we contacted Claudia, > Lydia and Celeste at KDE, about setting up a joint Womens Networking > BoF. Im really looking forward to it. > > * Attended my first board meeting and my first advisory board meeting > (the advisory board meeting was on my first day). I also got to my > new role just in time to welcome the new board to *their* new > positions. The old board deserves a lot of thanks for their hard > work, and I hope to learn from both the outgoing and incoming board > members. > > * I set up some interviews and other speaking engagements. Ill post > about those here as they happen! for now you can read the interview I > did with Joe Zonker Brockmeier. > > Ive of course been up to more than that in these three and a half > weeks these are just a few of the things that come to mind. Now > that Ive got a space to talk about them, Ill try to write about > things more as they happen. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
