On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:43 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: These are awesome points and promises you are making Jeff. I hope you'll get elected so that developers like myself are sure that somebody is working on the exact future that they want GNOME to become.
> * Continue with GMAE and kickstart a couple of similar projects, focusing > commercial interest on community/upstream development, ensuring the GNOME > community is a strategic asset for the companies involved, and keeping > our successes in the limelight. We need to make sure that the innovative > GNOME community continues to be seen as a highly valued part of the Free > Software ecosystem, and improve on that status. Your energy and efforts to steer and start the GMAE initiative are highly appreciated. Thanks a lot for this. This is going to make a big difference for the careers of a lot GNOME developers involved. > * Build a platform for advertisement of GNOME-related product, solution and > service providers, and GNOME-related recruitment. > * Fund focused face-to-face meetings, as I discussed with lots of GNOMErs > during the Boston Summit. Specifically, I want to start with a UK-based > meeting for "collaboration and communications" developers (ensuring we > have a fantastic platform and integration for collaboration, presence and > communications technologies), and a meeting for GNOME artists to coincide > with the Libre Graphics Meeting in May (in Quebecistan). > * Hire a business development manager for the GNOME Foundation, to raise > funds and manage our organisational relationships. I am particularly keen > on this, because a bizdev manager for the GNOME Foundation will be able > to better manage the operational side of my crazy ideas. :-) -- Philip Van Hoof, software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://www.pvanhoof.be/blog _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
