Hi Philip, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > I for example remember that in Berlin we had the idea of putting > interviews with the hackers online. I never found those. > > This should be something the Foundation pushes for (given that they > funded many hackers' flights I think it's fair that the Foundation gets > at least some interviews with the hackers, to put online, in return).
I agree with you that when the foundation has spent money on initiatives, the people who have benefitted have not always done everything they might have to publicise the support and ensure that people could see a clear value to the spending. The difficulty that Lucas has had getting articles & reports about events for the annual report testifies to this, as does the long lay-off in GNOME Journal editions. [Aside: Lucas, are you still looking for an article/collection of articles about GUADEC?] I believe that the foundation board at least does request things like this - they've asked people to blog about events where they're funded to attend, and (as you say) I've seen proposals that attendees do interviews during co-ordinated events like the hackfest. But we don't have a whip, and we don't have a full-time editor to go around and constantly remind people of the things they promised they'd do. In a volunteer organisation, the members need to take personal responsibility for things like this, more often than not. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
