http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/05/28/stormys-update-month-of-may-2010/
Attended the fantastic GNOME Marketing Hackfest<http://stormyscorner.com/2010/05/how-does-a-free-software-project-do-marketing.html>. Got there and back - on the way home we took a six hour detour - making it a more than 24 hour trip home - and flew by the volcano. For something that has caused so much trouble, it's not very impressive from an airplane. Put together a survey after the hackfest for attendees in order to help the GNOME Foundation and travel committee to make more informed decisions. Attended board meetings. Met regularly with Rosanna. Met regularly with Brian. Encouraged people to apply for the GNOME Board of Directors. Thanks to everyone who applied. Although it's a lot of work, it's an interesting and rewarding job! Had GNOME Advisory Board meeting on finances. Helped German update the budget. Discussed 2H (second half) budget plan. Talked to Marina <http://blogs.gnome.org/marina/> about launching the Outreach Program for Women <http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram> in the southern hemisphere. Worked with Orbitz to see if they have an account or processes that could help the GNOME Travel Committee. Continued to ping GUADEC <http://guadec.org> sponsors and work out details. Almost all finalized. Kept up on a few GUADEC details and issues, including sponsored travel plans. Met with Jonathan Markow from Jasig <http://www.jasig.org> and discussed how we do things and if there were opportunities to work together. Jasig makes open source software projects for higher education. Booked travel for most of my trips this summer. Still missing a few that will be paid for by the events. Bummed that tickets to Europe are so expensive this summer as it will make it much harder for us adn companies to sponsor all the folks we'd like to see at GUADEC. Submitted title and abstract for LinuxCon keynote. Attended a couple of the GNOME.Asia planning meetings. It's coming along nicely this year. You should plan on attending. :) Met with James Vasile, our attorney from the SFLC, to talk about a few things. Met with a few advisory board members to discuss projects, GUADEC, issues, etc. Met with a potential sponsor. Pushed for a GNOME technologies roadmap process. Put together the list of 2009 donors<http://www.gnome.org/friends/previous-donors.html> for the Friends of GNOME <http://gnome.org/friends> page! Due to a Paypal "feature" this was a very manual process. Thanks to Vincent Untz for posting them. If your name should be there and it's missing, let me know. Thanks to all our Friends both known and anonymous! Kept the conversation moving about how best to use the Nokia money to sponsor GNOME apps on Maemo/MeeGo. Worked with Brian Cameron and the sys admin team to launch the GNOME Developing World mailing list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/developing-world-list>. If you are interested in how we can promote GNOME, the free desktop, in the developing world, please join the list. Talked to AEGIS and the GNOME Accessibility team about having a GNOME A11y Hackfest atAEGIS conference <http://www.aegis-project.eu>. Changed Amazon Affiliate accounts to pay out less often as the international checks cost quite a bit of money to deposit. Worked at finding people to represent GNOME at events. It was more difficult than I expected and after several conversations (including some at the marketing hackfest) we will be launching a GNOME Ambassadors program to try to improve this process and get better GNOME representation. May 31st is a US holiday. (Remembered why I normally do these weekly and not monthly! It's hard to go back and remember all the things you did and discussed for an entire month.)
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