2015-05-21 23:25 GMT+02:00 Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org>: > Have you ever done any fundraising?
I took an active part on the GNOME vs Groupon's fundraising campaign the GNOME Foundation launched the past year. > Are you comfortable asking sponsors for money? Yes as in making sure the sponsors do actually know why they should trust us and our mission and donate. We can do this is many ways and Jeff's initiative on the Sysadmin's brochure is one of these cases. In the eventuality the funds for the Sysadmin position will end the virtual sponsors should know what has been achieved, how and what have been the benefits of both the community and the representatives of the company / organization itself with their daily use of the GNOME Infrastructure. What I'm comfortable in - summarizing - is asking for money while providing a good rationale (and documentation, past achievements and results of the Board / other GNOME team) about why external entities should donate to our cause. > Have you ever been in a manager role? No, but I've been coordinating the GNOME Infrastructure and the GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee since several years now hopefully providing a good service for the GNOME community and membership. > Do you have any experience talking to reporters? Some, my personal background includes a degree in law which helped me a lot handling several legal matters we had to face during this term. On this side I was interviewed by the World Trademark Review online magazine [1]. Additionally - if that matters - I've been part of the "press" myself for several months as a technical freelance writer [2] writing about anything GNU / Linux and FOSS related. Additionally I took part writing / reviewing / co-writing some PRs for the GNOME Foundation back in the days. > Have you ever talked to a group of people about why software freedom is > important? I did in many occasions during conferences I participated in as a speaker. Talks there were technical but I always made sure to introduce my speech mentioning the fact the software / tool in question was completely Open Source and licensed under a free software-compliant license. [1] http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/Blog/detail.aspx?g=9df9d63a-417f-4a95-88b2-d781008a47f3 [2] http://www.oneopensource.it (italian website) -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list