Hi Brian, Might I suggest that you put the actionable stuff right up front? I'd like to see
"The GNOME Foundation seeking new executive director" be right at the top. Afterwards, thanking Stormy & explaining why she left will be 2nd, annual report 3rd, then budget and t-shirt contest, etc. You could even add GUADEC & Hackfests to a separate "Events" update. It's great to see the board having so much to talk about! You'll soon have to start breaking the report into sub-reports ;) Cheers, Dave. Brian Cameron wrote: > > I wrote the attached for the board update. No comments since I sent > it to the other board members for review yesterday. > > Brian > > > On 01/ 5/11 08:05 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: >> Hi Marketing team! >> >> The Q4 team updates are due and we had a bunch of activity over the >> last 3 months, with Friends of GNOME, GCI, etc. >> >> Would anyone like to try their hand at writing the update? You can >> see an example of the Q2 update[1] and I'm working to get the GNOME Q3 >> update up later today. We need to have the Q4 report written in a >> week by Jan 12th. >> >> Thanks for the help! >> >> Paul >> >> [1] http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2010-Q2.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: Q4 Updates Due > From: > Brian Cameron <[email protected]> > Date: > Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:39:05 -0600 > To: > GNOME Foundation Board <[email protected]> > > To: > GNOME Foundation Board <[email protected]> > > > > Board: > > Here is my proposal for the Board of Directors Q4 Report. I am just > sending this to the board so you can review it before I make it more > public. Any comments are very much appreciated. Should we drum up > GNOME 3 more? Any videos or anything interesting we should include? > Is it too long and stuff should be cut out? > > I guess this is due by the end of the week, is that right Paul? > > Thanks, > > Brian > > --- > > Board Report > By: Brian Cameron > > First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to > express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the > GNOME community possible. To all those who use the GNOME desktop > and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you > that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding. Thank you > also to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much > valued direction for the community. > > The GNOME 3.0 release is planned for April 6, 2010. Find a release > party near you to attend! There are GNOME 3 Launch events being > planned aroudn the world. Emily Chen and the GNOME.Asia team are > organizing providing GNOME t-shirts and other goodies to those who > can organize launch events in their area. The GNOME Launch event > in Bangalore will also be GNOME.Asia 2011. > > http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty > http://gnome.asia/press/2011/Bangalore/ > > In the past quarter, Stormy Peters stepped down from her position as > Executive Director of The GNOME Foundation. The board would like to > thank Stormy for all of her great work helping to make The GNOME > Foundation a more effective and better resourced organization. We > all wish her the best with her future endeavors! > > The board has been busy trying to keep up with the work with Stormy > leaving, and the most following important work continued to be the most > pressing. > > * Released the Annual Report. Thanks to Paul and Daniel Galleguillos. > > http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-annual-report-2009.pdf > > Is it not awesome? The GNOME Marketing team needs more help putting > together things like this. > > * Announced an interest to hire a new Executive Director and are > currently reviewing applicants. > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-November/msg00019.html > > * GNOME T-Shirt contest: > > * http://www.gnome.org/contest/ > > * The Boston Summit was held over November 6-8 and proved to be a > great opportunity for collaboration. The GNOME Marketing team > made good progress on video projects and a great deal of work was > focused on the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release and accessibility. > Thanks J5! > > * The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. board of directors annoucne > the Desktop Summit 2011: > > > http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-desktop-summit-2011-berlin.html > > Thanks to Andreas Nilsson, Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova for > all the help! Would be good to get more local GNOME volunteers > involved. Organizers are planning a face-to-face meeting at FOSDEM, > probably on Saturday during lunch. > > * Organized the following GNOME hackfests in the past quarter: > - Accessibility at AEGIS conference in Seville (Spain), October, > 2010. > - GTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), October 18-22, 2010. > - Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest held during The Boston Summit. > - Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest in Berlin (Germany), > December 2-5, 2010. > - WebKitGTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), December 5-12, > 2010. > > * Germán Póo-Caamaño, doing a great job as GNOME Foundation treasurer, > released our planned 2011 budget for GNOME Foundation community > review. > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-December/msg00057.html > > * The Friends of GNOME revamp is making good progress, though is behind > schedule. Og Maciel, Paul Cutler, Andreas Nilsson and the GNOME > marketing team have been working on this. Any feedback on the > following alpha would be helpful. > > http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome-2.0/ > > * The bidding process for the MeeGo GTK+ work closed and the > applications have been reviewed. The chosen bid will soon be > announced. Thanks to Bastien Nocera for doing much of the > organizing. > > * The GNOME Foundation is now selling GNOME branded merchandise through > FreeWear. Check it out: > > http://www.freewear.org/?org=GNOMEFoundation > > * GNOME a11y project received significant funding: > > http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-accessibility-grant.html > > * The GNOME Foundation is making arrangements to use the Egencia > Business Travel service affiliated with expedia.com to make it > easier to handle the volume of travel subsidies handled by the > Foundation. > > * Announced an interest to hire contract work to assist with GNOME 3 > marketing efforts, with a current budget of $5,000 allocated. Made > a call for project ideas and resumes on the GNOME Marketing list. > > * Womens Outreach Program proving successful! > > http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-11-women-outreach-interns.html > > Those are just some highlights, so lots of good work is getting done. > Please help GNOME 3 be a success. Get involved, join us at a GNOME 3 > launch event or at one of the hackfests currently being organized: > > - Python Bindings Hackfest in Prague, CZ, (January 17-21, 2011) > - GNOME Asia Hackfest in Bangalore, IN, (March 30 - April 3, 2011) > - ATK Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) (May 2011) > > These events happen when GNOME community members recognize the need and > propose them. If you have an idea or need for a GNOME event, please > let the board know. > > The GNOME Foundation board of directors very much appreciates when you > email [email protected] to let us know if there is anything The GNOME > Foundation can do to help or if there are any opportunities that you > think The GNOME Foundation should know about. Many different skill > sets are needed to help GNOME's mission. If you are willing to help, > there is a diverse set of interesting tasks to choose from. We need you. > > Please also consider becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donations really > do help the GNOME Foundation continue provide support and services > which help the success of the GNOME project. > > http://www.gnome.org/friends/ > > Brian Cameron > GNOME Foundation Secretary > > > On 01/ 5/11 08:05 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: >> Hi Marketing team! >> >> The Q4 team updates are due and we had a bunch of activity over the >> last 3 months, with Friends of GNOME, GCI, etc. >> >> Would anyone like to try their hand at writing the update? You can >> see an example of the Q2 update[1] and I'm working to get the GNOME Q3 >> update up later today. We need to have the Q4 report written in a >> week by Jan 12th. >> >> Thanks for the help! >> >> Paul >> >> [1] http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2010-Q2.html > -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
