Juanjo, how many hackfests are there that could be reported on? Could we do
a short (1-2 paragraph)  blurb on each pointing out the highlights under a
"Hackfests of 2010" and "Hackfests of 2011" title? Or are there 1 or 2 that
were 'key' to each year that we could do a longer report on?

Emily



2011/12/5 Juanjo Marín <[email protected]>

>
>
>
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> > De: Dave Neary <[email protected]>
> > Para: Juanjo Marín <[email protected]>
> > CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Enviado: viernes 2 de diciembre de 2011 10:17
> > Asunto: Re: GNOME Annual Report
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 12/01/2011 07:32 PM, Juanjo Marín wrote:
> > Dave Neary wrote:
> >>>  Do you think it might be a good idea to start with a list of Stuff we
> > should
> >>>  write about - notable occurrences during the year, successful programs
> > we want
> >>>  to highlight, etc? From there, it might be easier to find the person
> > related to
> >>>  the event/activity who could write about it.
> >>
> >>
> >>  In fact we have started writing a draft for the content for the
> (Bi)annual
> > report
> >>
> >>  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011
> >
> > Ah, cool! I hadn't seen it.
> >
> >>  By now, I've only talked to Allan Day about writing an article about
> > the design process
> >>  of GNOME 3. I've also worked in the quotation section.
> >
> > There are some obvious people to talk to about the different sections:
> >
> > Marina for WSOP (and since we already have a press release, that would
> already
> > be a great base for the report article). I'd be interested in doing a
> short
> > interview with Marina about her personal involvement too.
> >
> > Summer of Code: Daniel Siegel would be a great person to talk to here -
> he's
> > been co-ordinating mentors and GNOME's involvement to great success for
> the
> > last 3 years, and before that he was a mentor in 2008 and a student in
> 2007.
> >
> > I'd love to get Stormy to write about the process she organised for
> hiring a
> > new executive director - she's a shining counter-example to her thesis
> that
> > people might not "do it again for free" :)
> >
> > On the Desktop Summit, I was thinking that we could get quotes like you
> did for
> > GNOME 3. But since it's already done once, perhaps twice would be too
> much.
> > Do you think it's better to do an article per hackfest, or one overall
> > article, highlighting each one?
> >
> > What do you think of the idea of the application show-case?
> >
>
>
> Good ideas Dave !. We are in the process to get people involved in
> writing, and
> we will contact Marina, Daniel and Stormy.
>
> I personally think is a good idea to do a short interview to Marina. So a
> good idea and
> volunteering for making it happen  is double awesome :-)
>
> I'm trying to contact Daniel Gallegillos to get an idea about how long the
> articles
> must be. According to previous years, an page without pics is about 400
> words
> long.
>
> About the articles about hackfests, the problem I see is that because this
> is going to
> be a biannual issue, there are too many hackfest, GUADEC and DS to be
> talked
> about. I think we need more discussion about this.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>    -- Juanjo Marin
>



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