Many of the Hackfests in 2010 and 2011 (Docs, Help, GTK+, a11y, marketing, Usability, python bindings, GNOME.Asia GNOME 3 Launch Hackfest) were organized because they were needed as a part of the GNOME 3 development process. These events targeted topics that needed particular work for GNOME 3 to be a success.
We really want the Annual Report to highlight and showcase GNOME 3, so perhaps we could discuss the hackfests in the broader context of GNOME 3. For example, we could discuss exciting GNOME 3 features in the Hackfest section that relates, and make it clear how the Hackfests helped to make GNOME 3 possible. Since the focus of the Annual Report should be GNOME 3, I wonder how the graphics of the report should make people excited about GNOME 3. Would it make sense for the pages of the report to look as if you were viewing it on the GNOME 3 desktop in evince. Other programs could be in the background showing off cool GNOME 3 features, like eog showing off a photo of a hackfest, or a spreadsheet program showing a graph. Just thinking out loud. Brian On 12/ 5/11 06:46 AM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
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] <mailto:[email protected]>> ----- Mensaje original ----- > De: Dave Neary <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Para: Juanjo Marín <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > CC: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] <mailto:[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 -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
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