Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Chen]

Hi Emily,

I copy one section "Montréal Summit 2011"
from
http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents
to
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q4

I would like to know who is the author for this section?

Thanks,
Emily

2012/2/25 Emily Gonyer 

> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>
> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on the
> wiki yesterday (
> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents),
> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these, if
> thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please let me
> know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm planning
> on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.
>
> Emily
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

Sure, you can send it to me Christy, or just post it on the wiki. Either
way though, please note that its done on the wiki :)

Emily

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Christy Eller
wrote:

> I have completed an article on the Thank You Pants- where should I put it,
> and in what format? Right now it is an .odt with several photos. Can I send
> it to you Emily?
>
> Christy
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Brian Cameron 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Emily:
>>
>>
>>  As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in
>>> what the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be
>>> an overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this
>>> case, two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report?
>>> Or do we want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams
>>> work for the last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm
>>> honestly not sure which one is preferable, although I lean towards the
>>> second.
>>>
>>
>> The same answer may not be the right answer for all GNOME teams.  The
>> production of reports is very dependent on volunteer effort, so I think
>> it is good to have a process that gives project teams some flexibility.
>>
>> Ultimately we want to communicate that we are a vibrant and productive
>> community with a strong, positive vision.  To do this, we do not need
>> to include updates from every team, but focus on the ones that make a
>> strong impact.
>>
>>
>>  The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the
>>> annual report out within the next month, the second route will be much
>>> harder to accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the
>>> quarterly reports and hash something together for each team fairly easy
>>> in the next couple weeks, but writing completely new content/articles
>>> will take longer. Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as
>>> suggested by Dave and see if any of them would be willing to contribute,
>>> and go from there.
>>>
>>
>> I would recommend using the quarterly reports more as a guide to better
>> understand which teams we should be contacting and pushing the hardest
>> to provide content.  I also like the idea of contacting bloggers and
>> doing a call for contributions and inspiration from the GNOME
>> community.
>>
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Christy Eller]

I have completed an article on the Thank You Pants- where should I put it,
and in what format? Right now it is an .odt with several photos. Can I send
it to you Emily?

Christy

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
> Emily:
>
>
>  As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in
>> what the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be
>> an overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this
>> case, two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report?
>> Or do we want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams
>> work for the last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm
>> honestly not sure which one is preferable, although I lean towards the
>> second.
>>
>
> The same answer may not be the right answer for all GNOME teams.  The
> production of reports is very dependent on volunteer effort, so I think
> it is good to have a process that gives project teams some flexibility.
>
> Ultimately we want to communicate that we are a vibrant and productive
> community with a strong, positive vision.  To do this, we do not need
> to include updates from every team, but focus on the ones that make a
> strong impact.
>
>
>  The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the
>> annual report out within the next month, the second route will be much
>> harder to accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the
>> quarterly reports and hash something together for each team fairly easy
>> in the next couple weeks, but writing completely new content/articles
>> will take longer. Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as
>> suggested by Dave and see if any of them would be willing to contribute,
>> and go from there.
>>
>
> I would recommend using the quarterly reports more as a guide to better
> understand which teams we should be contacting and pushing the hardest
> to provide content.  I also like the idea of contacting bloggers and
> doing a call for contributions and inspiration from the GNOME
> community.
>
> Brian
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

Emily:


As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in
what the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be
an overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this
case, two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report?
Or do we want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams
work for the last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm
honestly not sure which one is preferable, although I lean towards the
second.


The same answer may not be the right answer for all GNOME teams.  The
production of reports is very dependent on volunteer effort, so I think
it is good to have a process that gives project teams some flexibility.

Ultimately we want to communicate that we are a vibrant and productive
community with a strong, positive vision.  To do this, we do not need
to include updates from every team, but focus on the ones that make a
strong impact.


The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the
annual report out within the next month, the second route will be much
harder to accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the
quarterly reports and hash something together for each team fairly easy
in the next couple weeks, but writing completely new content/articles
will take longer. Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as
suggested by Dave and see if any of them would be willing to contribute,
and go from there.


I would recommend using the quarterly reports more as a guide to better
understand which teams we should be contacting and pushing the hardest
to provide content.  I also like the idea of contacting bloggers and
doing a call for contributions and inspiration from the GNOME
community.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

Ok, so maybe what we should do is focus on getting one consistant
design/theme for GNOME documents/brochures/etc for 2012, so that the Annual
Report *looks* the same as the brochures for GUADEC & GNOME.Asia, then when
anyone looks through them they know instantly that they are all from the
same organization... in which case I think we need someone with design
skills to help :) (Which, I'll be the first to admit, I seriously lack!)
Any volunteers?

As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in what
the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be an
overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this case,
two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report? Or do we
want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams work for the
last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm honestly not sure
which one is preferable, although I lean towards the second.

The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the annual
report out within the next month, the second route will be much harder to
accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the quarterly reports
and hash something together for each team fairly easy in the next couple
weeks, but writing completely new content/articles will take longer.
Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as suggested by Dave and
see if any of them would be willing to contribute, and go from there.

Emily

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Tue, February 28, 2012 9:29 am, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >
> > Dave:
> >
> > On 02/28/12 03:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >> I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual
> >> report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?
> >
> > Yes, this was my suggestion.
> >
> > To be honest, I do not care if they are are a single or separate
> > documents.  I mostly think they should be harmonized so that the
> > documents all look like they came from the same organization.
> >
> > I think we need to consider how we should modify the way we approach
> > potential sponsors so that we only need to approach them a single time
> > instead of multiple times.  Having sponsorship options that better take
> > into consideration how sponsors could be involved with both events would
> > be an improvement.
> >
> > The current brochures on the table make funding both events at a Gold
> > or Platinum level extremely expensive, for example.  Is this sensible?
> >
> >> While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of
> >> the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as
> >> our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far &
> >> wide.
> >
> > As you say, the Annual Report has multiple purposes.
> >
> >> I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be
> >> a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with
> >> the annual report is appropriate.
> >
> > I do not understand your point.  Including some information in the
> > Annual Report to highlight how organizations can sponsor upcoming
> > events is just useful information and need not dig too deeply into the
> > advisory board budgets.
> >
> >> In fact, advisory board budgeting is
> >> necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a
> >> brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC
> >> brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board,
> >> or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.
> >
> > Either way, it is just a way to communicate a good starting point for
> > discussion.  A way to highlight the sponsorship levels and benefits.
> > Personally, I think there is value in just having a single document
> > for people to keep track of.  But I am not opposed to multiple
> > documents if people prefer, though they should look more like they
> > were designed by the same marketing team.
> >
> >> Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our
> >> budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members.
> >
> > We currently have no sponsors for either GUADEC or GNOME.Asia, both
> > events happening in the summer.
>
> That's not entirely true - two funders confirmed their plans to sponsor
> GUADEC some time ago, though it hasn't been finalized yet.
>
> >> That's
> >> a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget
> >> is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up
> >> being a useful tool for advisory board members too.
> >
> > We need to approach our regular sponsors anyway before the summer to get
> > sponsors for our upcoming events this year.  In other words, we will
> > need to seek sponsorship around the same time we plan to have the
> > Bi-Annaul Report done.
>
> I agree with this though, and your ideas about the brochures - it would be
> great to harmonize them, and I thi

Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Tue, February 28, 2012 9:29 am, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Dave:
>
> On 02/28/12 03:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual
>> report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?
>
> Yes, this was my suggestion.
>
> To be honest, I do not care if they are are a single or separate
> documents.  I mostly think they should be harmonized so that the
> documents all look like they came from the same organization.
>
> I think we need to consider how we should modify the way we approach
> potential sponsors so that we only need to approach them a single time
> instead of multiple times.  Having sponsorship options that better take
> into consideration how sponsors could be involved with both events would
> be an improvement.
>
> The current brochures on the table make funding both events at a Gold
> or Platinum level extremely expensive, for example.  Is this sensible?
>
>> While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of
>> the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as
>> our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far &
>> wide.
>
> As you say, the Annual Report has multiple purposes.
>
>> I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be
>> a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with
>> the annual report is appropriate.
>
> I do not understand your point.  Including some information in the
> Annual Report to highlight how organizations can sponsor upcoming
> events is just useful information and need not dig too deeply into the
> advisory board budgets.
>
>> In fact, advisory board budgeting is
>> necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a
>> brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC
>> brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board,
>> or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.
>
> Either way, it is just a way to communicate a good starting point for
> discussion.  A way to highlight the sponsorship levels and benefits.
> Personally, I think there is value in just having a single document
> for people to keep track of.  But I am not opposed to multiple
> documents if people prefer, though they should look more like they
> were designed by the same marketing team.
>
>> Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our
>> budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members.
>
> We currently have no sponsors for either GUADEC or GNOME.Asia, both
> events happening in the summer.

That's not entirely true - two funders confirmed their plans to sponsor
GUADEC some time ago, though it hasn't been finalized yet.

>> That's
>> a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget
>> is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up
>> being a useful tool for advisory board members too.
>
> We need to approach our regular sponsors anyway before the summer to get
> sponsors for our upcoming events this year.  In other words, we will
> need to seek sponsorship around the same time we plan to have the
> Bi-Annaul Report done.

I agree with this though, and your ideas about the brochures - it would be
great to harmonize them, and I think it would make sense to offer annual
package deals to give discounts to sponsor everything together, and commit
in advance.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

Dave:

On 02/28/12 03:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote:

I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual
report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?


Yes, this was my suggestion.

To be honest, I do not care if they are are a single or separate
documents.  I mostly think they should be harmonized so that the
documents all look like they came from the same organization.

I think we need to consider how we should modify the way we approach
potential sponsors so that we only need to approach them a single time
instead of multiple times.  Having sponsorship options that better take
into consideration how sponsors could be involved with both events would
be an improvement.

The current brochures on the table make funding both events at a Gold
or Platinum level extremely expensive, for example.  Is this sensible?


While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of
the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as
our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far &
wide.


As you say, the Annual Report has multiple purposes.


I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be
a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with
the annual report is appropriate.


I do not understand your point.  Including some information in the
Annual Report to highlight how organizations can sponsor upcoming
events is just useful information and need not dig too deeply into the
advisory board budgets.


In fact, advisory board budgeting is
necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a
brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC
brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board,
or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.


Either way, it is just a way to communicate a good starting point for
discussion.  A way to highlight the sponsorship levels and benefits.
Personally, I think there is value in just having a single document
for people to keep track of.  But I am not opposed to multiple
documents if people prefer, though they should look more like they
were designed by the same marketing team.


Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our
budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members.


We currently have no sponsors for either GUADEC or GNOME.Asia, both 
events happening in the summer.



That's
a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget
is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up
being a useful tool for advisory board members too.


We need to approach our regular sponsors anyway before the summer to get
sponsors for our upcoming events this year.  In other words, we will 
need to seek sponsorship around the same time we plan to have the

Bi-Annaul Report done.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

On 02/28/2012 03:08 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

We should consider, though, how we could better harmonize our marketing
efforts to gain sponsors and to better simplify things. I think the
brochures are good, but we benefit more by harmonizing them.

Many advisory board members have told us that they would prefer being
approached just once in the year and asked for a single amount. They
have told us they do not like being approached separately for each
event, as we have tended to do in the past. So do two brochures make
sense?


I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual 
report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?


While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of 
the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as 
our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far & 
wide. I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be 
a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with 
the annual report is appropriate. In fact, advisory board budgeting is 
necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a 
brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC 
brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board, 
or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.


Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our 
budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members. That's 
a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget 
is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up 
being a useful tool for advisory board members too.


Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

...

On 02/28/2012 10:19 AM, Dave Neary wrote:

What I would like to have is an editor who either (a) asks what's been
happening that's cool, or (b) looks through blog posts and articles and
figures out what would be compelling, and then either ask people to
write something specifically about that, or (as Emily has been doing)
writing something short about it, and asking people to review and edit.


And specifically, around the platform, there aren't many of the 
GTK+/platform developers who are active bloggers. Those that come to 
mind, who might be interested in writing about how easy bindings are 
with GNOME 3's platform, for example are: Johan Dahlin, Danni Madeley 
and Tomeu Vizoso (who have written about it before), and attendees at 
the GObject introspection hackfest: 
https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Introspection2011


By the way, to figure out who's blogged about a subject in the past, 
"site:blogs.gnome.org " works pretty well. Not ideal, since not 
all GNOME hackers are on blogs.gnome.org. Google Blogs Search returns 
more hits, but also many more irrelevant links too.


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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

On 02/28/2012 12:37 AM, Karen Sandler wrote:

On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:

On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
be in the report.


...


But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
for teams that cannot get their act together.


Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
about writing stuff up.


To explain what I had in mind:

I don't want to paint this as "Lazy teams, not sending in their reports" 
- that would be homework, and wouldn't make the report better.


What I would like to have is an editor who either (a) asks what's been 
happening that's cool, or (b) looks through blog posts and articles and 
figures out what would be compelling, and then either ask people to 
write something specifically about that, or (as Emily has been doing) 
writing something short about it, and asking people to review and edit.


In brief:
 - Start from something worth talking about
 - Figure out content around that

So what we're talking about, for example, might be Igalia's investment 
in accessibility (hiring Joanie, API as a11y maintainer, and all the 
great work they're doing) rather than getting "the accessibility team 
report". Or we might have an article on how much users like Mallard 
documentation, and a short tutorial on how to document a module, rather 
than "the documentation team report".


Just a couple of examples off the top of my head on how I think we 
should be approaching it.


Cheers,
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

Emily & Karen:


As for the combination, that absolutely makes sense, should I/we contact
GNOME.Asia&  GUADEC now re: how we're going to publish this or wait a
while
longer?  If we're going to include their respective brochures for this
year, do we still want/need their sections in the international events
section? Or do we want to include the brochures along side/within that
section?


I'm not sure I really understand the idea to bundle them together - the
sponsorship brochures seem really single focus to me.


We should consider, though, how we could better harmonize our marketing
efforts to gain sponsors and to better simplify things.  I think the
brochures are good, but we benefit more by harmonizing them.

Many advisory board members have told us that they would prefer being
approached just once in the year and asked for a single amount.  They
have told us they do not like being approached separately for each
event, as we have tended to do in the past.  So do two brochures make
sense?

Currently, for example, the Platinum sponsorship level for GUADEC is
$25,000 and for GNOME.Asia is $12,000.  Since we raised the yearly
advisory board fee to $20,000 two years ago, this means an organization
on the advisory board would need to donate $57,000 to The GNOME
Foundation in 2012 to cover their fee and get Platinum level for both
events.  Is it just me, or is this unrealistically high?

Both organizations seem to have unique perspectives about what sort of
deals to offer.  GUADEC offers a discount to repeat sponsors while
GNOME.Asia offers discount to smaller local sponsors.  We could take
the best ideas from both communities and do things like provide both
kinds of discounts.

Today at the GUADEC planning meeting, the organizers were discussing
charging an admission fee to professionals, with much lower options for 
GNOME Foundation members, students and hobbyists.  Something similar to

what was done at Den Haag where the professional fee was 250 Euros.
The GUADEC organizers are planning on taking those who pay the
professional fee to a networking dinner.

It probably makes sense to give sponsors a number of free professional
passes and benefits like a dinner at both events.  By taking the best
of both brochures and combining the information into the Bi-Annual
report, we have the opportunity to put together a more simple and
coherent sponsorship program.  This way, recipients of the report have
a good idea of what we have accomplished the past few years, and how
they can help.


I love the idea of
bundling them together to give to sponsors, and even link to them from our
web published versions, but I don't really understand how it would work to
actually include them in the report.

Brian, could you explain your idea a little bit more?


Perhaps a good last section of the Bi-Annual report could be a section
which explained our sponsorship options, and encouraged individuals to
consider donating.  We could, for example, encourage donations to our
Friends of GNOME a11y campaign.

I think we can highlight our many achievements over recent years,
such as a successful GNOME 3 launch with enthusiastic parties around
the world, record numbers of productive hackfests and events.  We
have a good track record and have plenty of evidence to show that we
have been using our funding to really grow the GNOME volunteer
community.  Lots more has been getting done, I think.

We need to make it more clear that by giving to The GNOME Foundation,
many organizations benefit themselves.  The GNOME Foundation ensures
that the community manages many important activities through volunteer
effort.  By providing even a small amount to The GNOME Foundation,
individuals and organizations can make sure that people in the
community are well trained and busy attending productive hackfests,
that the sysadmin team is keeping common resources humming along, etc.
Organizations can expect that they will benefit more as the
community continues to grow, and it would be hard to do so much without
all the contributions.

We really need to make sure that all of our past sponsors understand
we really appreciate all of their help.

Does this make sense?  Thoughts?

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Mon, February 27, 2012 7:08 pm, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> How about I combine the 'overviews' from 2010/2011 for each team (which
> are
> really just each years quarterly reports combined together themselves),
> and
> send them off to each group asking for updates/fixes/additions/etc, and
> then publish each of them. That way we ensure we have at least short
> status
> reports from each main group in GNOME. (This is basically what I did with
> the accessibility/a11y report.)

That sounds great, and you can build off of what you did in the yearly
overviews!

> As for the combination, that absolutely makes sense, should I/we contact
> GNOME.Asia & GUADEC now re: how we're going to publish this or wait a
> while
> longer?  If we're going to include their respective brochures for this
> year, do we still want/need their sections in the international events
> section? Or do we want to include the brochures along side/within that
> section?

I'm not sure I really understand the idea to bundle them together - the
sponsorship brochures seem really single focus to me. I love the idea of
bundling them together to give to sponsors, and even link to them from our
web published versions, but I don't really understand how it would work to
actually include them in the report.

Brian, could you explain your idea a little bit more?

thanks!

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

How about I combine the 'overviews' from 2010/2011 for each team (which are
really just each years quarterly reports combined together themselves), and
send them off to each group asking for updates/fixes/additions/etc, and
then publish each of them. That way we ensure we have at least short status
reports from each main group in GNOME. (This is basically what I did with
the accessibility/a11y report.)

As for the combination, that absolutely makes sense, should I/we contact
GNOME.Asia & GUADEC now re: how we're going to publish this or wait a while
longer?  If we're going to include their respective brochures for this
year, do we still want/need their sections in the international events
section? Or do we want to include the brochures along side/within that
section?

Emily

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >
> > On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >> IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
> >> doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
> >> be in the report.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Though it is pretty sad if any GNOME team has nothing to report of
> > anything done in the past 2 years, considering that's when GNOME 3
> > released.
> >
> > But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
> > for teams that cannot get their act together.
>
> Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
> together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
> updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
> but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
> been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
> about writing stuff up.
>
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
>> doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
>> be in the report.
>
> +1
>
> Though it is pretty sad if any GNOME team has nothing to report of
> anything done in the past 2 years, considering that's when GNOME 3
> released.
>
> But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
> for teams that cannot get their act together.

Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
about writing stuff up.

karen

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
be in the report.


+1

Though it is pretty sad if any GNOME team has nothing to report of
anything done in the past 2 years, considering that's when GNOME 3
released.

But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
for teams that cannot get their act together.

Brian
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team doesn't have 
anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't be in the report. So I'd 
love to see us come up with a table of contents and each section should have an 
editor or author at this point. 

Cheers,
Dave.

"Emily Gonyer"  wrote:

>Cool, aside from the wiki, does anyone have a list of who's in charge
>of/volunteered to do other articles? Are the respective teams working
>on
>their sections or should I just do for each of the remaining sections
>as I
>did with the Accessibility/a11y report?
>
>Emily
>
>On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christy Eller
>wrote:
>
>> And I'm planning to work on the thank you pants article today!
>>
>> Christy
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Emily,
>>>
>>> This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview
>>> together for the report. I'll get to it this week.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dave.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>>
 Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and
>am
 wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective
>'owned'
 projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?

 I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed
>on
 the wiki yesterday
 (

>http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents
 ),
 I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of
>these,
 if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case
>please
 let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out.
>Otherwise, I'm
 planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.

 Emily
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

Cool, aside from the wiki, does anyone have a list of who's in charge
of/volunteered to do other articles? Are the respective teams working on
their sections or should I just do for each of the remaining sections as I
did with the Accessibility/a11y report?

Emily

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christy Eller
wrote:

> And I'm planning to work on the thank you pants article today!
>
> Christy
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:
>
>> Thanks Emily,
>>
>> This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview
>> together for the report. I'll get to it this week.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>> On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
>>> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
>>> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>>>
>>> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on
>>> the wiki yesterday
>>> (
>>> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents
>>> ),
>>> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these,
>>> if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please
>>> let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm
>>> planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.
>>>
>>> Emily
>>> --
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>>> 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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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Christy Eller]

And I'm planning to work on the thank you pants article today!

Christy

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Thanks Emily,
>
> This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview together
> for the report. I'll get to it this week.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>
> On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>
>> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
>> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
>> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>>
>> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on
>> the wiki yesterday
>> (http://live.gnome.org/action/**edit/GnomeMarketing/**
>> AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/**InternationalEvents
>> ),
>> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these,
>> if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please
>> let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm
>> planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.
>>
>> Emily
>> --
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>> power and magic in it. -  Goethe
>>
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>> 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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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Thanks Emily,

This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview 
together for the report. I'll get to it this week.


Cheers,
Dave.

On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?

I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on
the wiki yesterday
(http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents),
I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these,
if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please
let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm
planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.

Emily
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Sat, February 25, 2012 7:33 am, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>
> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on the
> wiki yesterday (
> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents),
> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these, if
> thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please let me
> know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm planning
> on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.

So great, Emily!

I made some small edits to what you wrote up but it looks really good to
me. Does anyone think we should add any other events? I think having the
GNOME hosted events is right for our annual report, as Emily has done. Are
there any others than GNOME.Asia, the Bostom/Montreal Summit and
GUADEC/Desktop Summit that we should include?

We should definitely coordinate anything we write up on the OPW with
Dave's interview of Marina and my promised write up of the statistics from
the recent OPW round. I'm emailing you separately about that.

thanks!!
karen


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