Re: GNOME 3.24 Release Video: Manuscript Draft 2

[Karen Sandler]

On 2017-02-21 17:55, Bastian Ilso wrote:

Hi again,

Thanks for the feedback on draft 1. It gave me inspiration and
motivation to iterate on it!

Much of the rework is because I want to bring more _community_ into
our video. It's easy to forget amidst all the fancy new features but I
think it is an important thing to celebrate as part of GNOME 3.24. I
also think will connect really well with our call for contribution
that we have in the end of the video. You get a much better idea what
kind of community you are joining. :-)

I also have good ideas for the animations (sorry for all the brackets
stuff). Anyway, you can find the new draft here:

https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentythree/ReleaseVideo [1]

So, a bit different from normal release videos but this will be a nice
experiment, let's see where it takes us.

What do you think? Please leave feedback on the wiki page or reply 
here.


I like it!!! I made some minor tweeks, which I would normally do while 
recording :)


karen
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Re: GNOME 3.24 Release Video: Manuscript Draft 1

[Karen Sandler]

On 2017-02-17 14:00, Bastian Ilso wrote:

Hellooo engagement.

Release Video coming up and I need feedback.

https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentythree/ReleaseVideo [1]

inspirational questions for you:
- How can we spice up the narrative a bit?
- Can you help me reduce repeating wordings?
- Anything that seems redundant / can be boiled down?

Write suggestions as reply to this e-mail or on the wiki page. Thank 
you!


Thank you for doing this! I made some of the changes that I would 
ordinarily make as I was recording the voiceover (and to make it sound a 
little punchier)... I think adding more information about some of the 
new features like Recipes and photo editing tools would help (which I 
haven't been following). I added some questions in the bullet points.


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Re: Meeting Notes | #Engagement Meeting Feb 12th

[Karen Sandler]

On 2016-02-16 14:18, Rosanna Yuen wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

Thanks for the minutes, Nuritizi! Especially useful since I had to miss 
last meeting.


Nuritzi Sanchez  wrote:

...

FUNDRAISING: PATREON & FRIENDS OF GNOME

Patreon account already set up for trial, but user-facing page not live 
yet. 


Email: patr...@gnome.org 

Password shared between stevepdp, kittykat and bastianilso 

Patreon will be a different way for people to donate. Kind of like 
Friends of GNOME. A lot of the people on the Friends of GNOME list 
aren't active members anymore, so we should update that.


I haven't heard about this before - could we have some more details? 
Note that Friends of GNOME has never been targeted at active 
contributors only.


I believe that the referenced list is the list of people who write
postcards to the donors in the Adopt-a-hacker subscription program.


Yes, we should make sure these people are involved and willing to write 
postcards still. FWIW, I just got one today and it really made my day :)


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Re: current prospectus for LAS GNOME

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-12-02 16:42, Christian Hergert wrote:

On 12/02/2015 01:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

It wasn't intentional.. I could look at a different time frame.  The
content though is very different, but I can see where people would have
trouble attending one versus the other.

I agree that putting it against OSCON would be a challenge.


Is OSCON in Portland again? Timing it right before/after might be 
useful

to get people that would otherwise not make such a long journey.
However, 5 days might be hard to pull off after a long OSCON. I doubt
many people will sign up to be away from home for 2 weeks.


Nope, this year it's in Austin!

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Re: GNOME Annual Report | Status Update - Layout Complete

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-09-24 10:20, Allan Day wrote:

Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:
...
(It would be awesome if we can get the 2014-2015 report out quicker!)

I assume that we're aiming to get the annual report out to advisory
board members in the period when they are planning their budgets for
the next financial year. Do we have an idea of when that is?

...
Usually july-october, and then do tweaks in November.

OK, so aiming to be finished in time for GUADEC seems about right.
That's good to know - thanks Sri.


+1 It really varies by company, depending on what their financial cycles 
are but generally getting things out by November is the way to go :)


karen


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Re: GNOME Annual Report | Status Update - Layout Complete

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-09-24 05:57, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

On 09/22/2015 07:16 PM, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote:
Thank you for the awesome work, Andreas! :)

PS. Jeff: could you edit it and add your signature to the letter?
If you have any issues, mail the signature to me and I'll edit it.
Actually, I purposely did not include my signature as I believe this to
be a security risk: we have had occurrences of false checks being
emitted with Karen's signature in the past, and I think this could be
one way to somewhat reduce the risk of that sort of situation in the
future. For what it's worth, I looked at the Document Foundation's
annual report and it does not contain signatures either...

All right, makes sense.
I'll remove that.


FWIW (and zana can confirm), I think the signatures on the checks were 
not my actual signature but I don't disagree with this conclusion :)


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Re: Meeting Request for Week of Aug 24th | Availability Poll

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-08-27 05:12, Oliver Propst wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Nuritzi Sanchez
nurit...@stanfordalumni.org wrote:
Hey everyone, looks like the best time for us to meet is next Monday, 
Aug

31st at 15:30 UTC.
Cool, are looking forward to the meeting.

Is there anywhere we should post the meeting time? Let me know.
Have updated our meeting etherpad [1] with details about the meeting.

Otherwise,
I'll just send a reminder the day before the meeting.
Sending a reminder a day before is a good idea :)

Thanks for organizing this Nuritzi.

1 https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/engagement-team-meetings


Sadly it's one of the times I was unavailable. Have a good meeting and 
feel free to loop me in on things later!


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Re: Keeping external resources updated

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-08-23 10:44, Andrea Veri wrote:

Thanks for bringing this up Kat. I was suggested by Sri that Sumana
was possibly going to be our contact for helping us out managing our
external resources at Wikipedia. Unfortunately I tried to reach her
out about this back in April with no responses so far.

The various wiki pages you mentioned are definitely out of date (they
don't even mention the Groupon trademark dispute at all) and so is the
italian page at [1]. Is there anything we can do on this side? do we
have any other contact at Wikipedia other than Sumana?


Sumana is no longer at Wikimedia, but Quim Gil is probably a good 
contact. I don't think we necessarily need someone at WMF for this 
though...


karen



[1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation

2015-08-20 17:18 GMT+02:00 Ekaterina Gerasimova 
kittykat3...@gmail.com:

Hi all,

there are a number of external resources about GNOME which are used by
people for information. I am specifically thinking about the pages on
Wikipedia here, but I'm sure that there is other stuff as well. It
would look more professional if GNOME's public-facing resources are at
least correct.

Is the engagement team willing to maintain at least the most prominent
of these resources? Would it help to have a list of them with
frequencies on how often they should be checked?

For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation - had an old list of
board members (fixed now) and doesn't have up-to-date information
about the Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GNOME_Project - is out of date
(apparently next GUADEC is in A Coruña)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Users_And_Developers_European_Conference
is… well, dull and outdated
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--
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
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Re: Linux Foundation CFP ends June 17th

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-06-15 19:27, Alexandre Franke wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me 
wrote:

Hey Folks,

Hey Sri,

CFP for Linux Foundation CFP ends on the 17th.

Linux Foundation is an entity which organizes many events. You fail to
mention which event this is for and I couldn't find it on their
website.


He means LinuxCon Europe.

Sri, I proposed a groupon talk to a few Linux Foundation events and so 
far they've all been rejected. So that may not be the best subject to go 
with...


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Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-05-14 23:33, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote:

Just wanted to say thanks for starting this, I think it's a great idea.
Kinda surprised we didn't already have something like that!


+1, this is great! We've often talked about it so it's really really 
awesome you've stepped up!!


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Re: GNOME 3.16 Release Video: Manuscript for revision

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-02-14 15:00, Bastian wrote:

Hi everyone!

So GNOME 3.16 is starting to get around the corner. I have prepared
the manuscript in good time this cycle. Could I ask any of you to take
a look at it?


So awesome, Bastian! I made a few changes, mostly for readability.

One question I have, should we thank people for contributing to the 
Builder campaign and encourage them to give (it looks like it's still 
open)? It's not an official GNOME campaign but in my view that's ok for 
something like this.


Also, what's the timing on this? I've got a bunch of travel coming up so 
if you want me to do the voice again I'm happy to do it so long as we 
plan ahead and coordinate :)

karen


I need the content to be reviewed and also the wording.

Here's the manuscript:
https://wiki.gnome.org/BastianIls%C3%B8/ReleaseVideoG3.16#Manuscript 
[1]


Feel free to edit the manuscript directly, write in the 'Feedback'
section, or just reply to this mail.

-Bastian

Links:
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[1] 
https://wiki.gnome.org/BastianIls%C3%B8/ReleaseVideoG3.16#Manuscript


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Re: 2014 Annual Report

[Karen Sandler]

On 2015-01-07 08:51, Oliver Propst wrote:

Right so its about time to start work on the 2014 Annual Report, I
have created a template for it on the wiki [1].


Thanks for pushing this forward, Oliver!


If you are volunteering to write an article or do some other task
please indicate that on the wiki page by writing your name next to the
task.

Before writing an article it is a good idea to have a look at the 2013
Annual Report [2] to get some inspiration and think about how we can
make this report better then the previous one.

I suggest we ask Jeff Fortin (nekohayo), the foundation president to
write the intro letter. I hope we have the report ready in good time
for GUADEC, maybe sooner. Plan to post regular updates about the
progress we are making.


+1

karen


1 https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2014
2 
http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GNOME-Annual-Report-2013.pdf

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Re: first draft of release notes completed

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-09-23 02:27, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
I have completed the first draft.  I would appreciate if someone can 
help edit.


Thanks, Sri! I made some relatively small edits, and put in placeholders 
for quotes.


https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/gnome-3-14-press-release

Also, we would need to integrate any of the quotes that we have
obtained as well.  I have mailed Jordi Mallach for a quote from the
Debian team, so hopefully we can add that as the list.  Jordi seemed
positive in giving me a quote.


Do we also want one on behalf of the GNOME community or Foundation as a 
third quote?


karen



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Re: first draft of release notes completed

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-09-23 10:55, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

On Sep 23, 2014 7:39 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:

 On 2014-09-23 02:27, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

 I have completed the first draft.  I would appreciate if someone
can help edit.


 Thanks, Sri! I made some relatively small edits, and put in
placeholders for quotes.


Thanks, Karen and Oliver!


 https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/gnome-3-14-press-release [1]

 Also, we would need to integrate any of the quotes that we have
 obtained as well.  I have mailed Jordi Mallach for a quote from the
 Debian team, so hopefully we can add that as the list.  Jordi seemed
 positive in giving me a quote.


 Do we also want one on behalf of the GNOME community or Foundation
as a third quote?

Yes, that would be great!  Anyone you have in mind


We could ask Jeff as president, or someone from the release team...

karen



Sri

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Re: Engagement Hackfest @ Boston Summit

[Karen Sandler]

I'm definitely going to LinuxCon Europe in mid October, but now it 
sounds like it's not going to be a great time to meet anyway and I can't 
extend to stay in London as I'm speaking the week after on the other 
side of the US. November doesn't work for me either, but sounds like 
this would be a smaller European meetup anyway so I hope it all happens 
without me!


karen


On 2014-09-11 06:08, Fabiana Simões wrote:

Nov 15 - 16 and Nov 22 - 23 would work for me -- and I guess for
Andreas as well.

I'll be at FSCONS on Nov 1 - 2 with Bastian, and in the US on Nov 4 -
9 and Dec 1 - 9.

On 11 September 2014 12:01, Bastian Hougaard 
hougaard.jun...@gmail.com wrote:

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:50 , Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:

October is starting to look difficult for me, unfortunately. I'm still
interested in doing a small European engagement meetup, but
november/december might be better.


Sounds good to me. I'd suggest we meet in one of the following three
weekends:

- 8th - 9th November
- 15th - 16th November
- 22nd - 23rd November


Personally, I cannot attend 1st - 2nd November (am at a conference).

-Bastian

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Re: Engagement Hackfest @ Boston Summit

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-08-22 17:03, Fabiana Simões wrote:

On 22 August 2014 10:04, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
If that doesn't work, we could perhaps have a small informal event for
us Europeans. London might be a good option for that, if it's going to
be a small event. Transport is cheap, and I think that spare
beds/sofas could be arranged.


This sounds good to me too! There are some cheap flights to London
from within Europe, so it'd be a good option even for folks coming to
LinuxCon -- as long as we can sort out cheap or inexpensive
accomodation :)

Sri and Karen, when would you guys figure out the details for LinuxCon?


I'm not sure, I'm still waiting to hear if I got travel funding. It's 
sort of up to the Linux Foundation. I know that some prominent speakers 
that I know have recently been turned away for LF events but I don't 
think they've handled this event yet.


karen


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Re: Engagement BoF at GUADEC

[Karen Sandler]

I also leave early on the 1st but the 31st probably works for me.

karen

On 2014-07-17 12:50, Fabiana Simões wrote:
Andreas and I leave early on the 1st, so it wouldn't work for us. 31st 
maybe?


- Fabiana

On 17 July 2014 18:34, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,

I know that members of the Engagement Team will be in Strasbourg, and
it would be great to schedule a time to do some work together. BoFs
are currently being scheduled on the wiki:

https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014/BOFs/

I'm personally around for the whole conference, and am free on the
afternoon of the 31st or any time on the 1st (sorry if this is a bit
awkward). When is everyone else around?

Allan
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Re: GNOME Documentation Promo Video Feedback (Rev 2)

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-07-11 05:04, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
On 11 July 2014 08:49, Bastian Hougaard hougaard.jun...@gmail.com 
wrote:

Thanks for the feedback so far, everyone.

Parts of the video such as the music is still not final, so anyone is
welcome to come with suggestions for free music that could fit.

Here's an (IMO) good ressource: http://freemusicarchive.org/

IRC shot could do with using people who are actually signed in (the
responses are coming from people not in the list on the right) -kat

Would you be able to name a few real nicknames I can have permission to 
use

for this purpose? Perhaps the names of those who could be there to help
newcomers? :)

If you drop christianbeck, that will cover the missing person case.
Thinking about it again today, you use firstnamelastname IRC nicks
in the video, although most of the nicks seen on the right are a bit
more random than that. You can use mine if you want, not sure if
anyone else wants to volunteer.


You're free to use mine too, if you'd like.

karen

Alslo, a little request: some of the feedback could use some examples, 
ie.
if you find the animations jumpy, where do you see this (timestamp), 
and how
do you think it could be improved? It will help me understand better 
what to

look for when I revise it again. Thanks!


-Bastian

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Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-07-06 12:57, Oliver Propst wrote:
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com 
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de 
wrote:

Hi.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote:
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:17 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
 [...]
 This is a great idea! The text can be pretty short. Here's a possible
 draft, please improve and correct:
Great text, have some minor comments.

Cool. Can you prepare a final version and send it to me? I will then 
send it off.

Sure, I send the final version on Wednesday (9/7).
A draft of the final version are available [1], I welcome
improvements.
1 https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/donation_letter


I fixed a few small things. Also, do we want to add links to Private 
Internet
Access and Linux Foundation? I'm not sure if we're just sending text, in 
which case this would look clumsy.


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Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-06-16 16:25, Tobias Mueller wrote:

Hi.

I've compiled a list of email addresses of donors of the last 365 days.
I suggest writing an email to those donors, thanking them for their 
support,

inviting them to GUADEC, telling them what we've done so far.

Any volunteer for drafting such an email?


This is a great idea! The text can be pretty short. Here's a possible 
draft, please improve and correct:


Dear GNOME supporter,

Thank you so much for your financial support of GNOME in the past year. 
We wanted to check in with you and let you know that your money has made 
a big difference in helping the GNOME Foundation run and support our 
community in their efforts to make GNOME great.


To point out some highlights from the past year:

* We held our first ever West Coast Hackfest
* GNOME.Asia in Beijing was very successful (with FIXME attendees and 
FIXME speakers)

* We released GNOME 3.12 (check out the cool video FIXME link)
* We cheered as Allan Day won the award for best individual contributor 
for the UK Open Source Awards, and our accessibility team received an 
honorable mention for the Chris Nicol prize.
* We gained two new advisory board members (thanks, Private Internet 
Access and Linux Foundation!)
* We hosted Pitivi's fundraising campaign (there's still time to donate! 
FIXME link)


We've also banded together to deal with the administrative crisis caused 
by the success of our popular Outreach Program for Women (we're still 
working on it but are in much better shape).


We hope you will consider coming to Strasbourg and joining the fun as we 
get together for GUADEC 2014 on July 26-August 1. We'll be talking about 
and working on a lot of exciting things. And we'd love to have you 
there.



FWIW: Allan and I were thinking about writing the donors of the last 3
months or
so in order to thank them for enabling us to have a great event in 
China. Maybe

with some photos of people that we sponsored to go and some reports.
By now, I think it's a bit too late, but maybe someone else doesn't
and wants to
get it done.


I think at this point lumping that in with this email makes the most 
sense. But we should do these quarterly :)


karen



Cheers,
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Re: Next meeting Wednesday 11 of June 19:00 UTC

[Karen Sandler]

I'm overdue for getting some interview questions to Chris DiBona, as 
I've mentioned a couple of times in #engagement.


I thought it would be nice to do a little interview that features a 
sponsor of both OPW and GNOME, and Chris was very happy to accommodate.


Anyway, I'm not the best at coming up with these questions (and I always 
leave off the fun ones that Flavia is really good at!) but here's an 
attempt...


Any suggestions?

Google has been a longstanding supporter of OPW and one of the first 
funders that supported the program generally (as opposed to just interns 
for a particular participating organizations). Why is it important to 
you and to Google to support the program?


As you know, OPW was in large part inspired by GSoC. We know that Google 
is doing its own outreach to include women and other underrepresented 
groups in GSoC and Google Code-In - what have you found to be the most 
effective?


Marina and Karen have both appeared in a Google Women Techmaker series 
to talk about OPW, which was a great platform to spread the word about 
the program. What kinds of initiatives do you think we'll see in the 
future?


Google has been a member of GNOME's advisory board for quite a while 
(thank you!), what do you like best about GNOME (or GNOME technologies)?



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Re: 3.12 Press Release, news story quote

[Karen Sandler]

Seth is here at LibrePlanet and agrees to give a quote! I'm going to
suggest something like: eff is proud to use and recommend gnome. I look
forward to checking out new features and fixes in thhe release.

On Sat, March 22, 2014 3:53 pm, Karen Sandler wrote:
 On 2014-03-22 06:06, Oliver Propst wrote:
 The release are only days away now, have we started on any of these
 yet if not I think its time to do so?

 Karen, did you get any quote from Arun at yahoo?

 yes! I'm waiting on confirmation from yahoo marketing on the final
 wording.

 we also have a red hat quote already and I'm working on EFF still (just
 sent a ping), with two external quotes already we can get an internal
 quote if we want at the last minute

 karen


 On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Oliver Propst
 oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
 I guess we really should start on these ones this week.

 On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:
 On 2014-03-11 05:34, Allan Day wrote:

 Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
 Its great to see the progress of the Release Notes. I guess its time
 to start on the 3.12 press release, news story and think about who we
 want a quotation from this release.

 You are right! I am in the process of obtaining at least one quote,
 and I think Karen said she'd do the others. We discussed it at one of
 the recent meetings.


 I got a good quote back from Arun at yahoo but I sent it back with a
 suggested edit before submitting it to you guys. So we're at least good
 on
 one quote already!

 karen



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 -mvh Oliver Propst


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Re: 3.12 Press Release, news story quote

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-03-11 05:34, Allan Day wrote:

Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
Its great to see the progress of the Release Notes. I guess its time
to start on the 3.12 press release, news story and think about who we
want a quotation from this release.

You are right! I am in the process of obtaining at least one quote,
and I think Karen said she'd do the others. We discussed it at one of
the recent meetings.


I got a good quote back from Arun at yahoo but I sent it back with a 
suggested edit before submitting it to you guys. So we're at least good 
on one quote already!


karen
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Re: Team Meeting 19:00 UTC Thursday March 6th 2014

[Karen Sandler]

I probably can't make this meeting either as I'll be en route to sxsw. 
I'm also up for another day of the week in the future.


karen

On 2014-03-04 17:27, Fabiana Simões wrote:

Thursdays are a terrible day for me and Andreas to join the meeting.
We just can't make it, unfortunately.

Any chances we could move future meetings to another weekday?

Thanks!

- Fabiana
On Mar 4, 2014 10:33 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:

We have a team meeting, please bring your topics.

* SXSW brainstorming and prep (I leave that day!)
* Release Notes
* Annual Report update
* Foundation mailing list - internal engagement
  * Could be recommendations that we give to the Board
* Summary of release team meeting

* Upcoming events - planning
* west coast hackfest - engagement planning (Diego/Sri)
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Re: REMINDER: Engagement team meeting 19:00 UTC today

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-02-27 02:47, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

Reminder to everyone that we have a team meeting today.  We will be
wholly be focused on the release.

* Identify the tasks
* Identify when they should get done

* Tasks
* Promotion
+ Videos
+ news stories
+ possible engagement with press with interviews and what not

* Release notes
+ set up team to do this?  Set a timeline, schedule and assign to 
people


OK, I hope that is good enough for now?


I've got the phone line set up in case we want to use it, but we should 
convene on IRC and see what people want to do.


So that you have the number to hand:

PSTN: +1-718-247-9666
SIP:  sip:c...@sfconservancy.onsip.com
PIN: 9090

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Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-02-14 16:39, Florian Müllner wrote:

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, alex diavatis
alexis.diava...@gmail.com wrote:
there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user 
revenue
model, or in other words commercial services over open source 
solutions?


Being a non-profit organization[0], I would assume so (but then I am
not a lawyer).


We are a 501(c)(3) organization, but that doesn't mean we can't ever 
charge for services. Basically it's more of a matter of whether the 
income is taxed or not, and to make sure that this kind of activity 
isn't a substantial part of what we do. This is of course an over 
simplification, but you can read more about the details in the part of 
the legal primer I wrote when I was at SFLC:


http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-370003.5.3

Of course, no matter what we do it should always be to forward software 
freedom and GNOME technologies :)

karen



[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization
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Re: Engagement team meeting on IRC Thursday 19:00 UTC February 13th

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-02-11 13:32, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
We will have a team meeting on IRC on Thursday.  I'm collecting agenda 
items.


I have another meeting a half hour before this one that is likely to 
still be going. I'll join when I can but I think I'm likely to be around 
a half hour late or so.


karen


Here are a couple

1) Annual Report Planning

Standard agenda items:

1) GNOME in the news
2) Any interesting feedback from the community, both good and bad
3) Upcoming events: SCALE, SXSW, etc.
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Re: GNOME Desktop Promotional Brochure

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-01-25 13:32, Bastian Hougaard wrote:

Hello everyone,

I just finished retouching the screenshots for a brochure I have
created, aiming at advertising the GNOME Desktop. I plan to get it
printed before FOSDEM happening next week but before doing so, I just
wanted to hear any final feedback/suggestions from you.

http://rvzt.net/Temp/GNOMEv4.pdf [1]

Thank you very much in advance,


hey Bastian,

This is awesome! Two minor suggestions if it's not too late:

* Freedom to everybody -- Freedom for everybody

* in the privacy section, We respect your privacy and puts you in 
control of it, should be edited so that puts -- put


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Re: media kit

[Karen Sandler]

On 2014-01-20 20:10, Emily Gonyer wrote:

When I've asked for the last 2 years about swag or new hardware I've
been told it was not going to happen, short of me buying it. Good
luck.


That's strange - we definitely should replenish the box, and with the 
Foundation's money (while not splashing out *too* much). Sorry if there 
was any confusion about that. I believe we have some stickers we can 
already send at the very least. Emily, should Rosanna send them to you 
before you mail it? Or should we coordinate with our CA based volunteer 
:)


karen
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Re: Engagement meeting CANCELLED

[Karen Sandler]

On 2013-12-13 13:48, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Fabiana Simões
fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote:
How is attendance for the meeting these days? Should we perhaps 
re-discuss

the best day to have them?

Fridays tend to be tricky around here. And I know for a fact that 
Andreas

can't make it on Thursday nights (CET).


Attendance has become bad unfortunately.  I'm partially to blame.  I
think we're goign to have figure out what everybody's schedule is and
try to find a new optimum time.


OK, I made a dudle schedule for next week:
https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/Engage/

The times are all in UTC,and I chose the narrow band of time that's not 
too late for Europeans and not too early for west coasters.


karen

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Re: engagement meeting

[Karen Sandler]

On 2013-10-10 21:10, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

are people willing to meet for a meeting tomorrow?  We can do it early
like 19:00 UTC? (well early for me, I have soemthign going on at 9am
tomorrow my time)  I can alsod it earlier.  like 17:00 UTC.  Let me
know.


I'm free today, but only early as I'm heading to Montreal later :D

karen
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