Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!
Sorry, it seems I didn't see this mail before. On lun, 2007-11-12 at 11:24 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > This is the important bit for us in India. After the GNOME Project Day > at foss.in (where we will be talking a bit about the Academy/Education > bits) we expect to see requests for GNOME talks (and not merely > evangelist kind talks) shoot up. A reasonably low cost way to ensure > brand recall is swag and in this particular case being stickers, flyers > and buttons. So, is this call for the budget allocations factoring in > the GNOME developer trip sponsorship "plus" swag or just the latter ? We'd love to know all your needs for next year, so that's both. Obviously, it's too early to know about the trips and everything, so it's more an approximation/guess than a hard figure that we request. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:30 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: [snip] > + there are also the event boxes [3] that are useful (again, would be >nice to have a summary of where they went... Anybody wanting to help >with this? :-)) [snip] I keep everything in the wiki for the European event box: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox/Schedule It wasn't used much in 2007, costing only about 300 Euros (already reimbursed to me), but I'll try to promote it a bit more in 2008. I guess that 1000 Euros should cover the costs of delivery and one new LCD. I've given up on the idea of T-shirts for presenters. We probably can't afford to have one per person per event, and that's the only thing that would work. It would be easier if we have official merchandise from an official web shop. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Untz wrote: > + local groups: if you want to organize events, invite someone to do a >talk at an event, get some material (t-shirts, flyers, posters, >etc.), it's always better to tell us about it while we're preparing >the budget. If you're going to organize many events, send one >request, but tell us where the money would be going. Eg, $500 to >print t-shirts for the whole year, $50 for posters for event A and >$60 for flyers for event B, and also $700 to get Quim to this >fantastic event! You get the idea. This is the important bit for us in India. After the GNOME Project Day at foss.in (where we will be talking a bit about the Academy/Education bits) we expect to see requests for GNOME talks (and not merely evangelist kind talks) shoot up. A reasonably low cost way to ensure brand recall is swag and in this particular case being stickers, flyers and buttons. So, is this call for the budget allocations factoring in the GNOME developer trip sponsorship "plus" swag or just the latter ? :sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHN+qOXQZpNTcrCzMRAgFSAJ92WzxVtC5iywkG6y5+sKm4+YAexACfSP01 uHPCwKbTnlaultbSrmAhu10= =Y38i -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!
> + small meetings/hackfests: As mentioned to the Board previously, I'd like to put a GNOME Mobile (maybe also GTK+ if they're keen [1]) summit on the budget agenda for March/April 2008, in Europe. It's far enough away from both the Boston Summit and GUADEC that I think this will be a good bookend event for the community. Europe because the vast majority of our Mobile folk are there, and it's expensive to focus on the Boston Summit for them. Thanks, - Jeff [1] I hope this event can be the GTK+ summit too, but from previous talks, I get the impression they'd like to have something pretty exclusively GTK+. I think the natural platform focus of GNOME Mobile and our interest in pushing GTK+ forward would make this combined event even more worthwhile -- and much easier to fund, to boot! -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "There, I did it... I defiled a timeless piece of ART!" - Jim Carrey, covering I Am The Walrus ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Help us prepare a budget for 2008!
Hi, For the first time (I think), we had a budget [1] to help us plan how we'd spend the Foundation money this year. It turned out money it was not that closely followed, but it was still useful for us. Dave did the amazing work on this. You might remember his mail [2] asking user groups to send requests early to help with the budget preparation. We're doing this again this year (and I'm glad that Dave accepted to help). So we need you to tell the board how you'd like to spend the money. "You" is really everyone in the community. Let me give you some examples of what we did this year: + we sponsored people to go talk about GNOME in conferences (hrm, it'd look better if I had built a list of people & conferences, sorry :/) + we helped some local groups so they could have some cool stuff when they were representing GNOME on a booth, or to help organize some events (latest events were the Brazilian GNOME Forum, GNOME day at FOSS.in or Open aLANtejo 07, but there were more than that during the whole year) + there are also the event boxes [3] that are useful (again, would be nice to have a summary of where they went... Anybody wanting to help with this? :-)) + we sponsored people to go at the accessibility summit in Boston, and also to go to a java-gnome hackfest + I'm sure I'm forgetting some cool things that we used the money for... Now is the time to try to tell us how much money you'd need (and of course, detail why you need it). There are two main cases here, but any other idea is also welcome: + small meetings/hackfests: it's generally quite useful to have a small group of people go in one place so they can work on a specific topic. It's hard to know how many of this kind of events we can sponsor, but 3 is generally a magic number :-) If you need some ideas, here are some: usability meeting (either work on the HIG, or review the desktop UI, or something else), control center hackfest (could work for any other module), website hackfest, etc. + local groups: if you want to organize events, invite someone to do a talk at an event, get some material (t-shirts, flyers, posters, etc.), it's always better to tell us about it while we're preparing the budget. If you're going to organize many events, send one request, but tell us where the money would be going. Eg, $500 to print t-shirts for the whole year, $50 for posters for event A and $60 for flyers for event B, and also $700 to get Quim to this fantastic event! You get the idea. I guess the goal is to have a rough budget for beginning of next year and the next board will be able to change it a bit before adopting it. Thanks, Vincent [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-May/msg7.html [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-January/msg00013.html [3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEventsBox -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
