Re: Q4 Updates Due

2011-01-13 Thread Brian Cameron 


Latest update to reflect Fred's comments.

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Board Report
By: Brian Cameron

First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to
express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the
GNOME community possible.  To all those who use the GNOME desktop
and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you
that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding.  Thank you
also to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much
valued direction for the community.

The GNOME 3.0 release is planned for April 6, 2010.  Find a release
party near you to attend!  There are GNOME 3 Launch events being
planned aroudn the world.  Emily Chen and the GNOME.Asia team are
organizing providing GNOME t-shirts and other goodies to those who
can organize launch events in their area.  The GNOME Launch event
in Bangalore will also be GNOME.Asia 2011.

  http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty
  http://gnome.asia/press/2011/Bangalore/

The GNOME Foundation is seeking to hire an Executive Director and is
currently reviewing applicants.  Refer here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-November/msg00019.html

Last November, Stormy Peters stepped down from her position as
Executive Director of The GNOME Foundation.  The board would like to
thank Stormy for all of her great work helping to make The GNOME
Foundation a more effective and better resourced organization.  We
all wish her the best with her future endeavors!

As you can imagine, the board has been busy keeping up with the work
with Stormy leaving, and the most following important work continued to
be the most pressing over the past quarter.

 * Released the Annual Report.  Thanks to Paul and Daniel Galleguillos.

   http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-annual-report-2009.pdf

   Is it not awesome?  The GNOME Marketing team needs more help putting
   together things like this.

 * GNOME T-Shirt contest:

* http://www.gnome.org/contest/

 * Womens Outreach Program proving successful!

   http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-11-women-outreach-interns.html

 * Germán Póo-Caamaño, doing a great job as GNOME Foundation treasurer,
   released our planned 2011 budget for GNOME Foundation community
   review.


http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-December/msg00057.html

 * The GNOME Foundation is now selling GNOME branded merchandise through
   FreeWear.  Check it out:

   http://www.freewear.org/?org=GNOMEFoundation

 * The Friends of GNOME revamp is making good progress, though is behind
   schedule.  Og Maciel, Paul Cutler, Andreas Nilsson and the GNOME
   marketing team have been working on this.  Any feedback on the
   following alpha would be helpful.

   http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome-2.0/

 * The bidding process for the MeeGo GTK+ work closed and the
   applications have been reviewed.  The chosen bid will soon be
   announced.  Thanks to Bastien Nocera for doing much of the
   organizing.

 * GNOME a11y project received significant funding:

   http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-accessibility-grant.html

 * The GNOME Foundation is making arrangements to use the Egencia
   Business Travel service affiliated with expedia.com to make it
   easier to handle the volume of travel subsidies handled by the
   Foundation.

 * Announced an interest to hire contract work to assist with GNOME 3
   marketing efforts, with a current budget of $5,000 allocated.  Made
   a call for project ideas and resumes on the GNOME Marketing list.

Those are just some highlights, so lots of good work is getting done.
Please help GNOME 3 be a success.  Get involved, join us at a GNOME 3
launch event or at one of the hackfests currently being organized.

Events:

 * The Boston Summit was held over November 6-8 and proved to be a
   great opportunity for collaboration.  The GNOME Marketing team
   made good progress on video projects and a great deal of work was
   focused on the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release and accessibility.
   Thanks J5!

 * The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. board of directors announce
   the Desktop Summit 2011:


http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-desktop-summit-2011-berlin.html

   Thanks to Andreas Nilsson, Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova for
   all the help!  Would be good to get more local GNOME volunteers
   involved.  Organizers are planning a face-to-face meeting at FOSDEM,
   probably on Saturday during lunch.

 * Organized the following GNOME hackfests in the past quarter:
   - Accessibility at AEGIS conference in Seville (Spain), October,
 2010.
   - GTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), October 18-22, 2010.
   - Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest held during The Boston Summit.
   - Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest in Berlin (Germany),
 December 2-5, 2010.
   - WebKitGTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), December 5-12,
 2010.

 * Planning the following hackfests:
   - Python Bindings Hack

Re: Q4 Updates Due

2011-01-13 Thread Frederic Muller 

On 01/14/2011 03:47 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

* GNOME Asia Hackfest in Bangalore, IN, (March 30 - April 3, 2011)



Sorry for the late feedback. I've been kicked off the Internet as my 
land line is down since Wednesday. :(


Shouldn't the hackfest be called "GNOME 3.0 Hackfest" since this will be 
the scope of the hackfest?


Thank you.

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Re: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction

2011-01-13 Thread Jason Lo 
I sent it to the main contact listed. If I don't get a reply soon, I'll try
the mailing list.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

> Heya,
>
> On 07.01.2011 06:07, Jason Lo wrote:
> > Hi, just an update. I've sent emails to Gnome [...] Deutschland so far,
> and am waiting for replies.
> >
> Where have you sent the mail to "Germany" to? I can't find it in the
> archives for gnome-de
> .
>
> Cheers,
>  Tobi
>
>


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Re: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction

2011-01-13 Thread Tobias Mueller 
Heya,

On 07.01.2011 06:07, Jason Lo wrote:
> Hi, just an update. I've sent emails to Gnome [...] Deutschland so far, and 
> am waiting for replies.
> 
Where have you sent the mail to "Germany" to? I can't find it in the
archives for gnome-de
.

Cheers,
  Tobi



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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton 
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:45, Jason D. Clinton  wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:21, Dave Neary  wrote:
>
>>  Jason D. Clinton wrote:
>> > Well if Ubuntu has put GNOME 3 out of scope for 11.04, that's not really
>> > something that the GNOME community can overcome with a trivial amount of
>> > effort.
>>
>> I've been hearing that Unity doesn't represent a fork, that the GNOME
>> session will be exactly the same, just with a different window manager
>> and shell. How hard is it to change the window manager & shell?
>>
>
> In both, the WM and Shell are one and the same. And you can indeed switch
> them out with very little effort. However, I am under the impression that a
> number of dependencies will be of a de-emphasized status when 11.04 is
> released and thus a number of the things which we need to get a good GNOME
> Shell experience this early in the 11.04 release cycle just aren't there
> yet. Certainly once 11.04 is release or maybe even in beta, more of the
> dependencies will have been updated to the minimums and then making packages
> for 11.04 becomes much more feasible.
>
> Though less important, there's also the question of how to handle the
> notifications fork. I think that a number of packages in Ubuntu have source
> code modifications which present incompatibilities. I vaguely recall a
> discussion about leaving both code paths in Ubuntu's packages but I don't
> know where that's at.
>

Andreas pointed me here:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-gnome3so
we'll likely just have to say "install gnome-shell from universe" once
11.04 reaches beta status.

Don't know about the notification situation.
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Re: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction

2011-01-13 Thread Jason Lo 
I got some more info from China, and I received some really good contact
info updates from Bangalore. I will update the wiki page accordingly.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Thanks Jason!
>
> Let's see how many replies you get. How're things looking at this stage?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> Jason Lo wrote:
> > I have sent an email to every user group with a main contact listed. I
> > will send an email to the gugmasters list soon.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Dave Neary  > > wrote:
> >
> > Oh - and, fwiw: as a mamber of GNOME France, I have not heard
> anything
> > about your request, and as a member of guigmasters, I didn't see any
> > email from you there yet.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave.
> >
> > Jason Lo wrote:
> > > So I'm still doing this task. I'm sorry I haven't sent any updates
> in
> > > the last two days, I was quite busy.
> > >
> > > So far I've emailed about half of the list, and have only gotten
> info
> > > from China and Brazil. I've gotten updated contact info from them
> and
> > > estimated member populations. Also, GNOME Brazil had a meetup
> recently
> > > (which I have added to the wiki), and GNOME China is trying to
> > open up a
> > > store, if I read correctly.
> > >
> > > And I just noticed that technically the GCI thing finished, so I
> can't
> > > get credit for this task. Oh well, I'll still follow it through;
> I'd
> > > feel like a jerk if I were to just drop it, especially seeing the
> > other
> > > two students who did just go and drop it, heh.
> > >
> > > More updates soon!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jason
> >
> > --
> > Dave Neary
> > GNOME Foundation member
> > dne...@gnome.org 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jason
>
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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton 
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:21, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> > Well if Ubuntu has put GNOME 3 out of scope for 11.04, that's not really
> > something that the GNOME community can overcome with a trivial amount of
> > effort.
>
> I've been hearing that Unity doesn't represent a fork, that the GNOME
> session will be exactly the same, just with a different window manager
> and shell. How hard is it to change the window manager & shell?
>

In both, the WM and Shell are one and the same. And you can indeed switch
them out with very little effort. However, I am under the impression that a
number of dependencies will be of a de-emphasized status when 11.04 is
released and thus a number of the things which we need to get a good GNOME
Shell experience this early in the 11.04 release cycle just aren't there
yet. Certainly once 11.04 is release or maybe even in beta, more of the
dependencies will have been updated to the minimums and then making packages
for 11.04 becomes much more feasible.

Though less important, there's also the question of how to handle the
notifications fork. I think that a number of packages in Ubuntu have source
code modifications which present incompatibilities. I vaguely recall a
discussion about leaving both code paths in Ubuntu's packages but I don't
know where that's at.
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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna 
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> > Well if Ubuntu has put GNOME 3 out of scope for 11.04, that's not really
> > something that the GNOME community can overcome with a trivial amount of
> > effort.
>
> I've been hearing that Unity doesn't represent a fork, that the GNOME
> session will be exactly the same, just with a different window manager
> and shell. How hard is it to change the window manager & shell?
>
>
Hi Dave,

As I understand it, gnome-shell is the window manager.  gnome-shell is a
plugin to mutter and is integrated.  It's one of the complaints on the
thread in DDL that you can't switch out the window manager and keep the
shell portion.

sri
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Re: Q4 Updates Due

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Neary 
Hi,

Brian Cameron wrote:
> 
> Updated to reflect comments.  How's this look?

Better! Thanks.

Cheers,
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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Neary 
Hi,

Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> Well if Ubuntu has put GNOME 3 out of scope for 11.04, that's not really
> something that the GNOME community can overcome with a trivial amount of
> effort.

I've been hearing that Unity doesn't represent a fork, that the GNOME
session will be exactly the same, just with a different window manager
and shell. How hard is it to change the window manager & shell?

Cheers,
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Re: Q4 Updates Due

2011-01-13 Thread Brian Cameron 


Updated to reflect comments.  How's this look?

---

Board Report
By: Brian Cameron

First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to
express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the
GNOME community possible.  To all those who use the GNOME desktop
and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you
that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding.  Thank you
also to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much
valued direction for the community.

The GNOME 3.0 release is planned for April 6, 2010.  Find a release
party near you to attend!  There are GNOME 3 Launch events being
planned aroudn the world.  Emily Chen and the GNOME.Asia team are
organizing providing GNOME t-shirts and other goodies to those who
can organize launch events in their area.  The GNOME Launch event
in Bangalore will also be GNOME.Asia 2011.

  http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty
  http://gnome.asia/press/2011/Bangalore/

The GNOME Foundation is seeking to hire an Executive Director and is
currently reviewing applicants.  Refer here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-November/msg00019.html

Last November, Stormy Peters stepped down from her position as
Executive Director of The GNOME Foundation.  The board would like to
thank Stormy for all of her great work helping to make The GNOME
Foundation a more effective and better resourced organization.  We
all wish her the best with her future endeavors!

As you can imagine, the board has been busy keeping up with the work
with Stormy leaving, and the most following important work continued to
be the most pressing over the past quarter.

 * Released the Annual Report.  Thanks to Paul and Daniel Galleguillos.

   http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-annual-report-2009.pdf

   Is it not awesome?  The GNOME Marketing team needs more help putting
   together things like this.

 * GNOME T-Shirt contest:

* http://www.gnome.org/contest/

 * Womens Outreach Program proving successful!

   http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-11-women-outreach-interns.html

 * Germán Póo-Caamaño, doing a great job as GNOME Foundation treasurer,
   released our planned 2011 budget for GNOME Foundation community
   review.


http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-December/msg00057.html

 * The GNOME Foundation is now selling GNOME branded merchandise through
   FreeWear.  Check it out:

   http://www.freewear.org/?org=GNOMEFoundation

 * The Friends of GNOME revamp is making good progress, though is behind
   schedule.  Og Maciel, Paul Cutler, Andreas Nilsson and the GNOME
   marketing team have been working on this.  Any feedback on the
   following alpha would be helpful.

   http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome-2.0/

 * The bidding process for the MeeGo GTK+ work closed and the
   applications have been reviewed.  The chosen bid will soon be
   announced.  Thanks to Bastien Nocera for doing much of the
   organizing.

 * GNOME a11y project received significant funding:

   http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-accessibility-grant.html

 * The GNOME Foundation is making arrangements to use the Egencia
   Business Travel service affiliated with expedia.com to make it
   easier to handle the volume of travel subsidies handled by the
   Foundation.

 * Announced an interest to hire contract work to assist with GNOME 3
   marketing efforts, with a current budget of $5,000 allocated.  Made
   a call for project ideas and resumes on the GNOME Marketing list.

Those are just some highlights, so lots of good work is getting done.
Please help GNOME 3 be a success.  Get involved, join us at a GNOME 3
launch event or at one of the hackfests currently being organized.

Events:

 * The Boston Summit was held over November 6-8 and proved to be a
   great opportunity for collaboration.  The GNOME Marketing team
   made good progress on video projects and a great deal of work was
   focused on the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release and accessibility.
   Thanks J5!

 * The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. board of directors announce
   the Desktop Summit 2011:


http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-desktop-summit-2011-berlin.html

   Thanks to Andreas Nilsson, Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova for
   all the help!  Would be good to get more local GNOME volunteers
   involved.  Organizers are planning a face-to-face meeting at FOSDEM,
   probably on Saturday during lunch.

 * Organized the following GNOME hackfests in the past quarter:
   - Accessibility at AEGIS conference in Seville (Spain), October,
 2010.
   - GTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), October 18-22, 2010.
   - Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest held during The Boston Summit.
   - Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest in Berlin (Germany),
 December 2-5, 2010.
   - WebKitGTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), December 5-12,
 2010.

 * Python Bindings Hackfest in Prague, CZ, (January 17-21

Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton 
Well if Ubuntu has put GNOME 3 out of scope for 11.04, that's not really
something that the GNOME community can overcome with a trivial amount of
effort. The message to our users on Ubuntu is basically nothing since they
can't get it and won't feel any of the repercussions of transition until at
least 11.10. The entire motivation behind the "current users" target was to
help people understand and be inspired about the UI change; thus, if they
aren't changing UI now, they aren't the target audience. If they're inspired
by GNOME 3 design goals, Fedora Rawhide and OpenSuSE packages are mostly
working today and will be even more so as both of those enter their beta
periods.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 05:23, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Thanks for the tip!
>
> I was hoping to use it, not just try it, though...
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> Paul Cutler wrote:
> > See Frederic's email to d-d-l he just posted - he has working live
> > image off USB.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Dave Neary  wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Dave Neary wrote:
> >>> I used [1] on Ubuntu 10.10 and it seems to work fine.
> >>>
>  [1] 
>  https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/testing
>  [2] 
>  https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3/+packages
> >>> I'm currently upgrading to 11.04 to get the latest greatest.
> >> 
> >>
> >>> So I will be removing ricotz and switching o the gnome3 team when I'm
> done.
> >> So what is delivered by the gnome3 team PPA is mostly unusable right now
> >> - I'm still waiting for good 2.91.4 builds to come through from Debian -
> >>  and the ricotz PPA is a weird no-mans-land, with just the shell, and
> >> with Unity & Compiz using global Mac-style menus, when you switch to
> >> gnome-shell you don't have any menus any more.
> >>
> >> I'd really like to figure out how to get a proper GNOME 3 experience
> >> without switching distros, but if I have to, I will (but then, we'll be
> >> sending a hell of a message to the users of the most popular Linux
> >> distro out there).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dave.
> >>
> >> --
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Re: getting www.gnome3.org

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Neary 
Thanks for the tip!

I was hoping to use it, not just try it, though...

Cheers,
Dave.

Paul Cutler wrote:
> See Frederic's email to d-d-l he just posted - he has working live
> image off USB.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Dave Neary  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dave Neary wrote:
>>> I used [1] on Ubuntu 10.10 and it seems to work fine.
>>>
 [1] https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/testing
 [2] https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3/+packages
>>> I'm currently upgrading to 11.04 to get the latest greatest.
>> 
>>
>>> So I will be removing ricotz and switching o the gnome3 team when I'm done.
>> So what is delivered by the gnome3 team PPA is mostly unusable right now
>> - I'm still waiting for good 2.91.4 builds to come through from Debian -
>>  and the ricotz PPA is a weird no-mans-land, with just the shell, and
>> with Unity & Compiz using global Mac-style menus, when you switch to
>> gnome-shell you don't have any menus any more.
>>
>> I'd really like to figure out how to get a proper GNOME 3 experience
>> without switching distros, but if I have to, I will (but then, we'll be
>> sending a hell of a message to the users of the most popular Linux
>> distro out there).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>>
>> --
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>> GNOME Foundation member
>> dne...@gnome.org
>> --
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>> marketing-list@gnome.org
>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
>>
> 

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Re: about gnome3 dev marketing

2011-01-13 Thread Allan Day 
Juanjo Marin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I think is a good idea to improve the GNOME marketing for developers.
> Obviously, what developers really appreciate is documentation, and the
> documentation team is working hard on this area. I think is especially
> interesting the set of 10-minute-tutorials they are working on [1].
> 
> However, I think that form the marketing point of view, the situation
> can be improved a lot. 
> 
> This presentation from Alberto Ruiz in 2008' GUADEC has very good valid
> points about GTK+ marketing [2], which is the best/only known GNOME
> technology for outsiders. I think this is very important because GTK+ is
> receiving bad comments from people. Our collegues are working hard
> turning GTK+3 into a very good piece of software and we must push it.
> 
> I think we must also to improve awareness of other GNOME technologies,
> but because we must start from something, I think that GTK+ is the most
> straigh-forward way. The key point from the marketing point of view is
> unify the brand and websites of certified GTK+ bindings.

I don't think we can solve the entire platform marketing strategy in
time for 3.0 (it would be great to work on that in the future, of
course). It would be awesome to have some developer focused materials in
the GNOME 3 marketing, though. Our platform has received a lot of work;
we should be showing that off. Also, showing the extent of the changes
in GNOME 3 will reinforce the impression that it is a substantial
release (we don't want people to think that it is purely cosmetic).

For now, a concise set of messages which describe the improvements in
the GNOME 3 platform would be enough. I can imagine these falling into
two broad categories:

 * Ways GNOME 3 will enable devs to create better software (where better
means: richer, faster, more portable, more attractive...)

 * Ways it will be easier to make software for the GNOME 3 platform
(where easier might mean faster, easier to maintain, less
error-prone...)

I know very little about this stuff, but I can already think of some
examples:

 * Faster application startup thanks to dconf

 * Easier visual styling thanks to CSS-based GTK+ theming

 * Massive platform cleanup for a quicker, smoother, more intuitive
developer experience

If someone could put together a set of notes with other key examples of
how the platform has been improved, I'd be happy to write them up for
gnome3.org.

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Re: GCI: Update Gnome Usergroup Info, Introduction

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Neary 
Thanks Jason!

Let's see how many replies you get. How're things looking at this stage?

Cheers,
Dave.

Jason Lo wrote:
> I have sent an email to every user group with a main contact listed. I
> will send an email to the gugmasters list soon.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Dave Neary  > wrote:
> 
> Oh - and, fwiw: as a mamber of GNOME France, I have not heard anything
> about your request, and as a member of guigmasters, I didn't see any
> email from you there yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> Jason Lo wrote:
> > So I'm still doing this task. I'm sorry I haven't sent any updates in
> > the last two days, I was quite busy.
> >
> > So far I've emailed about half of the list, and have only gotten info
> > from China and Brazil. I've gotten updated contact info from them and
> > estimated member populations. Also, GNOME Brazil had a meetup recently
> > (which I have added to the wiki), and GNOME China is trying to
> open up a
> > store, if I read correctly.
> >
> > And I just noticed that technically the GCI thing finished, so I can't
> > get credit for this task. Oh well, I'll still follow it through; I'd
> > feel like a jerk if I were to just drop it, especially seeing the
> other
> > two students who did just go and drop it, heh.
> >
> > More updates soon!
> >
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Re: Q4 Updates Due

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Neary 
Hi Brian,

Might I suggest that you put the actionable stuff right up front? I'd
like to see

"The GNOME Foundation seeking new executive director"

be right at the top.

Afterwards, thanking Stormy & explaining why she left will be 2nd,
annual report 3rd, then budget and t-shirt contest, etc. You could even
add GUADEC & Hackfests to a separate "Events" update.

It's great to see the board having so much to talk about! You'll soon
have to start breaking the report into sub-reports ;)

Cheers,
Dave.

Brian Cameron wrote:
> 
> I wrote the attached for the board update.  No comments since I sent
> it to the other board members for review yesterday.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On 01/ 5/11 08:05 AM, Paul Cutler wrote:
>> Hi Marketing team!
>>
>> The Q4 team updates are due and we had a bunch of activity over the
>> last 3 months, with Friends of GNOME, GCI, etc.
>>
>> Would anyone like to try their hand at writing the update?  You can
>> see an example of the Q2 update[1] and I'm working to get the GNOME Q3
>> update up later today.  We need to have the Q4 report written in a
>> week by Jan 12th.
>>
>> Thanks for the help!
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> [1] http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2010-Q2.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Subject:
> Re: Q4 Updates Due
> From:
> Brian Cameron 
> Date:
> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:39:05 -0600
> To:
> GNOME Foundation Board 
> 
> To:
> GNOME Foundation Board 
> 
> 
> 
> Board:
> 
> Here is my proposal for the Board of Directors Q4 Report.  I am just
> sending this to the board so you can review it before I make it more
> public.  Any comments are very much appreciated.  Should we drum up
> GNOME 3 more?  Any videos or anything interesting we should include?
> Is it too long and stuff should be cut out?
> 
> I guess this is due by the end of the week, is that right Paul?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
> ---
> 
> Board Report
> By: Brian Cameron
> 
> First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to
> express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the
> GNOME community possible.  To all those who use the GNOME desktop
> and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you
> that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding.  Thank you
> also to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much
> valued direction for the community.
> 
> The GNOME 3.0 release is planned for April 6, 2010.  Find a release
> party near you to attend!  There are GNOME 3 Launch events being
> planned aroudn the world.  Emily Chen and the GNOME.Asia team are
> organizing providing GNOME t-shirts and other goodies to those who
> can organize launch events in their area.  The GNOME Launch event
> in Bangalore will also be GNOME.Asia 2011.
> 
>   http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty
>   http://gnome.asia/press/2011/Bangalore/
> 
> In the past quarter, Stormy Peters stepped down from her position as
> Executive Director of The GNOME Foundation.  The board would like to
> thank Stormy for all of her great work helping to make The GNOME
> Foundation a more effective and better resourced organization.  We
> all wish her the best with her future endeavors!
> 
> The board has been busy trying to keep up with the work with Stormy
> leaving, and the most following important work continued to be the most
> pressing.
> 
>  * Released the Annual Report.  Thanks to Paul and Daniel Galleguillos.
> 
>http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-annual-report-2009.pdf
> 
>Is it not awesome?  The GNOME Marketing team needs more help putting
>together things like this.
> 
>  * Announced an interest to hire a new Executive Director and are
>currently reviewing applicants.
> 
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-November/msg00019.html
> 
>  * GNOME T-Shirt contest:
> 
> * http://www.gnome.org/contest/
> 
>  * The Boston Summit was held over November 6-8 and proved to be a
>great opportunity for collaboration.  The GNOME Marketing team
>made good progress on video projects and a great deal of work was
>focused on the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release and accessibility.
>Thanks J5!
> 
>  * The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. board of directors annoucne
>the Desktop Summit 2011:
> 
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-desktop-summit-2011-berlin.html
> 
>Thanks to Andreas Nilsson, Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova for
>all the help!  Would be good to get more local GNOME volunteers
>involved.  Organizers are planning a face-to-face meeting at FOSDEM,
>probably on Saturday during lunch.
> 
>  * Organized the following GNOME hackfests in the past quarter:
>- Accessibility at AEGIS conference in Seville (Spain), October,
>  2010.
>- GTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), October 18-22, 2010.
>- Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest held during The Boston Summit.
>- Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest in Berl

Re: Q4 Updates Due

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Neary 
Hi,

Since the main news from the mobile group will be the announcement of
the Hildon work, perhaps Bastien might be the best person to give a
quick update?

Cheers,
Dave.

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> So great discussion, but I'm still looking to fill in the blanks on our
> quarterly update.  Since it is due today I'd like to finish it off if
> possible.  Sorry I didn't give people more time to look over it. 
> 
> sri
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna  > wrote:
> 
> So I've written some amount of it, but I'm a little confused by the
> FoG updates I've seen so far.  I'm not quite sure from the list of
> items that FoG has done which has been accomplished.  Here is what I
> have so far.  I believe the GCI stuff is not quite ready since no
> replies have come yet?
> 
> Please let me know if there are any gaps.  I tried to only focus on
> what was accomplished not what was discussed or is pending.
> 
> Marketing
> 
> Conferences:
> Desktop summit 2011 will be held in August 6 - August 12th in
> Berlin.  The web
> page is now live and is accessible from http://www.desktopsummit.org/.
> 
> Event Box:
> Littl was kind enough to donate a web book as part of the GNOME
> event box for
> use as a slide show device at conferences.  What is pending right
> now is the
> actual slide show we want to show.
> 
> Ben Konrath developed a flyer for new users in less economically based
> countries.
> 
> Friends of GNOME
> 
> TBD
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Paul Cutler  > wrote:
> 
> Hi Marketing team!
> 
> The Q4 team updates are due and we had a bunch of activity over the
> last 3 months, with Friends of GNOME, GCI, etc.
> 
> Would anyone like to try their hand at writing the update?  You can
> see an example of the Q2 update[1] and I'm working to get the
> GNOME Q3
> update up later today.  We need to have the Q4 report written in a
> week by Jan 12th.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2010-Q2.html
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