Stormy's Update: November 21st-29th

2009-11-29 Thread Stormy Peters
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/11/29/stormys-update-november-21st-29th/

Attended (and gave several planned and several impromptu talks at) the GNOME
Asia Summit http://gnome.asia/November 20-22nd. It was great to see GNOME
Asia successfully transition to a an annual conference. The GNOME Asia
committee did a great job last year and they managed to transition that
success to another country and a new team this year. While there were some
things that could have gone better (more lead time, more sponsorships), the
conference was great and added a few unique nice touches like using local
business students to interpret and handing out volunteer certificates to all
115 volunteers! GNOME Asia faces an additional hurdle that conferences in
the US and Europe don't face. Not only do they have to educate attendees on
GNOME but also on free software!

Met with Erwann Chénedé and Leontine Binchy from Sun - it's always good to
have a chance to meet companies and people involved in GNOME in person!

Spent 30 hours travelling home from Vietnam.

Worked with next year's local organizers, board and press on the GUADEC
press release. (Zonker http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ wrote the press
release.) You'll see it Monday morning.

Set up plan and agenda for my trip to London for the OSS
Watchhttp://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/advisory board meeting. (Also
meeting with LiMo and Canonical.)

Got 401K plan set up for GNOME Foundation. Now we just have to set it up
with our payroll company to roll deductions over to the 401K plan.

Got invited to speak at Open Mobility
conferencehttp://www.openmobilityusa.com/,
Fort Collins Linux user group and the FOSS 2010 Research
workshophttp://www.cra.org/ccc/foss.php.
Accepted the Fort Collins user group. Waiting for GNOME Mobile group to
figure out plan for Open Mobility. Thinking about the FOSS 2010 workshop.

Attended GNOME Board meeting.

Worked on CRM data structures and work flows, i.e. I wrote up what we need
in the CRM system so that I can get help setting it up. (Jeff Schroeder
installed CiviCRM on GNOME systems!)

Thursday and Friday were US holidays - Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for all
the great people I get to work with in the GNOME community.
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Re: Stormy's Update: November 21st-29th

2009-11-29 Thread Luis Villa
2009/11/29 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org:
 Worked on CRM data structures and work flows, i.e. I wrote up what we need
 in the CRM system so that I can get help setting it up. (Jeff Schroeder
 installed CiviCRM on GNOME systems!)

This is terrific to hear; definitely one of those baby-steps towards
being a more serious organization.

(And the rest is great too ;)

Luis
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