Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd
I think the number of different projects and conversations I am having has maxed out my multiprocessing capabilities. This week I am going to spend more time logged out of email and working on one project at a time. Last week I: - Presented at IASA http://www.iasadenver.org/. Great conversation. Very interactive group. Made a couple of local government contacts - people involved in promoting open source in government IT infrastructure. - Attended OSS Watch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ phone Advisory Board Meeting. - Worked on GUADEC sponsorship. It's coming along well. Still waiting for a lot of people to finalize plans through. - Advisory board meetings. Met with several more adboard members - still haven't met with everyone though! - Board meeting. - GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. - Several good meetings with Rosanna. - Updating the Friends of GNOME gifts spreadsheet for Rosanna (ping her a lot with questions.) I sent her the list of Friends of GNOME Adopt a Hacker folks who have earned their tshirt! - Sent new Adopt a Hacker folks contact info to people that will send them post cards. - Settled on date and location for Meet the Funders in California. Need to finalize date for New York. - Looked into adding conversion tracking to our GNOME ads on Google Adwords. - Attended Women's Caucus meeting. They will have an all day track Sunday at Libre Planet. - Attended the Grace Hopper Open Source track committee meeting. - Didn't attend the OpenWorld Forum meeting as they only dial in number was an international number. - Agreed to give GNOME keynote at LinuxTag. Johannes Schmid agreed to put together the GNOME track. Please contact him if you are interested in speakinghttp://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2010/03/01/gnome-track-on-linuxtag/about GNOME at LinuxTag. - Sent out thank you email to Friends of GNOMEhttp://www.gnome.org/friends/ . - Worried about all the GNOME folks in Chilehttp://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/2010/03/01/an-update-on-chile/ . - I think we are almost ready to launch the Friends of GNOME ruler. At least it looks very good and I wrote an intro email for the launch! - Students on Project Possibility picked several GNOME projects - work on Caribou and Orca. - Worked on GNOME's participation at Idlelo 4 http://idlelo.net/. Vincent is also working on this. - Had a gazillion email conversations on a trillion different topics. This week: - Letter for annual report. - Friends of GNOME http://gnome.org/friends Google ads: conversion tracking codes and landing pages. - Finish Friends of GNOME gift spreadsheet update. - Make sure all GNOME events are on track and well represented by speakers. Help if I can. (Finding people, not attending them all!) - Catch up on all my email conversations and make sure nobody is waiting on me ... I get very little feedback to these updates. Feel free to leave feedback, ideas or comments. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd
2010/3/1 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. How did this go? (And as for feedback: I think these are terrific; please keep them coming!) Luis ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd
Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 11:02 -0800, Luis Villa a écrit : 2010/3/1 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. How did this go? I guess I spoke way too much ;-) The discussion was mostly about how to prepare a roadmap for GNOME, and how to communicate it. There's an IRC log and maybe even minutes, but, hrm, it's not readable for me: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/IRC20100227 It'd be nice to have more people attending, though. We'd love to hear how to make it more convenient for people to attend. For example, we know that the time is not good for our australian friends, and we'll try to fix this one way or another, but I'm sure we could have more people even at this time. So how can we improve things? More items on the agenda? Send a meeting reminder earlier? 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: Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: 2010/3/1 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. How did this go? It went well with lots of discussion about GNOME 3, GNOME 4 and roadmaps. We've had two of these meetings and they've been very different as the topics have been different. I'd like to encourage people to add topics to the agenda beforehand. It's a chance to discuss topics within the community and with the board. Stormy ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd
El lun, 01-03-2010 a las 21:54 +0100, Vincent Untz escribió: Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 11:02 -0800, Luis Villa a écrit : 2010/3/1 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. How did this go? I guess I spoke way too much ;-) The discussion was mostly about how to prepare a roadmap for GNOME, and how to communicate it. There's an IRC log and maybe even minutes, but, hrm, it's not readable for me: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/IRC20100227 Yeah I kind of broke the ACL :-). Only Javier Jardón can *read* and write it. Any admin around? #lalala ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap
The information about Facebook and the CIA comes from The Guardian. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook. Since it was proposed to write software specifically to talk with Facebook, I mentioned the issues this would raise. But Facebook is an example of a more general point: any time we consider developing software to work with a certain web site, we should ask ourselves whether we want to single out that web site for the special endorsement and promotion that is implicit in releasing such software. Different sites raise different issues, and our judgments won't be the same for all of them. The point is that we ought to think about the question, rather than promote use of a site simply because many people are already using it. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap
It would make more sense perhaps to ask why you need a centralised web site for this rather than tying it together distributed sites and people together through links in the same way that rss permits news to be aggregated without there being some central repository of the world's news. I agree that is the better direction to take. But I am not proposing that we, in GNOME, undertake to replace Facebook in any fashion. That would be far outside the scope of GNOME. I am only saying that if we develop software specifically to work with Facebook, we should take care to prevent it from conveying the message Use Facebook! ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
