http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/12/21/stormys-update-week-of-december-14th/
Pinged some people to help with GUADEC by mentoring or creating timelines. Had a great conversation with Sara Crouse from Wikimedia about how they find, apply and manage grants, like ones from the Hewlett Foundation<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August_2009>and the Ford Foundation<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Ford_Foundation_Grant_July_2009>. Looking forward to implementing some of that at the GNOME Foundation. Spent an inordinate amount of time and energy on the threads that started on the Foundation list and the side conversations that came out of it. Assuming that even a fraction of the people involved spent that much time and energy, we need to figure out a more effective way to have those conversations. Obviously we could use some more self moderating earlier in the thread. Perhaps other forums, like the all hands IRC meeting we discussed in the past could also help. Took some time off to deal with a personal crisis. (And no, it wasn't Christmas shopping - I haven't done that yet!) Provided a quote for OpenDesktop.org and OpenSuSE build press release<http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11810.html> . Pushed a number of things and projects along from missing payments to projects with no activity to potential partnerships. Hopefully they'll all be moving forward soon and I'll be able to report on their success. Posted a couple of blog posts. I really hope GNOME is able to set an example for how free software projects can transition to the web services world<http://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/12/how-can-open-source-software-transition-to-the-web-services-world.html>. And I think we all need to keep not copyright law<http://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/12/who-owns-an-email-message.html>in mind, but the fact that we are representing GNOME in public in mind as we post to public forums. Quite a few press folks and journalists picked up on the Foundation list threads and we certainly didn't look like we were following our own Code of Conduct <http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct>. Had a really good weekend with the family.
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