On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 22:44 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:39 AM, William Jon McCann > <william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Karen, > > I think these are good suggestions. But I think it would be a > mistake to leave this critical responsibility to a committee > of volunteers. One of the many challenges we face is that our > voice and message have been too inconsistent - too > infrequently heard. Heard too late. Lacking authority. In want > of good taste. And dealing with this is taking a huge toll on > our ability to attract and retain contributors. Something > needs to be done. > > I propose that we hire or appoint a full time director of > marketing. > > > Let me add one other position. We need to hire another sysadmin > person. Along the same community support, we need to also be able to > have the infrastructure to support coming out with daily builds for > the community to test out and give feedback on the new designs that > come out. Bug testing and performance testing as well so that we have > a quality product. If we are serious about doing GNOME OS we are > going to need to upgrade our infrastructure. We will need to do fund > raising to be able get the right hardware and the right person to > manage it.
I do appreciate that both of these positions could be beneficial to GNOME, but please understand that employees are expensive, and the GNOME Foundation has a relatively small budget. Fundraising campaigns do not bring in the kinds of money you need to hire full-time employees. They're OK for short-term or part-time contract work. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list