How about this? Stormy
Subject: One step closer to a sys admin ... Last April we announced that we wanted to hire a system administrator to help with some of the day-to-day work necessary to keep thousands of GNOME contributors going. I'm really excited to announce that we are really close! The GNOME community raised over $20,000 last year from individual contributors! In addition, several companies like Canonical, Nokia and Google put in matching funds. In an effort to be more transparent - and to share our excitement - we've created a ruler to track our progress towards our goal of hiring a system administrator. (And future goals.) You will see at the top of gnome.org and Planet GNOME. You learn more about our plans for a system administrator on the job description page[1]. You can spread the word by adding a Friends of GNOME badge to your web page[2]. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/AdvisoryMeeting/JobDescription [2] http://www.gnome.org/friends/promote.html On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Lucas Rocha <luc...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/2/16 Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org>: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Lucas Rocha <luc...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> So, I have the Friends of GNOME ruler ready to be published in three > >> of our sites: > >> > >> GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/wgo-ruler.png) > >> Planet (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/planet-ruler.png) > >> Friends of GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/friends-ruler.png) > >> > >> Design done by Vinicius! > >> > > Nice work! > > > >> > >> So, what we need now is: > >> > >> 1. Do we still want to keep the goal for sysadmin? Just checking. > > > > Yes, because we are about to declare victory and I think that would be > good! > > > > Perhaps we could also preannounce another campaign at the same time. > > Ok. > > >> > >> 2. Add a bit more text in Friends of GNOME front page about the goal. > >> Maybe elaborate a bit more on the benefits of hiring a sysadmin? > >> Volunteers? > > > > Maybe we could reuse the text from the original announcement mail? With > some > > wordsmithing ... > > > > Keeping track of the routine day-to-day system administration tasks > > is neither glamorous nor a lot of fun, but it's essential to keeping > > the day-to-day work of thousands of GNOME contributors going. For > > this reason, the foundation is hoping to hire a part-time sysadmin to > > handle the coordination role on an ongoing basis. This is dependent > > on obtaining sufficient funding. > > I'm using this exact text in FoG front page now with the only change > of replacing the "This is dependent..." with "Your donations will help > us to achieve this goal!". > > >> > >> 3. Consolidate the current donations and sponsors and update the ruler > >> accordingly. Stormy, could you send this info? > > > > The numbers you have are good through the end of January. > > > > $5K Google > > $5K Nokia > > $10K Canonical > > $19,578 2009 > > $1,587 2010 > > Ok, updated. > > >> > >> 4. Publish the ruler with a nice announcement about the goal. Need > >> volunteer to write the announcement to be sent to foundation-list and > >> posted in Planet GNOME. Stormy? Paul? Someone else? > > > > I can do this. (Multiple people blogging would be good.) > > Nice. Let me know when you have the announcement ready. I think we're > ready to release the ruler. > > --lucasr >
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