Latest update to reflect Fred's comments.
--- Board Report By: Brian Cameron First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the GNOME community possible. To all those who use the GNOME desktop and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding. Thank you also to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much valued direction for the community. The GNOME 3.0 release is planned for April 6, 2010. Find a release party near you to attend! There are GNOME 3 Launch events being planned aroudn the world. Emily Chen and the GNOME.Asia team are organizing providing GNOME t-shirts and other goodies to those who can organize launch events in their area. The GNOME Launch event in Bangalore will also be GNOME.Asia 2011. http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty http://gnome.asia/press/2011/Bangalore/ The GNOME Foundation is seeking to hire an Executive Director and is currently reviewing applicants. Refer here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-November/msg00019.html Last November, Stormy Peters stepped down from her position as Executive Director of The GNOME Foundation. The board would like to thank Stormy for all of her great work helping to make The GNOME Foundation a more effective and better resourced organization. We all wish her the best with her future endeavors! As you can imagine, the board has been busy keeping up with the work with Stormy leaving, and the most following important work continued to be the most pressing over the past quarter. * Released the Annual Report. Thanks to Paul and Daniel Galleguillos. http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-annual-report-2009.pdf Is it not awesome? The GNOME Marketing team needs more help putting together things like this. * GNOME T-Shirt contest: * http://www.gnome.org/contest/ * Womens Outreach Program proving successful! http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-11-women-outreach-interns.html * Germán Póo-Caamaño, doing a great job as GNOME Foundation treasurer, released our planned 2011 budget for GNOME Foundation community review. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-December/msg00057.html * The GNOME Foundation is now selling GNOME branded merchandise through FreeWear. Check it out: http://www.freewear.org/?org=GNOMEFoundation * The Friends of GNOME revamp is making good progress, though is behind schedule. Og Maciel, Paul Cutler, Andreas Nilsson and the GNOME marketing team have been working on this. Any feedback on the following alpha would be helpful. http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/friends-of-gnome-2.0/ * The bidding process for the MeeGo GTK+ work closed and the applications have been reviewed. The chosen bid will soon be announced. Thanks to Bastien Nocera for doing much of the organizing. * GNOME a11y project received significant funding: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-accessibility-grant.html * The GNOME Foundation is making arrangements to use the Egencia Business Travel service affiliated with expedia.com to make it easier to handle the volume of travel subsidies handled by the Foundation. * Announced an interest to hire contract work to assist with GNOME 3 marketing efforts, with a current budget of $5,000 allocated. Made a call for project ideas and resumes on the GNOME Marketing list. Those are just some highlights, so lots of good work is getting done. Please help GNOME 3 be a success. Get involved, join us at a GNOME 3 launch event or at one of the hackfests currently being organized. Events: * The Boston Summit was held over November 6-8 and proved to be a great opportunity for collaboration. The GNOME Marketing team made good progress on video projects and a great deal of work was focused on the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release and accessibility. Thanks J5! * The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. board of directors announce the Desktop Summit 2011: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-desktop-summit-2011-berlin.html Thanks to Andreas Nilsson, Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova for all the help! Would be good to get more local GNOME volunteers involved. Organizers are planning a face-to-face meeting at FOSDEM, probably on Saturday during lunch. * Organized the following GNOME hackfests in the past quarter: - Accessibility at AEGIS conference in Seville (Spain), October, 2010. - GTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), October 18-22, 2010. - Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest held during The Boston Summit. - Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest in Berlin (Germany), December 2-5, 2010. - WebKitGTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), December 5-12, 2010. * Planning the following hackfests: - Python Bindings Hackfest in Prague, CZ, (January 17-21, 2011) - GNOME.Asia GNOME 3 Hackfest in Bangalore, IN, (March 30 - April 3, 2011) - ATK Hackfest in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) (May 2011) These events happen when GNOME community members recognize the need and propose them. If you have an idea or need for a GNOME event, please let the board know. The GNOME Foundation board of directors very much appreciates when you email board-l...@gnome.org to let us know if there is anything The GNOME Foundation can do to help or if there are any opportunities that you think The GNOME Foundation should know about. Many different skill sets are needed to help GNOME's mission. If you are willing to help, there is a diverse set of interesting tasks to choose from. We need you. Please also consider becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donations really do help the GNOME Foundation continue provide support and services which help the success of the GNOME project. http://www.gnome.org/friends/ Brian Cameron GNOME Foundation Secretary -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
