Website(s) todo list
Just a quick heads up that I had a chat with Christy on IRC the other day and we came up with a short todo list for a bunch of our websites to make them fit in better with the new gnome.org site. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/ToDo There are a lot of open questions about how to make this happen for some of the sites (none of these are hosted anywhere in git that I know of, and some of them runs technologies that almost don't have any kind of styling system), but we'll try to grab some sysadmins and figure these parts out. Related to this, Elena Petrevska have been accepted as an intern to work on implementing the style changes to these sites during the summer, but if anyone else have experience with say cgit or mailman styling, I'm sure she'll appreciate any help she can get. Oh, and thanks to the hard work from Christy, we finally managed to release the new Friends of GNOME page, that not only is integrated in the wordpress system, but also have a donation process that is a lot more straight forward and allows you to make a donation with a fewer clicks compared to before. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website(s) todo list
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: Oh, and thanks to the hard work from Christy, we finally managed to release the new Friends of GNOME page, that not only is integrated in the wordpress system, but also have a donation process that is a lot more straight forward and allows you to make a donation with a fewer clicks compared to before. - Andreas Thank you, Christy for all your hard work on this. Believe it or not, but it's contributors like you that really make GNOME fun place to volunteer and work. If you realized how much trouble we've had with web infrastructure through the years, you'll understand how awesome it is that you've worked so diligently on this project. sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website(s) todo list
Working with the GNOME project has been nothing but fun, not to mention the incredible people I've gotten to know! Thank you both for your kind words. Christy On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.sewrote: Oh, and thanks to the hard work from Christy, we finally managed to release the new Friends of GNOME page, that not only is integrated in the wordpress system, but also have a donation process that is a lot more straight forward and allows you to make a donation with a fewer clicks compared to before. - Andreas Thank you, Christy for all your hard work on this. Believe it or not, but it's contributors like you that really make GNOME fun place to volunteer and work. If you realized how much trouble we've had with web infrastructure through the years, you'll understand how awesome it is that you've worked so diligently on this project. sri -- 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
Re: Website(s) todo list
Andreas: While foundation.gnome.org is looking much better, it seems really hard to find pages like: http://www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/ http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/ http://www.gnome.org/foundation/finance/ http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/ https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard And the voting section used to be part of fgo, but seems unlinked at all from the fgo pages. The voting section still seems to use the old look and feel but is not listed on the TODO page: http://vote.gnome.org/ So, I think the foundation section has some TODO's remaining. Brian On 04/26/12 08:19 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Just a quick heads up that I had a chat with Christy on IRC the other day and we came up with a short todo list for a bunch of our websites to make them fit in better with the new gnome.org site. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/ToDo There are a lot of open questions about how to make this happen for some of the sites (none of these are hosted anywhere in git that I know of, and some of them runs technologies that almost don't have any kind of styling system), but we'll try to grab some sysadmins and figure these parts out. Related to this, Elena Petrevska have been accepted as an intern to work on implementing the style changes to these sites during the summer, but if anyone else have experience with say cgit or mailman styling, I'm sure she'll appreciate any help she can get. Oh, and thanks to the hard work from Christy, we finally managed to release the new Friends of GNOME page, that not only is integrated in the wordpress system, but also have a donation process that is a lot more straight forward and allows you to make a donation with a fewer clicks compared to before. - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Website(s) todo list
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Related to this, Elena Petrevska have been accepted as an intern to work on implementing the style changes to these sites during the summer, but if anyone else have experience with say cgit or mailman styling, I'm sure she'll appreciate any help she can get. cgit is pretty easy. Just a header and a footer HTML file. Mailman is somewhat impossible. Not styled atm. The styles used for the archives + main website are in sysadmin-bin and mhonarc. Requires regenerating the entire archive.. that's imperfect/imprecise. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: News posts needed
Hi! Thank you for getting started on the news story about GSoC! I am not sure what content we would like to put into the OPW press release and what content we would like to put into the news piece about GSoC. We should definitely coordinate these, and see if they need to be two separate stories, or if we can combine them into one. Below are my notes for the OPW press release that I also just shared with Karen. Karen was going to work them in into the press release, that will also include the news about the Conservancy project joining OPW with Twisted, welcoming the FSF as a new sponsor of OPW, thanking all the sponsors, and announcing new participants. Let's see how that works out, and decide based on that how to divide or combine the information in the stories and cross-link them. I'm also including a few inline comments below. Thanks! Marina --- Organizing the Outreach Program for Women helped GNOME improve our resources for newcomers and the experience of Google Summer of Code applicants. It also helped us extend the effort in getting more women involved to other free software organizations. When we started the current Outreach Program for Women two years ago, we had an initial list of 9 mentors from 8 projects who were eager to help with the program. Connecting newcomers with mentors who can guide them in their initial contributions proved to be the most important aspect of our outreach effort. For that reason, we recently moved the list of mentors we built up for the Outreach Program for Women to be a part of the GNOME Love initiative. There are now 37 mentors from 22 projects whom any newcomer can contact any time throughout the year in this ever-growing list. We also started a page on the Google Summer of Code wiki that contains links to such lists of mentors in many free software organizations. That page currently has 15 organizations. In addition to being a general resource we pointed students looking for an organization to join to, we used it to spread the word about Google Summer of Code and mentorship opportunities among technical women groups at many universities. We learned that requiring an initial contribution to the project an applicant is applying for increases their involvement with the project, prepares them for the work during the internship period, and serves as an important selection criteria. This year, we required the students applying for Google Summer of Code in GNOME to make a contribution to the project they are applying to work on, not just to supply a link to a bug they fixed in any free software project. We also emphasized the need to communicate with a potential mentor for the idea the student is proposing and included who the potential mentors are for each project idea we had. As a result, all successful applicants demonstrated their ability to work on the project they proposed and discussed their proposal with their potential mentor. For the accepted Google Summer of Code students, we changed our requirement for weekly updates on a dedicated mailing list to a requirement for blog post updates every two weeks that will be aggregated on Planet GNOME. This will allow for a greater visibility of the students' projects. We are very proud of the accomplishments of the last round's interns, which include the following. * Kasia Bondarava committed Belarusian translations for 35 GNOME modules. With her help, Belarusian translation coverage went from 67% to 88%, making Belarusian a new officially supported language. She also made a comprehensive comparison of different translator tools and advocated for better translator comments. * Christy Eller has tremendously improved the web development process in GNOME and created the new Friends of GNOME pages. * Susanna Huhtanen created comprehensive developer documentation about writing GNOME applications in JavaScript. * Patricia Santana Cruz added support for sharing videos and images with different online services, improved hotplug connection of camera devices, and added recorded time when making a video in the Cheese webcam application. * Sophia Yu ported Swell Foop game from JavaScript to Vala, completely reworking its implementation, and updated several other games to use new GNOME APIs. The detailed accomplishments of all 12 program participants can be found at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011/Accomplishments Outreach Program for Women participants have a strong tradition of becoming mentors in GNOME. Luciana Fujii Pontello and Ekaterina Gerasimova mentored Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women participants in previous rounds. Tiffany Antopolski, Anita Reitere and Srishti Sethi mentored Google Code-In participants. This round, Christy Eller will co-mentor a Web Development intern and Tiffany Antopolski will mentor 4 Documentation interns, 3 of
Re: News posts needed
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote: I am not sure what content we would like to put into the OPW press release and what content we would like to put into the news piece about GSoC. We should definitely coordinate these, and see if they need to be two separate stories, or if we can combine them into one. Sounds as a good idea to me. I'd be great to highlight some of the applications or technologies that the students will work on. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-April/msg00176.html has an easily readable list. Yeah I thought about that, the reason I did not include specific projects in the draft was because I thought if we mention some projects maybe the students responsible for the projects we don't mention would get hurt and feel that their projects was not as impotent as those we mention. But it was probably a bit silly of me to think that way. We can mention some projects as examples. -- -Mvh Oliver Propst -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
