Re: Annual report

[Fabiana Simões]

It could be good to start drafting an outline of the report, like a 
summary or something. As a volunteer, I, for one, would find easier to 
take a topic out of this outline to write about, than to propose a topic 
out of the blue. Perhaps people who have worked on previous reports 
could kick off this?


Best,
Fabiana

On 01/24/2013 08:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
I have a number of volunteers now who have volunteered to help out.  A 
total of 3 new people.  We should probably start talking about how we 
want to do this.



How do you people want to proceed?

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Re: Annual report

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

So we have had a thread on this back in November.  Please read through the
thread and then put forth any ideas from that thread since it seems to have
progressed quite a bit.  That way we can leverage the previous conversation
instead of starting completely over:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-November/msg1.html

sri


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Fabiana Simões wrote:

>  It could be good to start drafting an outline of the report, like a
> summary or something. As a volunteer, I, for one, would find easier to take
> a topic out of this outline to write about, than to propose a topic out of
> the blue. Perhaps people who have worked on previous reports could kick off
> this?
>
> Best,
> Fabiana
>
>
> On 01/24/2013 08:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>
>  I have a number of volunteers now who have volunteered to help out.  A
> total of 3 new people.  We should probably start talking about how we want
> to do this.
>
>
>  How do you people want to proceed?
>
> sri
>
>
>
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Re: Annual report

[Brett Legree]

Okay, this looks good - as per the next thread on the topic, I'll have a
look at the wiki page and throw my hat into the ring for something.

Let's get to work!

-Brett
So we have had a thread on this back in November.  Please read through the
thread and then put forth any ideas from that thread since it seems to have
progressed quite a bit.  That way we can leverage the previous conversation
instead of starting completely over:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2012-November/msg1.html

sri


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Fabiana Simões wrote:

>  It could be good to start drafting an outline of the report, like a
> summary or something. As a volunteer, I, for one, would find easier to take
> a topic out of this outline to write about, than to propose a topic out of
> the blue. Perhaps people who have worked on previous reports could kick off
> this?
>
> Best,
> Fabiana
>
>
> On 01/24/2013 08:14 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>
>  I have a number of volunteers now who have volunteered to help out.  A
> total of 3 new people.  We should probably start talking about how we want
> to do this.
>
>
>  How do you people want to proceed?
>
> sri
>
>
>
>

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Re: Annual report

[Lucas Rocha]

Just a quick random inspiration source. I love how Mailchimp did their
annual report on the web:

  http://mailchimp.com/2012/

Just in case you're considering doing an online annual report instead
(or in addition to) the usual printed one.

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On 24 January 2013 22:14, Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:
> I have a number of volunteers now who have volunteered to help out.  A total
> of 3 new people.  We should probably start talking about how we want to do
> this.
>
>
> How do you people want to proceed?
>
> sri
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Re: Annual report

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 01/25/2013 01:33 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote:

Just a quick random inspiration source. I love how Mailchimp did their
annual report on the web:

   http://mailchimp.com/2012/

Just in case you're considering doing an online annual report instead
(or in addition to) the usual printed one.
It's always nice to have this to hand out at GUADEC to the Adboard and 
the rest of the community. Hence why I think we should do the printed 
version.
Doing a web version in addition is a great idea, but I'm going to 
abstain from taking this TODO due to having a dozen other things to 
juggle right now.
If there are other web developers interested in doing this, I would be 
more than happy to work with them and putting this together.
The data graphs looks excellent. We could do something similar in our 
report. We just need data.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Sat, February 25, 2012 7:33 am, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>
> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on the
> wiki yesterday (
> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents),
> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these, if
> thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please let me
> know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm planning
> on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.

So great, Emily!

I made some small edits to what you wrote up but it looks really good to
me. Does anyone think we should add any other events? I think having the
GNOME hosted events is right for our annual report, as Emily has done. Are
there any others than GNOME.Asia, the Bostom/Montreal Summit and
GUADEC/Desktop Summit that we should include?

We should definitely coordinate anything we write up on the OPW with
Dave's interview of Marina and my promised write up of the statistics from
the recent OPW round. I'm emailing you separately about that.

thanks!!
karen


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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Thanks Emily,

This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview 
together for the report. I'll get to it this week.


Cheers,
Dave.

On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?

I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on
the wiki yesterday
(http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents),
I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these,
if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please
let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm
planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Christy Eller]

And I'm planning to work on the thank you pants article today!

Christy

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Thanks Emily,
>
> This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview together
> for the report. I'll get to it this week.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>
> On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>
>> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
>> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
>> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>>
>> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on
>> the wiki yesterday
>> (http://live.gnome.org/action/**edit/GnomeMarketing/**
>> AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/**InternationalEvents
>> ),
>> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these,
>> if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please
>> let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm
>> planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.
>>
>> Emily
>> --
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>>
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>>
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

Cool, aside from the wiki, does anyone have a list of who's in charge
of/volunteered to do other articles? Are the respective teams working on
their sections or should I just do for each of the remaining sections as I
did with the Accessibility/a11y report?

Emily

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christy Eller
wrote:

> And I'm planning to work on the thank you pants article today!
>
> Christy
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:
>
>> Thanks Emily,
>>
>> This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview
>> together for the report. I'll get to it this week.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>> On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
>>> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
>>> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>>>
>>> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on
>>> the wiki yesterday
>>> (
>>> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents
>>> ),
>>> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these,
>>> if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please
>>> let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm
>>> planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.
>>>
>>> Emily
>>> --
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>>> power and magic in it. -  Goethe
>>>
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>>> and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss
>>>
>>> Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
>>> counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
>>>
>>>
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team doesn't have 
anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't be in the report. So I'd 
love to see us come up with a table of contents and each section should have an 
editor or author at this point. 

Cheers,
Dave.

"Emily Gonyer"  wrote:

>Cool, aside from the wiki, does anyone have a list of who's in charge
>of/volunteered to do other articles? Are the respective teams working
>on
>their sections or should I just do for each of the remaining sections
>as I
>did with the Accessibility/a11y report?
>
>Emily
>
>On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christy Eller
>wrote:
>
>> And I'm planning to work on the thank you pants article today!
>>
>> Christy
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Emily,
>>>
>>> This is a timely reminder that I have to put the Marina interview
>>> together for the report. I'll get to it this week.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dave.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2012 01:33 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>>
 Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and
>am
 wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective
>'owned'
 projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?

 I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed
>on
 the wiki yesterday
 (

>http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents
 ),
 I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of
>these,
 if thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case
>please
 let me know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out.
>Otherwise, I'm
 planning on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.

 Emily
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
be in the report.


+1

Though it is pretty sad if any GNOME team has nothing to report of
anything done in the past 2 years, considering that's when GNOME 3
released.

But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
for teams that cannot get their act together.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
>> doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
>> be in the report.
>
> +1
>
> Though it is pretty sad if any GNOME team has nothing to report of
> anything done in the past 2 years, considering that's when GNOME 3
> released.
>
> But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
> for teams that cannot get their act together.

Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
about writing stuff up.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

How about I combine the 'overviews' from 2010/2011 for each team (which are
really just each years quarterly reports combined together themselves), and
send them off to each group asking for updates/fixes/additions/etc, and
then publish each of them. That way we ensure we have at least short status
reports from each main group in GNOME. (This is basically what I did with
the accessibility/a11y report.)

As for the combination, that absolutely makes sense, should I/we contact
GNOME.Asia & GUADEC now re: how we're going to publish this or wait a while
longer?  If we're going to include their respective brochures for this
year, do we still want/need their sections in the international events
section? Or do we want to include the brochures along side/within that
section?

Emily

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >
> > On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >> IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
> >> doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
> >> be in the report.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Though it is pretty sad if any GNOME team has nothing to report of
> > anything done in the past 2 years, considering that's when GNOME 3
> > released.
> >
> > But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
> > for teams that cannot get their act together.
>
> Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
> together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
> updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
> but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
> been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
> about writing stuff up.
>
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Mon, February 27, 2012 7:08 pm, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> How about I combine the 'overviews' from 2010/2011 for each team (which
> are
> really just each years quarterly reports combined together themselves),
> and
> send them off to each group asking for updates/fixes/additions/etc, and
> then publish each of them. That way we ensure we have at least short
> status
> reports from each main group in GNOME. (This is basically what I did with
> the accessibility/a11y report.)

That sounds great, and you can build off of what you did in the yearly
overviews!

> As for the combination, that absolutely makes sense, should I/we contact
> GNOME.Asia & GUADEC now re: how we're going to publish this or wait a
> while
> longer?  If we're going to include their respective brochures for this
> year, do we still want/need their sections in the international events
> section? Or do we want to include the brochures along side/within that
> section?

I'm not sure I really understand the idea to bundle them together - the
sponsorship brochures seem really single focus to me. I love the idea of
bundling them together to give to sponsors, and even link to them from our
web published versions, but I don't really understand how it would work to
actually include them in the report.

Brian, could you explain your idea a little bit more?

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

Emily & Karen:


As for the combination, that absolutely makes sense, should I/we contact
GNOME.Asia&  GUADEC now re: how we're going to publish this or wait a
while
longer?  If we're going to include their respective brochures for this
year, do we still want/need their sections in the international events
section? Or do we want to include the brochures along side/within that
section?


I'm not sure I really understand the idea to bundle them together - the
sponsorship brochures seem really single focus to me.


We should consider, though, how we could better harmonize our marketing
efforts to gain sponsors and to better simplify things.  I think the
brochures are good, but we benefit more by harmonizing them.

Many advisory board members have told us that they would prefer being
approached just once in the year and asked for a single amount.  They
have told us they do not like being approached separately for each
event, as we have tended to do in the past.  So do two brochures make
sense?

Currently, for example, the Platinum sponsorship level for GUADEC is
$25,000 and for GNOME.Asia is $12,000.  Since we raised the yearly
advisory board fee to $20,000 two years ago, this means an organization
on the advisory board would need to donate $57,000 to The GNOME
Foundation in 2012 to cover their fee and get Platinum level for both
events.  Is it just me, or is this unrealistically high?

Both organizations seem to have unique perspectives about what sort of
deals to offer.  GUADEC offers a discount to repeat sponsors while
GNOME.Asia offers discount to smaller local sponsors.  We could take
the best ideas from both communities and do things like provide both
kinds of discounts.

Today at the GUADEC planning meeting, the organizers were discussing
charging an admission fee to professionals, with much lower options for 
GNOME Foundation members, students and hobbyists.  Something similar to

what was done at Den Haag where the professional fee was 250 Euros.
The GUADEC organizers are planning on taking those who pay the
professional fee to a networking dinner.

It probably makes sense to give sponsors a number of free professional
passes and benefits like a dinner at both events.  By taking the best
of both brochures and combining the information into the Bi-Annual
report, we have the opportunity to put together a more simple and
coherent sponsorship program.  This way, recipients of the report have
a good idea of what we have accomplished the past few years, and how
they can help.


I love the idea of
bundling them together to give to sponsors, and even link to them from our
web published versions, but I don't really understand how it would work to
actually include them in the report.

Brian, could you explain your idea a little bit more?


Perhaps a good last section of the Bi-Annual report could be a section
which explained our sponsorship options, and encouraged individuals to
consider donating.  We could, for example, encourage donations to our
Friends of GNOME a11y campaign.

I think we can highlight our many achievements over recent years,
such as a successful GNOME 3 launch with enthusiastic parties around
the world, record numbers of productive hackfests and events.  We
have a good track record and have plenty of evidence to show that we
have been using our funding to really grow the GNOME volunteer
community.  Lots more has been getting done, I think.

We need to make it more clear that by giving to The GNOME Foundation,
many organizations benefit themselves.  The GNOME Foundation ensures
that the community manages many important activities through volunteer
effort.  By providing even a small amount to The GNOME Foundation,
individuals and organizations can make sure that people in the
community are well trained and busy attending productive hackfests,
that the sysadmin team is keeping common resources humming along, etc.
Organizations can expect that they will benefit more as the
community continues to grow, and it would be hard to do so much without
all the contributions.

We really need to make sure that all of our past sponsors understand
we really appreciate all of their help.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

On 02/28/2012 12:37 AM, Karen Sandler wrote:

On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:

On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
be in the report.


...


But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
for teams that cannot get their act together.


Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
about writing stuff up.


To explain what I had in mind:

I don't want to paint this as "Lazy teams, not sending in their reports" 
- that would be homework, and wouldn't make the report better.


What I would like to have is an editor who either (a) asks what's been 
happening that's cool, or (b) looks through blog posts and articles and 
figures out what would be compelling, and then either ask people to 
write something specifically about that, or (as Emily has been doing) 
writing something short about it, and asking people to review and edit.


In brief:
 - Start from something worth talking about
 - Figure out content around that

So what we're talking about, for example, might be Igalia's investment 
in accessibility (hiring Joanie, API as a11y maintainer, and all the 
great work they're doing) rather than getting "the accessibility team 
report". Or we might have an article on how much users like Mallard 
documentation, and a short tutorial on how to document a module, rather 
than "the documentation team report".


Just a couple of examples off the top of my head on how I think we 
should be approaching it.


Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

...

On 02/28/2012 10:19 AM, Dave Neary wrote:

What I would like to have is an editor who either (a) asks what's been
happening that's cool, or (b) looks through blog posts and articles and
figures out what would be compelling, and then either ask people to
write something specifically about that, or (as Emily has been doing)
writing something short about it, and asking people to review and edit.


And specifically, around the platform, there aren't many of the 
GTK+/platform developers who are active bloggers. Those that come to 
mind, who might be interested in writing about how easy bindings are 
with GNOME 3's platform, for example are: Johan Dahlin, Danni Madeley 
and Tomeu Vizoso (who have written about it before), and attendees at 
the GObject introspection hackfest: 
https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Introspection2011


By the way, to figure out who's blogged about a subject in the past, 
"site:blogs.gnome.org " works pretty well. Not ideal, since not 
all GNOME hackers are on blogs.gnome.org. Google Blogs Search returns 
more hits, but also many more irrelevant links too.


Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

On 02/28/2012 03:08 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

We should consider, though, how we could better harmonize our marketing
efforts to gain sponsors and to better simplify things. I think the
brochures are good, but we benefit more by harmonizing them.

Many advisory board members have told us that they would prefer being
approached just once in the year and asked for a single amount. They
have told us they do not like being approached separately for each
event, as we have tended to do in the past. So do two brochures make
sense?


I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual 
report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?


While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of 
the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as 
our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far & 
wide. I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be 
a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with 
the annual report is appropriate. In fact, advisory board budgeting is 
necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a 
brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC 
brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board, 
or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.


Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our 
budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members. That's 
a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget 
is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up 
being a useful tool for advisory board members too.


Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

Dave:

On 02/28/12 03:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote:

I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual
report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?


Yes, this was my suggestion.

To be honest, I do not care if they are are a single or separate
documents.  I mostly think they should be harmonized so that the
documents all look like they came from the same organization.

I think we need to consider how we should modify the way we approach
potential sponsors so that we only need to approach them a single time
instead of multiple times.  Having sponsorship options that better take
into consideration how sponsors could be involved with both events would
be an improvement.

The current brochures on the table make funding both events at a Gold
or Platinum level extremely expensive, for example.  Is this sensible?


While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of
the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as
our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far &
wide.


As you say, the Annual Report has multiple purposes.


I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be
a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with
the annual report is appropriate.


I do not understand your point.  Including some information in the
Annual Report to highlight how organizations can sponsor upcoming
events is just useful information and need not dig too deeply into the
advisory board budgets.


In fact, advisory board budgeting is
necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a
brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC
brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board,
or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.


Either way, it is just a way to communicate a good starting point for
discussion.  A way to highlight the sponsorship levels and benefits.
Personally, I think there is value in just having a single document
for people to keep track of.  But I am not opposed to multiple
documents if people prefer, though they should look more like they
were designed by the same marketing team.


Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our
budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members.


We currently have no sponsors for either GUADEC or GNOME.Asia, both 
events happening in the summer.



That's
a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget
is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up
being a useful tool for advisory board members too.


We need to approach our regular sponsors anyway before the summer to get
sponsors for our upcoming events this year.  In other words, we will 
need to seek sponsorship around the same time we plan to have the

Bi-Annaul Report done.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Karen Sandler]

On Tue, February 28, 2012 9:29 am, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Dave:
>
> On 02/28/12 03:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual
>> report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?
>
> Yes, this was my suggestion.
>
> To be honest, I do not care if they are are a single or separate
> documents.  I mostly think they should be harmonized so that the
> documents all look like they came from the same organization.
>
> I think we need to consider how we should modify the way we approach
> potential sponsors so that we only need to approach them a single time
> instead of multiple times.  Having sponsorship options that better take
> into consideration how sponsors could be involved with both events would
> be an improvement.
>
> The current brochures on the table make funding both events at a Gold
> or Platinum level extremely expensive, for example.  Is this sensible?
>
>> While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of
>> the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as
>> our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far &
>> wide.
>
> As you say, the Annual Report has multiple purposes.
>
>> I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be
>> a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with
>> the annual report is appropriate.
>
> I do not understand your point.  Including some information in the
> Annual Report to highlight how organizations can sponsor upcoming
> events is just useful information and need not dig too deeply into the
> advisory board budgets.
>
>> In fact, advisory board budgeting is
>> necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a
>> brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC
>> brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board,
>> or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.
>
> Either way, it is just a way to communicate a good starting point for
> discussion.  A way to highlight the sponsorship levels and benefits.
> Personally, I think there is value in just having a single document
> for people to keep track of.  But I am not opposed to multiple
> documents if people prefer, though they should look more like they
> were designed by the same marketing team.
>
>> Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our
>> budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members.
>
> We currently have no sponsors for either GUADEC or GNOME.Asia, both
> events happening in the summer.

That's not entirely true - two funders confirmed their plans to sponsor
GUADEC some time ago, though it hasn't been finalized yet.

>> That's
>> a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget
>> is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up
>> being a useful tool for advisory board members too.
>
> We need to approach our regular sponsors anyway before the summer to get
> sponsors for our upcoming events this year.  In other words, we will
> need to seek sponsorship around the same time we plan to have the
> Bi-Annaul Report done.

I agree with this though, and your ideas about the brochures - it would be
great to harmonize them, and I think it would make sense to offer annual
package deals to give discounts to sponsor everything together, and commit
in advance.

karen

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

Ok, so maybe what we should do is focus on getting one consistant
design/theme for GNOME documents/brochures/etc for 2012, so that the Annual
Report *looks* the same as the brochures for GUADEC & GNOME.Asia, then when
anyone looks through them they know instantly that they are all from the
same organization... in which case I think we need someone with design
skills to help :) (Which, I'll be the first to admit, I seriously lack!)
Any volunteers?

As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in what
the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be an
overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this case,
two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report? Or do we
want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams work for the
last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm honestly not sure
which one is preferable, although I lean towards the second.

The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the annual
report out within the next month, the second route will be much harder to
accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the quarterly reports
and hash something together for each team fairly easy in the next couple
weeks, but writing completely new content/articles will take longer.
Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as suggested by Dave and
see if any of them would be willing to contribute, and go from there.

Emily

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Karen Sandler  wrote:

> On Tue, February 28, 2012 9:29 am, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >
> > Dave:
> >
> > On 02/28/12 03:47 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >> I hope I understand you correctly - are you suggesting that the annual
> >> report is somehow a brochure we use for sponsor & AB recruitment?
> >
> > Yes, this was my suggestion.
> >
> > To be honest, I do not care if they are are a single or separate
> > documents.  I mostly think they should be harmonized so that the
> > documents all look like they came from the same organization.
> >
> > I think we need to consider how we should modify the way we approach
> > potential sponsors so that we only need to approach them a single time
> > instead of multiple times.  Having sponsorship options that better take
> > into consideration how sponsors could be involved with both events would
> > be an improvement.
> >
> > The current brochures on the table make funding both events at a Gold
> > or Platinum level extremely expensive, for example.  Is this sensible?
> >
> >> While I think it is useful for that, because it's showing the value of
> >> the foundation, I don't think that's its primary purpose. I see it as
> >> our annual magazine, an opportunity to spread news about GNOME far &
> >> wide.
> >
> > As you say, the Annual Report has multiple purposes.
> >
> >> I think that adding a donation form targeting individuals might be
> >> a good idea, but I don't think that mixing advisory board budgets with
> >> the annual report is appropriate.
> >
> > I do not understand your point.  Including some information in the
> > Annual Report to highlight how organizations can sponsor upcoming
> > events is just useful information and need not dig too deeply into the
> > advisory board budgets.
> >
> >> In fact, advisory board budgeting is
> >> necessarily very high-touch, hand-holding, and I wouldn't expect a
> >> brochure to impact that budgeting decision at all. I see the GUADEC
> >> brochure as being aimed at potential sponsors not on the advisory board,
> >> or as an infoirmational document for advisory board members.
> >
> > Either way, it is just a way to communicate a good starting point for
> > discussion.  A way to highlight the sponsorship levels and benefits.
> > Personally, I think there is value in just having a single document
> > for people to keep track of.  But I am not opposed to multiple
> > documents if people prefer, though they should look more like they
> > were designed by the same marketing team.
> >
> >> Also, I'm not sure we're in a position now to have a one-off "what's our
> >> budget next year" conversation with most advisory board members.
> >
> > We currently have no sponsors for either GUADEC or GNOME.Asia, both
> > events happening in the summer.
>
> That's not entirely true - two funders confirmed their plans to sponsor
> GUADEC some time ago, though it hasn't been finalized yet.
>
> >> That's
> >> a conversation to have in August and September, when the annual budget
> >> is being finalised, not in March. So the GUADEC brochure may well end up
> >> being a useful tool for advisory board members too.
> >
> > We need to approach our regular sponsors anyway before the summer to get
> > sponsors for our upcoming events this year.  In other words, we will
> > need to seek sponsorship around the same time we plan to have the
> > Bi-Annaul Report done.
>
> I agree with this though, and your ideas about the brochures - it would be
> great to harmonize them, and I thi

Re: Annual Report Status?

[Brian Cameron]

Emily:


As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in
what the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be
an overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this
case, two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report?
Or do we want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams
work for the last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm
honestly not sure which one is preferable, although I lean towards the
second.


The same answer may not be the right answer for all GNOME teams.  The
production of reports is very dependent on volunteer effort, so I think
it is good to have a process that gives project teams some flexibility.

Ultimately we want to communicate that we are a vibrant and productive
community with a strong, positive vision.  To do this, we do not need
to include updates from every team, but focus on the ones that make a
strong impact.


The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the
annual report out within the next month, the second route will be much
harder to accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the
quarterly reports and hash something together for each team fairly easy
in the next couple weeks, but writing completely new content/articles
will take longer. Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as
suggested by Dave and see if any of them would be willing to contribute,
and go from there.


I would recommend using the quarterly reports more as a guide to better
understand which teams we should be contacting and pushing the hardest
to provide content.  I also like the idea of contacting bloggers and
doing a call for contributions and inspiration from the GNOME
community.

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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Christy Eller]

I have completed an article on the Thank You Pants- where should I put it,
and in what format? Right now it is an .odt with several photos. Can I send
it to you Emily?

Christy

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
> Emily:
>
>
>  As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in
>> what the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be
>> an overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this
>> case, two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report?
>> Or do we want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams
>> work for the last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm
>> honestly not sure which one is preferable, although I lean towards the
>> second.
>>
>
> The same answer may not be the right answer for all GNOME teams.  The
> production of reports is very dependent on volunteer effort, so I think
> it is good to have a process that gives project teams some flexibility.
>
> Ultimately we want to communicate that we are a vibrant and productive
> community with a strong, positive vision.  To do this, we do not need
> to include updates from every team, but focus on the ones that make a
> strong impact.
>
>
>  The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the
>> annual report out within the next month, the second route will be much
>> harder to accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the
>> quarterly reports and hash something together for each team fairly easy
>> in the next couple weeks, but writing completely new content/articles
>> will take longer. Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as
>> suggested by Dave and see if any of them would be willing to contribute,
>> and go from there.
>>
>
> I would recommend using the quarterly reports more as a guide to better
> understand which teams we should be contacting and pushing the hardest
> to provide content.  I also like the idea of contacting bloggers and
> doing a call for contributions and inspiration from the GNOME
> community.
>
> Brian
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Gonyer]

Sure, you can send it to me Christy, or just post it on the wiki. Either
way though, please note that its done on the wiki :)

Emily

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Christy Eller
wrote:

> I have completed an article on the Thank You Pants- where should I put it,
> and in what format? Right now it is an .odt with several photos. Can I send
> it to you Emily?
>
> Christy
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Brian Cameron 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Emily:
>>
>>
>>  As for the Annual Report, what I'm hearing is a conflict somewhat in
>>> what the vision for the annual report is/should be. Do we want it to be
>>> an overview of what has gone on in GNOME over the last year (or in this
>>> case, two years) - ie the quarterly reports condensed into one report?
>>> Or do we want to focus on one or two 'important' areas of each teams
>>> work for the last year? I can see the benefits to each vision, and I'm
>>> honestly not sure which one is preferable, although I lean towards the
>>> second.
>>>
>>
>> The same answer may not be the right answer for all GNOME teams.  The
>> production of reports is very dependent on volunteer effort, so I think
>> it is good to have a process that gives project teams some flexibility.
>>
>> Ultimately we want to communicate that we are a vibrant and productive
>> community with a strong, positive vision.  To do this, we do not need
>> to include updates from every team, but focus on the ones that make a
>> strong impact.
>>
>>
>>  The only real problem I see with it is time - if we want to get the
>>> annual report out within the next month, the second route will be much
>>> harder to accomplish. I think I should be able to read through the
>>> quarterly reports and hash something together for each team fairly easy
>>> in the next couple weeks, but writing completely new content/articles
>>> will take longer. Alternatively we can start contacting the bloggers as
>>> suggested by Dave and see if any of them would be willing to contribute,
>>> and go from there.
>>>
>>
>> I would recommend using the quarterly reports more as a guide to better
>> understand which teams we should be contacting and pushing the hardest
>> to provide content.  I also like the idea of contacting bloggers and
>> doing a call for contributions and inspiration from the GNOME
>> community.
>>
>> Brian
>>
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Re: Annual Report Status?

[Emily Chen]

Hi Emily,

I copy one section "Montréal Summit 2011"
from
http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents
to
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q4

I would like to know who is the author for this section?

Thanks,
Emily

2012/2/25 Emily Gonyer 

> Hi all! I've been looking over the wiki for the Annual Report and am
> wondering how things are going for everyone on their respective 'owned'
> projects? Does anyone need help with something specific?
>
> I did a paragraph for each of the 'big international' events listed on the
> wiki yesterday (
> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/InternationalEvents),
> I'm not sure how much information we were looking for on each of these, if
> thats it or if we'd like a fuller article. If thats the case please let me
> know, and I'll start working on fleshing them out. Otherwise, I'm planning
> on working on a page re: Outreach Program for Women next.
>
> Emily
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Re: Annual report design

[Emily Gonyer]

FWIW I love the 1st cover and the 2nd interior design - mostly due to
concerns related to printing and using an excessive amount of ink with
the interior of option 1 :)

Emily

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
> Hi!
> With things progressing well with the content of the report (almost all
> articles are done and are currently in the proof reading phase), we can now
> move forward with the design.
> Daniel have made a good base design and now we just need the layouts for how
> the content will look in place.
> https://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Mockups
> Daniel: Are you up for taking the content in the wiki and apply it to your
> designs to see how it all will look in the end?
> It will need some space for photos, and we need to get a list of good photos
> to go with the articles. Anyone interested in taking that on?
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Re: Annual report design

[Brett Legree]

I agree with you Emily, I prefer the first cover too and the second
interior - plus, the second interior design may be easier to read (black
text on light background).

Brett
On Mar 19, 2013 2:49 PM, "Emily Gonyer"  wrote:

> FWIW I love the 1st cover and the 2nd interior design - mostly due to
> concerns related to printing and using an excessive amount of ink with
> the interior of option 1 :)
>
> Emily
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andreas Nilsson 
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > With things progressing well with the content of the report (almost all
> > articles are done and are currently in the proof reading phase), we can
> now
> > move forward with the design.
> > Daniel have made a good base design and now we just need the layouts for
> how
> > the content will look in place.
> > https://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Mockups
> > Daniel: Are you up for taking the content in the wiki and apply it to
> your
> > designs to see how it all will look in the end?
> > It will need some space for photos, and we need to get a list of good
> photos
> > to go with the articles. Anyone interested in taking that on?
> > - Andreas
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Re: Annual report design

[Daniel Galleguillos]

El 19-03-13 11:12, Andreas Nilsson escribió:

Hi!
Hi Andreas, Sorry for delay, arrives today >:(
With things progressing well with the content of the report (almost 
all articles are done and are currently in the proof reading phase), 
we can now move forward with the design.
Daniel have made a good base design and now we just need the layouts 
for how the content will look in place.

https://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Mockups
Daniel: Are you up for taking the content in the wiki and apply it to 
your designs to see how it all will look in the end?
I know I'm late so I'll work really hard this week to apply the content 
in the layout and this weekend I´ll have the report ready for any 
corrections.
It will need some space for photos, and we need to get a list of good 
photos to go with the articles. Anyone interested in taking that on?

And don't forget the photographer's name for the credits. :)

- Andreas

Best Regards.
Daniel Galleguillos.

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Re: Annual report design

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 2013-04-08 21:00, Daniel Galleguillos wrote:

El 19-03-13 11:12, Andreas Nilsson escribió:

Hi!
Hi Andreas, Sorry for delay, arrives today >:(
With things progressing well with the content of the report (almost 
all articles are done and are currently in the proof reading phase), 
we can now move forward with the design.
Daniel have made a good base design and now we just need the layouts 
for how the content will look in place.

https://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Mockups
Daniel: Are you up for taking the content in the wiki and apply it to 
your designs to see how it all will look in the end?
I know I'm late so I'll work really hard this week to apply the 
content in the layout and this weekend I´ll have the report ready for 
any corrections.


No worries!
I made a sketch on how they pages could be laid out over 20 pages.
https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/annual-report-2012.png
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Re: Annual report design

[Daniel Galleguillos C.]

Andreas,
Thanks dude this will help me a lot to finish the report this week and send
it for any correction.

2013/4/9 Andreas Nilsson 

> On 2013-04-08 21:00, Daniel Galleguillos wrote:
>
>> El 19-03-13 11:12, Andreas Nilsson escribió:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>> Hi Andreas, Sorry for delay, arrives today <> connections>>:(
>>
>>> With things progressing well with the content of the report (almost all
>>> articles are done and are currently in the proof reading phase), we can now
>>> move forward with the design.
>>> Daniel have made a good base design and now we just need the layouts for
>>> how the content will look in place.
>>> https://live.gnome.org/**DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_**Mockups
>>> Daniel: Are you up for taking the content in the wiki and apply it to
>>> your designs to see how it all will look in the end?
>>>
>> I know I'm late so I'll work really hard this week to apply the content
>> in the layout and this weekend I´ll have the report ready for any
>> corrections.
>>
>
> No worries!
> I made a sketch on how they pages could be laid out over 20 pages.
> https://raw.github.com/gnome-**design-team/gnome-marketing/**
> master/annual-report-2012.png
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Re: Annual report design

[Andreas Nilsson]

How is this going?
- Andreas

On 2013-04-09 10:13, Daniel Galleguillos C. wrote:

Andreas,
Thanks dude this will help me a lot to finish the report this week and 
send it for any correction.


2013/4/9 Andreas Nilsson mailto:li...@andreasn.se>>

On 2013-04-08 21:00, Daniel Galleguillos wrote:

El 19-03-13 11:12, Andreas Nilsson escribió:

Hi!

Hi Andreas, Sorry for delay, arrives today <>:(

With things progressing well with the content of the
report (almost all articles are done and are currently in
the proof reading phase), we can now move forward with the
design.
Daniel have made a good base design and now we just need
the layouts for how the content will look in place.
https://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Mockups
Daniel: Are you up for taking the content in the wiki and
apply it to your designs to see how it all will look in
the end?

I know I'm late so I'll work really hard this week to apply
the content in the layout and this weekend I´ll have the
report ready for any corrections.


No worries!
I made a sketch on how they pages could be laid out over 20 pages.

https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/annual-report-2012.png


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Re: Annual report design

[Andreas Nilsson]

Hi Daniel!
Putting marketing-list in cc.

On 2013-04-19 11:28, Daniel Galleguillos C. wrote:


Andreas.-

I've added 90% text,but I have some questions to continue and do not 
twice work .


1.- Letter from the executive Director. (Is not in English, or I add 
like appear in the image)



The text is mockup text, as it still needs the text from Karen.


2.- Where I can find some Pictures for GSOC & GPOW.

People from the marketing-team can help you here. GUADEC photos is a 
good resource.


3.- 15 Year Anniversary of the GNOME Project. (Do you have some sketch 
for Timeline)



We can use the same as here.
http://www.happybirthdaygnome.org/


4.- Conference and Hackfest (where I can find some Picture for each 
one of the CaHF)



Marketing team can help you here.


5.- Marina Winner of the Pants Award, I Need a Picture or just I take 
one from: 
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011/ThankYouPants



I think we might have something from GUADEC.


6.- Bugsquad, I take the data from: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html&days=366&products=500&reporters=15&hunters=15&patchers=15&reviewers=15


Or I use this 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-January/msg0.html 
?


7.- I don’t have the Data for Budget. (Where I can Get some Pictures)


I'm working on this together with Shaun and Karen.


8.- Firneds Of GNOME Contributors.( Is not in English, or I add like 
appear in the image) or add 
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2012/FoGContributors



Mockup text, so the list from the url above is correct.

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Re: Annual report design

[Andreas Nilsson]

I also forgot to ask, should we do photos in b/w or color?
If we do b/w, jimmac have some great pictures on his flickr from GUADEC:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakubsteiner/sets/72157630884294574/with/7704526562/

You can also search for GUADEC on Google Plus.
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Re: annual report deadline is here!

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

I re-pinged Daniel Siegel to ask that lazy wanderling the travelling 
GNOME to answer my questions - I'll keep you posted!


Cheers,
Dave.

On 03/04/2013 09:17 PM, Karen Sandler wrote:

Hi all!

We're coming up on the first deadline for the annual report tomorrow.
Please upload as much content as you have so we can so we can assess where
we are!

I've got 2 that I'm responsible for (one that will wait until after I read
all of yours!)

Shaun, where we on the financial section? Do we need to extend the
deadline? Of all of the sections, I don't think we can go ahead without
this one.

Tobi, do you think you can put some membership stats together for us? I'm
sorry, I didn't realize that there was no owner for that really important
topic!

karen





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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

At the moment, I need to get a head of Christor to see if we can set up a
subdomain WP instance with it's own database and we can just dump the
database from GJ WP instance on wordpress.com and then move it over.  I
think we can do this quickly once we can get a moment of Christor's time.
I raelly want to finish this by the end of this year as I'm sick of having
this hanging over my head.

sri

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Emily Gonyer  wrote:

> Reading through the old 2010 quarterly reports, they honestly remind me
> more of journal articles than straight reports like the more recent 2011
> reports have been. As a result, I can't help but to wonder if we could
> somehow combine the future Quarterly reports with the GNOME journal in some
> way, thereby giving them more publicity. Perhaps ask folks to write about
> what they/their project are doing for the GNOME Journal and then we could
> summarize that into the quarterly report along with more bare-bones facts
> for the board/donors/etc?
>
> Also, any status report on the movement of GNOME Journal to gnome.orgservers?
>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Brian Cameron]

Emily:

I very much agree that the GNOME Journal and Quarterly Reports should
be combined.  I think it would make sense for the combined thing to
continue as GNOME Journal and just stop doing Quarterly Reports.

The Quarterly Reports have been useful tools in helping to make the
Annual Report, so perhaps GNOME Journal could be enhanced to cover
these topics instead of having a separate Quarterly Report.

Also, it would be nice if we had a periodical that was a bit more
focused on being something to share with the GNOME User's Groups.  I
think adding the "User Group Report" to the latest Quarterly Reports was 
an effort at providing more periodic information about what is

going on in the GNOME User Group community.  However, I suspect we
could do more to make the GNOME Journal something that focuses on
GNOME User's Groups as an important topic and audience.

Brian


On 12/19/11 11:30 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Reading through the old 2010 quarterly reports, they honestly remind me
more of journal articles than straight reports like the more recent 2011
reports have been. As a result, I can't help but to wonder if we could
somehow combine the future Quarterly reports with the GNOME journal in
some way, thereby giving them more publicity. Perhaps ask folks to write
about what they/their project are doing for the GNOME Journal and then
we could summarize that into the quarterly report along with more
bare-bones facts for the board/donors/etc?

Also, any status report on the movement of GNOME Journal to gnome.org
 servers?

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Emily Chen]

Hi Brian and all,

 I am working on the GNOME quarterly report for about one year, this sounds
like a good idea to combine the GNOME Journal and GNOME Quarterly report. I
am happy to work with GNOME Journal team to make things forward. How does
everyone think about this idea?

-Emily

2012/1/5 Brian Cameron 

>
> Emily:
>
> I very much agree that the GNOME Journal and Quarterly Reports should
> be combined.  I think it would make sense for the combined thing to
> continue as GNOME Journal and just stop doing Quarterly Reports.
>
> The Quarterly Reports have been useful tools in helping to make the
> Annual Report, so perhaps GNOME Journal could be enhanced to cover
> these topics instead of having a separate Quarterly Report.
>
> Also, it would be nice if we had a periodical that was a bit more
> focused on being something to share with the GNOME User's Groups.  I
> think adding the "User Group Report" to the latest Quarterly Reports was
> an effort at providing more periodic information about what is
> going on in the GNOME User Group community.  However, I suspect we
> could do more to make the GNOME Journal something that focuses on
> GNOME User's Groups as an important topic and audience.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On 12/19/11 11:30 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>
>> Reading through the old 2010 quarterly reports, they honestly remind me
>> more of journal articles than straight reports like the more recent 2011
>> reports have been. As a result, I can't help but to wonder if we could
>> somehow combine the future Quarterly reports with the GNOME journal in
>> some way, thereby giving them more publicity. Perhaps ask folks to write
>> about what they/their project are doing for the GNOME Journal and then
>> we could summarize that into the quarterly report along with more
>> bare-bones facts for the board/donors/etc?
>>
>> Also, any status report on the movement of GNOME Journal to gnome.org
>>  servers?
>>
>>
>> Emily
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>> power and magic in it. -  Goethe
>>
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>> and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss
>>
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>> counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
>>
>>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Brian Cameron]

Emily & GNOME Journal Folks:

On 01/29/12 09:32 PM, Emily Chen wrote:

Hi Brian and all,

  I am working on the GNOME quarterly report for about one year, this
sounds like a good idea to combine the GNOME Journal and GNOME Quarterly
report. I am happy to work with GNOME Journal team to make things
forward. How does everyone think about this idea?


This sounds like a great idea.  Who is working on GNOME Journal these
days?

I suspect that those people who normally work on GNOME Journal are
probably busy helping on the 2010-2011 Bi-Annual Report.  This
Bi-Annual Report is the 1st glossy product of the GNOME Marketing
team since the GNOME 3.0 launch.  So, it would not surprise me to
hear that GNOME Journal and/or the Quarterly Reports might be on
of lower priority until the Bi-Annual Report is completed.

That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and GNOME
Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming Marketing
team IRC meeting?

Also, a few months ago the GNOME Marketing Team was discussing having a
hackfest, but there has been no discussion recently.  There sure does
seem to be a lot of work that would justify getting key GNOME marketing
people together to push forward on these and other activities.

Brian



2012/1/5 Brian Cameron mailto:brian.came...@oracle.com>>


Emily:

I very much agree that the GNOME Journal and Quarterly Reports should
be combined.  I think it would make sense for the combined thing to
continue as GNOME Journal and just stop doing Quarterly Reports.

The Quarterly Reports have been useful tools in helping to make the
Annual Report, so perhaps GNOME Journal could be enhanced to cover
these topics instead of having a separate Quarterly Report.

Also, it would be nice if we had a periodical that was a bit more
focused on being something to share with the GNOME User's Groups.  I
think adding the "User Group Report" to the latest Quarterly Reports
was an effort at providing more periodic information about what is
going on in the GNOME User Group community.  However, I suspect we
could do more to make the GNOME Journal something that focuses on
GNOME User's Groups as an important topic and audience.

Brian



On 12/19/11 11:30 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Reading through the old 2010 quarterly reports, they honestly
remind me
more of journal articles than straight reports like the more
recent 2011
reports have been. As a result, I can't help but to wonder if we
could
somehow combine the future Quarterly reports with the GNOME
journal in
some way, thereby giving them more publicity. Perhaps ask folks
to write
about what they/their project are doing for the GNOME Journal
and then
we could summarize that into the quarterly report along with more
bare-bones facts for the board/donors/etc?

Also, any status report on the movement of GNOME Journal to
gnome.org 
 servers?


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don't matter
and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Christy Eller]

>
> Hi -
>
> I just wanted to mention that Sri and Emily G were working on Journal- but
> also, Sri and Allan Day and I are working on redesigning news.gnome.org-
> which has some implications for the role of Journal. Our plans are here:
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/NewsRedesign. Our goal is to
> streamline, automate and invigorate the news process so that fresh and
> current content is getting easily passed to gnome.org and the social
> media.
>
> I think Journal may very well still be the best place for the reports,
> because it will get fed through the channels- but I wanted to throw in this
> info.
>
> I agree with Brian and would love to take part in a marketing meeting-
>
> Christy
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Brian Cameron 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Emily & GNOME Journal Folks:
>>
>>
>> On 01/29/12 09:32 PM, Emily Chen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Brian and all,
>>>
>>>  I am working on the GNOME quarterly report for about one year, this
>>> sounds like a good idea to combine the GNOME Journal and GNOME Quarterly
>>> report. I am happy to work with GNOME Journal team to make things
>>> forward. How does everyone think about this idea?
>>>
>>
>> This sounds like a great idea.  Who is working on GNOME Journal these
>> days?
>>
>> I suspect that those people who normally work on GNOME Journal are
>> probably busy helping on the 2010-2011 Bi-Annual Report.  This
>> Bi-Annual Report is the 1st glossy product of the GNOME Marketing
>> team since the GNOME 3.0 launch.  So, it would not surprise me to
>> hear that GNOME Journal and/or the Quarterly Reports might be on
>> of lower priority until the Bi-Annual Report is completed.
>>
>> That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
>> and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and GNOME
>> Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming Marketing
>> team IRC meeting?
>>
>> Also, a few months ago the GNOME Marketing Team was discussing having a
>> hackfest, but there has been no discussion recently.  There sure does
>> seem to be a lot of work that would justify getting key GNOME marketing
>> people together to push forward on these and other activities.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>  2012/1/5 Brian Cameron >> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Emily:
>>>
>>>I very much agree that the GNOME Journal and Quarterly Reports should
>>>be combined.  I think it would make sense for the combined thing to
>>>continue as GNOME Journal and just stop doing Quarterly Reports.
>>>
>>>The Quarterly Reports have been useful tools in helping to make the
>>>Annual Report, so perhaps GNOME Journal could be enhanced to cover
>>>these topics instead of having a separate Quarterly Report.
>>>
>>>Also, it would be nice if we had a periodical that was a bit more
>>>focused on being something to share with the GNOME User's Groups.  I
>>>think adding the "User Group Report" to the latest Quarterly Reports
>>>was an effort at providing more periodic information about what is
>>>going on in the GNOME User Group community.  However, I suspect we
>>>could do more to make the GNOME Journal something that focuses on
>>>GNOME User's Groups as an important topic and audience.
>>>
>>>Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 12/19/11 11:30 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>>>
>>>Reading through the old 2010 quarterly reports, they honestly
>>>remind me
>>>more of journal articles than straight reports like the more
>>>recent 2011
>>>reports have been. As a result, I can't help but to wonder if we
>>>could
>>>somehow combine the future Quarterly reports with the GNOME
>>>journal in
>>>some way, thereby giving them more publicity. Perhaps ask folks
>>>to write
>>>about what they/their project are doing for the GNOME Journal
>>>and then
>>>we could summarize that into the quarterly report along with more
>>>bare-bones facts for the board/donors/etc?
>>>
>>>Also, any status report on the movement of GNOME Journal to
>>>gnome.org 
>>> servers?
>>>
>>>
>>>Emily
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>>>genius,
>>>power and magic in it. -  Goethe
>>>
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>>>don't matter
>>>and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss
>>>
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>>>counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
>>>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Emily Chen]

What is the next marketing IRC meeting time ? I will happy to attend if the
time works for my timezone.

-Emily Chen

That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
> and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and GNOME
> Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming Marketing
> team IRC meeting?
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Christy Eller]

Hi Emily-

I just spoke to Karen, and she leaves for FOSDEM tomorrow. We're thinking
next Wednesday or Thursday, 2/8 or 2/9 might be good timing. They are
having a mini-marketing meeting at FOSDEM on Sunday, and can report to us
on that.

We are going to work on setting up a meeting time with a scheduler (
doodle.com?) that will make it easy for us to individually declare which
times will work for us. We will keep in touch-

Christy

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Emily Chen  wrote:

> What is the next marketing IRC meeting time ? I will happy to attend if
> the time works for my timezone.
>
> -Emily Chen
>
>
> That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
>> and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and GNOME
>> Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming Marketing
>> team IRC meeting?
>>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Brian Cameron]

Christy:


I just spoke to Karen, and she leaves for FOSDEM tomorrow. We're
thinking next Wednesday or Thursday, 2/8 or 2/9 might be good timing.
They are having a mini-marketing meeting at FOSDEM on Sunday, and can
report to us on that.

We are going to work on setting up a meeting time with a scheduler
(doodle.com ?) that will make it easy for us to
individually declare which times will work for us. We will keep in touch-


Is it not possible to schedule an IRC meeting during the mini-marketing
meeting at FOSDEM?  It seems good if people not at FOSDEM can
participate in some way.

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Emily Chen]

Thank you Christy. I will try to attend if the time fits.

I also cc: Andreas and Andre to invite them to join the meeting, they are
helping a lot on the quarterly report.

-Emily
2012/2/2 Christy Eller 

> Hi Emily-
>
> I just spoke to Karen, and she leaves for FOSDEM tomorrow. We're thinking
> next Wednesday or Thursday, 2/8 or 2/9 might be good timing. They are
> having a mini-marketing meeting at FOSDEM on Sunday, and can report to us
> on that.
>
> We are going to work on setting up a meeting time with a scheduler (
> doodle.com?) that will make it easy for us to individually declare which
> times will work for us. We will keep in touch-
>
> Christy
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Emily Chen  wrote:
>
>> What is the next marketing IRC meeting time ? I will happy to attend if
>> the time works for my timezone.
>>
>> -Emily Chen
>>
>>
>>  That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
>>> and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and GNOME
>>> Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming Marketing
>>> team IRC meeting?
>>>
>>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Karen Sandler]

Emily,

Also, jjmarin reminds me that there will be new procedures for publishing
some of the GNOME news items (Allan, Christy and Andrea have all been
working on a reorg for us!) so, let's coordinate as a marketing team
before publishing the quarterly reports. That way we can be sure that they
end up in the right place.

thanks again for working on them!!!
karen

On Wed, February 1, 2012 10:05 pm, Emily Chen wrote:
> Thank you Christy. I will try to attend if the time fits.
>
> I also cc: Andreas and Andre to invite them to join the meeting, they are
> helping a lot on the quarterly report.
>
> -Emily
> 2012/2/2 Christy Eller 
>
>> Hi Emily-
>>
>> I just spoke to Karen, and she leaves for FOSDEM tomorrow. We're
>> thinking
>> next Wednesday or Thursday, 2/8 or 2/9 might be good timing. They are
>> having a mini-marketing meeting at FOSDEM on Sunday, and can report to
>> us
>> on that.
>>
>> We are going to work on setting up a meeting time with a scheduler (
>> doodle.com?) that will make it easy for us to individually declare which
>> times will work for us. We will keep in touch-
>>
>> Christy
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Emily Chen 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the next marketing IRC meeting time ? I will happy to attend if
>>> the time works for my timezone.
>>>
>>> -Emily Chen
>>>
>>>
>>>  That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
 and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and
 GNOME
 Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming
 Marketing
 team IRC meeting?

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Emily Chen]

Sure, I will contact them.

-Emily

2012/2/2 Karen Sandler 

> Emily,
>
> Also, jjmarin reminds me that there will be new procedures for publishing
> some of the GNOME news items (Allan, Christy and Andrea have all been
> working on a reorg for us!) so, let's coordinate as a marketing team
> before publishing the quarterly reports. That way we can be sure that they
> end up in the right place.
>
> thanks again for working on them!!!
> karen
>
> On Wed, February 1, 2012 10:05 pm, Emily Chen wrote:
> > Thank you Christy. I will try to attend if the time fits.
> >
> > I also cc: Andreas and Andre to invite them to join the meeting, they are
> > helping a lot on the quarterly report.
> >
> > -Emily
> > 2012/2/2 Christy Eller 
> >
> >> Hi Emily-
> >>
> >> I just spoke to Karen, and she leaves for FOSDEM tomorrow. We're
> >> thinking
> >> next Wednesday or Thursday, 2/8 or 2/9 might be good timing. They are
> >> having a mini-marketing meeting at FOSDEM on Sunday, and can report to
> >> us
> >> on that.
> >>
> >> We are going to work on setting up a meeting time with a scheduler (
> >> doodle.com?) that will make it easy for us to individually declare
> which
> >> times will work for us. We will keep in touch-
> >>
> >> Christy
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Emily Chen 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> What is the next marketing IRC meeting time ? I will happy to attend if
> >>> the time works for my timezone.
> >>>
> >>> -Emily Chen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  That said, it still does sound like there should be more discussion
>  and coordination between the Quarterly Report, Annual Report, and
>  GNOME
>  Journal people.  Perhaps this could be a topic of an upcoming
>  Marketing
>  team IRC meeting?
> 
> >>>
> >>>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Juanjo Marín]

- Mensaje original -
> De: Karen Sandler 
> Para: Emily Chen 
> CC: Andreas Nilsson ; Andre Klapper ; 
> GnomeMarketing Mailing List 
> Enviado: Jueves 2 de febrero de 2012 6:37
> Asunto: Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports
> 
> Emily,
> 
> Also, jjmarin reminds me that there will be new procedures for publishing
> some of the GNOME news items (Allan, Christy and Andrea have all been
> working on a reorg for us!) so, let's coordinate as a marketing team
> before publishing the quarterly reports. That way we can be sure that they
> end up in the right place.



Emily,

All the previous quaterly and annual reports have been published in the new
foundation page thanks to Andrea Veri.

The idea is to publish the new reports here too, so if you don't have a git 
account
for updating the foundation-web module you can ask Andrea Veri for one.

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Emily Chen]

Thanks for the reminder, Juanjo.

There are still two sections in Q4 report not finished yet. I will upload
to new foundation page when it is done.

-Emily

2012/3/3 Juanjo Marín 

>
>
>
>
> - Mensaje original -
> > De: Karen Sandler 
> > Para: Emily Chen 
> > CC: Andreas Nilsson ; Andre Klapper ;
> GnomeMarketing Mailing List 
> > Enviado: Jueves 2 de febrero de 2012 6:37
> > Asunto: Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports
> >
> > Emily,
> >
> > Also, jjmarin reminds me that there will be new procedures for publishing
> > some of the GNOME news items (Allan, Christy and Andrea have all been
> > working on a reorg for us!) so, let's coordinate as a marketing team
> > before publishing the quarterly reports. That way we can be sure that
> they
> > end up in the right place.
>
>
>
> Emily,
>
> All the previous quaterly and annual reports have been published in the new
> foundation page thanks to Andrea Veri.
>
> The idea is to publish the new reports here too, so if you don't have a
> git account
> for updating the foundation-web module you can ask Andrea Veri for one.
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Andrea Veri]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012, Juanjo Marín wrote:

> All the previous quaterly and annual reports have been published in the new
> foundation page thanks to Andrea Veri.
> 
> The idea is to publish the new reports here too, so if you don't have a git 
> account
> for updating the foundation-web module you can ask Andrea Veri for one.

The foundation-web's GIT repository isn't used anymore (apart from 
vote stuff), and the new Foundation area [1] is managed through 
Wordpress on the main gnome.org istance.

Emily if you need a gnome.org WordPress account just let me know and 
I'll set you up, the page where all the reports got imported can be 
found at [2].

I created a quarterly-reports category, so you'll just have to get 
yourself on Posts --> New Post and set the category to 
quarterly-reports when you're done with it. (you can even set up a 
draft directly there without publishing the content or publishing it 
when you're done with everything)

If you need any other information, feel free to /msg me on IRC 
(nickname 'av' on GIMPNET) or mail me.

Have an awesome weekend,

Andrea

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[2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports


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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Juanjo Marín]

- Mensaje original -

> De: Andrea Veri 
> Para: Juanjo Marín 
> CC: "ka...@gnome.org" ; Emily Chen ; 
> Andreas Nilsson ; Andre Klapper ; 
> GnomeMarketing Mailing List 
> Enviado: Sábado 3 de marzo de 2012 10:28
> Asunto: Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports
> 
> On Fri, 02 Mar 2012, Juanjo Marín wrote:
> 
>>  All the previous quaterly and annual reports have been published in the new
>>  foundation page thanks to Andrea Veri.
>> 
>>  The idea is to publish the new reports here too, so if you don't have a 
> git account
>>  for updating the foundation-web module you can ask Andrea Veri for one.
> 
> The foundation-web's GIT repository isn't used anymore (apart from 
> vote stuff), and the new Foundation area [1] is managed through 
> Wordpress on the main gnome.org istance.
> 
> Emily if you need a gnome.org WordPress account just let me know and 
> I'll set you up, the page where all the reports got imported can be 
> found at [2].
> 
> I created a quarterly-reports category, so you'll just have to get 
> yourself on Posts --> New Post and set the category to 
> quarterly-reports when you're done with it. (you can even set up a 
> draft directly there without publishing the content or publishing it 
> when you're done with everything)
> 
> If you need any other information, feel free to /msg me on IRC 
> (nickname 'av' on GIMPNET) or mail me.
> 


Thanks for the clarification and sorry for the misinformation

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Emily Chen]

Hi Andrea and all,

With the help of Andreas, we have upload the Q4 report to:
http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/

We are going to announce Q4 report by this weekend. Let me know if there is
any other things to do.

-Emily

2012/3/3 Andrea Veri 

> On Fri, 02 Mar 2012, Juanjo Marín wrote:
>
> > All the previous quaterly and annual reports have been published in the
> new
> > foundation page thanks to Andrea Veri.
> >
> > The idea is to publish the new reports here too, so if you don't have a
> git account
> > for updating the foundation-web module you can ask Andrea Veri for one.
>
> The foundation-web's GIT repository isn't used anymore (apart from
> vote stuff), and the new Foundation area [1] is managed through
> Wordpress on the main gnome.org istance.
>
> Emily if you need a gnome.org WordPress account just let me know and
> I'll set you up, the page where all the reports got imported can be
> found at [2].
>
> I created a quarterly-reports category, so you'll just have to get
> yourself on Posts --> New Post and set the category to
> quarterly-reports when you're done with it. (you can even set up a
> draft directly there without publishing the content or publishing it
> when you're done with everything)
>
> If you need any other information, feel free to /msg me on IRC
> (nickname 'av' on GIMPNET) or mail me.
>
> Have an awesome weekend,
>
> Andrea
>
> [1] http://www.gnome.org/foundation
> [2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports
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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Andre Klapper]

Hola,

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 19:34 +0800, Emily Chen wrote:
> With the help of Andreas, we have upload the Q4 report to: 
> http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/
> 
> We are going to announce Q4 report by this weekend. Let me know if
> there is any other things to do. 

Two small issues:

Copy and paste from the wiki can introduce question marks for CamelCase
words, but only "William Jon ?McCann" is affected by it. :)

by: Emily Gonyer should be  as the rest.

Will the currently missing Q3 report be added too?

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Re: Annual Report, GNOME Journal & Quarterly Reports

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 03/22/2012 01:02 PM, Andre Klapper wrote:

Hola,

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 19:34 +0800, Emily Chen wrote:

With the help of Andreas, we have upload the Q4 report to:
http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/

Two small issues:

Copy and paste from the wiki can introduce question marks for CamelCase
words, but only "William Jon ?McCann" is affected by it. :)

by: Emily Gonyer should be  as the rest.

Fixed, thanks for spotting these!

Will the currently missing Q3 report be added too?

I'll add it as soon as I find it.
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Diego Escalante Urrelo]

Commenting is easy so here I go:

- Isn't Karen's signature a bit "dirty"?

- On the cover, isn't Annual Report a bit missaligned? Or is it just a
printing consideration? Also, the all caps looks a bit "Arialish"

- Why not serif fonts for the main text too? Like in page 8 for
quotes, I believe this is usually easier to read on big text blocks.
(sorry, this is by far the naggiest comment)

- On page 11/12 for Hackfests, the photo that is going to be cut in
the middle... Literally cuts down the girl in the middle. Any chance
to use another (the one with the laptops perhaps, since the middle is
empty, although it looks cool on the left already)?

- On page 19, the interview with Daniel has some weird spacing, I mean
that there is a lot of blank before the title. I fail to see the
reason, I suppose it is some aligment reason.

Now that you hate me, I will go on and say that it looks really cool
:-). Pages are well built, photos well used and the simplicity is
really GNOMEish.

Thank you for all the work, you are my hero <3

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
> Hi!
> Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Emily Gonyer]

Hey all, just a few things:

Page 5 in  ..."binary that not only to benefits application
developers" remove the 'to' after "..source code and binary

Page 7,
-third paragraph ".. While the philosophy to keep things simply
remains," change "simply" to "simple"
-fifth paragraph ..."to be official part of GNOME": add 'an' before
'official part of GNOME', also drop the -on- in ..."next release and
-on- specific modules.

Page 10,
-Boston Summit, 2nd paragraph: .."Gtk+?/WebKit, Clutter 2.0, and
Gestures among others." - I'm sure I meant to determine which vs of
Gtk+ was worked, on, I'd assume 3 at this point, though I'm not 100%
on that. (2010)
- , add a comma after Evolution ..."Evolution Gstreamer, packaging
GNOME in Debian and many others."

Page 12,
- change 'server' to 'served': "The conference server as warm up for
the hackfest" and add "a" after "served as" so its "served as a warm
up",
- remo 'to' :  "GNOME documentation team to engage with other
fellows." ..'team engage with other fellows'

Under 'Accessibility hackfest agenda'
- add "The" and change 'Plans' to plan before the first line: "The
Plans for GNOME 3.."

Page 15
- need a space between 2011 and the: "In 2011the GNOME's outreach"
- change "runs" to "ran": "runs through March 15, 2012"

- remove ? before 'LinkedIn': "manager on ?LinkedIn"

Page 18: can we move the link
(http://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Workshop) down to the bottom?
Or put a [1] in and then the link either after the question is fully
answered or at the end of the interview (moving any/all others as
well).

Page 20: link: "mentoring howto:
http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer­of­code­mentoring­howto/";

Page 21: 2 links : .."available at http://youtu.be/jHB­N_rOZA* The 7th
GNOME Forum" and end of 3rd paragraph


Otherwise it looks great!! Thanks for all the hardwork!!

Emily

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo
 wrote:
> Commenting is easy so here I go:
>
> - Isn't Karen's signature a bit "dirty"?
>
> - On the cover, isn't Annual Report a bit missaligned? Or is it just a
> printing consideration? Also, the all caps looks a bit "Arialish"
>
> - Why not serif fonts for the main text too? Like in page 8 for
> quotes, I believe this is usually easier to read on big text blocks.
> (sorry, this is by far the naggiest comment)
>
> - On page 11/12 for Hackfests, the photo that is going to be cut in
> the middle... Literally cuts down the girl in the middle. Any chance
> to use another (the one with the laptops perhaps, since the middle is
> empty, although it looks cool on the left already)?
>
> - On page 19, the interview with Daniel has some weird spacing, I mean
> that there is a lot of blank before the title. I fail to see the
> reason, I suppose it is some aligment reason.
>
> Now that you hate me, I will go on and say that it looks really cool
> :-). Pages are well built, photos well used and the simplicity is
> really GNOMEish.
>
> Thank you for all the work, you are my hero <3
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:
>> Hi!
>> Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
>> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf
>> - Andreas
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Juanjo Marín]

- Mensaje original -
> De: Andreas Nilsson 
> Para: marketing-list 
> CC: 
> Enviado: Viernes 20 de julio de 2012 3:56
> Asunto: Annual report - ready to print (almost)
> 
> Hi!
> Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf
> - Andreas



I overlook it and it looks good. Some random comments:

I think we surely should put the credits of the photographs.
somewherein the report.

Simbol "?" in ?GtkLockButton  ?GtkFontChooserDialog on
page 5, "Gtk+?/WebKit" on page 10, double ? in
"really??" on page  20.

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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andreas Nilsson]

Thanks, fixed.

On 07/20/2012 06:04 AM, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Hey all, just a few things:

Page 5 in  ..."binary that not only to benefits application
developers" remove the 'to' after "..source code and binary

Page 7,
-third paragraph ".. While the philosophy to keep things simply
remains," change "simply" to "simple"
-fifth paragraph ..."to be official part of GNOME": add 'an' before
'official part of GNOME', also drop the -on- in ..."next release and
-on- specific modules.

Page 10,
-Boston Summit, 2nd paragraph: .."Gtk+?/WebKit, Clutter 2.0, and
Gestures among others." - I'm sure I meant to determine which vs of
Gtk+ was worked, on, I'd assume 3 at this point, though I'm not 100%
on that. (2010)
- , add a comma after Evolution ..."Evolution Gstreamer, packaging
GNOME in Debian and many others."

Page 12,
- change 'server' to 'served': "The conference server as warm up for
the hackfest" and add "a" after "served as" so its "served as a warm
up",
- remo 'to' :  "GNOME documentation team to engage with other
fellows." ..'team engage with other fellows'

Under 'Accessibility hackfest agenda'
- add "The" and change 'Plans' to plan before the first line: "The
Plans for GNOME 3.."

Page 15
- need a space between 2011 and the: "In 2011the GNOME's outreach"
- change "runs" to "ran": "runs through March 15, 2012"

- remove ? before 'LinkedIn': "manager on ?LinkedIn"

Page 18: can we move the link
(http://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Workshop) down to the bottom?
Or put a [1] in and then the link either after the question is fully
answered or at the end of the interview (moving any/all others as
well).

Page 20: link: "mentoring howto:
http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer­of­code­mentoring­howto/";

Page 21: 2 links : .."available at http://youtu.be/jHB­N_rOZA* The 7th
GNOME Forum" and end of 3rd paragraph


Otherwise it looks great!! Thanks for all the hardwork!!

Emily

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo
 wrote:

Commenting is easy so here I go:

- Isn't Karen's signature a bit "dirty"?

- On the cover, isn't Annual Report a bit missaligned? Or is it just a
printing consideration? Also, the all caps looks a bit "Arialish"

- Why not serif fonts for the main text too? Like in page 8 for
quotes, I believe this is usually easier to read on big text blocks.
(sorry, this is by far the naggiest comment)

- On page 11/12 for Hackfests, the photo that is going to be cut in
the middle... Literally cuts down the girl in the middle. Any chance
to use another (the one with the laptops perhaps, since the middle is
empty, although it looks cool on the left already)?

- On page 19, the interview with Daniel has some weird spacing, I mean
that there is a lot of blank before the title. I fail to see the
reason, I suppose it is some aligment reason.

Now that you hate me, I will go on and say that it looks really cool
:-). Pages are well built, photos well used and the simplicity is
really GNOMEish.

Thank you for all the work, you are my hero <3

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Nilsson  wrote:

Hi!
Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 07/20/2012 08:25 AM, Juanjo Marín wrote:
I think we surely should put the credits of the photographs. 
somewherein the report. Simbol "?" in ?GtkLockButton 
 ?GtkFontChooserDialog on page 5, "Gtk+?/WebKit" on page 10, double ? 
in "really??" on page  20. Cheers
I'll add the credits if I can get together a list. A lot of them are 
from the photo contest.

Spelling errors fixed.


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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 07/20/2012 04:30 AM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:

Commenting is easy so here I go:

- Isn't Karen's signature a bit "dirty"?

- On the cover, isn't Annual Report a bit missaligned? Or is it just a
printing consideration? Also, the all caps looks a bit "Arialish"

Fixed. Caps would be Chantarell bold.


- Why not serif fonts for the main text too? Like in page 8 for
quotes, I believe this is usually easier to read on big text blocks.
(sorry, this is by far the naggiest comment)

It is indeed. ;)


- On page 11/12 for Hackfests, the photo that is going to be cut in
the middle... Literally cuts down the girl in the middle. Any chance
to use another (the one with the laptops perhaps, since the middle is
empty, although it looks cool on the left already)?

Will try to fix. Running short on time.


- On page 19, the interview with Daniel has some weird spacing, I mean
that there is a lot of blank before the title. I fail to see the
reason, I suppose it is some aligment reason.

Fixed.


Now that you hate me, I will go on and say that it looks really cool
:-). Pages are well built, photos well used and the simplicity is
really GNOMEish.

No, I love you, as always.
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Brian Cameron]

Andreas:


Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf


Would it be possible to include a photo of the board members?  Are
there no group photos of the board?

Perhaps ones that aren't scary:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670619

I think it would be good to attribute the photos.  It is interesting to
understand that some of the photos were contest winners and represent
GNOME users from various parts of the world, to understand what event
the large group photos were taken, etc.

Brian

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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andre Klapper]

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 03:56 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf

On page 13, the Openismus logo is the old one.
I've attached the current one to this email.

Slightly surprised to see no author names listed somewhere, but maybe
that helps avoiding a blame game in the end. ;))

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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Karen Sandler]

On Sat, July 21, 2012 5:10 pm, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 03:56 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>> Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
>> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf
>
> On page 13, the Openismus logo is the old one.
> I've attached the current one to this email.
>
> Slightly surprised to see no author names listed somewhere, but maybe
> that helps avoiding a blame game in the end. ;))
>

That's a really good point! I don't know if it's too late to include, but
I at least want to thank gonyere, jjmarin and andreasn here - you guys
were so great to contribute so much! dneary and all of our interviewees
too :)

karen


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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 07/21/2012 11:10 PM, Andre Klapper wrote:

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 03:56 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf

On page 13, the Openismus logo is the old one.
I've attached the current one to this email.

Do you have that as SVG or EPS as well?
- Andreas

Slightly surprised to see no author names listed somewhere, but maybe
that helps avoiding a blame game in the end. ;))

I need a list of authors and photographers in that case.
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Karen Sandler]

On Mon, July 23, 2012 4:38 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 07/21/2012 11:10 PM, Andre Klapper wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 03:56 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>>> Designed and ready, now ready for proof reading before we print it.
>>> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf
>> On page 13, the Openismus logo is the old one.
>> I've attached the current one to this email.
> Do you have that as SVG or EPS as well?
> - Andreas
>> Slightly surprised to see no author names listed somewhere, but maybe
>> that helps avoiding a blame game in the end. ;))
> I need a list of authors and photographers in that case.
> - Andreas

Well, we need to just get this printed and maybe we can add this for the
web version?

Andreas, thanks for working so hard on this! Can you send the final copy
to Chema so we stand a chance of getting a few print copies asap (we can
make do with just 20 or even 15 for the adboard meeting, I think)?

karen

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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 07/23/2012 01:35 PM, Karen Sandler wrote:
Well, we need to just get this printed and maybe we can add this for 
the web version? Andreas, thanks for working so hard on this! Can you 
send the final copy to Chema so we stand a chance of getting a few 
print copies asap (we can make do with just 20 or even 15 for the 
adboard meeting, I think)?
Print ready version is now on: 
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/andreasn/annual-report.pdf

Now I need to run and catch my flight!
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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Brian Cameron]

That link does not work for me, but the following one does and
I see this version was updated just today:

http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf

Brian


On 07/23/12 07:24 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

On 07/23/2012 01:35 PM, Karen Sandler wrote:

Well, we need to just get this printed and maybe we can add this for
the web version? Andreas, thanks for working so hard on this! Can you
send the final copy to Chema so we stand a chance of getting a few
print copies asap (we can make do with just 20 or even 15 for the
adboard meeting, I think)?

Print ready version is now on:
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/andreasn/annual-report.pdf
Now I need to run and catch my flight!
- Andreas


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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

Is this gone to the presses? I'm just reading it now, and have spotted a 
couple of speeling and layout errors (yes, that was a joke):


Karen's letter: "bariers to entry" -> barriers
Marina interview: GNOME Mentors list gets carried over to next heading 
between pages 17 and 18


There may be others, but those were the two I noticed.

Cheers,
Dave.

On 07/23/2012 11:55 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:


That link does not work for me, but the following one does and
I see this version was updated just today:

http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/annual-report.pdf

Brian


On 07/23/12 07:24 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

On 07/23/2012 01:35 PM, Karen Sandler wrote:

Well, we need to just get this printed and maybe we can add this for
the web version? Andreas, thanks for working so hard on this! Can you
send the final copy to Chema so we stand a chance of getting a few
print copies asap (we can make do with just 20 or even 15 for the
adboard meeting, I think)?

Print ready version is now on:
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/andreasn/annual-report.pdf
Now I need to run and catch my flight!
- Andreas




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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andre Klapper]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 14:24 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Print ready version is now on: 
> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/andreasn/annual-report.pdf

If still possible, the outdated "Openismus" company logo on page 13
should be replaced by one of these here:
http://www.openismus.com/press/logos/2009%20and%202010/

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Re: Annual report - ready to print (almost)

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 07/24/2012 10:39 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 14:24 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

Print ready version is now on:
http://andreasn.myownb3.com/andreasn/annual-report.pdf

If still possible, the outdated "Openismus" company logo on page 13
should be replaced by one of these here:
http://www.openismus.com/press/logos/2009%20and%202010/


Sorry, already sent to print :(
Will fix in the version we'll upload to the website though.
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Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

[Dave Neary]

Hi all,

Email 1 of 3 re Marina interview for the annual report.

Thanks,
Dave.

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:06:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya 
To: Dave Neary 
CC: Juanjo Marin , Emily Gonyer 
,ka...@gnome.org


Hi Dave,

I wrote a few answers, but will need more time tomorrow. I really like 
to have a chance to think through these answers well. We can then 
shorten them and add in more things from the IRC conversation. How about 
we talk on IRC on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday instead of tomorrow?


Here are my responses to the first 2 questions.

Q. Marina, you've co-ordinated the GNOME Outreach Program for Women for
the past two years. Can you tell us how you got involved in GNOME yourself?

I joined Red Hat six years ago to work on a social networking product 
after seeing a posting from the team's manager on LinkedIn. I had used 
Linux through my college years and at my previous job, but I didn't have 
any experience contributing to free software. In fact, I remember 
puzzling over why there was a choice between two options - GNOME and KDE 
- at the login screen of my Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation at my 
previous job, and wondering how was I supposed to know which one to pick.


Four years ago my original team was merged into the desktop team and I 
started working on GNOME. With many great GNOME contributors out there, 
it's uncommon for the desktop team to hire someone who is not an 
established contributor, so the fact that I ended up working on GNOME is 
a happy coincidence.


Q. How did you end up co-ordinating the Outreach Program for Women?

In August 2009, I received an e-mail from Diego Escalante Urrelo, on 
behalf of the GNOME Board of Directors, asking me to organize the 
outreach effort. Having just come from the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, 
it was very evident to me and others how few women there were in the 
GNOME community. There are just 4 women in this[1] GNOME group picture 
of about 160. Two other women are Stormy Peters and Rosanna Yuen, who 
worked for the GNOME Foundation. The third woman is Alia Merali, who 
joined her husband it attending several GUADECs and helped with 
organizing GUADEC in Barcelona in 2006. It was very exciting to me to 
have the mandate and the support of the GNOME Foundation to involve more 
women in the GNOME community.


[1]http://images49.fotki.com/v856/filevUZx/7142f/7/441267/7802004/081.jpg (we 
can probably find a better picture)


(To complete my answer for this question I'll talk about what we did to 
start out the outreach effort and that there were 15 and 23 women 
respectively at the GNOME women's dinners at GUADEC in the subsequent 
years.)


Thanks,
Marina

- Original Message -
From: "Dave Neary" 
To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" 
Cc: "Juanjo Marin" , "Emily Gonyer" 
, ka...@gnome.org

Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:52:11 AM
Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

Hi,

On 12/05/2011 07:14 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:

Thanks for making plans to cover mentorship in the annual report! I'll be happy 
to do an interview and help with any materials about mentorship for the report.

How about we start it out as a written Q&A, and then you can follow up with 
more questions via e-mail or on IRC based on my answers if you'd like? That way 
I'll get a bit more time to think about the answers to the core questions, but then 
we can incorporate questions based on the answers I provide and introduce an 
element of a discussion into the interview. I'm generally around this week and next.


Sure! I was thinking that a half an hour IRC chat which we could edit
afterwards might come across more as a conversation than a Q&A - but I'd
be happy to send you a few questions to allow you to organise your
thoughts. We can either publish these, or do the conversation format
afterwards, whichever you prefer. Thanks!


Q. Marina, you've co-ordinated the GNOME Outreach Program for Women for
the past two years. Can you tell us how you got involved in GNOME yourself?

Q. How did you end up co-ordinating the Outreach Program for Women?

Q. Has it been easy to convince people to mentor projects? What
proportion of the mentors are male?

Q. Do you think we're doing a good job as mentors in the GNOME
community? What could we be doing better?

Q. What do you think are the main issues that we need to work on as a
community to see more women getting involved in GNOME?

Q. Given the success of the first two editions of the Outreach Program
for Women, do you anticipate the program continuing in future years?


Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Dave.

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(3/3) Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

[Dave Neary]

Hi again,

Email 3/3 re interview with Marina for the annual report. This is the 
log of an IRC discussion, plus some follow-on answers from Marina.


Thanks,
Dave.

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:10:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya 
To: Dave Neary 
CC: Juanjo Marin , Emily Gonyer 
,ka...@gnome.org


Hi Dave et al,

Thanks for conducting a great interview! It was fun :)!

Here are the answers to the questions I skipped over while trying to get 
to some other questions :).


Thanks!
Marina

 Do you think that there's a need for a mentorship and outreach 
team? You mentioned that you want to get people informally mentoring, 
labelling some bugs "easy-fix" and committing to helping people fix them.


Formalizing the mentorship and outreach team is a good idea and we have 
already created outreach-l...@gnome.org to steer the effort. At the same 
time, everyone in GNOME should consider informally mentoring newcomers, 
marking bugs that they can help a newcomer fix with the "gnome-love" 
keyword, signing up for the gnome-l...@gnome.org mailing list, and 
hanging out in the #gnome-love IRC channel.


Recently, we used the list of mentors we already had for the Outreach 
Program for Women to start a more general list of GNOME mentors who are 
willing to informally mentor any newcomer any time throughout the year. 
We encourage everyone to add their projects and themselves to that list! 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/Mentors


 So is mentorship something that every GNOME developer should be 
doing? Or do you think it's a skill that we need to develop among a team 
of people?


I absolutely think every established GNOME developer should act as a 
mentor. By established GNOME developer, I mean anyone who has Git commit 
rights. People are usually very helpful on IRC when specific questions 
are asked related to the task someone is trying to accomplish, but we 
should also be helpful by directing newcomers in what bug to fix first 
and what resources to read. This is what mentoring is about and anyone 
can do this within the project area they are knowledgeable about.


 How about every-day activities? Is there a need to spread the 
load around? Who keeps watch to make sure we're not dropping the pace?


Having many GNOME contributors act as mentors on the every day basis 
will spread the load around. In addition to being able to ask mentors 
from the list on the GNOME Love wiki page for help, newcomers can ask 
for help in being connected to mentors on the gnome-l...@gnome.org 
mailing list and #gnome-love IRC channel. There are people on the 
mailing list and in the channel who ensure that all newcomers know what 
steps to take next.


- Original Message -
From: "Dave Neary" 
To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" 
Cc: "Juanjo Marin" , "Emily Gonyer" 
, ka...@gnome.org

Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:20:45 PM
Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

Hi Marina et al,

Here's a straight transcript of our follow-up IRC chat - I'm hoping to
get time to edit all this into a nice article before flying to Ireland
on Monday, if not, then either someone else CCed might be able to help?
Or it'll have to wait until I get back from holidays.

Thanks for all your time and effort!

Cheers,
Dave.

 So - Hi Marina!
  You mentioned that you joined Red Hat in 2006. Did you find it tricky,
as a woman, to join an Open Source company?
 Hi Dave!
 Hi
 Not at all. I was in the computer science club since 8th grade,
got a Computer Science degree at MIT, and have been working as a
software engineer since, so I am used to working with mostly men.
Everyone at Red Hat and in the GNOME community has been very
professional, so I didn't run in into any issues.
 How about when you joined the GNOME team?
 GNOME is a very mature and friendly community, so there were no
issues their either. My main challenge has been feeling that I don't
know things that are obvious to other people. For example, "upstream"
has been a mystery word to me for many years, which I kept trying to
parse out from the context.
  s/their/there
 Interesting!
  So - what issues did you want to address when running the Women's
Outreach Program?
  Do you know why Diego asked you to lead it?
 I wanted to reach more women with information about how
exciting and valuable work on GNOME and other free software projects is.
 Has it been a good experience running it?
 We just came from the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, which took
place in July 2009, and it was evident to me and others how few women
there were in the GNOME community. I could count 4, including myself, on
a group picture of about 160 GNOME attendees. Perhaps Diego and other
people on the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation thought that I
had a good amount of experience in the GNOME communi

(2/3) Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

[Dave Neary]

Hi all,

Email 2 of 3 re Marina interview for annual report.

Cheers,
Dave.

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:18:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya 
To: Dave Neary 
CC: Juanjo Marin , Emily Gonyer 
,ka...@gnome.org


Hi Dave,

Sorry about being a bit late with these. Let me know what time you would 
like to talk on IRC tomorrow (Tuesday) or any other day. Any time after 
11am EST tomorrow should work for me.


Thanks!
Marina

Q. Marina, you've co-ordinated the GNOME Outreach Program for Women for
the past two years. Can you tell us how you got involved in GNOME yourself?

I joined Red Hat six years ago to work on a social networking product 
after seeing a posting from the team's manager on LinkedIn. I had used 
Linux through my college years and at my previous job, but I didn't have 
any experience contributing to free software. In fact, I remember 
puzzling over why there was a choice between two options - GNOME and KDE 
- at the login screen of my Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation at my 
previous job, and wondering how was I supposed to know which one to pick.


Four years ago my original team was merged into the desktop team and I 
started working on GNOME. With many great GNOME contributors out there, 
it's uncommon for the desktop team to hire someone who is not an 
established contributor, so the fact that I ended up working on GNOME is 
a happy coincidence.


Q. How did you end up co-ordinating the Outreach Program for Women?

In August 2009, I received an e-mail from Diego Escalante Urrelo, on 
behalf of the GNOME Board of Directors, asking me to organize the 
outreach effort. Having just come from the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, 
it was very evident to me and others how few women there were in the 
GNOME community. There are just 4 women in this[1] GNOME group picture 
of about 160. Two other women are Stormy Peters and Rosanna Yuen, who 
worked for the GNOME Foundation. The third woman is Alia Merali, who 
joined her husband in attending several GUADECs and helped with 
organizing GUADEC in Barcelona in 2006. It was very exciting to me to 
have the mandate and the support of the GNOME Foundation to involve more 
women in the GNOME community.


We started out by doing a round of introductions on the gnome-women-list 
@gnome.org, putting together a page with mentors who can help women 
start contributing to GNOME, working with the FSF on creating resources 
and recommendations for encouraging women to get involved in free 
software, creating an issue of the GNOME Journal with articles by women, 
discussing the 2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program with its organizers 
Hanna Wallach and Chris Ball, following up with that program's 
participants, and encouraging women to apply for Google Summer of Code 
and connecting them with mentors. When we only ended up having one 
female participant in Google Summer of Code that year, we decided to 
create the dedicated internship opportunities for women.


There were 15 and 23 women respectively at the GNOME women's dinners at 
GUADEC in 2010 and the Desktop Summit in 2011. So the outreach effort 
has definitely worked.


[1] http://images49.fotki.com/v856/filevUZx/7142f/7/441267/7802004/081.jpg

Q. Has it been easy to convince people to mentor projects? What
proportion of the mentors are male?

People who were involved in organizing the program were the original 
mentors and provided the initial participants with a reasonable choice 
of projects to contribute to. We have been encouraging people in the 
GNOME community to sign up as mentors throughout, but seeing the work of 
the initial participants was likely the most effective encouragement 
that got people to add themselves to the list. Because pairing up 
participants with mentors is one of the key components of the program, I 
occasionally had to ask people about mentoring specific projects. They 
were usually happy to help.


For the first round, we started out with 8 projects and 9 mentors, out 
of these 3 were women. For the latest, third round, we had 18 project 
and 27 mentors, with 7 women among them. So about 70% of mentors are 
men, which is expected, since we need the help of everyone in the 
community in mentoring the participants. Two of the women who 
participated in the program as interns, Luciana Fujii Pontello and 
Ekaterina Gerasimova, have now become mentors.


Q. Do you think we're doing a good job as mentors in the GNOME
community? What could we be doing better?

We have a lot of resources for someone who wants to start contributing 
to GNOME and people are generally happy to help, but we need to have 
more people taking an active role in informally mentoring newcomers. 
It'd be great if there were more people hanging out on #gnome-love and 
answering questions there.


It'd also be great if people suggested a suitable first bug to fix t

Re: (2/3) Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

[Emily Gonyer]

Hi again, honestly, I think it'd be fine in the annual report as a simple Q
& A - theres a ton of great info here already, and aside from adding more
info directly related to the OPW I'm not sure what would be needed. If its
all right with you, I'll work on getting it edited for grammar/spelling/etc
and stuck on the wiki as such in the next day or two.

Emily

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dave Neary  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Email 2 of 3 re Marina interview for annual report.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> -------- Original Message 
> Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:18:46 -0500 (EST)
> From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya 
> To: Dave Neary 
> CC: Juanjo Marin , Emily Gonyer <
> emilyyr...@gmail.com>,ka...@gnome.org
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Sorry about being a bit late with these. Let me know what time you would
> like to talk on IRC tomorrow (Tuesday) or any other day. Any time after
> 11am EST tomorrow should work for me.
>
> Thanks!
> Marina
>
> Q. Marina, you've co-ordinated the GNOME Outreach Program for Women for
> the past two years. Can you tell us how you got involved in GNOME yourself?
>
> I joined Red Hat six years ago to work on a social networking product
> after seeing a posting from the team's manager on LinkedIn. I had used
> Linux through my college years and at my previous job, but I didn't have
> any experience contributing to free software. In fact, I remember puzzling
> over why there was a choice between two options - GNOME and KDE - at the
> login screen of my Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation at my previous job,
> and wondering how was I supposed to know which one to pick.
>
> Four years ago my original team was merged into the desktop team and I
> started working on GNOME. With many great GNOME contributors out there,
> it's uncommon for the desktop team to hire someone who is not an
> established contributor, so the fact that I ended up working on GNOME is a
> happy coincidence.
>
> Q. How did you end up co-ordinating the Outreach Program for Women?
>
> In August 2009, I received an e-mail from Diego Escalante Urrelo, on
> behalf of the GNOME Board of Directors, asking me to organize the outreach
> effort. Having just come from the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, it was very
> evident to me and others how few women there were in the GNOME community.
> There are just 4 women in this[1] GNOME group picture of about 160. Two
> other women are Stormy Peters and Rosanna Yuen, who worked for the GNOME
> Foundation. The third woman is Alia Merali, who joined her husband in
> attending several GUADECs and helped with organizing GUADEC in Barcelona in
> 2006. It was very exciting to me to have the mandate and the support of the
> GNOME Foundation to involve more women in the GNOME community.
>
> We started out by doing a round of introductions on the gnome-women-list @
> gnome.org, putting together a page with mentors who can help women start
> contributing to GNOME, working with the FSF on creating resources and
> recommendations for encouraging women to get involved in free software,
> creating an issue of the GNOME Journal with articles by women, discussing
> the 2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program with its organizers Hanna Wallach
> and Chris Ball, following up with that program's participants, and
> encouraging women to apply for Google Summer of Code and connecting them
> with mentors. When we only ended up having one female participant in Google
> Summer of Code that year, we decided to create the dedicated internship
> opportunities for women.
>
> There were 15 and 23 women respectively at the GNOME women's dinners at
> GUADEC in 2010 and the Desktop Summit in 2011. So the outreach effort has
> definitely worked.
>
> [1] http://images49.fotki.com/v856/filevUZx/7142f/7/441267/7802004/081.jpg
>
> Q. Has it been easy to convince people to mentor projects? What
> proportion of the mentors are male?
>
> People who were involved in organizing the program were the original
> mentors and provided the initial participants with a reasonable choice of
> projects to contribute to. We have been encouraging people in the GNOME
> community to sign up as mentors throughout, but seeing the work of the
> initial participants was likely the most effective encouragement that got
> people to add themselves to the list. Because pairing up participants with
> mentors is one of the key components of the program, I occasionally had to
> ask people about mentoring specific projects. They were usually happy to
> help.
>
> For the first round, we started out with 8 projects and 9 mentors, out of
> these 3 were women. For the latest, third round, we had

Re: (2/3) Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

If you think so, I'm delighted to concur! I thought that some editing 
and a little narrative would make for a better article, but I'm happy to 
bow to your superior availability ;-)


Thank you!
Dave.

On 05/30/2012 04:41 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:

Hi again, honestly, I think it'd be fine in the annual report as a
simple Q & A - theres a ton of great info here already, and aside from
adding more info directly related to the OPW I'm not sure what would be
needed. If its all right with you, I'll work on getting it edited for
grammar/spelling/etc and stuck on the wiki as such in the next day or two.

Emily

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dave Neary mailto:dne...@gnome.org>> wrote:

Hi all,

Email 2 of 3 re Marina interview for annual report.

Cheers,
Dave.

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:18:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya mailto:mari...@redhat.com>>
To: Dave Neary mailto:dne...@gnome.org>>
CC: Juanjo Marin mailto:juanjomari...@yahoo.es>>, Emily Gonyer mailto:emilyyr...@gmail.com>>, ka...@gnome.org <mailto:ka...@gnome.org>

Hi Dave,

Sorry about being a bit late with these. Let me know what time you
would like to talk on IRC tomorrow (Tuesday) or any other day. Any
time after 11am EST tomorrow should work for me.

Thanks!
Marina

Q. Marina, you've co-ordinated the GNOME Outreach Program for Women for
the past two years. Can you tell us how you got involved in GNOME
yourself?

I joined Red Hat six years ago to work on a social networking
product after seeing a posting from the team's manager on LinkedIn.
I had used Linux through my college years and at my previous job,
but I didn't have any experience contributing to free software. In
fact, I remember puzzling over why there was a choice between two
options - GNOME and KDE - at the login screen of my Red Hat
Enterprise Linux workstation at my previous job, and wondering how
was I supposed to know which one to pick.

Four years ago my original team was merged into the desktop team and
I started working on GNOME. With many great GNOME contributors out
there, it's uncommon for the desktop team to hire someone who is not
an established contributor, so the fact that I ended up working on
GNOME is a happy coincidence.

Q. How did you end up co-ordinating the Outreach Program for Women?

In August 2009, I received an e-mail from Diego Escalante Urrelo, on
behalf of the GNOME Board of Directors, asking me to organize the
outreach effort. Having just come from the Gran Canaria Desktop
Summit, it was very evident to me and others how few women there
were in the GNOME community. There are just 4 women in this[1] GNOME
group picture of about 160. Two other women are Stormy Peters and
Rosanna Yuen, who worked for the GNOME Foundation. The third woman
is Alia Merali, who joined her husband in attending several GUADECs
and helped with organizing GUADEC in Barcelona in 2006. It was very
exciting to me to have the mandate and the support of the GNOME
Foundation to involve more women in the GNOME community.

We started out by doing a round of introductions on the
gnome-women-list @gnome.org <http://gnome.org>, putting together a
page with mentors who can help women start contributing to GNOME,
working with the FSF on creating resources and recommendations for
encouraging women to get involved in free software, creating an
issue of the GNOME Journal with articles by women, discussing the
2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program with its organizers Hanna
Wallach and Chris Ball, following up with that program's
participants, and encouraging women to apply for Google Summer of
Code and connecting them with mentors. When we only ended up having
one female participant in Google Summer of Code that year, we
decided to create the dedicated internship opportunities for women.

There were 15 and 23 women respectively at the GNOME women's dinners
at GUADEC in 2010 and the Desktop Summit in 2011. So the outreach
effort has definitely worked.

[1]
http://images49.fotki.com/v856/filevUZx/7142f/7/441267/7802004/081.jpg

Q. Has it been easy to convince people to mentor projects? What
proportion of the mentors are male?

People who were involved in organizing the program were the original
mentors and provided the initial participants with a reasonable
choice of projects to contribute to. We have been encouraging people
in the GNOME community to sign up as mentors throughout, but seeing
the work of the initial participants was likely the most effective
encouragement that got people to add themselves to the list. Because
p

Re: (2/3) Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya]

Hi Dave and Emily,

Thanks you for trying to sort this out! I'll be happy to look over it too once 
it's on the wiki, and perhaps, provide some updated answers. We had another 
successful round of internships complete since the interview and another round 
begin. Also how we run OPW has affected how we ran GSoC this year. The latest 
news was covered in 
http://www.gnome.org/news/2012/05/gnome-launches-new-round-of-outreach-program-for-women-internships-and-improves-other-outreach-initiatives
 .

Thanks!
Marina

- Original Message -
From: "Dave Neary" 
To: "Emily Gonyer" 
Cc: Marketing-list@gnome.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:09:41 PM
Subject: Re: (2/3) Fwd: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?

Hi,

If you think so, I'm delighted to concur! I thought that some editing 
and a little narrative would make for a better article, but I'm happy to 
bow to your superior availability ;-)

Thank you!
Dave.

On 05/30/2012 04:41 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Hi again, honestly, I think it'd be fine in the annual report as a
> simple Q & A - theres a ton of great info here already, and aside from
> adding more info directly related to the OPW I'm not sure what would be
> needed. If its all right with you, I'll work on getting it edited for
> grammar/spelling/etc and stuck on the wiki as such in the next day or two.
>
> Emily
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dave Neary  <mailto:dne...@gnome.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Email 2 of 3 re Marina interview for annual report.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>  Original Message 
> Subject: Re: Annual report - can I interview you?
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:18:46 -0500 (EST)
> From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya  <mailto:mari...@redhat.com>>
> To: Dave Neary mailto:dne...@gnome.org>>
> CC: Juanjo Marin  <mailto:juanjomari...@yahoo.es>>, Emily Gonyer  <mailto:emilyyr...@gmail.com>>, ka...@gnome.org <mailto:ka...@gnome.org>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Sorry about being a bit late with these. Let me know what time you
> would like to talk on IRC tomorrow (Tuesday) or any other day. Any
> time after 11am EST tomorrow should work for me.
>
> Thanks!
> Marina
>
> Q. Marina, you've co-ordinated the GNOME Outreach Program for Women for
> the past two years. Can you tell us how you got involved in GNOME
> yourself?
>
> I joined Red Hat six years ago to work on a social networking
> product after seeing a posting from the team's manager on LinkedIn.
> I had used Linux through my college years and at my previous job,
> but I didn't have any experience contributing to free software. In
> fact, I remember puzzling over why there was a choice between two
> options - GNOME and KDE - at the login screen of my Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux workstation at my previous job, and wondering how
> was I supposed to know which one to pick.
>
> Four years ago my original team was merged into the desktop team and
> I started working on GNOME. With many great GNOME contributors out
> there, it's uncommon for the desktop team to hire someone who is not
> an established contributor, so the fact that I ended up working on
> GNOME is a happy coincidence.
>
> Q. How did you end up co-ordinating the Outreach Program for Women?
>
> In August 2009, I received an e-mail from Diego Escalante Urrelo, on
> behalf of the GNOME Board of Directors, asking me to organize the
> outreach effort. Having just come from the Gran Canaria Desktop
> Summit, it was very evident to me and others how few women there
> were in the GNOME community. There are just 4 women in this[1] GNOME
> group picture of about 160. Two other women are Stormy Peters and
> Rosanna Yuen, who worked for the GNOME Foundation. The third woman
> is Alia Merali, who joined her husband in attending several GUADECs
> and helped with organizing GUADEC in Barcelona in 2006. It was very
> exciting to me to have the mandate and the support of the GNOME
> Foundation to involve more women in the GNOME community.
>
> We started out by doing a round of introductions on the
> gnome-women-list @gnome.org <http://gnome.org>, putting together a
> page with mentors who can help women start contributing to GNOME,
> working with the FSF on creating resources and recommendations for
> encouraging women to get involved in free software, creating an
> issue of the GNOME Journal with articles by women, discussing the
> 2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program with its organizers Hanna
> Wallach and Chris B