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GNOME Foundation: Stormy’s Update: Week of March 22nd

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http://blogs.gnome.org – Friends of GNOME ruler launched. The campaign has been a great success so far – thanks, everyone! Jeremy Allison joined the GNOME Advisory Board representing Google. Worked with a potential sponsor. Met with Rosanna to discuss the things she’s got going on (invoices, reimbursements, bank stuff, etc) and the Friends of GNOME gifts. Proposed that maybe we could send gifts via a supplier like Amazon. (Software)

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Friends of GNOME ruler was a great success! We met our goal for hiring a sys admin. (My work was just to provide updated numbers frequently and to dent and twitter.

Followed up on several sponsors for GUADEC. It is looking good from a sponsorship perspective! (Don’t forget to submit your talk proposal!) Michael Meeks joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board representing Novell, replacing Gary Ekker.

Answered a lot of emails and had a lot of discussions. As for things I actually crossed off my todo list:

If you measure productivity based on what gets done (as opposed to how hard you work), this was a frustrating week. What I got done:

I think the number of different projects and conversations I am having has maxed out my multiprocessing capabilities. This week I am going to spend more time logged out of email and working on one project at a time.

Edited a GNOME Journal article. Check out the latest issue with its multimedia focus! Published the GNOME Q4 2009 Quarterly Report! Thanks to all the teams that wrote things up – we have some great write-ups about some awesome work.

Attended the fantastic GNOME Marketing Hackfest. Got there and back – on the way home we took a six hour detour – making it a more than 24 hour trip home – and flew by the volcano. For something that has caused so much trouble, it’s not very impressive from an airplane.

Worked a bit on CiviCRM. Could really use some more volunteers. (A big thanks to Jeff Schroeder, Dave Greenberg and Donald Lobo.) Put in sponsoring companies, adboard members, (Dave Neary also added some contacts), put in tasks, added Rosanna and we can track things including sent invoices, added the board so we can all track todo items.

Finally wrapped up the very long thread on the Foundation list and most of the side conversations. Met with a couple of advisory board members (via phone, email and IRC) to discuss funding and GUADEC. We are partnering with Project::Possibility! Look for updates from the GNOME accessibility folks.