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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. And sending thank you notes to all our generous supporters!)
Talked to InitMarketing with Paul Cutler about how they might be able to help us with some of our marketing tasks.
Planned the Desktop Track at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with Zonker and Dave Neary.
Attended the board meeting.
Met with Rosanna.
Met with Jonathan Corbet from LWN.net to discuss partnership opportunities.
Met with Jeremy Allison, our newest GNOME Advisory Board member.
Had a meeting with the folks going to the events in Africa representing GNOME and some of the other board members.
Started a conversation on the mobile list about how best to use the funding from Nokia.
Had lots of exchanges with events looking for me to speak at them. (In all cases I asked for lots more info. In one case I offered to speak in exchange for a donation to the GNOME Foundation.)
Started working on my write-up for my 6 month evaluation.
Spread the word to recruit a few people for the GNOME press team.
Created the GNOME wish list.
Agreed to pay Texas Linux Fest a nonprofit $100 booth fee. (Zonker and the Ubuntu team will be running the GNOME booth.)
Followed up with a few potential GUADEC sponsors.
Sent and received a record amount of email!
Taking some vacation - going to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans!

Next week:

Catch up on email from vacation.
Attend the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and chair the Desktop Track along with Zonker and Dave Neary.
Continue to follow up with GUADEC sponsors.
Help Paul Cutler with prep work for the marketing hackfest.