[foundation-web] add sysadmin, WOP and membership qq4 updates

[Paul Cutler <pcutler src gnome org>]

commit a7c0e9bde4ab54921a0aeb875e16e11d98abab10
Author: Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>
Date:   Mon Mar 21 13:44:12 2011 -0500

    add sysadmin, WOP and membership qq4 updates

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-  
-<h1>Membership and Elections Committee</h1>
-<h2>Tobias Mueller</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h1>Art &amp; Usability Teams</h1>
+<h2>Allan Day, Andreas Nilsson, Calum Benson</h2>
 
+<p><strong>Application Design</strong></p>
 
-<p>During Q3 2010 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 12 applications for a new foundation membership and 41 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 41 were processed. During the same period, 14 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 351 members.</p>
+<p>Usability and design work for GNOME 3.0 continued on gnome-shell, control center, and on the GNOME 3.0 theme and wallpapers. Some members of the art and usability teams participated in the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Boston2010";>GNOME Boston Summit</a> in November.</p>
 
-<p>We ended up with 7 new members:</p>
+<p>The Art Team produced the website for the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/contest";>GNOME 3 T-Shirt</a> design competition.</p>
 
-<ul>
-    <li>Ritesh Khadgaray</li>
-    <li>Friedel Wolff</li>
-    <li>Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias</li>
-    <li>Sumana Harihareswara</li>
-    <li>Jelle de Jong</li>
-    <li>Christer Edwards</li>
-    <li>Pablo Castellano 2010-09-30</li>
-</ul>
+<p>The Usability team produced and sought feedback on some high-level design concepts for Nautilus and Evolution.</p>
+
+<p>A number of IRC meetings were held in November to advance production of the GNOME 3 Human Interface Guidelines. The <a href="http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG3";>chat logs are available</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Several usability "office hours" were held on the #gnome-design IRC channel -- these are scheduled for Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC. Members of the art and usability teams are available at this time every week to answer any GNOME design questions from users, developers and anyone else who might be interested!</p>
 
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-
 <h1>Localization</h1>
 <h2>Petr Kovar</h2>
 
@@ -134,89 +131,69 @@
 
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-<h1>Art &amp; Usability Teams</h1>
-<h2>Allan Day, Andreas Nilsson, Calum Benson</h2>
-
-<p><strong>Application Design</strong></p>
-
-<p>Ongoing work on design work took place around Nautilus. A new round of mockups were created, as well as specifications for icon view layouts. Cosimo Cecchi implemented designs for a new sidebar and connect to server dialog. Several design concepts were developed for Epiphany as a result of discussions with developers at GUADEC. Some redesign proposals were created for Evolution. Hylke Bons revised his voice recorder designs following interest from a developer. These are being implemented.</p>
-
-<p><strong>GNOME 3 Theming</strong></p>
-
-<p>Lapo Calamandrei developed the GNOME 3 window manager theme.</p>
-
-<p><strong>GNOME Design Team</strong></p>
-
-<p>Thanks to the creation of Sparkleshare, the GNOME designers started using a public version control repository for storing and collaborating on design work. The design team started holding weekly design office hours on #gnome-design.</p>
+  
+<h1>Membership and Elections Committee</h1>
+<h2>Tobias Mueller</h2>
 
-<p><strong>GNOME 3 Core Desktop Designs</strong></p>
 
-<p>Designs for the new GNOME 3 Control Center got underway: specifications were created for the background chooser, screensaver, power, time and date chooser, tablets and web accounts panels. New designs for the GNOME Shell date and calender widget.</p>
+<p>During Q3 2010 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 12 applications for a new foundation membership and 41 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 41 were processed. During the same period, 14 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 351 members.</p>
 
-<p><strong>Human Interface Guidelines</strong></p>
+<p>We welcomed 7 new members:</p>
 
-<p>Drafted some initial GNOME 3 UI patterns for further discussion.</p>
+<ul>
+    <li>José Aliste</li>
+    <li>Daniël van Eeden</li>
+    <li>Francisco Diéguez Souto</li>
+    <li>Jeremy Perry</li>
+    <li>Sebastian Dröge</li>
+    <li>Zachary Goldberg</li>
+    <li>Jain Punit</li>
+    <li>Adam Dingle</li>
+    <li>Ray Wang</li>
+    <li>Mirco Bauer</li>
+    <li>Dragos Dena</li>
+    
+</ul>
 
-<hr />
 
 <h1>Outreach Program for Women</h1>
 <h2>Marina Zhurakhinskaya</h2>
 
-<p>There seemed to be a stronger presence of women at GUADEC this year. We held the first womenâ??s dinner at GUADEC which was attended by 15 women. Everyone really enjoyed meeting and talking to each other. Marina Zhurakhinskaya made short presentations to the GNOME Advisory Board and at the Annual General Meeting about the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) efforts.</p>
+<p>The GNOME project proudly announced eight Outreach Program for Women interns on November 5 with a <a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-11-women-outreach-interns.html";>press release</a>.  We were able to accept eight strong candidates thanks to Google sponsoring four of them, the GNOME Foundation sponsoring three, and Collabora sponsoring one. The participants, as well as their location, project, and mentor, are:</p>
 
-<p>We announced the OPW internships for December 15, 2010 to March 15, 2011 dates on September 15. Máirín Duffy designed a catchy flyer for the program. Many members of the community helped spread the word by micro-blogging, blogging, sending information to the universities, and handing out flyers at conferences.</p>
+<ul>
+    <li>Tiffany Antopolski, Toronto, Canada - Documentation - Paul Cutler</li>
+    <li>Nanci de Brito Bonfim, Salvador, Brazil - Anjuta - Sébastien Granjoux</li>
+    <li>Luciana Fujii Pontello, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Cheese - Thiago Sousa Santos</li>
+    <li>Eugenia Gabrielova, Chicago, USA - Anjuta - Johannes Schmid</li>
+    <li>Laura Elisa Lucas Alday, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Cheese - Daniel Siegel</li>
+    <li>Hellyna Ng, Johor, Malaysia / Singapore - GNOME Shell - Marina Zhurakhinskaya</li>
+    <li>Natalia Andrea Ruz Leiva, Valparaíso, Chile - Documentation - Shaun McCance</li>
+    <li>Chandni Verma, Lucknow, India - Empathy - Danielle Madeley</li>
 
-<p>We are currently in the middle of the application process with the application deadline on October 25 and accepted participants announcement on November 3. We have already received a good number of applications and inquiries. We should be able to accept at least five participants, with three being sponsored by the GNOME Foundation and two being sponsored by Google. The following page contains all the information about the program: <a href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010";>http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010</a></p>
 
-<p>Stormy Peters attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on September 28 - October 2. She organized the first Free and Open Source Software booth at the conference and participated in the Open Source Track. At the booth, they handed out 180 flyers about the GNOME Outreach Program for Women as well as lots of GNOME stickers - the logo on a field of grass was the most popular. Heidi Ellis also attended - her class at Western New England College is working on Caribou as part of GNOMEâ??s a11y and HFOSS program.</p>
+<p>This <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/marina/2010/11/05/meet-the-gnome-outreach-program-for-women-interns";>blog post</a> has more information about each participant as well as the links to their individual blogs.  The participants have started their internships on December 15 and have been updating the GNOME community about their work with frequent blog posts that are aggregated on Planet GNOME. The internships period will end March 15. We are hoping that all of the participants will stay active in the GNOME community past the completion of their internships.</p>
 
-<p>The FSF Womens' Caucus' â??Bringing free software to girls and young womenâ?? outreach program with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and Red Hat has started. Máirín Duffy taught the first class session on October 15. The class will run on a weekly basis through mid-December. Red Hat produced live USB keys with the GNOME-based Fedora Design Suite that were distributed to the girls. Their first project involved photomanipulation with Gimp. Future projects will involve Gimp, Inkscape, and other creative tools. This page contains more information about the course: <a href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Women%27s_Caucus/Girl_Scouts_Free_Software_Outreach";>http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Women%27s_Caucus/Girl_Scouts_Free_Software_Outreach</a></p>
+<p>We are planning to run the next round of internships from the end of May through the end of August, with the application process announced sometime in the beginning of March and the application deadline on April 8. This application deadline is same as the application deadline for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year, which will allow us to direct qualifying applicants to apply for both programs. GNOME has historically had few female applicants for GSoC, and running these programs in parallel will bring the attention of more female student coders to the opportunity to participate in GSoC. Unlike GSoC, GNOME Outreach Program for Women doesnâ??t require applicants to be students and includes non-coding internships, such as documentation, graphic design and marketing.</p>
 
-<p>In the next quarter, we look forward to working with the OPW internships participants and introducing them to the community.</p>
+<p>Stormy Peters attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on September 28 - October 2. She organized the first Free and Open Source Software booth at the conference and participated in the Open Source Track. At the booth, they handed out 180 flyers about the GNOME Outreach Program for Women as well as lots of GNOME stickers - the logo on a field of grass was the most popular. Heidi Ellis also attended - her class at Western New England College is working on Caribou as part of GNOMEâ??s a11y and HFOSS program.</p>
+
+<p>Máirín Duffy has completed teaching Girl Scoutsâ?? Digital Media Course that she developed as part of the FSF Womens' Caucus' â??Bringing free software to girls and young womenâ?? outreach program with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and Red Hat. The course consisted of 9 weekly two hour sessions teaching photo and image manipulation using Gimp and Inkscape. The excellent handout materials that Máirín developed for the course can be found in her <a href="http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/girl-scoutsâ??-digital-media-course-materials";>wrap up blog post</a>.   These materials can be used for other similar courses by anyone interested in teaching them.</p>
 
 <hr />
 
 <h1>Sysadmin</h1>
 <h2>Christer Edwards</h2>
 
-<p>The Sysadmin team has seen some major changes over the last quarter, primarily the hiring of a part-time System Administrator Christer Edwards. Christer can now be considered a liason between the general community and the team. Any questions or concerns regarding the progress of bugzilla issues, or project ideas can be directed through him.</p>
-
-<p>In addition to the above, the team has been primarily focused on a few specific tasks:</p>
+<p>During Q4 2010 the Sysadmin Team has made a number of great improvements to the GNOME infrastructure. To follow these updates regularly, please see the <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/sysadmin";>Sysadmin Blog</a>.</p>
 
-<p>First, the team has been putting a lot of attention into everyone's favorite new project, Snowy, which is moving along nicely. The alpha testing has been open and the stable public release is anticipated around the release of GNOME 3.0.</p>
-
-<p>Second, a baseline was set for server reporting and the noise was significantly cut down. This allows us to better monitor the daily health of the servers and catch issues early.</p>
-
-<p>Thirdly, a monitoring solution is being put in place to keep us apprised of outages. This includes core services such as mail and DNS as well as web services, load, etc. This is still in progress, but the final solution should give us early notice on any outages which we can hopefully act on before they affect the general community.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly, some new services were implemented for community use such as a public Gobby service, and <a href="http://pm.gnome.org/";>Collabtive</a>, a Project Management web service currently being tested. We've also started publishing scheduled maintenance on the <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/Sysadmin";>http://blogs.gnome.org/Sysadmin</a>. Anyone needing access to these services can contact Christer or the other team members.</p>
-
-<p>In the next quarter we look forward to continued improvements in documenting procedures, standardization and expansion.</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h1>Accessibility Team</h1>
-<h2>Joanmarie Diggs and Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias</h2>
-
-<p>The Accessibility Team continued improving the user experience with GNOME 2, while at the same preparing for the GNOME 3 release:</p>
-
-<ul>
-    <li>Documents within GNOME are becoming even more accessible: Daniel Garcia has been implementing the AtkText text interface in Evince and Poppler (the PDF library used by Evince). And Mario Sanchez continues to work on adding full accessibility support to WebKitGtk. By implementing this support in the environments being accessed rather than in the assistive technologies, Daniel and Mario are each bringing us much closer to having access that â??just worksâ?? automatically for users.</li>
-    <li>Emmanuele Bassi integrated Cally (Clutter's accessibility support) into Clutter beginning with version 1.4, resulting in yet another "just works" environment. Cally's creator, Alejandro Piñeiro, has also been actively working with Dan Winship, GNOME Shell developer in the areas of keyboard navigation, theming, and the implementation of accessibility support in certain Shell Toolkit widgets.</li>
-    <li>David Teyssiere has been collaborating with Joaquim Rocha on OCRFeeder development: making the user interface fully and more compellingly accessible; improving content recognition, including new support for deskewing images; and adding spell-checker functionality and the ability to import images directly from the scanner.</li>
-    <li>Joseph Scheuhammer continued his work on GNOME Shell's built-in magnifier, including the addition of color and contrast functionality, work on the user preferences dialog, and converting from GConf to GSettings. In order to provide continued support for gnome-panel users, Fernando Herrera ported gnome-mag from Bonobo to D-Bus and from Gtk+ 2 to Gtk+ 3. Work has also begun on porting gnome-mag's drawing to Cairo, which should improve its performance. Finally, Joseph and Fernando have been collaborating on a common D-Bus API so that Orca and other assistive technologies can easily work with either solution.</li>
-    <li>Mike Gorse made progress on AT-SPI2, the D-Bus-based implementation of AT-SPI, fixing several critical bugs and improving performance.</li>
-    <li>Javier Hernandez, Juanje Ojeda, and Alejandro Leiva have nearly finished with the implementation of the new Profiles system they have been working on for Orca. This system will make many things possible including multiple alternative keyboard layouts, fast language switching, and -- once AT-SPI2 is implemented within QT -- support for accessible KDE applications being used from within the GNOME Desktop.</li>
-    <li>Joanmarie Diggs added support for a system voice into Orca so that users who are blind can better distinguish on-screen text from the supplementary information Orca provides. She also added additional support for users with print learning disabilities.</li>
-    <li>Fernando Herrera made many improvements to DOTS, GNOME's braille translator, including: Support for PDF and OpenOffice text documents, the ability to review lines while in Braille View and make formatting changes "on the fly", the addition of a translation table editor and printing support, and the creation of a new command line tool.</li>
-    <li>Many of these exciting changes -- and quite a few of this quarter's nearly 100 bug fixes -- are the result of the Guadalinfo Accessible Projects of the Junta de Andalucía in Spain, for which the Accessibility Team is extremely appreciative.</li>
-</ul>
+<p>In early Q4 we began defining procedures for server downtime and maintenance. In the past these tasks were simply done "as needed", often without public notice. We've now documented procedures for maintenance announcements, "gotchas" and other requirements for all servers. Going forward all planned downtime will be announced with 48hrs notice on the Sysadmin blog, http://news.gnome.org and the devel-announce-list.</p>
 
-<p>When not working on code, the team was busily preparing for October's AEGIS Conference and associated A11y Hackfest in Sevilla.</p>
+<p>We were also able to implement the use of a tool called 'listadmin' for moderation of the mailman queues. This dramatically improves the efficiency of the Moderators Team, essentially allowing <b>all</b> GNOME mailing lists to be moderated in under fifteen minutes! GNOME mailing lists are now moderated daily, filtering spam and allowing legitimate email through in a more timely manner.</p>
 
-<p>Going into the fourth quarter, the team plans to focus on GNOME 3.0.</p>
+<p>Our monitoring solution has seen continued improvement. It now includes over 200 checks! We have plans to make this information public sometime during Q1 2011..</p>
 
-<p>For more detailed information on the Accessibility Team's work this quarter, please see the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/QuarterlyReports/2010/Q3";>team wiki</a>.</p>
+<p>Finally, we've configured HTTPS Strict Transport Security for all GNOME domains that require SSL. This means that supported browsers will automatically connect directly to SSL for subsequent connections, bypassing unsecured http connections entirely. GNOME domains now supporting SSL connections are: bugzilla, mango, live (wiki), mail (mailman), nagios, snowy, and RT.</p>
 
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