Re: Google Code In::GNOME User Groups: Update contact details

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Thanks for the clarification, I'll then be waiting for any other 
question that Ognyan may have.

Maybe Ognyan should also send such an introductory email to the GUG 
mailing list (even if it's very quiet) as a 'warming up' to tell them he 
is coming to get them! ;-)

Fred

On 12/23/2010 11:16 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (ahem) Allow me to give some context. Ognyan, the task is intended to
> get you working with the marketing team to get a concrete result - so I
> was hoping you might present yourself, and what you understood the task
> to be.
>
> Ognyan Angelov wrote:
> > Fred Mueller? I was Told to contact you as first step.
>
> Ognyan is a student who has taken on the "Google Code-In" task of
> updating our list of GNOME user groups worldwide.
>
> The task description is:
>
> Contact all GNOME user groups listed on the UserGroups wiki page. Ensure
> that we know the name of a person who is the primary contact person for
> the group. Update the user group information based on feedback,
> including membership size, events attended, group actions, etc.
> Broadcast more widely your task, to potentially find out about (and
> encourage the creation of) other user groups. A world map of coverage of
> GNOME user groups would be a nice touch (could be like a travel map).
>
> I asked Ognyan to contact this list to state his intention to work on
> the task, co-ordinate with Fred, who I know is already working on this,
> and work through this list.
>
> I also want to avoid a repeat of what happened last time, when a student
> sent an unreviewed, unsolicited email to all the contacts listed in the
> page, and then didn't finish the task, without ever giving a progress
> report.
>
> Ognyan, meet the GNOME marketing team. GNOME marketing team, Ognyan.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.