Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

How about this?

Stormy

Subject: One step closer to a sys admin ...

Last April we announced that we wanted to hire a system administrator to help with some of the day-to-day work necessary to keep thousands of GNOME contributors going. I'm really excited to announce that we are really close! The GNOME community raised over $20,000 last year from individual contributors! In addition, several companies like Canonical, Nokia and Google put in matching funds.

In an effort to be more transparent - and to share our excitement - we've created a ruler to track our progress towards our goal of hiring a system administrator. (And future goals.) You will see at the top of gnome.org and Planet GNOME. 

You learn more about our plans for a system administrator on the job description page[1].

You can spread the word by adding a Friends of GNOME badge to your web page[2].


[1] http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/AdvisoryMeeting/JobDescription
[2] http://www.gnome.org/friends/promote.html

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:

Hi,

2010/2/16 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>:

>
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So, I have the Friends of GNOME ruler ready to be published in three
>> of our sites:
>>
>> GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/wgo-ruler.png)
>> Planet (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/planet-ruler.png)
>> Friends of GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/friends-ruler.png)
>>
>> Design done by Vinicius!
>>
> Nice work!
>
>>
>> So, what we need now is:
>>
>> 1. Do we still want to keep the goal for sysadmin? Just checking.
>
> Yes, because we are about to declare victory and I think that would be good!
>
> Perhaps we could also preannounce another campaign at the same time.

Ok.

>>
>> 2. Add a bit more text in Friends of GNOME front page about the goal.
>> Maybe elaborate a bit more on the benefits of hiring a sysadmin?
>> Volunteers?
>
> Maybe we could reuse the text from the original announcement mail? With some
> wordsmithing ...
>
>  Keeping track of the routine day-to-day system administration tasks
>  is neither glamorous nor a lot of fun, but it's essential to keeping
>  the day-to-day work of thousands of GNOME contributors going. For
>  this reason, the foundation is hoping to hire a part-time sysadmin to
>  handle the coordination role on an ongoing basis. This is dependent
>  on obtaining sufficient funding.

I'm using this exact text in FoG front page now with the only change
of replacing the "This is dependent..." with "Your donations will help
us to achieve this goal!".

>>
>> 3. Consolidate the current donations and sponsors and update the ruler
>> accordingly. Stormy, could you send this info?
>
> The numbers you have are good through the end of January.
>
> $5K Google
> $5K Nokia
> $10K Canonical
> $19,578 2009
> $1,587 2010

Ok, updated.

>>
>> 4. Publish the ruler with a nice announcement about the goal. Need
>> volunteer to write the announcement to be sent to foundation-list and
>> posted in Planet GNOME. Stormy? Paul? Someone else?
>
> I can do this. (Multiple people blogging would be good.)

Nice. Let me know when you have the announcement ready. I think we're
ready to release the ruler.

--lucasr