> 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
>
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