Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi all,

The ruler is now online in www.gnome.org and (soon) planet.gnome.org.
It also appears in www.gnome.org/friends. Unfortunately, I didn't have
time to implement the ability to hide the ruler as suggest by Olav. I
think it would be a nice addition in case someone has time to do it.

Cheers!

--lucasr


2010/3/22 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>:
> I can do it right now, tonight (like in 4 hours or more) or tomorrow any
> time.
>
> Stormy
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi Stormy,
> >
> > Looks good to me. I can release the ruler now. I just want to make
> > sure you send this message just after the ruler is published. Can you
> > do it today or tomorrow?
> >
> > --lucasr
> >
> >
> >
> > 2010/2/24 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