Re: GNOME Annual Report

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

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> De: Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>
> Para: marketing-list gnome org
> CC: 
> Enviado: jueves 1 de diciembre de 2011 18:13
> Asunto: Re: GNOME Annual Report
>
> Hi Emily,
>
> On 12/01/2011 05:16 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> >  Hi there, its now December of 2011 and the GNOME Annual Report is due in
> >  the coming months. As such, we are requesting the help of any and all
> >  interested persons. We especially need help with writing articles &
> >  possibly designing presentations and making videos as well (we're
> >  kicking around using a multi-faceted approach to the annual report, with
> >  a downloadable PDF file as well as online videos & other content -
> >  thoughts?). Juanjo Marin, Karen Sandler & I are currently working on 
> the
> >  report but we cannot do this alone! Please help us get the annual report
> >  out in a timely fashion!
>
> Do you think it might be a good idea to start with a list of Stuff we should 
> write about - notable occurrences during the year, successful programs we want 
> to highlight, etc? From there, it might be easier to find the person related to 
> the event/activity who could write about it.
>
> Some things come to mind that we really should highlight:
> * Women's Outreach Program - and other developer recruitment programs we 
> have going on (Summer of Code, Code-In) - I'd especially like to see the 
> mentor co-ordinators getting credit, it's a lot of work.
> * The release of GNOME 3 of course - perhaps we could come at it from an angle 
> that we haven't looked at let?
> * The hiring of the Executive Director - it might be nice to shine a spotlight 
> on the group of people who led the process which ended with the hiring of Karen, 
> and use the opportunity to introduce our new executive director
> * Desktop Summit - again, a perspective from the organising team might be 
> interesting - also, we could try to highlight some of the success stories coming 
> out of the conference. A Vox Populi here, asking people what their impressions 
> of the conference were (quotes from the survey, perhaps?) could work well.
>
> There are a bunch of other things worthy of hghlighting. Conferences and 
> hackfests come to mind. We could even just show a bunch of photos from the 
> various conferences and meetings to show how worldwide we are. Berlin, 
> Bangalore, Montreal, Prague, Cincinnati, Cambridge, A Coruna, Toronto, 
> Brussels... am I missing any?
>
> "GNOME in the news", maybe? (a summary of the hottest articles about 
> GNOME this year, or comings & goings in the rest of the open desktop world 
> (might be nice to mention Ubuntu 11.04 adopting Unity by default, for example)
>
> And I'd love to see a GNOME application show-case - pick one application 
> & do a decent presentation of it and its community. I'd pick Shotwell 
> (disclosure: I'm on the board of directors of Yorba), Banshee or Cheese as 
> good examples of apps with a great GNOME ethos and great commuinity around them.
>
> What other topics should be in the annual report (besides treasurer & 
> chairman/executive director reports)?
>
> This could be completely different to what you'd planned - if so, please let 
> me know! I didn't want to be the guy making a suggestion with nothing to 
> back it up.


In fact we have started writing a draft for the content for the (Bi)annual report

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011


By now, I've only talked to Allan Day about writing an article about the design process
of GNOME 3. I've also worked in the quotation section. 

Cheers,

   -- Juanjo Marin