Re: News Item | Board of Directors Announcement

[Jim Hall <jhall gnome org>]

I agree with Karen's edits. Also, we should make sure to update the
GNOME Foundation page at the same time:
https://www.gnome.org/Foundation/

I opened a bug with the webmasters on this a few weeks ago:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768197


Jim


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez
<nuritzis stanfordalumni org> wrote:
> Thanks, Karen! I'll see if I can work in some of your suggestions and send a
> 2nd attempt once complete. We have a Board meeting tomorrow, so I'll aim to
> get a quote from Shaun then :)
>
> In the meantime, @everyone else - more edits / suggestions are welcome, so
> please keep them coming!
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> > On 2016-07-11 16:58, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > > It'd be great to post this on Wednesday, so please add your thoughts
> > > and edits before then. Thanks!
> >
> >
> > This looks good to me! A few suggestions:
> >
> > * maybe mention that the board are volunteers?
> > * specifically name the outgoing members and thank them for their time on
> > the board
> > * include a quote, perhaps from last year's president?
> > * perhaps mention the breadth of experience that the board has? Like: the
> > new board has experience that spans the GNOME project, from development to
> > design to usability... etc.
> >
> > karen