Re: GNOME annual report

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:07 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
> 
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > it looks great, but I miss mentions to local movements, like the hackers
> > meetings at Chile and Holland (IIRC), the GUADEC-ES, the addition of
> > Mongolia to the GNOME map, etc.
> > 
> > Not sure if you want to go to that level of detail, but it would be
> > great to also mention these local efforts.
> 
> Here's the major problem we have:
> http://desdeamericaconamor.org/blog/free-software-and-its-writers
> 
> I would love to have a set of reports coming back from community run
> events and organisations which I could collect into an annual - it would
> make my job much easier. But for the most part, I either don't know
> what's going on, or I know, but can't find any written accounts, and so
> I don't know what to write about :)
> 
> I would love that level of detail and I would love to see more local
> groups organising things. I would probably exercise constraint and avoid
> each new "New contributor from country X!" type notes but the growth of
> GNOME worldwide is something that's important.
> 
as Germán pointed out, people dind't know you were going to write
that :-) And anyway, I got all that information just from reading the
planets and mailing lists. But yeah, as Germán suggested, local groups
might have to get used to write summaries.

As for the "new contributor for country X", I agree with you we don't
want to do that for every country, but Mongolia was a special case, or
that's what I understood at GUADEC last year.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>