Stormy's Update: October 11th-November 20th

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/11/21/stormys-update-october-11th-november-20th/

Not as much detail as normal as I'm covering a much longer time frame ... I'll be returning to weekly updates now.

Marketing hackfest. Helped plan and attended the first ever GNOME Marketing hackfest. It went well and we will be doing more. Thanks to Paul Cutler
for putting it together. Thanks to the travel committee for getting
everyone there. Thanks to Novell and Google for sponsoring it. Thanks
very much to all the people that showed up to work hard on GNOME
marketing!

GNOME Journal.
Added a bunch of ideas for GNOME Journal articles. (Now we just need
people to write them! Feel free to add ideas or write articles.)
Recruited authors for the Women in GNOME Journal edition. Interviewed a
woman GNOME advisory board member for it. Helped edit a couple of
articles.

Published the GNOME Q3 report. Thanks to all the teams who submitted updates!

Attended the first OSS Watch advisory board meeting via phone. Will attend the first in person one in a couple of weeks.

Agustín Benito put me in
touch with La Laguna College and we exchanged a couple of emails. They
are interested in helping recruit more women to free software.

Forwarded several journalist requests to the appropriate people - most went to the release team with questions about GNOME 3.0.

Played around with several different views and methods of looking at my
goals. Trying to find a better way to align goals to individual task
items and to visualize how we are doing on larger goals. Plan to work
on this further.

Got sponsors for hackfests (like the marketing one) and the Boston
Summit. Wrote up a sponsorship agreement at the request of one of the
sponsors. I plan to tweak it a bit make a sponsorship agreement that we
can use for all GNOME events.

Attended free software women's group meeting.

Let the Teaching Open Source mailing list group that GNOME has people willing to speak about GNOME in their classes. Set Willie Walker up with RPI.

Talked to most of the advisory board members about raising advisory
board fees for next year both at an advisory board meeting and one on
one. Touched base with them in general. 

Talked to Clay Johnson from the Sunlight Foundation.
Got some interesting insights into fundraising and volunteers. I hope
to interview him later about fundraising and post on my blog. He's
planning the Great American Hackathon to develop free and open source applications for open government.

Sent information to Claudia to help her wrap up finances for the
Desktop Summit. We are just waiting on one sponsor to pay us so we can
close the books. 

Spent 30 hours travelling to Vietnam. But it's been worth it! I'm currently attending the 2nd annual GNOME Asia Summit!
They have an awesome team of volunteers. They recruited business and
international trade students to help interpret for all of the foreign
speakers. They are all very enthusiastic and having a great time! I've
had a chance so far to speak to a city government official, local
companies using and developing open source and lots of enthusiastic
students!