my new GNOME blog

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

Hi!

I've launched a blog where I plan to talk about my work for the GNOME
Foundation as executive director:

http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/

I've just published the following post, the first, I hope, of many!
Hopefully the blog will also be on the planet soon.

-Karen


> So we?re just over 3 weeks into my full time stint at GNOME. I feel a
> little bad about the fact that it?s taken me so long to get a blog
> going, but it took some time to settle on a name and make a
> hackergotchi that looked at least ok! (I won?t list these as
> accomplishments?)
>
> I think for the next couple of weeks I may just post a few things now
> and again as I remember them so you can get an idea of what I?m
> working on as I get oriented. I?m still very new, and even though
> I?ve been involved with GNOME as a lawyer for a couple of years, I?m
> really still learning about the Foundation, the community and the
> software (though I should note that I have been a user and fan for
> over five years).
>
> So, in no particular order, a few of the things I?ve done:
>
> * I set up quite a lot of calls with people in the GNOME community ?
> some contributors and some advisory board member representatives.
> There will be many more of these to come I think. (I hope! So far
> it?s very helpful to hear from people what they?re thinking about
> GNOME)
>
> * I contacted someone using the GNOME name in a domain name and
> reminded them of our trademark guidelines. After some initial fuss,
> they agreed to transfer the domain name. I?ve got a few more of these
> to do. They take some research to be confident that you?ve got your
> facts right before writing. And hopefully these people will channel
> those efforts to contributing to GNOME.
>
> * I got the foundation unsuspended in the state of California (this
> is where being a lawyer helps!) Due to I think a very old situation
> of missed filings, this needed to be corrected. Thanks to James
> Vasile and Marc Miller at SFLC and Rosanna Yuen at GNOME
>
> * I read up on git. Yes, I?ve been an svn user primarily in the past,
> so it was time. That and I need to update GNOME?s website.
>
> * I did some prep work for the panel I?m moderating at the Desktop
> Summit on Copyright Assignment, a very hot topic these days.
>
> * I talked to Marina about the great work she and Stormy and a lot of
> others have done with the GNOME Women?s Outreach Program. I was
> totally inspired by the program and its success so far. We talked
> about what we can do at the Desktop Summit, and we contacted Claudia,
> Lydia and Celeste at KDE, about setting up a joint Women?s Networking
> BoF. I?m really looking forward to it.
>
> * Attended my first board meeting and my first advisory board meeting
> (the advisory board meeting was on my first day). I also got to my
> new role just in time to welcome the new board to *their* new
> positions. The old board deserves a lot of thanks for their hard
> work, and I hope to learn from both the outgoing and incoming board
> members.
>
> * I set up some interviews and other speaking engagements. I?ll post
> about those here as they happen! for now you can read the interview I
> did with Joe ?Zonker? Brockmeier.
>
> I?ve of course been up to more than that in these three and a half
> weeks ? these are just a few of the things that come to mind. Now
> that I?ve got a space to talk about them, I?ll try to write about
> things more as they happen.