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Hi,

Here are the initial articles and resources I've gathered so far (except
for 2 or 3).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Article one - I'm least happy with this one.

Dave.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Short article on the advisory board
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:29:19 +0100
From: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
Organisation: GNOME Foundation
To: GNOME Foundation Board <board-list gnome org>


This is a pretty poor article - it's fairly boring, and some
recommendations on making it better would be welcome.

Photos:
http://flickr.com/photos/davidz/180761066/in/set-72157594186094257/
http://flickr.com/photos/davidz/180759549/in/set-72157594186094257/

Our Newest Supporters
=====================

This year has been particularly rich in new arrivals on the foundations
Advisory Board. With the introduction in Summer 2005 of a lower
membership rate for small companies, we welcomed two young companies -
OpenedHand and Imendio - into the fold.

At the time, Matthew Allum of OpenedHand wrote: "We strongly believe
that GNOME technologies give advantages on today's mobile and embedded
platforms - at OpenedHand we are both GNOME developers and users."

Mikael Hallendal, CEO of Imendio, had similar sentiments - "The GNOME
platform has always been a core part of our business", he said, "Our
developers have been involved both professionally and personally in
GNOME since the beginning of the project."

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is a non-profit which provides
legal advice with a free-software twist - a group of techno-savvy
lawyers gathered by Eben Moglen to help free software projects in need
get bleeding-edge answers to questions relating to trademarks,
liability, patents and other thorny issues facing our community. We are
happy to welcome the group onto the advisory board.

Other new faces have arrived on the board this year too - Intel,
Canonical and Access (formerly PalmSource) have also signed up to
support the shared vision of the GNOME project during the year.

The presence of Access, along with Nokia, Imendio and OpenedHand, is
particularly pleasing, since it indicates the extent to which the
project is reaching outside its traditional boundaries into the embedded
and mobile device market (see GMAE elsewhere).

Waldo Bastian of Intel puts the accent on standardisation and
co-operation - after announcing that Intel were joining the advisory
board, Waldo wrote on the foundation mailing list that "through OSDL and
LSB, bridging the gaps between industry leading Linux desktop
environments for the benefit of users and application developers has
been an important goal for us.  We very much appreciate the opportunity
work more closely with the GNOME community to realize that goal"

(awaiting some feedback from Jane in Canonical to have something about
their joining)

The advisory board has gone through some changes this year - we have had
regular phone conferences focussed on particular issues the foundation
has faced, and a very successful face-to-face meeting at GUADEC (see
GUADEC article).

We have also broadened the scope of the group to be a place where
co-operation is possible between members on a technical level. Over the
coming year we will get that co-operation started, and have a meeting
with technical representatives of the advisory board focussed on the
needs of partners, and how we can fulfill them.


Cheers,
Dave.

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Some material for the WSOP article

Dave.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: End of WSOP.
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:49:24 +0000
From: Chris Ball <cjb laptop org>
To: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
CC: board gnome org,  hmw26 cam ac uk
References: <yd3pse7gyvn fsf islay ra phy cam ac uk>
<4582AD1A 6030707 free fr>

Hi Dave,

   > Any chance you could point me towards the screenshots & comments,
   > please, if you still have them?

These turned into the GNOME Journal article:

   http://gnomejournal.org/article/48/the-womens-summer-outreach-program

We decided not to use screenshots in the end, since most of the projects
were behind the scenes work rather than something more photogenic.  Here
are a couple, though:

   https://lacampanella.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/mathedit-progress-and-bugs/

http://monia.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/integrating-gnome-terminal-and-screen/
   http://m3gumi.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/patch/
   http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5050/1381/1600/pluginscreen1.png

Thanks,

- Chris.
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Some more material for WSOP - we have permission to reprint the Joe
Brockmeier articles.

Dave.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Article on WSOP
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:29:27 +0000
From: Hanna M. Wallach <hmw26 cam ac uk>
To: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
CC: cjb mrao cam ac uk
References: <4581911C 50008 free fr>

Hi Dave,

I'm totally, utterly run off my feet at the moment, so I can't write a
summary for you right now. Given a bit more time either Chris or I
would be happy to write something, but the next week or so is just
insane for both of us. I'm sorry.

If you'd still like to have something for the report though, you could
take the GNOME Journal article that Davyd Madeley and I wrote [1] (and
maybe the press release [2] and some of Joe Brocksmidt's articles [3,
4]) and cut and paste to make something of the right length.

1. http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/48/the-womens-summer-outreach-program
2. http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/wsop.html
3. http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/2054202
4.
http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/08/10/2219218.shtml?tid=138&tid=132&tid=25

Sorry I can't be of more help right now.

All the best,
Hanna

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:59:56PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> 
> Hi Hanna,
> 
> Do you have some time over the next few days to write a short review of
> the WSOP, by any chance? I'm putting together a type of annual report
> for the foundation, and that was great.
> 
> I know we didn't do an end-of-programme release, but the kind of thing I
> have in mind is a fairly informal article which talks about why we did
> it, what got done, and a short bio of some/all of the girls and their
> projects. I've been keeping the articles I've written to 200 - 500 words
> just to give you an idea of the size.
> 
> Any chance you could make some time to do this, please?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 

-- 
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blog: http://join-the-dots.org/
work: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/hmw26/



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GUADEC article for annual report

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GUADEC section for annual report
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:33:05 +0100
From: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
Organisation: GNOME Foundation
To: GNOME Foundation Board <board-list gnome org>


Hi,

I have just collected a bunch of post-GUADEC review material, and
cherry-picked some nice comments - and written a couple of hundred words
generalities about the conference.

I think this is a decent model for the summit, WSOP, gnome-embedded and
the event box too. I'd also like to highlight other ways we've spent
money - like Shaun's docs - if anyone has good ideas on how we could do
that.

Can anyone volunteer to take on one or more of those topics and get
something similar done this week? All in all, it takes about an hours
and a half to do one section like this.

Cheers,
Dave.


GUADEC - The GNOME Conference
=============================

This year, GUADEC was held in the scenic seaside town of Villanova i la
Geltru, near Barcelona. The conference had a new format, and many small
but significant changes to the formula of previous conferences.

Some of the highlights of the conference happened outside the lecture
halls. The FreeFA World Cup, a football tournament for conference
participants, was a great success. The Drooling Macaque Band, made up of
a number of musician-hackers, rocked the night away at the Nokia hosted
party on Wednesday evening. The fine people at Fluendo hosted a beach
party on Tuesday night which left many sore heads and some incriminating
photos of midnight dips the day after. And with a show released daily,
the guys at LugRadio provided the conference with a sound-track.

This year, the conference had three distinct phases - Warm-up Weekend,
dedicated to tutorials and workshops, often in Catalan or Spanish, the
Core conference, with three parallel streams of talks interspersed with
some exceptional keynote speakers, and After-Hours, a wind-down series
of planning meetings and hack-fests.

The conference is like a fusion reactor for the GNOME project - coming
together, we reach a critical mass of energy, which results in
chain-reaction effects which last many months. Inspirational
presentations like Kathy Sierra's "Creating Passionate Users", or Luis
Villa's "GNOME is people" get people thinking in new ways about the
project and the ways we can develop it. Projects like OLPC, presented by
Jim Gettys, and the Nokia 770 open our eyes to alternate audiences to
our traditional all-purpose desktop environment.

The conference also saw the first meeting of the GNOME Mobile and
Embedded (GMAE) initiative (more on this elsewhere). In past years,
GUADEC has hosted a GIMP developers conference, a multimedia
mini-conference and a GNOME in Business conference. GUADEC is a great
place to foster this type of meeting, where tightly-focussed groups of
people come together to identify areas of collaboration.


Some feedback on GUADEC:

"It’s fascinating seeing all this stuff getting done. Daniel Holback
decided to package Jokosher for Ubuntu and did it during Jono’s Jokosher
talk. You don’t get that at other technical conventions." - Stuart
Langridge, LugRadio

"The venue was ideal for the talks [...] it encouraged us to stay in the
village after work for tapas, beer, football, swimming and technical
discussions. I was made to feel welcome from the moment I arrived and I
really enjoyed the casual collaboration that took place." Brian Nitz,
Sun Microsystems

"[GUADEC] was awesome, for serious stuff (presentations, talks), for fun
(Fluendo and Maemo parties) and for people (I can’t name everybody, but
sharing GUADEC with Damien, our beloved Ekiga hacker) ... I think Kathy
Sierra keynote was enlightening, not only for GNOME community, but also
from a distribution POV." Frédéric Crozat, Mandriva

"The BoF on continuous integration for Gnome was a clear success [...]
as we had the right ingredients, the BuildBrigade (a working group -with
already more than 10 members- inside Gnome, in charge of the creation
and promotion of an automatic build environment for the project) was
created. The general requirements and ideas were agreed during the BoF,
and the same afternoon we got together again for deciding about the
technical details and the first steps to carry out."Juan José Sánchez
Penas, Igalia and GNOME Build Brigade.

"GUADEC is awesome. Last year was great, and this year is even better.
These guys know the definition of community." Jono Bacon, Canonical and
LugRadio.

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User groups article (sucks a bit, but still worthwhile)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Another small section - user group co-ordination (was: Re:
GUADEC	section for annual report)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:57:10 +0100
From: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
Organisation: GNOME Foundation
To: GNOME Foundation Board <board-list gnome org>
References: <457FACB1 1010107 free fr>

More text from the train journey:

(after writing it: it doesn't seem great - opinions on whether this can
be made better or should be dropped?)

Cheers,
dave.

GNOME User Groups
=================

GNOME is a worldwide organisation. Our latest version has been fully
translated into more than 30 languages, and at least partially in more
than 50. There are over 20 active GNOME User Groups worldwide - some of
the bigger groups include GNOME Chile, GNOME Brazil, GNOME Deutschland,
GNOME Hispano and GNOME-fr, a user group for french-speaking GNOME users.

Our user groups are the life-blood of our advocacy effort - working from
the bottom-up to tell people about GNOME, our philosophy, and
developments in the desktop. User groups organise local events such as
the GNOME Developer Meetings in South America (organised by GNOME Chile
and GNOME Venezuela) and GUADEC-es organised by GNOME Hispano. They
participate in dozens of conferences and trade shows annually on our behalf.

In recent years, we have begun better supporting our user groups. As
well as the GNOME Event Boxes (see article) and the work of the
marketing team in gathering marketing material, we have begun
co-ordinating efforts of various user groups. The board has allocated
funds to contribute to the costs of printing and travel which user group
members incur. We have created a work space in the GNOME Wiki to
encourage the sharing of information, and have created a mailing list
dedicated to user group co-operation.

Next year, we hope to expand the activities of various user groups by
providing the means to have more local gatherings of GNOME users, and by
encouraging participation of user groups in regional conferences.



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Article on event box

Photos to follow.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Small section on the event box (was: Re: GUADEC section for
annual	report)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:57:29 +0100
From: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
Organisation: GNOME Foundation
To: GNOME Foundation Board <board-list gnome org>
References: <457FACB1 1010107 free fr>


Hi,

I'm filling my train ride with writing for as long as it doesn't make me
nauseous. For the Summit, I think I could probably reconstitute
something useful from the various BOF notes, but it might be better if
someone who was there wrote a bit on it. I might chance Chris Blizzard.

For WSOP, I'll sak Hanna to write something, if she can make the time.

Jeff, do you think you could manage to write a bit about GMAE?

Here's a section about the event box (needs photos of the boxes and the
stands, and a few quotes).

Dave Neary wrote:
> I think this is a decent model for the summit, WSOP, gnome-embedded and
> the event box too. I'd also like to highlight other ways we've spent
> money - like Shaun's docs - if anyone has good ideas on how we could do
> that.

Cheers,
Dave.

GNOME Event Box
===============

One of the great successes of recent times has been the emergence of the
GNOME marketing team. And one of the achievements of the marketing team
is to open lines of communication between user groups representing GNOME
at conferences and trade shows.

Duriong 2005, a database of marketing material (posters, flyers,
buttons) was created and gathered on the GNOME wiki. And towards the end
of the year, Murray Cumming organised the first GNOME Event Box - a
metal case containing the raw materials for a GNOME stand, including a
small-form computer and a flat screen, several distributions including
recent versions of GNOME, and printed materials like posters and LiveCDs
which could be distributed during shows.

The event box has seen action in France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the
Netherlands so far, and has proven to be a great success.

This year, we have added a second event box for North America, which was
revealed for the first time at LinuxWorld Boston.

To ensure that the boxes are used and kept up to date, we have helped
user groups pay transport costs for the box, and we plan to encorage
even wider use of the boxes next year.


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Event box photos

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Small section on the event box
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:38:27 +0100
From: Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>
Organisation: GNOME Foundation
To: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
CC: GNOME Foundation Board <board-list gnome org>
References: <457FACB1 1010107 free fr> <457FB269 3020102 free fr>


Event box photos:
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/thos/2005/10/13/0
http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/EventsOrganisation/GnomeEventBox
http://www.vuntz.net/journal/2005/10/19/327-jdll-2005-report

North American one:
http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/EventsOrganisation/NAGnomeEventBox

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm filling my train ride with writing for as long as it doesn't make me
> nauseous. For the Summit, I think I could probably reconstitute
> something useful from the various BOF notes, but it might be better if
> someone who was there wrote a bit on it. I might chance Chris Blizzard.
> 
> For WSOP, I'll sak Hanna to write something, if she can make the time.
> 
> Jeff, do you think you could manage to write a bit about GMAE?
> 
> Here's a section about the event box (needs photos of the boxes and the
> stands, and a few quotes).
> 
> Dave Neary wrote:
>> I think this is a decent model for the summit, WSOP, gnome-embedded and
>> the event box too. I'd also like to highlight other ways we've spent
>> money - like Shaun's docs - if anyone has good ideas on how we could do
>> that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> GNOME Event Box
> ===============
> 
> One of the great successes of recent times has been the emergence of the
> GNOME marketing team. And one of the achievements of the marketing team
> is to open lines of communication between user groups representing GNOME
> at conferences and trade shows.
> 
> Duriong 2005, a database of marketing material (posters, flyers,
> buttons) was created and gathered on the GNOME wiki. And towards the end
> of the year, Murray Cumming organised the first GNOME Event Box - a
> metal case containing the raw materials for a GNOME stand, including a
> small-form computer and a flat screen, several distributions including
> recent versions of GNOME, and printed materials like posters and LiveCDs
> which could be distributed during shows.
> 
> The event box has seen action in France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the
> Netherlands so far, and has proven to be a great success.
> 
> This year, we have added a second event box for North America, which was
> revealed for the first time at LinuxWorld Boston.
> 
> To ensure that the boxes are used and kept up to date, we have helped
> user groups pay transport costs for the box, and we plan to encorage
> even wider use of the boxes next year.
> 
> 


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Chairman, Board of Directors
GNOME Foundation
Email: bolsh gnome org



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