Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:

Hi all,

So, I have the Friends of GNOME ruler ready to be published in three
of our sites:

GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/wgo-ruler.png)
Planet (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/planet-ruler.png)
Friends of GNOME (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187037/friends-ruler.png)

Design done by Vinicius!

Nice work!
 

So, what we need now is:

1. Do we still want to keep the goal for sysadmin? Just checking.

Yes, because we are about to declare victory and I think that would be good!

Perhaps we could also preannounce another campaign at the same time.
 

2. Add a bit more text in Friends of GNOME front page about the goal.
Maybe elaborate a bit more on the benefits of hiring a sysadmin?
Volunteers?

Maybe we could reuse the text from the original announcement mail? With some wordsmithing ...

 Keeping track of the routine day-to-day system administration tasks
 is neither glamorous nor a lot of fun, but it's essential to keeping
 the day-to-day work of thousands of GNOME contributors going. For
 this reason, the foundation is hoping to hire a part-time sysadmin to
 handle the coordination role on an ongoing basis. This is dependent
 on obtaining sufficient funding.

 

3. Consolidate the current donations and sponsors and update the ruler
accordingly. Stormy, could you send this info?

The numbers you have are good through the end of January.

$5K Google
$5K Nokia
$10K Canonical
$19,578 2009
$1,587 2010

 

4. Publish the ruler with a nice announcement about the goal. Need
volunteer to write the announcement to be sent to foundation-list and
posted in Planet GNOME. Stormy? Paul? Someone else?

I can do this. (Multiple people blogging would be good.)

I created a very simple script that will make it easy to update the
ruler. Just need to update the values and re-generate the ruler.

Let's get this done as soon as possible! :-)

Let's!

Stormy