Re: Friends of GNOME Ruler

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi all,

The ruler is now online in www.gnome.org and (soon) planet.gnome.org.
It also appears in www.gnome.org/friends. Unfortunately, I didn't have
time to implement the ability to hide the ruler as suggest by Olav. I
think it would be a nice addition in case someone has time to do it.

Cheers!

--lucasr


2010/3/22 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>:
> I can do it right now, tonight (like in 4 hours or more) or tomorrow any
> time.
>
> Stormy
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stormy,
>>
>> Looks good to me. I can release the ruler now. I just want to make
>> sure you send this message just after the ruler is published. Can you
>> do it today or tomorrow?
>>
>> --lucasr
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/2/24 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>:
>> > How about this?
>> >
>> > Stormy
>> >
>> > Subject: One step closer to a sys admin ...
>> >
>> > Last April we announced that we wanted to hire a system administrator to
>> > help with some of the day-to-day work necessary to keep thousands of
>> > GNOME
>> > contributors going. I'm really excited to announce that we are really
>> > close!
>> > The GNOME community raised over $20,000 last year from individual
>> > contributors! In addition, several companies like Canonical, Nokia and
>> > Google put in matching funds.
>> >
>> > In an effort to be more transparent - and to share our excitement -
>> > we've
>> > created a ruler to track our progress towards our goal of hiring a
>> > system
>> > administrator. (And future goals.) You will see at the top of gnome.org
>> > and
>> > Planet GNOME.
>> >
>> > You learn more about our plans for a system administrator on the job
>> > description page[1].
>> >
>> > You can spread the word by adding a Friends of GNOME badge to your web
>> > page[2].
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/AdvisoryMeeting/JobDescription
>> > [2] http://www.gnome.org/friends/promote.html
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> 2010/2/16 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.
>> >>
>> >> Ok.
>> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> I'm using this exact text in FoG front page now with the only change
>> >> of replacing the "This is dependent..." with "Your donations will help
>> >> us to achieve this goal!".
>> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> Ok, updated.
>> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 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.)
>> >>
>> >> Nice. Let me know when you have the announcement ready. I think we're
>> >> ready to release the ruler.
>> >>
>> >> --lucasr
>> >
>> >
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