Re: GNOME Annual Report

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Emily,

I bet that a photo from each one with the name, location, credit to the 
organiser(s), and a "thank you to all our Hackfest sponsors" at the 
bottom with each one named would be great.

Cheers,
Dave.

On 12/05/2011 01:46 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Juanjo, how many hackfests are there that could be reported on? Could we
> do a short (1-2 paragraph)  blurb on each pointing out the highlights
> under a "Hackfests of 2010" and "Hackfests of 2011" title? Or are there
> 1 or 2 that were 'key' to each year that we could do a longer report on?
>
> Emily
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> 2011/12/5 Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es
> <mailto:juanjomarin96 yahoo es>>
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>     ----- Mensaje original -----
>      > De: Dave Neary <dneary gnome org <mailto:dneary gnome org>>
>      > Para: Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es
>     <mailto:juanjomarin96 yahoo es>>
>      > CC: "marketing-list gnome org <mailto:marketing-list gnome org>"
>     <marketing-list gnome org <mailto:marketing-list gnome org>>
>      > Enviado: viernes 2 de diciembre de 2011 10:17
>      > Asunto: Re: GNOME Annual Report
>      >
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > On 12/01/2011 07:32 PM, Juanjo Marín wrote:
>      > Dave Neary wrote:
>      >>>  Do you think it might be a good idea to start with a list of
>     Stuff we
>      > should
>      >>>  write about - notable occurrences during the year, successful
>     programs
>      > we want
>      >>>  to highlight, etc? From there, it might be easier to find the
>     person
>      > related to
>      >>>  the event/activity who could write about it.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>  In fact we have started writing a draft for the content for the
>     (Bi)annual
>      > report
>      >>
>      >> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2011
>      >
>      > Ah, cool! I hadn't seen it.
>      >
>      >>  By now, I've only talked to Allan Day about writing an article
>     about
>      > the design process
>      >>  of GNOME 3. I've also worked in the quotation section.
>      >
>      > There are some obvious people to talk to about the different
>     sections:
>      >
>      > Marina for WSOP (and since we already have a press release, that
>     would already
>      > be a great base for the report article). I'd be interested in
>     doing a short
>      > interview with Marina about her personal involvement too.
>      >
>      > Summer of Code: Daniel Siegel would be a great person to talk to
>     here - he's
>      > been co-ordinating mentors and GNOME's involvement to great
>     success for the
>      > last 3 years, and before that he was a mentor in 2008 and a
>     student in 2007.
>      >
>      > I'd love to get Stormy to write about the process she organised
>     for hiring a
>      > new executive director - she's a shining counter-example to her
>     thesis that
>      > people might not "do it again for free" :)
>      >
>      > On the Desktop Summit, I was thinking that we could get quotes
>     like you did for
>      > GNOME 3. But since it's already done once, perhaps twice would be
>     too much.
>      > Do you think it's better to do an article per hackfest, or one
>     overall
>      > article, highlighting each one?
>      >
>      > What do you think of the idea of the application show-case?
>      >
>
>
>     Good ideas Dave !. We are in the process to get people involved in
>     writing, and
>     we will contact Marina, Daniel and Stormy.
>
>     I personally think is a good idea to do a short interview to Marina.
>     So a good idea and
>     volunteering for making it happen  is double awesome :-)
>
>     I'm trying to contact Daniel Gallegillos to get an idea about how
>     long the articles
>     must be. According to previous years, an page without pics is about
>     400 words
>     long.
>
>     About the articles about hackfests, the problem I see is that
>     because this is going to
>     be a biannual issue, there are too many hackfest, GUADEC and DS to
>     be talked
>     about. I think we need more discussion about this.
>
>
>     Cheers,
>
>         -- Juanjo Marin
>
>
>
>
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Dave Neary
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