Re: 2012 Annual Report

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Seems good.  I would probably have re-written it to have a little "oomph" to it.  We're trying to present an interesting picture of each hackfest.  Think the language used in those gourmet magazines where they start with "It was a cold day in December, in contrast to the warm bubble enthusiasm at the UX hackfest.." etc etc. 

That said, I think that's really the kind of job of an editor, write the piece and then we'll start making it look pretty.  You're going in the right direction however, because it is a good basis for that kind of writing because you need to get the facts and what happened.

sri

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fabiana Simões <fabianapsimoes gmail com> wrote:

Hi guys,

I wrote two articles for the Annual Report, one about the User Observation Hackfest and another about the A Coruña UX Hackfest. I tried to keep them short, since we have a lot of Hackfests to write about. Both pieces are here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2012/Hackfests.

Could anyone take a look at them, please? Just wanted to make sure I'm at the right direction here, before I go ahead and write some more :)

~Fabiana

On 02/14/2013 05:53 PM, Daniel Galleguillos C. wrote:

Hi karen.

2013/2/14 Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>

On Wed, February 13, 2013 10:50 pm, Daniel Galleguillos C. wrote:
> Hi all folks.
> I've have been working in a update for the Annual report and here's the
> PDF
> Sketch, the update are in Scribus so we are ready to add text and
> Pictures.
>
> https://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Mockups
>
> There is some place were I can get some pictures? a Flickr with CC License
> would be good.
>
> I'm worry because we need to add text and pictures and we are almost in
> the
> deadline.
>> Feb 1st - Feb 15th - Design begins, writing finalized.

Hey Daniel! Actually, we pushed the deadline a little later, so that one
is March 5:

I'll start to work with this info. :)
 

https://live.gnome.org/action/edit/GnomeMarketing/AnnualReport/AnnualReport2012

That said, no time like the present to get moving on this stuff!

Maybe everyone could add links to content on that wiki page? It's a really
easy way to contribute in a small way. I went ahead and linked some easy
ones, like the GUADEC photo pool. But there's a lot of great stuff there.
Whoever takes on the article will appreciate having the links already
there...

Thanks, and the idea is show the advance every week.
 

karen

>
> Cheers!!
>
> 2012/12/4 Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
>
>> On Sat, December 1, 2012 9:45 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>> > On 11/05/2012 02:59 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
>> >> We're coming up on the end of 2012 which means we need to start
>> >> thinking about the 2012 Annual Report.
>> >>
>> > We also need a deadline, and such a deadline everyone need to be
>> > committed to.
>> > I've asked Karen to lead the coordination in order to avoid the
>> > trainwreck we had for 2010-2011 (and them becoming a bi-annual report
>> > instead of a annual report)
>> > I propose March 3rd of 2013 as when we need to be done.
>>
>> I would propose March 22, as that's one week after our report needs to
>> be
>> filed with the IRS, and that way we can incorporate any of the changes
>> that our accountants make (no matter how early you try to get them to
>> work
>> on this, they never seem to finish until the deadline).
>>
>> > Today - Holidays - we need to get the Fog campaign out. So any work
>> > during this period is out of the question.
>> > Jan 5th - Feb 1st - Content needs to be set in stone, collecting donor
>> > data and financial numbers, initial writing happens. Length of
>> articles
>>
>> We've already collected the donor data! :)
>>
>> > decided.
>> > Feb 1st - Feb 15th - Design begins, writing finalized
>> > Feb 16th - Feb 26 - Writing proof reading and fixing, design
>> finalized.
>> > Feb 26th - Mar 3rd - Proof reading of finished design pdf. Fixing.
>> > Publishing.
>> > (Note that February only have 28 days!)
>>
>> These deadlines sound great, though! We can take the extra time to pad
>> the
>> proof reading and fixing.
>>
>> Thanks for setting this out, Andreas.
>>
>> karen
>>
>> >
>> > If anyone thinks that is impossible, speak up now.
>> > - Andreas
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