[RENEWAL] Application received from Timothy Ney (ten AT gnome.org)

[GNOME Foundation Membership Committee Script <membership-committee gnome org>]

Contact Information:
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Name: Timothy Ney
E-mail: ten AT gnome.org
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): 
cvs.gnome.org username (if any): 

Previous GNOME Foundation member: yes

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
Advocacy, fundraising, operations & marketing, GUADEC organization.

Detailed description:
GNOME Foundation 
Operations
*Fundraising: Advisory Board membership, corporate Sponsorships, Friends of GNOME 
*Prepare annual budget with Board 
*Work with lawyers and accountant on trademark, contracts and financial reporting
*Administer Special projects, i.e. GIMP donations
and Bounty Project

Communications
*Membership contact and referrals
*Advisory Board liaison with companies, organize
annual meeting
*Corporate community contact, i.e. consultation
with Real Networks on GPL & GNOME
*Interface with analysts & press
*Trade show coordination and support
*GNOME Events - Summit, GUADEC logistics and
financing; coordinate venue selection process
*Coordinate GNOME speakers for LUGs, schools & conferences
*Liaison with other .orgs - LTSP, OSSI, USENIX
Public Affairs coordination - Massachusetts
Open Standards/Open Source input; Brazil, Spain and Norway government stragetic advice advice; Washington 
Open Source caucus 
*Publishing - brokered GNOME 2 translation and
publication with royalty support to foundation
*Academic liaison to PhD candidates, GNOME surveys and polls by graduate students

Legal
*Monitor and handle trademark violations

Community
*Build regional organizations - Germany, Brazil,
Chile; stimulate hacker recruiting & training
*Public speaking on GNOME and open source

Contacts:
Current and former GNOME Foundation board members

Other comments:
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[Application received at Wed Sep 15 11:50:31 2004 (Eastern time)]