Stormy’s Update, Week of May 4, 2009

Marketing
- GNOME 3.0 Marketing
  - Working on a plan for GNOME 3.0 marketing with Paul Cutler. Paul sent out a plan to create a plan. We will use the discussion and feedback on the list to create a calendar. See thread on the marketing mailing list if you are interested in participating.
  - Planning GNOME 3.0 BOF at GUADEC with Paul Cutler.
- Working on standard presentations for GNOME for people interested in speaking on GNOME.
- Discussed whether we’d want to add ads to gnome.org. (Rumor has it they could be worth up to $145K/year.)
- Agreed to approach Google about sharing revenue generated from search from aps like Epiphany.
- Put together a draft for how to recruit sponsors for GNOME.
Legal stuff:
- Agreement with SugarCRM for free use of their services being reviewed by attorneys.
- 401K plan being reviewed by attorneys. (Setting up a GNOME Foundation 401K with SocialK. Plan costs, including matching funds for Rosanna and Stormy, to be covered by a paycut to Stormy.)
- GNOME Accessibility Outreach program contract. Modified the contest contract to be a more generic contract so that we can continue to have people work on the tasks even though the contest is officially over. Sent to attorney for review.
Friends of GNOME
- got feedback from several people, brought it up on the marketing list
- published April data
- discussed how to get data for a ruler on the webpage
Desktop Summit
- On going: Looking for rooms for the adboard and board meeting. Looking for a local person to help work with two sponsors that want to host parties. (In addition to the two that are already connected.)
- Pinged companies that have not finalized sponsoring plans. Finalized agreement with two of them. Still several outstanding.
Sponsors:
- Exchanged email with three companies interested in signing up. (These have been on-going conversations for a while.)
- Contacted two other companies I think might be interested. Had a phone discussion with one.
- Pinged one that is way behind on payments.

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