This is my update for work done for the GNOME Foundation during the weeks of September 14th and 21st.
I spent a lot of my last week communicating with lots of people. (At one point I had three IM windows open in addition to my email conversations and IRC and the phone rang!) I’ve captured the results of some of those conversations below. Hopefully the other conversations will also prove as productive soon.
Two one on one meetings with Brian Cameron who is the board member who works most closely with me on goal planning and results. (This is to alleviate any confusion from having seven bosses, to make sure things move quickly and to keep me from filling their email boxes any more than I already do!) In one meeting we went over the last six months and year’s results. In the other we talked about current issues and plans for the next couple of weeks.
Board of Directors meeting. We held our regular board of directors meeting, you can find the minutes online.
Women’s mini-summit. I attended the FSF’s Mini-Summit for Women in Free Software. Unfortunately I was on the phone instead of there in person but there were several other GNOME women in the room like Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Mairin Duffy and Leslie Hawthorn. We came out with some concrete plans for the future and a mailing list for everyone interested that’s already active.
Interviewed with Bruce Byfield about the women’s minisummit.
Had a conversation with an advisory board member who is not happy with us. (Working on the follow up to that.) Followed up with several advisory board members on payments. Four haven’t paid 2009 fees. Two are in process. I’m worried about two. (But over all our last year of income/donations looks very good!)
Talked to several advisory board members about a new initiative one of them would like to fund through the GNOME Foundation. (We also got a proposal for a hackfest from an advisory board member!)
Reviewed German’s excellent written summary and explanation of the 2010 budget. It’s all ready to send out.
Got list of patents from OIN. Also got advice that it’s not in our best interests to review them.
I attended and was interviewed on Linux Link Tech show.
Joined the Planetaria FOSS Women Planet that James Vasile set up. (I think it’s an awesome idea. FYI, he modeled it after Planet GNOME.)
Worked on getting quotes for new advisory board member press release. (Quotes are never easy to get approved at big companies.)
Wrote Software Freedom Day press release.
Reviewed GNOME Travel Policy.
Had a couple of follow ups with Dave Neary and Vincent Untz about OSiM. Thanks to both of them for representing GNOME there. Thanks for Vinicius for making a GNOME Mobile member sign and to our GNOME partners that displayed them in their booths, Igalia and Codethink.
Proposed a marketing hackfest. There is interest, now we just have to figure out a time and a place we can all meet.
Proposed and got enough takers to do a women’s issue of GNOME Journal. An issue written all by women about what they are working on in GNOME or about things they find interesting in GNOME. It’ll come out in November.
Proposed that the a11y team branch out to non software conferences to spread the word about GNOME and how it can help people with accessibility needs.
Did some twittering on behalf of GNOME.
Proposed CiviCRM for a CRM system for the GNOME Foundation.
Followed up on 401K plan. Only step left is a signed document and a check from Rosanna.
Attended the GUADEC IRC planning meeting that Srinivasa Ragavan put together. Thanks to all the previous GUADEC organizers that attended – there was some really good information shared during that 2.5 hour meeting! Srini is going to post the logs.
Was disappointed that the invitation to GNOME to attend the 2nd International Symposium on Computers and Arabic Language fell through. Khaled Hosney, Seif Lotfy and others were working to make sure that GNOME was represented. It sounds like they are no longer interested in funding free software projects though. I think it still might be worth having someone from GNOME attend though.
Sent thank you’s to everyone who donated to GNOME.
Helped with the promotion plan for GNOME 2.28.
And although I didn’t do it, I think it certainly worth mentioning that GNOME 2.28 released!