Month: April 2010

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• Quarterly report. Put together the GNOME Q1 2010 quarterly report. Thanks to all the team members who wrote up the actual updates, Vinicius Depizzol who worked on the design and Vincent Untz who published it on the website during his vacation.
• Review. Wrote up first half of fiscal year 2010 results for the board to review.
• Orbitz. Worked with Orbitz to see if a business account would help the travel team. Still working with them.
• 1:1’s. Met with Brian and Rosanna (separately.)
• Marketing hackfest. Booked travel for the marketing hackfest. (Was waiting on some final scheduling before booking.)
• Odds and Ends. Weighed in on a few discussions, had a few discussions with board members, pushed a few things along.

Overall, it was a very productive week. Here’s hoping this one is too!

Logistics:

• Spent Monday traveling home from the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans.
• Tuesday I caught up on a ton of mail. Like a lot of mail. Got back down to 10 mails in my inbox.
• Wednesday-Friday I traveled to and attended the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. I hope everyone from Europe makes it back home soon!

What I actually did:

• Had a lot of great conversations with existing GNOME Foundation sponsors and members at the Collaboration Summit about things we are working on and GUADEC. I talked with (some in depth, some very briefly) Robert McQueen(Collabora), Phillippe Kalaf (Collabora), Quim Gil (Nokia), Juan Jose Sanchez (Igalia), Ryan Singer (InitMarketing), Amanda McPhearson (Linux Foundation), Alan Clark (Novell), Rob Taylor (CodeThink), Jono Bacon (Canonical), Dave Neary, Paul Cutler. And if I talked to you and you aren’t on the list and want to be, just leave a comment. I talked to a lot of people!
• Had a couple of great dinners. Yorba hosted a great GNOME dinner (Adam Dingle got  us all together!) and I had a great time catching up with the Yorba folks, Philip from Igalia, Christian Schaller, Paul Cutler, Phillippe Kalaf and Robert McQueen. (There were more people there but I wasn’t able to hear them from down the table. 🙂 Had dinner the night before with Ryan Singer, Jonathan Corbet, Jake Edge, Paul Cutler, Dave Neary and Josh Berkus. Don’t ask me who all I chatted with at the evening event on Wednesday …
• Spent most of the day on Thursday in the MeeGo talks … when I wasn’t meeting with people individually.
• Ran the Desktop track on Friday morning. Many, many thanks to Dave Neary and Zonker Brockmeier for helping put it together. We had some good sessions and great discussions about web applications and the desktop. (Talks about Snowy, KDE web apps and Mozilla Weave.) We wanted a controversial panel and we got one. I think the whole room shouted through the whole thing but I think I kept it enough under control that we got a few questions answered. It was exciting if not 100% productive.
• Heard my favorite idea so far with what to do with the funding that Nokia has given to GNOME Mobile. Robert McQueen suggested that we do like a Google Summer of Code but for mobile. And not limit it to students. I really liked the idea and ran it by several others like Quim and Juanjo and everyone seemed to like it.
• Got a free Nexus One phone from Google. (They gave one to everyone that attended their keynote!)
• Attended the GNOME Board meeting.
• Sent thank you’s to people who donated to Friends of GNOME through Paypal.

• Friends of GNOME ruler was a great success! We met our goal for hiring a sys admin. (My work was just to provide updated numbers frequently and to dent and twitter. And sending thank you notes to all our generous supporters!)
• Talked to InitMarketing with Paul Cutler about how they might be able to help us with some of our marketing tasks.
• Planned the Desktop Track at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with Zonker and Dave Neary.
• Attended the board meeting.
• Met with Rosanna.
• Met with Jonathan Corbet from LWN.net to discuss partnership opportunities.
• Met with Jeremy Allison, our newest GNOME Advisory Board member.
• Had a meeting with the folks going to the events in Africa representing GNOME and some of the other board members.
• Started a conversation on the mobile list about how best to use the funding from Nokia.
• Had lots of exchanges with events looking for me to speak at them. (In all cases I asked for lots more info. In one case I offered to speak in exchange for a donation to the GNOME Foundation.)
• Started working on my write-up for my 6 month evaluation.
• Spread the word to recruit a few people for the GNOME press team.
• Created the GNOME wish list.
• Agreed to pay Texas Linux Fest a nonprofit $100 booth fee. (Zonker and the Ubuntu team will be running the GNOME booth.)
• Followed up with a few potential GUADEC sponsors.
• Sent and received a record amount of email!
• Taking some vacation – going to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans!

Next week:

• Catch up on email from vacation.
• Attend the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and chair the Desktop Track along with Zonker and Dave Neary.
• Continue to follow up with GUADEC sponsors.
• Help Paul Cutler with prep work for the marketing hackfest.