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Stormy’s Update: Week of April 26, 2010
GNOME Asia meeting. The GNOME Asia team is planning GNOME Asia 2010. While the exact event hasn’t been announced, I can tell you it will most likely be in Taiwan and they are already looking for potential speakers. I attended several GNOME A11y & HFOSS meetings. We are working with several universities this summer that…
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Stormy’s Update: Week of April 19, 2010
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…
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Stormy’s Update: Week of April 12, 2010
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…
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Stormy’s Update: Weeks of March 29th and April 5th, 2010
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…
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Stormy’s Update: Week of March 22nd
Friends of GNOME ruler launched. The campaign has been a great success so far – thanks, everyone! Jeremy Allison joined the GNOME Advisory Board representing Google. Worked with a potential sponsor. Met with Rosanna to discuss the things she’s got going on (invoices, reimbursements, bank stuff, etc) and the Friends of GNOME gifts. Proposed that…
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Stormy’s Update: Weeks of March 8th and 15th
Attended Open Mobility. Was on a panel about the desktop and the cloud. There was lots of audience participation and the conversation took a couple of strange turns with Google and Google apps being a good piece of the conversation. While I was there I met with Gabi Schindler from Azingo and Morgan Gillis and…
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Friends of GNOME February 2010 Update
Good news: From last year: 2009 was an awesome year thanks to our Friends of GNOME. We brought in $29,578!!! February 2010 was an outstanding month. We brought in $2,826. (Compare to $1,587 in January and $2,663 in December.) Challenge: A large part of February’s donation was do to one, one time $1500 donation from…
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GNOME & Project:Possibility
Project:Possiblity just hosted the first ever SS12: Code for a Cause. SS12 is a programming competition where teams of students compete to code open source software for persons with disabilities over the course of a weekend. Teams of students working with GNOME’s Caribou took first place at UCLA and second place at USC! Thanks go…
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Stormy’s Update: Week of March 1st
Followed up on several sponsors for GUADEC. It is looking good from a sponsorship perspective! (Don’t forget to submit your talk proposal!) Michael Meeks joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board representing Novell, replacing Gary Ekker. Set up some surveys for the board directors to give feedback on each others’ performance. Way too much time and…
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Stormy’s Update: Weeks of February 15th and February 22nd
I think the number of different projects and conversations I am having has maxed out my multiprocessing capabilities. This week I am going to spend more time logged out of email and working on one project at a time. Presented at IASA. Great conversation. Very interactive group. Made a couple of local government contacts –…