Attended the FOSS Workshop. This was an event of mostly university researchers with some invited industry and project attendees (like myself.) The goal was/is to come up with proposals for NSF grants to study free and open source software. The discussions and writing took place over 2.5 days and evenings and I was impressed at…

Edited a GNOME Journal article. Check out the latest issue with its multimedia focus! Published the GNOME Q4 2009 Quarterly Report! Thanks to all the teams that wrote things up – we have some great write-ups about some awesome work. Submitted the GNOME Google Adwords account for approval. I was bummed when the automated response…

Finally wrapped up the very long thread on the Foundation list and most of the side conversations. Met with a couple of advisory board members (via phone, email and IRC) to discuss funding and GUADEC. We are partnering with Project::Possibility! Look for updates from the GNOME accessibility folks. Got all the GNOME Q4 report updates…

Started out my week late as it turns out that Amtrak can randomly cancel trains – like for a whole weekend. We had a GNOME Advisory Board meeting about GNOME Foundation 2010 goals. We got a lot of good feedback. After adding another level of detail, I think we are ready to send them out.…

Worked a bit on CiviCRM. Could really use some more volunteers. (A big thanks to Jeff Schroeder, Dave Greenberg and Donald Lobo.) Put in sponsoring companies, adboard members, (Dave Neary also added some contacts), put in tasks, added Rosanna and we can track things including sent invoices, added the board so we can all track…

Pinged some people to help with GUADEC by mentoring or creating timelines. Had a great conversation with Sara Crouse from Wikimedia about how they find, apply and manage grants, like ones from the Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Looking forward to implementing some of that at the GNOME Foundation. Spent an inordinate amount of…

Answered a lot of emails and had a lot of discussions. As for things I actually crossed off my todo list: Updated CiviCRM requirements document with a few more process like the travel committee. Met with Dave Greenberg from CiviCRM. He gave me a lot of pointers on how to get started. I’ll be working…

LiMo Foundation. Met with Andrew Savory, Mal Minhas and Gyanee Dewnarain at the LiMo London offices. We talked about LiMo, GNOME Mobile, the work LiMo member companies are doing with GNOME technologies, our foundations and how we can work more closely together. Good conversations and I expect we’ll continue to work together and hopefully announce…

Attended (and gave several planned and several impromptu talks at) the GNOME Asia Summit November 20-22nd. It was great to see GNOME Asia successfully transition to a an annual conference. The GNOME Asia committee did a great job last year and they managed to transition that success to another country and a new team this…

Not as much detail as normal as I’m covering a much longer time frame … I’ll be returning to weekly updates now. Marketing hackfest. Helped plan and attended the first ever GNOME Marketing hackfest. It went well and we will be doing more. Thanks to Paul Cutler for putting it together. Thanks to the travel…