I went to two conferences during the past couple of weeks: Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference in Tucson, Arizona. I went to the Grace Hopper Women in Computing conference on a Grace Hopper scholarship, i.e. they paid for travel. In addition to attending the conference, I participated on the open source software panel. There…

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…

Monday was a US holiday. Met with a company interested in using Linux and GNOME. (Actually using it but not as much as they’d like.) They had a lot of feedback for us and we talked about ways that they could get that type of feedback directly to the projects. One of the main issues…

If you measure productivity based on what gets done (as opposed to how hard you work), this was a frustrating week. What I got done: Got a new advisory board member invoiced. (Well, Rosanna invoiced them, not me, but I helped make it happen.) Working on quotes for press release. (Didn’t actually get any yet.)…

In the month of August we raised $1,212, for a total of $21,695 since January 1, 2009. We made several improvements to our Friends of GNOME site, including the ability to specify your monthly donation amount. Money from subscriptions held steady. August 2009 was better than previous Augusts, thanks to the subscriptions to Friends of…

This update is actually for three weeks, the week of August 10th when I was at OpenSource World, the week of August 17th when I was on vacation and the week of August 24th when I caught up with all the email I got in the previous two weeks! During the weeks of August 10th…

Worked on the quarterly report.Got 11 updates out of the 15 we’d like to include. (And if I forgot a team, please let me know!!) Working on two more with the team leads. Waiting on two additional ones. Editing them and working with Paul Cutler and Vinicius Depizzol on the layout. Wrote final draft of…

In the month of June we raised $1,530, for a total of $20,483 since January 1, 2009. Great news: We passed the $20,000 mark which was our original goal for all of 2009! Good news: July 2009 is much better than all other July’s in documented history. OK news: Numbers held steady with June.

The GNOME Accessibility team will be using some of their earmarked funds to have a booth at 2010 CSUN – set up by Eitan Isaacson. I think this is great as it’s a way to reach users who may not already be using a free desktop. Accessibility is an area we are good at and…

Thanks to everyone who helped get things done this week! I think we could have a bunch more roles in GNOME. We could have someone in charge of customer case studies, someone responsible for GNOME presentation materials (slide templates, business cards), someone in charge of potential sponsor identification, etc.  If anyone sees a common thread…