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Stormy’s Update: Week of May 11, 2009
Short two day week, as I’m off on vacation! GNOME Advisory Board meeting did roundtable Asked who was planning to ship GNOME 3.0. Everybody was interested in shipping it but probably not GNOME 3.0.0. Still working plans about when they’d ship it. Briefly discussed 2009 finances. One person said they’d have preferred a more positive…
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Stormy’s Update, Week of May 4, 2009
Marketing GNOME 3.0 Marketing Working on a plan for GNOME 3.0 marketing with Paul Cutler. Paul sent out a plan to create a plan. We will use the discussion and feedback on the list to create a calendar. See thread on the marketing mailing list if you are interested in participating. Planning GNOME 3.0 BOF…
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What’s happening with the GNOME Foundation, April 2009
Sponsors and the Advisory Board Our April meeting was about GNOME 3.0 and deprecation plans. 2009 Funding. Sent out 2009 budget J5 sent out call for community financial support. Great response so far! Received Sun, HP and Nokia 2009 fees plus Nokia’s sponsorship money for GNOME.Asia 2008. In person Advisory Board meeting at the Desktop…
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Friends of GNOME update
In the month of April we raised $3,316, for a total of $10,027.13 since January 1, 2009. (We had a big day on April 30th when John Palmieri posted The GNOME Foundation Needs Your Help.) Here are some graphs that show recent trends. Comparing donations by years: Comparing donations by month across years: Showing what…
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What’s happening with the GNOME Foundation, February and March 2009
[Sorry, just realized this was in draft format all month! – Stormy, May 4, 2009] Sponsors and the Advisory Board Our February meeting was about infrastructure and system administration issues. We talked about creating a formal sys admin team, what the GNOME project needs and how companies can help with people and money. Sys admin…
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What’s happening with the GNOME Foundation, January 2009
Sponsors and the Advisory Board Red Hat has a new member of the advisory board. His name is Lars and we’ll introduce him shortly! Our January meeting was a short round table. Our February meeting will be about infrastructure and system administration issues. Once again, the Advisory Board meets once a month, and while the…
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What’s happening with the GNOME Foundation, December 2008
We’ll continue to post meeting minutes online but we (the board) would like a place to discuss what’s happening in a bit more detail. Sponsors and the Advisory Board Advisory Board Members: Sugar Labs joined the GNOME Advisory Board. Walter Bender will be representing them. Check out the press release or some of the nice…