gnomeweb-wml r6584 - trunk/www.gnome.org/new-friends

[lucasr svn gnome org]

Author: lucasr
Date: Mon Jan 12 21:38:34 2009
New Revision: 6584
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=6584&view=rev

Log:
More improvements in new-friends.


Modified:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/new-friends/about-foundation.wml

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/new-friends/about-foundation.wml
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--- trunk/www.gnome.org/new-friends/about-foundation.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/new-friends/about-foundation.wml	Mon Jan 12 21:38:34 2009
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 <li>Have more active dialogs between our sponsor companies and our developers through monthly advisory board meetings. This is one way to bring end user and distribution company needs to GNOME developers.</li>
 <li>Hold a joint GUADEC/Akademy conference, a Free Desktop Summit, in order to encourage collaboration and common specifications.</li>
 <li>Ensure that there is a free and open source stack for mobile devices by working with other mobile groups to define and produce GNOME Mobile.</li>
-<li>Hire a system administrator to manage the GNOME infrastructure so that our contributors can focus on improving GNOME.</li> 
+<li>Hire a system administrator to manage the GNOME infrastructure. The GNOME community has 1000s of volunteer contributors. The infrastructure to support them from mailing lists to bug tracking system to source code repositories is all maintained by volunteers. A contract system administrator could provide the on-call support that would provide our volunteer developers and volunteer administrators with the resources they need to keep the GNOME project moving forward its mission of a free and open source desktop for all.</li> 
 <li>Support local conferences like GNOME.Asia, GUADLAC (Latin America), Boston Summit, GNOME.conf.au (Australia) and Forum GNOME as a forum for community building, technology sharing, and bringing developers, companies and users closer together. 
 Start an internship program aimed at exposing business students to the free and open source software world and bringing their expertise to some of the marketing and business challenges we have.</li>
 <li>Support the community on defining and executing a release plan for GNOME 3.0.</li>