Re: GNOME Annual Report

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Emily,

On 12/01/2011 05:16 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Hi there, its now December of 2011 and the GNOME Annual Report is due in
> the coming months. As such, we are requesting the help of any and all
> interested persons. We especially need help with writing articles &
> possibly designing presentations and making videos as well (we're
> kicking around using a multi-faceted approach to the annual report, with
> a downloadable PDF file as well as online videos & other content -
> thoughts?). Juanjo Marin, Karen Sandler & I are currently working on the
> report but we cannot do this alone! Please help us get the annual report
> out in a timely fashion!

Do you think it might be a good idea to start with a list of Stuff we 
should write about - notable occurrences during the year, successful 
programs we want to highlight, etc? From there, it might be easier to 
find the person related to the event/activity who could write about it.

Some things come to mind that we really should highlight:
* Women's Outreach Program - and other developer recruitment programs we 
have going on (Summer of Code, Code-In) - I'd especially like to see the 
mentor co-ordinators getting credit, it's a lot of work.
* The release of GNOME 3 of course - perhaps we could come at it from an 
angle that we haven't looked at let?
* The hiring of the Executive Director - it might be nice to shine a 
spotlight on the group of people who led the process which ended with 
the hiring of Karen, and use the opportunity to introduce our new 
executive director
* Desktop Summit - again, a perspective from the organising team might 
be interesting - also, we could try to highlight some of the success 
stories coming out of the conference. A Vox Populi here, asking people 
what their impressions of the conference were (quotes from the survey, 
perhaps?) could work well.

There are a bunch of other things worthy of hghlighting. Conferences and 
hackfests come to mind. We could even just show a bunch of photos from 
the various conferences and meetings to show how worldwide we are. 
Berlin, Bangalore, Montreal, Prague, Cincinnati, Cambridge, A Coruna, 
Toronto, Brussels... am I missing any?

"GNOME in the news", maybe? (a summary of the hottest articles about 
GNOME this year, or comings & goings in the rest of the open desktop 
world (might be nice to mention Ubuntu 11.04 adopting Unity by default, 
for example)

And I'd love to see a GNOME application show-case - pick one application 
& do a decent presentation of it and its community. I'd pick Shotwell 
(disclosure: I'm on the board of directors of Yorba), Banshee or Cheese 
as good examples of apps with a great GNOME ethos and great commuinity 
around them.

What other topics should be in the annual report (besides treasurer & 
chairman/executive director reports)?

This could be completely different to what you'd planned - if so, please 
let me know! I didn't want to be the guy making a suggestion with 
nothing to back it up.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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