OpenSUSE is holding a community week this week, with a GNOME track. Curious as to what that really means, I asked Vincent Untz and Zonker (Joe Brockmeier) some questions. I really like that open source projects often find really new and effective ways to get things done. There's a openSUSE community week going on right […]
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Many of you saw J5’s call to support the GNOME Foundation. The initial response has been great! I wanted to follow up with a general call to support open source software projects financially. The GNOME Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. By definition it must serve the general public and by definition it must be supported
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When I took this job it was agreed that part of my job, but not all of it, would be fundraising. However, because of the economy I find myself thinking about fundraising more often than not these days. For example, take hackfests. Hackfests are events where you get all the key developers for a project
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Against my dad's best advice, I'm going to admit that I don't feel like I'm the best person to give a "State of GNOME" talk. I mean, it's an open source project. I don't run it, I don't manage it and people not only don't ask me for permission to do things, they don't make
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Dave Neary gave me his speaking slot at OSiM USA. I have two challenges, make a talk to fit his title and abstract (although you can almost always safely ignore the abstract) and give a good talk in 20 minutes of time. Here are some thoughts I have. (The title of the talk is Increasing
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Companies and communities is a topic I'll speaking on at SCALE. I welcome any feedback or points to consider! First off, there is no ideal company/community relationship. There are lots of different types of relationships between companies and the communities they work with (or don't work with) – and no one way is perfect for
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I could go the cliche route: the world is changing. I could go the proverbial route: we’re the proverbial frog in the pot being boiled alive. Or I could just try to explain what I see. The browser, the internet and the desktop are merging, and while I think we’ll work it out eventually, I
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I get asked a lot what I do, exactly, as executive director of the GNOME Foundation. First off, I want to say I’m really glad I work for an organization where people feel comfortable asking “what do you do?” It shows they care about the organization and are not afraid to ask tough questions. Have
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I ran across the GNOME Advisory Board Minutes from June 2003, back when I was on the advisory board representing HP: Stormy Peters did a presentation about her work on the Open SourceProgram Office at HP, policy, review for releases, and the OSS portal.The Foundation provides: – a bridge between community and the users –
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Every month we have GNOME advisory board meetings that are designed to bring our sponsors and our community closer together – to open up channels of communication. The topics so far have covered things from usability to GTK+ 3.0 to finances. There's usually a short presentation by the team and then there's time for discussion.
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