Friends of GNOME planning

Friends of GNOME is our program to enable our community of developers, users and fans to support GNOME financially. In January 2009, we launched a monthly subscription program with an "adopt a hacker" campaign.

Team

• Lucas Rocha
• Andreas Nilsson
• Stormy Peters
• Roberto Galoppini
• Rosanna Yuen

• Shaun McCance

• Paul Cutler

Status

• Donations spreadsheet GNOME-Donations.ods

Todo List

• Get list of friends that have signed up for postcards (Rosanna)
• Design t-shirts for Adopt a Hacker sponsors at their one year anniversary (First ones will be up in January.)
• Act on feedback from Glynn
• Act on feedback from Reinout
• Post graphs on Friends of GNOME
• Details and a ruler for Friends of GNOME goals (total dollar amount and number of subscribers)

Goals

• Create a basis of financial support for the GNOME Foundation from the general public
• $20,000 for 2009
• When we announced the sys admin team, we said our goal was to hire a part time system administrator and in order to do so we were trying to raise $50,000 from Friends of GNOME. (Canonical said they'd match $10,000 of that.)

Related efforts

• GNOME Facebook Group

• Support GNOME Facebook Cause (Roberto Galoppini, Stormy Peters)