GNOME Annual Report 2009

Introduction

This is the workspace for the production of the GNOME Annual Report 2009. If you're interested in contributing to the report in any way, feel free to add your ideas in the Ideas section or just contact PaulCutler.

Credits

• Coordination: PaulCutler

• Design: Daniel Galleguillos (Mockup: http://live.gnome.org/DanielGalleguillos/GNOME_Annual_Report_Mockup)

• Editors: Looking for volunteers

General Instructions

• The current report structure is just an initial idea. If you think this structure should be different, just place your suggestions in the Ideas section and we can discuss and adapt the report accordingly.
• If you want to start working on any of the sections bellow, create the page, change the status (in this page) to Started and add your name to the Owner field.
• It's not a problem to have more than one person working on the same section.
• Status for each section can be Not started, Started, Finished, and Edited.
• Please, add as many links/references/information sources as you can for each section

Table of contents

Foreword

1. Letter from the GNOME Foundation Executive Director (Status: Final Draft)

   • Owners: Stormy Peters
   • Summary: To be determined
   • Format: To be determined
   • Related links

A year in review

1. GNOME in 2009 (Status: Complete)

   • Owners: Paul Cutler
   • Summary: Recaps from various GNOME teams based on the quarterly reports.
   • Format: A recap based on the quarterly reports from a number of GNOME teams

   • Related links (Q2 report and Q3 report

   • Status: Complete

Events and Community initiatives

1. Interview with the Release Team (Status: In progress - 95% complete)

   • Owners: Paul Cutler
   • Summary: To be determined
   • Format: Interview
   • Related links
2. GNOME Events Worldwide
   • Owners: To be determined
   • Summary: Summary of GNOME user groups activities around the world
   • Format: Introduction and then one section per user group
   • Related links

     • GNOME presence at conferences: SCALE, LCA, FOSDEM, RMLL, Solutions Linux, LinuxTag, CeBIT, FISL, LinuxLive UK, ...

     • GNOME-organised events: GNOME Asia, GUADEC, Guademy, gnome.conf.au, GNOME devroom @ FOSDEM, GNOME track @ LinuxTag, GNOME Meeting at Involucrate, Dia GNOME @ Encuentro Linux in Chile, Forum GNOME (Brazil) @ Latinoware, in general, GNOME Latin American Tour, ...

     • GNOME Community calendar - we could publish the events for the year that we know about

       • Other GNOME user group related news & events: Maemo Summit, Docs hackfest, Marketing hackfest design summit, Zeitgeist hackfest, UDS, ...

   • GNOME Asia 2009 Recap

     • Author: Pockey Lam
     • Status: Complete - photos (zip file) attached to wiki page

   • Boston Summit Recap

     • Author: Jason Clinton
     • Status: complete

   • DIA 2009

     • Author: Diego
     • Status: Complete

3. History of the Pants

   • Owners: Jeff Waugh / Paul Cutler
   • Summary: A history of the award given annually at GUADEC, the Pants
   • Format: Article

Foundation development

1. Sponsored community activities (Status: Complete)

   • Owners: Paul Cutler
   • Summary: A recap of all the hackfests in 2009
   • Format: TBD

   • Related links: /Hackfests

     • WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Juan José Sánchez Penas (in progress)
     • Doc Hackfest: Paul Cutler (complete)
2. Finances (Status: Not started)
   • Owners: German
   • Summary: To be determined
   • Format: To be determined
   • Related links

3. List of all 2009 donors (Status: Complete)

   • Owners: Paul Cutler
   • Summary: To be determined
   • Format: GNOME logo made of the donors names
   • Related links

4. GNOME Foundation 2009 Members

   • Owner: Paul Cutler
   • Summary: GNOME Foundation membership statistics

Images

The idea is to have something like "Images of GNOME in 2009" spreaded out inside and between articles. The image descrition can overlap the image or maybe we could use the same approach as the 2007 annual report which puts the captions in a different page. Add links to Images page.

Ideas

Add your cool ideas here.

• A nicely formatted financial report this year, please. DaveNeary

• Don't feel constrained by the article layout from 2007 - I came up with it mostly based on content available and some ideas about what people might be interested in. I think that you can drop "the year in distributions" and have a wider "GNOME commercial ecosystem" article which talks about things like distros and device releases. DaveNeary

• Unless there's a compelling reason to, I wouldn't call out GNOME Mobile as an initiative this year. Include device releases in the ecosystem article, and mobile-related changes in the platform to "a year in review". DaveNeary

• Article ideas I'd like to see: (DaveNeary)

  • The History of the Pants (story of its founding, past winners, a photo of the actual pants)
  • A "Meet the team" article with more personal info for one of the GNOME teams that are doing underappreciated great work, like the a11y team or the usability team
  • A guest article on user expereience design from someone who knows what they're talking about