GNOME 2012 Q3 Report
This is a rough draft of the 2012 Q3 report. Please add your teams update at the bottom and remove your name from the list of those needed. Thanks!
Due Date: TBA
[Team Title] by: who-compiled-or-wrote-it
Short summary of what your team did this quarter
Board and Executive Director
by: Karen Sandler
Bugsquad
by: André Klapper
Release Team
by: Frederic Peters
Membership and Elections Committee
by: Tobias Mueller
During Q3 2013 the GNOME membership and elections committee received 54 applications for a foundation membership including renewals. 54 applications were processed. During the same period, 18 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 379 members.
We ended up with 15 new members:
- Sébastien Wilmet 2012-07-31
- Florian Nadge 2012-07-31
- Manuel Quiñones 2012-08-02
- Chris Ball 2012-08-21
- Matilda Bernard 2012-08-25
- Beth Hadley 2012-08-25
- Fabiana Pedreira Simões 2012-08-25
- Martin Robinson 2012-08-25
- Chris Leonard 2012-08-25
- Stephen Shaw 2012-09-10
- Thomas Bechtold 2012-09-13
- Simon Feltman 2012-09-23
- Nicolás Satragno 2012-09-23
- Sam Thursfield 2012-09-23
- Bertrand Rousseau 2012-09-24
GNOME User Groups
by: ??
Accessibility Team
by: Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias and Joanmarie Diggs
Outreach Program for Women
by: Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Localization
by: Petr Kovar
Documentation
by: Tiffany Antopolski / Shaun McCance
Web
by: Andreas Nilsson and Vinicius Depizzol
In Q3 The Web Team in collaboration with GNOME Outreach Program for Women intern Elena Petrevska continued the work of refresh the design of various GNOME websites and to that end launched mail.gnome.org with an updated design.
To celebrate the 15 anniversary of GNOME happybirthdaygnome.org was created where visitors can get information about important milestones in the project and look at pictures of the community from the past 15 years. Also in preparation of GNOME 3.6, gnome.org and gnome3.org was updated to reflect the new release. -Oliver Propst
Google Summer of Code
by: Alexandre Franke
Marketing
by: Emily Gonyer
The Marketing Team finished the 2010/2011 Annual Report in time for presentation at GUADEC, where Emily Gonyer gave the Marketing Teams presentation to the Annual General Meeting. A marketing team meeting was also held during GUADEC.
In August the Marketing Team celebrated GNOME's 15th birthday with a special commemorative website (http://www.happybirthdaygnome.org/). The annual Boston Summit was also officially announced to occur the first weekend of October at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
In September GNOME 3.6 was released, with many positive reviews. Emily Gonyer attended the 10th annual Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, Ohio where she ran a GNOME booth and attended the Diversity in Open Source Workshop.
Sysadmin
by: ???
Design
by: Allan Day
Conference planning: GUADEC
by: ???
Hackfests
User Observation Hackfest, Orlando, Florida, USA
Main page: Hackfests/UserObservationOrlando2012
The hackfest's attendees visited the town hall of the city of Largo, Florida, where Gnome is used almost exclusively in the city government's computers. Instead of having full desktops, people have thin clients (X terminals) connected to fat servers that run various GNU/Linux distributions and Gnome. The environment is customized to make life easier for non-technical users. The customizations have happened over the years, out of direct experience with what people do.
We interviewed several people who work in Largo's city hall, to get their impressions of the system and to get a general feeling for what kinds of work people do - how they navigate their work in a Gnome environment, what applications they use, how they organize their data and files. David Richards gave us a detailed presentation of the customizations done to Gnome, what gives trouble to people, and what he has done to try to make things easier and more robust.
The hackfest was sponsored by the Gnome Foundation, Suse, and the City of Largo.