GNOME Annual Report 2008
Introduction
This is the workspace for the production of the GNOME Annual Report 2008. 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 LucasRocha.
Credits
Coordination: LucasRocha
Design: To be defined
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
Letter from the GNOME Foundation Executive Director (Status: Edited)
Owners: Stormy Peters
Summary: To be defined
Format: To be defined
Related Links
- Add here...
A year in review
GNOME in 2008 (Status: Edited)
Owners: VincentUntz
Summary: Overview of what happened and trends on the GNOME development front in 2008.
Format: Some notes about major happenings.
Related Links
- Add here...
2008 in Distributions (Status: Discarded)
Owners: DavydMadeley
Summary: Summary of distributions activities related to GNOME in 2008.
Format: Notes about GNOME in major distros and mobile projects.
Related Links
- Add here...
Maybe update to "Distributions & Devices" per email: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2008-December/msg00010.html
- Include list of GNOME devices that launched in 2008 (see below)
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/ars-awards-2008.ars/7
GNOME Mobile (Status: Edited)
Owners: DaveNeary, Stormy Peters & PaulCooper
Summary: Summary of GNOME mobile happening in 2008.
Format: Notes about GNOME in major mobile projects and the first official release in 2.24.
Related Links
GNOME Mobile Summit in Austin, April 2008: press release, report
- New participants in GNOME Mobile - Ubuntu Mobile, Azingo, Motorola)
- Mobile-oriented GNOME-related stuff (moblin, Clutter, OH acquisition, ...)
Events and Community initiatives
GUADEC (Status: Discarded)
Owners: DavydMadeley
Summary: Wrap-up of GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul (Turkey)
Format: To be defined
Related Links
- Add here...
Interview with Willie Walker (Status: Done)
Owners: DaveNeary
Summary: Interview with Willie Walker
Format: Interview
Related Links
- Add here...
User Groups (Status: Finished)
Owners: DiegoEscalanteUrrelo
Summary: Summary of GNOME user groups activities around the world
Format: Introduction and then one section per user group
Related Links
- Add here...
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, GTK+ Hackfest, Desktop search hackfest, SpeckHackfest2008, design summit, UDS, ...
Foundation development
GNOME Foundation in 2008 (Status: Not started)
Owners: BehdadEsfahbod
Summary: About Stormy or a opinion article by Stormy (in case the foreword is written by someone else)
Format: To be defined
Related Links
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Sponsored community activities (Status: Not started)
Owners: BehdadEsfahbod & VincentUntz
Summary: Summary of community activities sponsored by the GNOME Foundation in 2008
Format: Sections: "Sponsored community activities", "Advisory Board", "Finances", "Relatioships with other organizations", etc.
Related Links
To be honest, this section should be completely redundant with the rest of the report - if we include provisional accounts & budget, then it'll be in there how much we spent, and for everything we spent, we should get a report back from the attendee/organiser that we can include in the report
- Add here...
Finances (Status: Not started)
Owners: JohnPalmieri, Rosanna Yuen & Stormy Peters
Summary: Financial report and budget for 2009
Format: To be defined
Related Links
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List of all 2008 donors (Status: Edited)
Owners: Rosanna Yuen
Summary: List of all 2008 donors
Format: GNOME logo made of the donors names
Related Links
List of 2008 donors: http://www.gnome.org/friends/previous-donors.html#2008
Images
The idea is to have something like "Images of GNOME in 2008" spreaded out inside and between articles. The image descrition can overlap the image or maybe we could use the same aproach than last annual report which puts the captions in a different page. Add links to Images page.
Ideas
Add your cool ideas here.
- Maybe have a Gnome Accessibility Report.
GNOME Outreach Programme: Accessibility (plus: Lutèce d'Or for best community action) - DaveNeary
Interview with Willie Walker about GNOME accessibility and GOP:A - DaveNeary
- GNOME events - GUADEC, GNOME Asia, gnome.conf.au, FOSDEM GNOME Developer Room
Here's a brain dump, based on all the stuff I (DaveNeary) have written about this year. I have articles or drafts on all this stuff (mostly available as CC BY-ND-NC now):
GNOME & KDE to co-locate conference
- GNOME in the Google Summer of Code
- GNOME Mobile Summit in Austin, TX during DAM
GNOME at LinuxTag (could be GNOME User Groups at Conferences - we've had a presence in SCALE, LinuxTag, Solutions Linux, JDLL, RMLL, FOSDEM, ...)
10 cool new GNOME utilities (GNOME Do, Tasque, Hamster, Cheese, ...) - I blogged a list of these before the Summer
- GUADEC Report
- GNOME controversy during the year: Decadence, ...?
- Clutter (and other cool GNOME platform technologies)
Update Distributions to Distributions & Devices and list what devices launched using GNOME technologies in 2008
- Sun Ray
- Nokia
Towards the end, tell people how they can help. I liked idea #10, tell donors how they can help. We could talk about how we have volunteers working on everything from usability to documentation to code as well as financial donations.
Is it worth having profiles of the board members with a nice photo and a name and what they do and so on? --DavydMadeley