- The Advisory Board is made up of organizations and companies that support - GNOME. The Advisory Board has no decision-making authority but provides a - vehicle for its members to communicate with the Board of Directors and - help the Directors guide the overall direction of GNOME and the GNOME - Foundation. -
- -- Current Advisory Board members are listed in our about page. -
- -- If your organization or company is interested in joining the Advisory - Board, please contact the Board of Directors. -
- -- Advisory Board member companies pay an annual fee which helps finance - the operations of the GNOME foundation. The reports that are published by the Foundation show - how this money is used to help the GNOME project. -
- -There are two levels for commerical companies:
- -- Fees may be waived for invited non-profit organizations. -
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-Bylaws of GNOME Foundation - -Initially Adopted on March 16, 2001. -As Amended on April 5, 2002. -As Amended on November 11, 2005. -As Amended on October 22, 2007. -As Amended on October 31, 2012.
-The name of the Corporation shall be GNOME Foundation (the "Corporation"), a California -Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation.
-The principal office for the transaction of business of the Corporation shall be determined -and may be changed from time to time by the Board of Directors (the "Board").
-The Board may at any time establish branch or subordinate offices at any place or places -where the Corporation is qualified to do business.
-The objectives of the Corporation shall be as stated in the Articles of Incorporation. -Specifically, the objectives shall include charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of -Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Internal Revenue -Code"), or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law.
-The Corporation has been formed under the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation -Law (the "CNPBCL") for the purposes described above, and it shall be nonprofit and nonpartisan. -No substantial part of the activities of the Corporation shall consist of lobbying or propaganda, or -otherwise attempting to influence legislation, except as provided in Section 501(h) of the Internal -Revenue Code, and the Corporation shall not participate or intervene in (including publishing or -distributing statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office except as -provided in Section 501(h) of the Internal Revenue Code.
-The Corporation shall not, except in an insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or -exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of the purposes described above.
-The properties and assets of the Corporation are irrevocably dedicated to charitable and -educational purposes meeting the requirements for exemption provided by Section 214 of the -California Revenue and Taxation Code. No part of the net income or assets of the Corporation, on -dissolution or otherwise, shall inure to the benefit of any private person or individual, or any member -or Director of the Corporation. On liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation, all properties and -assets and obligations shall be distributed and paid over to a nonprofit fund, foundation or -Corporation which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes -meeting the requirements for exemption provided by Section 214 of the California Revenue and -Taxation Code, and which has established its tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the -Internal Revenue Code.
-Initially, there shall be one class of voting members of the Corporation. Membership will -be determined on a case-by-case basis, at the sole discretion of the Board and Membership -Committee. Any contributor to GNOME shall be eligible for membership. A "contributor" shall be -defined as any individual who has contributed to a non-trivial improvement of the GNOME Project, -such as code, documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, or other -non-trivial activities which benefit the GNOME Project. Large amounts of advocacy or bug -reporting may qualify one as a contributor, provided that such contributions are significantly above -the level expected of an ordinary user. Contributions made in the course of employment will be -considered and will be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather than accruing to all employees of -a "contributing" corporation.
-The Board may, from time to time, establish another class or classes of members, with or -without voting rights. The privileges, rights and duties of such other class or classes of members -shall be as provided by the Board, subject to the terms of the Bylaws, as amended from time to time. -The Board may thereby confer some or all of the rights of the members upon any person or persons.
-If such person or persons do not have the right to vote for either:
-such person shall not be a member within the meaning of Section 5056 of the Nonprofit Corporation Law of the State of California.
-The Directors may designate certain persons or groups of persons as sponsors, benefactors, -contributors, advisors or friends of the Corporation or such other title as they deem appropriate. Such -persons shall serve in an honorary capacity and, except as otherwise determined by the Board, shall -in such capacity have no right to notice of or to vote at any meeting, shall not be considered for -purposes of establishing a quorum, and shall have no other rights or responsibilities.
-The term of membership shall be two (2) years.
-Admission or removal from membership shall be by the vote of a majority of the -Directors then in office.
-The Board may determine from time to time an initial membership fee, and set such other -fees, dues and assessments for membership in the corporation as the Board, in its discretion, from -time to time determines.
-The membership of any member shall terminate upon the occurrence of any one or more of -the following:
-Suspended or expelled members may be reinstated at the discretion of the Board.
-No member shall have any right or interest in any of the property or assets of this -Corporation.
-No member shall be personally liable for the debts, liabilities, or obligations of this -Corporation.
-No member may transfer for value or otherwise a membership or any right arising -therefrom, and all rights of membership shall cease upon the member's death or dissolution of this -Corporation.
-All meetings of members shall be held either at the principal office of the Corporation or at -any other place within or without the State of California, which may be designated by the Board -pursuant to the authority hereinafter granted to the said Board, or by the written consent of all -members entitled to vote thereat, given either before or after the meeting and filed with the Secretary -of the Corporation.
-The annual meetings of members of the Corporation shall be held at any time and place determined by the resolution -of the Board. Directors may be elected and other proper business may be transacted at the annual -meeting of members.
-Special meetings of members, for any lawful purpose, may be called at any time by the -President or by the Board. Furthermore, special meetings of the members for any lawful purpose -may be called by, upon request in writing by at least ten percent of the membership, or at least five -percent of the membership in accordance with -Article XVI, -stating the business to be transacted at -the special meeting, mailed to the principal office of the Corporation, or delivered to the chairman of -the Board, the President, the Vice President or Secretary. It shall be the duty of the President to -cause notice to be given, within seven (7) days from receipt of such a request, to be held no more -than twenty (20) days after the receipt of such a request.
-A notice of each annual meeting, and special meeting shall be given by the President or, in case of his or her failure or refusal, by -any other officer or any Director; shall specify the place, time, day and hour of the meeting or the -date on which the ballot shall be returned, if applicable; and in the case of special meetings, the nature of the -business to be transacted thereat. Such notice shall be given in writing to every member of the -Corporation who, on the record date for notice of the meeting, is entitled to vote thereat. Such notice -shall be given either personally or by sending a copy thereof by first-class mail or by telephone -communication, including a voice messaging system or other system or technology designed to -record and communicate messages, telegraph, facsimile, electronic mail, or other electronic means, -either directly to the member or to a person at the member's office who would reasonably be -expected to communicate such notice promptly to the member at least thirty (30) days prior to the -date fixed for such meeting in the case of an annual meeting and at least ten (10) days in the case of -all other meetings.
-Directors may be elected at the annual meeting as described herein or otherwise by eletronic mail and electronic voting. Notice of such electronic mail or electronic voting shall be given by the President or -by anyone duly appointed with the authority to do so by the Directors in accordance with Section 8.3. -Such notice shall be sent promptly to the membership at least thirty (30) days prior to the last day on which votes may be submitted.
-Any members' meeting, annual or special, whether or not a quorum is present, may be -adjourned from time to time by the vote of a majority of the members, but in the absence of a -quorum no other business may be transacted at any such meeting. No meeting may be adjourned for -more than forty-five (45) days. It shall not be necessary to give any such notice of the time and -place of the adjourned meeting or of the business to be transacted thereat, other than by an -announcement at the meeting at which such adjournment is taken. If after the adjournment a new -record date is fixed for notice or voting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each -member who, on the record date for notice of the meeting, is entitled to vote at the meeting.
-At any meeting of the members, those attending in person shall constitute a quorum, except -when a larger quorum is required by law, by the Articles of Organization or by these Bylaws.
-Each voting member in good standing is entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a -vote of the members. Voting shall be by voice vote, unless the chairman of the meeting at which -such vote takes place directs such voting to be by ballot. No single vote shall be split into fractional -votes.
-Any action which may be taken at any regular or special meeting of members may be taken -without a meeting if the Corporation distributes a written ballot to every member entitled to vote on -the matter. Such ballot shall set forth the proposed action, provide an opportunity to specify -approval or disapproval of any proposal, and provide a reasonable time within which to return the -ballot to the corporation. Approval by written ballot shall be valid only when the number of votes -cast by ballot within the time period specified equals or exceeds a quorum of the members, and the -number of approvals equals or exceeds the number of votes that would be required to approve at a -meeting at which the total number of votes cast was the same as the number of votes cast by ballot.
-Any member of the Corporation may propose a referendum. Such request for a referendum must be endorsed by 10% of the Membership. The overall referendum process shall be conducted by the Membership and Elections Committee, as authorized by the Directors pursuant to Article IX.
-The Board may fix, in advance, a record date for the purpose of determining the members -entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of members, give consent to corporate action in -writing without a meeting, receive any report, receive any allotment of rights, or exercise rights in -respect to any change in membership rights or liabilities. Only members of record on the record date -are entitled to notice of and to vote at any such meeting, give consent without a meeting, receive any -reports, receive allotment of rights, or exercise the rights, as the case may be, notwithstanding any -transfer of memberships on the books of the corporation after the record date, except as otherwise -provided in the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws. The Board shall fix, in advance, record -dates as follows:
-Meetings of members shall be presided over by the President of the Corporation, or in his -or her absence, by the Chairman of the Corporation, or in his or her absence, by a chairman chosen -by a majority of the members present. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as the secretary of -all meetings of members, provided that in his or her absence the presiding officer shall appoint -another member to act as Acting Secretary of the meeting.
-Regular meetings of the Board may be held at any place within or outside the State of -California that has been designated from time to time by resolution of the Board or in the notice of -the meeting. In the absence of such designation, regular meetings shall be held at the principal -executive office of the Corporation. Special meetings of the Board shall be held at any place within -or outside the State of California that has been designated in the notice of the meeting or, if not -stated in the notice, or if there is no notice, at the principal executive office of the Corporation. -Notwithstanding the above provisions of this Section 8.5, a regular or special meeting of the Board -may be held at any place consented to in writing by all the Board members, either before or after the -meeting. If consents are given, they shall be filed with the minutes of the meeting. Any meeting, -regular or special, may be held by conference telephone or similar communication equipment, so -long as all Directors participating in the meeting can communicate with one another, and all such Directors shall be -deemed to be present in person at such meeting.
-At such time and place fixed by the Board, the Board shall hold a regular annual meeting for -the purpose of organization, election of officers and the transaction of other business.
-Regular meetings of the Board shall be held on a quarterly basis following the annual -meeting of the Corporation. Such regular meetings may be held without notice.
-A majority of the authorized number of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the -transaction of business, except to adjourn as provided in Section 8.11 of this Article VIII. -Every action taken or decision made by a majority of the Directors present at a meeting duly held at which -a quorum is present shall be regarded as the act of the Board, subject to the provisions of the -CNPBCL, especially those provisions relating to:
-A meeting at which a quorum is -initially present may continue to transact business, notwithstanding the withdrawal of Directors, if -any action taken is approved by at least a majority of the required quorum for that meeting.
-The transactions of any meeting of the Board of Directors, however called and noticed or -wherever held, shall be as valid as though taken at a meeting duly held after regular call and notice if
-The -waiver of notice or consent need not specify the purpose of the meeting. All waivers, consents and -approvals shall be filed with the corporate records or made a part of the minutes of the meeting. -Notice of a meeting shall also be deemed given to any Director who attends the meeting -without protesting before or at its commencement about the lack of adequate notice.
-A majority of the Directors present, whether or not constituting a quorum, may adjourn any -meeting to another time and place.
-Notice of the time and place of holding an adjourned meeting need not be given, unless the -meeting is adjourned for more than twenty-four (24) hours, in which case personal notice of the time -and place shall be given before the time of the adjourned meeting to the Directors who were not -present at the time of adjournment.
-Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board may be taken without a meeting if -all members of the Board, individually or collectively, consent in writing to the action; provided, -however, that the consent of any Director who has a material financial interest in a transaction to -which the Corporation is a party and who is an "interested Director" as defined in Section 5233 of -the California Corporations Code shall not be required for approval of that transaction. Such action -by written consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of the Board. Such -written consent or consents shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board.
-Directors as such shall not receive any compensation for their services, but by resolution of -the Board, expenses of attendance, if any, may be allowed for attendance at regular or special -meetings of the Board; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any Director -from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation for this.
-The Board, by resolution adopted by a majority of the Directors then in office, provided a -quorum is present, may create or remove one or more committees, to serve at the pleasure of the Board. -Appointments to committees of the Board shall be by majority vote of the Directors then in office. -The Board may appoint one or more alternate members of any such committee, who may replace -any absent member at any meeting of the committee.
-Meetings and actions of committees of the Board shall be governed by, held and taken in -accordance with the provisions of these bylaws concerning meetings and other Board actions, except -that the time for regular meetings of such committees and the calling of special meetings of such -committees may be determined either by Board resolution or, if there is none, by resolution of the -committee of the Board. Minutes of each meeting of any committee of the Board shall be kept and -shall be filed with the corporate records. The Board may adopt rules for the government of any -committee, provided they are consistent with these bylaws, or in the absence of rules adopted by the -Board, the committee may adopt such rules.
-Each member of a committee shall continue as such until the next annual meeting of the -Board of the Corporation and until his successor is appointed, unless the committee shall be sooner -terminated, or unless such member be removed from such committee, or unless such member shall -cease to qualify as a member thereof.
-Vacancies in the membership of any committee may be filled by appointments made in the -manner as provided in the case of the original appointments.
-Unless otherwise provided in the resolution of the Board designating a committee, a majority -of the whole committee shall constitute a quorum and the act of a majority of the members present at -a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the committee.
-Each committee may adopt rules for its own government not inconsistent with these bylaws -or with rules adopted by the Board.
-No committee may:
-The officers of the Corporation shall be a Chairman of the Board (if appointed by the Board), -a President, one or more Vice Presidents (the number thereof to be determined by the Board), a -Secretary, a Treasurer and such other officers as may be elected in accordance with the provisions of -this Article X. Except insofar as their duties may conflict, any two or more offices may be held by -the same person, except that neither the Secretary nor the Treasurer may serve concurrently as the -President or Chairman of the Board.
-The officers of the Corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance -with the provisions of Section 10.3 or Section 10.5 of this Article X, shall be chosen -annually by the Board, and each shall hold his or her office until he or she shall resign -or shall be removed or otherwise -disqualified to serve, or his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, subject to the rights, if -any, of an officer under any contract of employment. New offices may be created and filled at any -meeting of the Board. Each officer shall hold office until that officer's successor shall have been -duly elected and shall have qualified.
-The Board may appoint such other officers, including one or more assistant secretaries and -one or more assistant treasurers, as it shall deem desirable, each such officer to have the authority -and perform the duties prescribed from time to time by the Board and to hold office until he or she -shall resign or shall be removed or otherwise disqualified to serve.
-A vacancy in any office, because of death, resignation, removal, disqualification or -otherwise, may be filled by the Board for the unexpired portion of the term.
-The Chairman of the Board, if there be such an officer, shall preside at all meetings of the -Board of Directors and perform such other duties as the Directors may assign.
-The President shall act as the chief executive officer of the Corporation -if no chief executive officer or executive director has been appointed by -the Board and shall in general supervise and control all of the business -and affairs of the Corporation. The President shall also act as the -Chairman if none has been appointed. -The President may sign, -with the secretary or any other proper officer of the Corporation authorized by the Board, any deeds, -mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments that the Board of Directors has authorized to be -executed, except in cases where the signing and execution thereof shall be specially designated by -the Board or by these bylaws or by statute to some other officer or agent of the Corporation; and in -general he or she shall perform all duties incident to the office of president and such other duties as -may be prescribed from time to time by the Board.
-In the absence of the president, or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, the vice -president (or, if there be more than one vice president, the first vice president) shall perform the -duties of the president, and when so acting shall have all the powers and be subject to all the -restrictions upon the president. The vice president shall have such other powers and perform such -other duties as may be prescribed from time to time by the Board.
-The Treasurer shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and -correct books and accounts of the Corporation's properties and transactions. The Treasurer shall -send or cause to be given to the Directors such financial statements and reports as are required to be -given by law, by these bylaws or by the Board. The books of account shall be open to inspection by -any Director at all reasonable times.
-The Treasurer shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, all money and other valuables in the -name and to the credit of the Corporation with such depositories as the Board may designate, shall -disburse the Corporation's funds as the Board may order, shall render to the president, chairman of -the Board and the Board, when requested, an account of all transactions as Treasurer and of the -financial condition of the Corporation and shall have such other powers and perform such other -duties as the Board or these bylaws may prescribe.
-If required by the Board, the Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond, in the amount and -with the surety or sureties specified by the Board, for faithful performance of the duties of the office -and for restoration to the Corporation of all of its books, papers, vouchers, money and other property -of every kind in the possession or under the control of the Treasurer on his or her death, resignation, -retirement or removal from office.
-The Secretary shall keep or cause to be kept the minutes of the meetings of the Board of -Directors in one or more books provided for that purpose, see that all notices are duly given in -accordance with the provisions of these bylaws or as required by law, be custodian of the corporate -records and of the seal of the Corporation, see that the seal of the Corporation is affixed to all -documents, the execution of which on behalf of the Corporation under its seal is duly authorized in -accordance with the provisions of these bylaws, and in general perform all duties incident to the -office of secretary and such other duties as pertain to the office or as prescribed from time to time by -the Board of Directors.
-If required by the Board, the assistant treasurers shall give bonds for the faithful discharge of -their duties, in such sums and with such sureties as the Board shall determine. The assistant -treasurers and assistant secretaries, in general, shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them -by the treasurer or the secretary or by the president or the Board.
-For the purpose of this Article XI:
-To the extent that an agent of the Corporation has been successful on the merits in the -defense of any proceeding referred to in this Article XI, -or in the defense of any claim, issue or -matter therein, the agent shall be indemnified against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by -the agent in connection with the claim. If an agent either settles any such claim or sustains a -judgment rendered against him or her, then the provisions of Sections 3 through 5 below shall -determine whether the agent is entitled to indemnification.
-Subject to the required findings to be made pursuant to Section 11.5 below, the Corporation -shall indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any -proceeding, other than an action brought by, or on behalf of, the Corporation, or by an officer, -Director or person granted related status by the Attorney General, or by the Attorney General on the -ground that the defendant Director was or is engaging in self-dealing within the meaning of -California Corporations Code Section 5233, or by the Attorney General or a person granted related -status by the Attorney General for any breach of duty relating to assets held in charitable trust, by -reason of the fact that such person is or was an agent of the Corporation, for all expenses, judgments, -fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the -proceeding.
-1. Claims settled out of court. If any agent settles or otherwise disposes of a threatened or -pending action brought by or on behalf of the Corporation, with or without court approval, -the agent shall receive no indemnification for either amounts paid pursuant to the terms of -the settlement or other disposition or for any expenses incurred in defending against the -proceeding.
-Claims and suits awarded against agent. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who -was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened, pending or completed -action brought by or on behalf of the Corporation, by reason of the fact that the person is or -was an agent of the Corporation, for all expenses actually and reasonably incurred in -connection with the defense of that action, provided that both of the following are met:
-If the agent is found to be so entitled, the court shall determine the -appropriate amount of expenses to be reimbursed.
-The indemnification granted to an agent in Sections 11.3 and 11.4 above is conditioned on the -following:
-Required standard of conduct. The agent seeking reimbursement must be found, in the -manner provided below, to have acted in good faith, in a manner he or she believed to be in -the best interest of the Corporation, and with such care, including reasonable inquiry, as an -ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use in similar circumstances. The -termination of any proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or on a plea of -nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, in itself, create a presumption that the person did -not act in good faith or in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in the best -interest of the Corporation or that he or she had reasonable cause to believe that his or her -conduct was unlawful. In the case of a criminal proceeding, the person must have had no -reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.
-Manner of determination of good faith conduct. The determination that the agent did act in -a manner complying with paragraph a above shall be made by:
-Such determination may be made on -application brought by the Corporation or the agent or the attorney or other person rendering -a defense to the agent, whether or not the application by the agent, attorney or other person is -opposed by the Corporation.
-No indemnification or advance shall be made under this Article XI, -except as provided in Section 11.2 or 11.5.2 above, in any circumstance when it appears:
-Expenses incurred in defending any proceeding may be advanced by the Corporation before -the final disposition of the proceeding, on receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the agent to -repay the amount of the advance unless it is determined ultimately that the agent is entitled to be -indemnified as authorized in this Article XI.
-Nothing contained in this Article XI shall affect any right to indemnification to which -persons other than Directors and officers of the Corporation, or any subsidiary hereof, may be -entitled by contract or otherwise.
-The Board may adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase and maintenance of insurance on -behalf of any agent of the Corporation against any liability asserted against or incurred by the agent -in such capacity or arising out of the agent's status as such, whether or not the Corporation would -have the power to indemnify the agent against that liability under the provisions of this Article XI; -provided, however, that the Corporation shall not have the power to purchase and maintain such -insurance to indemnify any agent of the Corporation for a violation of Section 5233 of the California -Corporations Code.
-This Article XI -does not apply to any proceeding against any trustee, investment manager or -other fiduciary of an employee benefit plan in that person's capacity as such, even though that person -may also be an agent of the Corporation as defined in Section 11.1.1 of this Article XI. Nothing -contained in this Article XI shall limit any right to indemnification to which such a trustee, -investment manager or other fiduciary may be entitled by contract or otherwise, which shall be -enforceable to the extent permitted by applicable law.
-The Corporation shall keep at its principal executive office, or if its principal executive office -is not in the State of California, at its principal business office in such state, the original or a copy of -the Articles of Incorporation and bylaws as amended to date.
-The accounting books, records and minutes of proceedings of the Board and any -committee(s) of the Board shall be kept at such place or places designated by the Board, or, in the -absence of such designation, at the principal executive office of the Corporation. The minutes shall -be kept in written or typed form, and the accounting books and records shall be kept either in written -or typed form or in any other form capable of being converted into written, typed or printed form.
-Every Director shall have the absolute right at any reasonable time to inspect all books, -records and documents of every kind and the physical properties of the Corporation and each of its -subsidiary Corporations. This inspection by a Director may be made in person or by an agent or -attorney, and the right of inspection includes the right to copy and make extracts of documents.
-An annual report shall be sent to the Directors within one hundred twenty (120) days of the -close of the Corporation's fiscal year, containing the following information in reasonable detail:
-The Board, except as otherwise provided in these bylaws, may authorize any officer or -officers, or any agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name and -on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances; -and unless so authorized by the Board, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or -authority to bind the Corporation by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to render it -liable for any purpose or in any amount.
-All checks, drafts or other orders for payment of money, notes or other evidences of -indebtedness, issued in the name of or payable to the Corporation, shall be signed or endorsed by -such person or persons and in such manner as, from time to time, shall be determined by resolution -of the Board. In the absence of such determination by the Board, such instruments shall be signed -by the treasurer or an assistant treasurer and countersigned by the president or a vice president of the -Corporation.
-The Board of Directors may accept on behalf of the Corporation any contribution, gift, -bequest or devise for the general purposes or for any specific purpose of the Corporation.
-The fiscal year of the Corporation shall begin on the first day of October and end on the last -day of September in each year.
-Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction and -definitions in the CNPBCL shall govern the construction of these bylaws. -Without limiting the generality of the above, the masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter, the singular number -includes the plural, the plural number includes the singular, and the term "person" includes both the -Corporation and a natural person.
-Any member can propose the adoption, amendment or repealing of the Bylaws. -In the event of such a proposal, the following procedures shall be implemented:
-These bylaws, as amended or otherwise altered to date, certified by the secretary shall be -open to inspection by the Directors at all reasonable times during office hours.
-- This document describes the purpose, basic structure and operational - policies of a proposed GNOME foundation. Although certain issues are not - addressed fully, the core functions of the foundation are defined and - procedures for them are described. -
- -
- This document includes broad mission level
statements and
- operational provisions. We are in the process of creating Articles of
- Incorporation and By-Laws that will incorporate this charter, cast in
- stone our fundamental beliefs, and give us the flexibility to amend
- implementation items.
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- A ChangeLog and author's list are at the end of this document. -
- -- Since the project was started in 1998, GNOME has grown tremendously. The - technology has started to mature, the amount of code contributed has - exploded, the number of developers (also known as GNOME hackers) who are - contributing to GNOME has more than doubled. With the emergence of a - GNOME industry, and as corporate partners are embracing GNOME, the number - of hackers who are paid to work full-time on GNOME has grown - dramatically, in addition to the hundreds of volunteer hackers in the - community. -
- -- As GNOME has grown, so have our goals. Over the next few years, we want - to offer a state-of-the-art, fully free desktop to many people who today - are not using computers because they are too expensive and too - complicated to use. -
- -- In short, GNOME is growing up. -
- -- To achieve our goals in a timely manner, the project will need more focus - than the current structure can offer. When GNOME was a smaller project, - Miguel was able to make most of the key decisions. Today, there is a need - for a forum that can provide GNOME, and the projects that make up GNOME, - with the structure and support they will need to continue to grow. We - need a more structured environment to smoothly integrate new citizens - into the community. The GNOME Foundation will provide this support. The - Foundation will also provide a place to resolve the inevitable conflicts - that arise in a diverse community. Equally important, the Foundation can - voice the decisions and positions of the GNOME project, and, therefore, - can act as a liaison with the press and corporations who want to be - involved with GNOME. -
- -- Most importantly, the GNOME Foundation will provide transparency and - representation. Whereas decisions in the past have often been made in an - ad-hoc fashion and in private conversations between a small number of - people, the foundation will provide a forum that is elected by the GNOME - community, that is accountable to that community, and that will conduct - its affairs in the open. -
- -- The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: - to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is - completely free software. -
- -- To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME - and determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act - as an official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of - communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial - organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce - educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about - GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical - conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by - others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the - use and development of GNOME software. -
- -- In almost every sense of the word, GNOME is an open project. This is one - of our greatest strengths, has always been, and should be the balefire by - which we plot our course into the future. -
- -- The foundation should not be exclusionary or elitist. Every GNOME - contributor, however small his or her contribution, must have the - opportunity to participate in determining the direction and actions of - the project. -
- -- The openness of GNOME has always been a point of pride for us, and an - important characteristic which distinguishes us from many of the other - open source projects out there. Anyone can become a contributor, write - access to our CVS does not involve trial by fire or other masonic - rituals, we don't use Access Control Lists, and we've always been - exceedingly good about folding talented newcomers in our arms and - welcoming them to the project. No resume required. -
- -- Major components of GNOME -- things we now consider to be absolutely core - to the project -- were begun by energetic individuals with the desire to - create something cool. Look at glade, zvt, libxml, dia, GNOME vfs, - libart, the desktop icons... all of these were created by people who had - not previously contributed heavily to the project, but who are now - considered to be among our heavy hitters. -
- -- The GNOME foundation must not stifle the interest of outsiders. An - ill-conceived foundation could discourage outsider participation - directly, by establishing rules which limit the ability of potential - contributors to make their mark, or indirectly, by engendering an - alienating sense of elitism. The stained glass of the cathedral creates a - colorful spectacle for those inside, but from the outside, the building - is just a hulking grey edifice, intimidating and impenetrable. -
- -- This principle has real, concrete meaning for the foundation: All - discussions must be publicly viewable, any person must have the - opportunity to contribute to the decision-making process, and every GNOME - contributor must have the direct ability to influence the decisions which - are made. The foundation must be democratic and friendly to those - responsible for making GNOME what it is. -
- -- GNOME is part of the GNU project and supports the goals of the GNU - project as defined by the Free Software Foundation. Free software - licensing has always been a mainstay of GNOME, and we must ensure that - this tradition continues. GNOME will include only Free software. -
- -- Participation in the foundation is intended only for those individuals who - are making contributions to the GNOME project and the software which makes - up GNOME. A corporation, organization or individual should not be granted - a place in the foundation unless its presence is justified by the merits - of its contribution. Money cannot buy influence in the GNOME project: show - us the code (or documentation, or translations, or leadership, or - webmastering...). -
- -
- In the past, being a part of the GNOME project has simply meant
- I wrote some code
or I hang out on the mailing lists and build
- the thing from CVS frenetically every three hours.
There is no
- reason to change this.
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- In many ways, GNOME is a unique project. Comprised of dozens of autonomous - modules, GNOME has not been subject to iron-fisted structural - leadership. Furthermore, there are many pieces of software which are core - to GNOME which stand with one foot in our camp and one foot outside. There - really is no clear analogue to GNOME among most other free software - projects. GNOME is bigger than almost every other effort in existence , - more loosely organized, and possibly faster growing. Plus, GNOME sits on - the frontier of the Linux application market, and is likely to continue to - face growing pains as we try to meet the needs of ISVs (Independent - Software Vendors) and others who are joining the movement. -
- -- It would be impossible to impose a high degree of bureaucratic structure - onto a heretofore amorphous and somewhat anarchic community. And it - shouldn't be done, anyway. Let's not attempt to imitate some of the groups - which are smaller, or which had more structure in their beginnings. Any - new structure which the GNOME foundation provides, if taken too far, will - be artificial, ignored, or at worst: really really annoying to developers. -
- -- Furthermore, the foundation can have no real powers of enforcement; - compliance with foundation decision should be an act of good-faith. If - we've lost consensus to the point where we're regularly forcibly ejecting - people from the foundation and co-opting their projects, we're sunk - anyway. -
- -- Heavy bureaucracy is not in our DNA. And it shouldn't be. So let's not - try to graft an administrative superstructure onto the community we've - built. Furthermore, too high a level of administrative overhead will gum - up the works to the point where the foundation will completely cease to - function and become useless and vestigial. -
- -
- Instead, the foundation will work with GNOME's strengths to make it
- better. A foundation that provides cohesion, vision, direction, and enough
- organization will be an incredible asset. A foundation that attempts to do
- this, but hides the iron fist under a velvet glove will not. Such an
- entity would likely be ignored, and words like fork
would be
- thrown around.
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- The foundation should provide the project with just enough organization to - accomplish its goals effectively. Some level of structure will be - important for decision making, communication, and interacting with outside - parties. -
- -- The foundation must act in the best interests of GNOME, independent of - influence from outside organizations and corporations. No single entity - should have the ability to direct GNOME to its own ends. -
- -- The foundation bears the responsibility of coordinating each subsequent - release of GNOME. For each release, this will include setting a schedule - (whether or not it is overlooked), choosing the set of modules which are a - part of the release, and preparing the appropriate marketing materials. -
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- GNOME is a loose collection of independent projects. The foundation will
- determine the set of modules which fall under the GNOME umbrella. Most
- often, the foundation will endorse a project as a GNOME project simply by
- including it in a release. In some cases, however, a project that is not
- scheduled to be included in any particular release will be designated as a
- part of GNOME. In these ways, the foundation will be defining GNOME.
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- It should be apparent that these two tasks (defining GNOME and doing - releases) are interrelated: most often, defining GNOME is just determining - which modules are a part of any given release. -
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- The foundation will be the principal entity with the ability to make
- official public statements for GNOME, such as press releases. The
- foundation will also be responsible for maintaining the GNOME
- brand,
and will have to determine the appropriate uses of the
- associated trademarks. The foundation will also be a hub for
- joint-marketing efforts by those organizations (corporate and non) which
- want to make GNOME-related announcements. Regional groups, created to
- promote GNOME in specific areas, may wish to make their own announcements
- about their efforts.
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- Companies and other organizations which want to communicate with the GNOME - project should be able to use the foundation as their first point of - contact. The foundation will be responsible for helping these - organizations understand the GNOME project and become involved. The - foundation will be vested with the power to represent GNOME in these - conversations. -
- -- The foundation will also act as a forum for discussions between the - organizations and companies which have an interest in GNOME. There will be - a subgroup of the foundation which will include members from these - organizations to make this possible. -
- -- As GNOME matures, it will become necessary to have an official set of - standards which define GNOME compliance, for ISVs and for - distributors. The foundation will be responsible for ratifying these - standards, and authorizing the application of the GNOME trademark to them. -
- -- The GNOME foundation will provide a sense of leadership and cohesive - direction to the GNOME project. The foundation will work to communicate a - vision and set of goals for the future releases of GNOME. These should be - communicated to the general public and to the project at large. -
- -- As GNOME evolves, other duties which are appropriate and necessary for the - foundation to undertake will emerge. Before the board of directors of the - foundation takes on any major new duties, it shall consult with the - broader GNOME community. -
- -- Individuals and organizations that want to make a monetary contribution - to the GNOME project will be able to do so by making a contribution to - the GNOME foundation. The foundation will be in charge of disbursing - these funds to the benefit of GNOME and, to the extent possible, in - accordance with the wishes of the benefactor. -
- -- The foundation will be global in scope, but incorporated in the United - States. Affiliated foundations, created for the purpose of promoting - GNOME, supporting developers or disbursement of funds, may be created in - many countries or geographic areas. -
- -- The GNOME foundation is divided into three bodies: the Membership, the - Board of Directors, and the Advisory Board. -
- -- The Membership will be a large body made up of people who have made a - contribution to any module which is part of GNOME. The intent of the - Membership is to provide the opportunity for all contributors to have a - place and a voice in the GNOME foundation. The Membership will be open to - all people who want to be a member and who have made any kind of - contribution to any part of the GNOME project, with no membership fee, - and no requirement of organizational or corporate affiliation. -
- -- The membership will have two responsibilities: electing the Board of - Directors, and issuing popular referenda on any issue under the - jurisdiction of the foundation, at any time (hopefully an infrequent - event). -
- -- The board is the primary decision-making body of the GNOME foundation. It - is responsible for ratifying all decisions the GNOME foundation - makes. These decisions can be overturned by referendum. -
- -- The board will be made up of a small, limited number of people, elected - by the membership. New seats on the board may be made available as the - project grows, subject to approval by the board or referendum of the - membership. -
- -- No single organization or company will be allowed to control more than - 40% of the board seats, regardless of election results. In the event that - individuals affiliated with a corporation or organization hold more than - 40% of the seats, affiliates from that corporation will be required to - resign until 40% is no longer held. Individuals affiliated with a company - or organization are people who are employees, officers, or members of the - board of directors of an organization; or have a significant consulting - relationship; or own at least 1% of the equity or debt, or derivatives - thereof, of a company. -
- -- Notwithstanding the above, members of the board of directors shall act on - behalf of all GNOME contributors in the best interest of the GNOME - project. Although board members may be affiliated with companies that - have an interest in the success of GNOME, they will not be considered - representatives of companies with which they are affiliated. The GNOME - Foundation Board of Advisors provides a forum for corporate - representation. -
- -- The Advisory Board is made up of companies and organizations which have a - desire to participate in advising the foundation about releases and other - decisions. The Advisory Board will have no decision-making ability. The - Advisory Board is a place for its members to have open discussions about - their GNOME-related strategies. Membership in the forum is open to all - companies and groups who are interested in contributing to the GNOME - project, subject to the approval of the board of directors. -
- -Note the following information about advisory board fees is - outdated. Please see here for up-to-date information
-- Corporate members will pay a membership fee of $10,000 to join the - Advisory Board. There is no membership fee for non-profit organizations - or companies with fewer than 10 employees. Additionally, membership fees - may be waived upon request by the board of directors. We value - contributions of code and hackers resource much more than membership - dues! -
- -- From time to time, ad-hoc committees may be formed, formally or - informally, either by the board or the membership. -
- -- Voting sessions of the board of directors will be formal, performed - either in-person, telephonically, via e-mail, or on IRC. This can be - cryptographically authenticated with a registry of public keys. A simple - majority is required to approve any measure. Often, decisions will be - reached by consensus. -
- -- Minutes shall be kept for all meetings of the board of directors. Votes - on all topics will be recorded and attributed. All of these records will - be archived and made publicly available immediately. -
- -- On certain occasions, conversations within the GNOME Foundation will be - confidential. On those occasions, notes from meetings etc. may be edited - to maintain confidentiality. We will work to keep confidential - conversations down to a minimum. -
- -- A referendum can be issued by any member of the foundation. -
- -- To be accepted, a request for a referendum must be endorsed by 10% of the - Membership. The maximum number of valid endorsements from Members - affiliated (as defined above) with any one corporation or organization - shall be 5%. -
- -- An electronic voting system will be established online, with members - voting on a web page or by e-mail. In order for a referendum to pass, - 1/3d of the total membership must participate, and 2/3ds of the - participating members must approve. There will be a mailing list for all - of the members, and all referenda must be announced to the list by the - initiator before they are opened on the voting system. At least three - days must pass before the referendum is closed, and no referendum can - remain open for longer than fourteen days. -
- -- Elections for the board of directors will be regularly held every - year. Candidates for election must be members of the GNOME Foundation and - shall nominate themselves. Members may vote for a number of candidates - equal to the number of board slots that are available (in other words, if - there are 10 slots on the board of directors, then each member may vote - for up to 10 candidates). -
- -- The board shall be composed of those candidates who receive the highest - number of votes. -
- -- The board of directors may be recalled by referendum, using the process - described above. If the board of directors is recalled by referendum, new - elections shall be held immediately. -
- -- Between elections, board vacancies or new board slots shall be filled by - appointment by the board of directors. -
- -- The board of directors shall have at least 7 members and no more than 15 - members. Prior to each election, the board of directors shall determine - the number of board seats for the next year. The initial board of - directors shall be composed of 11 members. -
- -- If more than half of the elected candidates are affiliated with one - company (as defined above), elections returns shall be adjusted as - follows. Individuals who are affiliated with the company which has an - excess of representatives shall be removed based on the number of votes - they received until such individuals no longer hold a majority of the - seats on the board. Other candidates shall replace them, based on the - number of votes they received. (In other words, if there are 10 board - seats and 6 people from company X were elected, than the one person from - that company who received the fewest number of votes will be replaced by - the candidate who received the 11th highest number of votes). -
- -- The board of directors will be responsible for authorizing the release of - a new version of GNOME. The board will determine the set of modules - which will make up the release. -
- -- Operational management of the release may be handled by a board-appointed - committee or individual, made up of general Members and/or directors. The - membership will be able to affect all these decisions primarily by - participating in the discussions which lead up to them. In extreme cases, - a referendum can be used. -
- -- One of the primary purposes of the GNOME foundation is to allow outsiders - to contribute financially to the continued development of GNOME. These - outsiders will make donations to the project, which will be disbursed by - the board, under the advice of the membership. -
- -- The membership will be populated with all the consenting members of the - GNOME-hackers mailing list, people holding CVS accounts, and anyone else - who speaks out and wants to join when asked. -
- -- A committee shall be established by the current GNOME Steering Committee - to manage the membership list, add new members and oversee the elections. -
- -- The first elections may be held prior to the incorporation of the - Foundation but shall be held no later than 90 days from the incorporation - of the GNOME Foundation. If the Foundation is incorporated prior to the - first elections, the GNOME Steering Committee shall appoint on interim - board of directors. -
- -- This document was put together from contributions by many people. The - crucial first draft was written by Nat Friedman based on discussions he - had with Joe Shaw. This document is maintained by the GNOME Foundation - Board of directors. -
- -- Numerous patches were submitted by: -
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The first elections may be held prior to the incorporation of the - Foundation but shall be held no later than 90 days from the incorporation - of the GNOME Foundation. If the Foundation is incorporated prior to the - first elections, the GNOME Steering Committee shall appoint on interim - board of directors.Made changes to account for elections prior to - incorporation and to remove slate provision. -
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To achieve our goals in a timely manner, the project will need more focus than the curent structure can offer.
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- Reason: The principles and tasks are really two different things - that belong under separate headings. -
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-- Reason: it tried to explain the link between Principles and Tasks. -
-- Deleted: We didn't get here by way of smoke-filled rooms and power - hierarchies. We got here because of people. -
-- Reason: it's a negative statement that is somewhat - anachronistic. Second sentence is a platitude. Removed by request. -
-- Added: GNOME is part of the GNU project and supports the goals of the - GNU project as defined by the Free Software Foundation. -
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-- The Board of Directors from July 2010 to June 2011 was: -
- -- The Board of Directors from July 2009 to June 2010 was: -
- -- * Lucas Rocha was elected, but resigned in February 2010. Jorge - Castro has been nominated to replace Lucas Rocha as director. See the announce - for more information. -
- -- ** Behdad Esfahbod was elected, but resigned in March 2010. - Paul Cutler has been nominated to replace Behdad Esfahbod as director. - See the announce - for more information. -
- - -- In September/October 2007, it was decided that the next board (and only - the next one) will serve for 18 months, in order to align the start of - the new board with GUADEC. Read the announcement. -
- -- The Board of Directors from January 2008 to June 2009 was: -
- -- * Jeff Waugh was elected, but resigned in December 2008. Diego Escalante Urrelo has been nominated to replace Jeff Waugh as director. See the announce for more information. -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2006 through Fall 2007 was: -
- -- * Dave Neary was elected, but resigned in July 2007. Lucas Rocha has - been nominated to replace Dave Neary as director. See the announce - for more information. -
- -- In October/November 2005, a vote was held to reduce the number of board - directors from 11 to 7. Read the announcement. -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2005 through Fall 2006 was: -
- -- * Luis Villa was elected, but resigned in June 2006. Quim Gil has - been nominated to replace Luis Villa as director. See the announce - for more informations. -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2004 through Fall 2005 was: -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2003 through Fall 2004 was: -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2002 through Fall 2003 was: -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2001 through Fall 2002 was: -
- -- The Board of Directors for Fall 2000 through Fall 2001 was: -
- -- The GNOME Foundation is comprised of a number of bodies - the - Board of Directors, the Executive Director, the Advisory Board - and the GNOME Membership. The GNOME Foundation - Charter outlines the overall purpose, structure, and process - for the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME Foundation By-laws - (PDF) document the policies and procedures of the Foundation as a - non-profit group. -
- -- The GNOME Foundation publishes Reports on its - activities each quarter and each year. Here are the last reports: -
- -- The GNOME Foundation is run by a Board of Directors, which is elected - annually by the GNOME community, as the GNOME Membership, to carry out - much of the GNOME Foundation's tasks. The Board of Directors meets every - other week with a phone conference to discuss various topics pertaining - to the regular activities of the GNOME Foundation and GNOME. The minutes - to these meetings are posted publicly on the - foundation-list mailing list and on the Minutes wiki - page for easier access. -
- -- The Board of Directors from July 2011 to June 2012 is: -
- -- The history of the Board of Directors lists all - directors elected in previous years. -
- -- Karen Sandler serves as the GNOME Foundation's executive director. - The Executive Director is tasked with managing and growing the GNOME Foundation as an organization. - Working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and the GNOME - Foundation members. -
- -- The Advisory Board is made up of - organizations and companies that support GNOME. The Advisory Board has no - decision-making authority but provides a vehicle for its members to - communicate with the Board of Directors and help the Directors guide the - overall direction of GNOME and the GNOME Foundation. Get more details - about the way the Advisory Board - works. -
- -- The Advisory Board consists of representatives from the following GNOME - Foundation member corporations and projects: -
- -- Each Advisory Board member has up to three representatives. An up-to-date - list of representatives is maintained on the Advisory Board wiki page. -
- -- The GNOME Foundation Membership consists of - all the contributors to the GNOME project. Members can run for election - to the Board of Directors, vote in the elections for the Board of - Directors, and suggest referenda. -
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-- The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: - to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is - completely free software. -
-- To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME and - determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act as an - official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication - with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations - interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational - materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. - In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and - represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create - technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of - GNOME software. -
- -- The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the GNOME Foundation launch the Women's - Outreach Program. Seven women were selected as interns working on a number of - different GNOME projects. Work continued towards GNOME 3.0 and the GNOME - Foundation welcomed eleven new members. Read about all this and - more! --
- GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, was held in the third quarter of - 2010 and many teams had a chance to get to gether face to face. - The GNOME Foundation hired a system adminsitrator, the GNOME.Asia - conference in August was a success, and progress was made on GNOME 3.0. - Read about all this and - more! --
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- The GNOME Project has received two grants for a total of $15,000 from - Mozilla and from the F123.org-Mais Diferenças partnership for - accessibility work. Read the press - release. --
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- - - - - diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/.cvsignore b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/.cvsignore deleted file mode 100644 index fb9dd92..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/.cvsignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -Makefile -Makefile.in -index.html diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/Makefile.am b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/Makefile.am deleted file mode 100644 index 0fbae0c..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/Makefile.am +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -SUBDIRS = guidelines usergroup - -urlpath = /licensing - -page_SCRIPTS = \ - index.html - -include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/.cvsignore b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/.cvsignore deleted file mode 100644 index fb9dd92..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/.cvsignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -Makefile -Makefile.in -index.html diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/Makefile.am b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/Makefile.am deleted file mode 100644 index 7e4e85b..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/Makefile.am +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -urlpath = /licensing/guidelines - -page_SCRIPTS = \ - index.html - -include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/index.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/index.wml deleted file mode 100644 index dc0af8d..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/index.wml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,145 +0,0 @@ - - - - - --GNOME Foundation (“GNOME”) brands, trademarks, styles, logos and slogans (together, -“GNOME Trademarks”) are among GNOME‘s most valuable assets. Proper use of GNOME -trademarks by following these trademark usage guidelines protects the value of GNOME -Trademarks. Following are the guidelines for the proper use of GNOME Trademarks by publishers -and other third parties. Any use of or reference to GNOME Trademarks that is inconsistent with -these guidelines, or other unauthorized use of or reference to GNOME Trademarks or marks that are -confusingly similar to GNOME trademarks, is prohibited and may violate GNOME‘s trademark -rights. -
--Any questions with respect to these guidelines should be referred the -GNOME Foundation at licensing@gnome.org. - -
--You may make fair use of GNOME word marks to make true factual statements -GNOME, or to truthfully communicate that your product or service is compatible with, -designed for use with, or was designed using, GNOME. Assertions of compatibility, design, -must, of course, be accurate. You cannot use GNOME logos or stylizations of GNOME word -or other GNOME Trademarks unless you have explicit written permission to do so. You -should not in any way state or imply that GNOME produces, endorses, or supports your company, -products, or services unless you have explicit written permission to do so. -
--When making fair use of a GNOME Trademark, you should acknowledge that the GNOME Foundation owns the trademark. The following language is appropriate: “The GNOME logo and GNOME name are registered -trademarks or trademarks of GNOME Foundation in the United States or other countries.” -
--Correct: GNOME development tools help ...-
-Incorrect: GNOME your product ... -
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-Incorrect: GNOME‘s unique properties ...
-Correct: GNOME‘s technical conferences are held ... -
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- - diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/.cvsignore b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/.cvsignore deleted file mode 100644 index fb9dd92..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/.cvsignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -Makefile -Makefile.in -index.html diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/Makefile.am b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/Makefile.am deleted file mode 100644 index e68a96d..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/Makefile.am +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -urlpath = /licensing/usergroup - -page_SCRIPTS = \ - index.html - -include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/index.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/index.wml deleted file mode 100644 index 6d17b52..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/index.wml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,229 +0,0 @@ - - - - - --The following is a license to allow independent GNOME user groups to -use the GNOME trademarks and copyrighted materials to promote -GNOME. You can execute this license by, after reading it carefully, -filling out the form that follows the license and clicking on “I -agree.” You will get confirmation within a few days that the GNOME -foundation has received your submission. If you have any questions -about this license, please mail licensing@gnome.org. -
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- - "); - foreach ($errors as $error) { - print("- The GNOME Foundation tries to be as transparent as possible. This - includes making it easy to find out who is a member of the Foundation - and why an application is accepted or denied. - Thus, all the information you will submit through this form will be - publically available: the form will send an e-mail to a mailing list - whose archives are publically available on the Internet and your - application will be accessible through mail archives. -
- - - - - - - diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/membership/index.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/membership/index.wml deleted file mode 100644 index 4a84aaf..0000000 --- a/foundation.gnome.org/membership/index.wml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,100 +0,0 @@ - - - - - -- The Membership consists of all GNOME contributors who wish to become part - of the Membership and go through the application process. Members can run - for election to the Board of Directors, vote in the elections for the - Board of Directors, and suggest referenda. The membership process is - overseen by the Membership and Elections Committee. You can also browse - the current membership list. -
- -- If you are a GNOME contributor and would like to become a member of the - Foundation, fill in the membership application - form. If the form is not available, feel free to send your - application by e-mail to membership-committee@gnome.org. You can also check current status of Foundation Membership queue. -
- -- Per the GNOME Foundation's charter, any contributor to GNOME is eligible - for membership. Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition, - a contributor generally must have contributed to a non-trivial - improvement of the GNOME Project. Contributions may be code, - documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, or - other non-trivial activities which benefit the GNOME Project. While large - amounts of advocacy or bug reporting may qualify one as a member, such - contributions must be significantly above the level expected of an - ordinary user. Membership eligibility is an individual determination: - while contributions made in the course of employment will be considered, - they will generally be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather - than accruing to all employees of a "contributing" corporation. As noted - above, these guidelines are not meant to define precise objective - criteria: ultimately, an individual's membership eligibility will be - determined on a case-by-case basis, in the sound discretion of the - Membership Committee and the Board of Directors. -
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- -- Membership in the GNOME Foundation ordinarily lasts for two years. A - reasonable period of time before your membership expires, you will be - contacted by the Membership Committee with a request that you file a - renewal application, available here. - Renewal applications and applications from previous members who did - not renew in time are not automatically accepted. Please remember that - membership's renewals shouldn't be considered a mere formality, the Membership - Committee will do the needed checks - to verify applicant's contributions to the GNOME Foundation over the past two years and - eventually renew the membership. If your membership expires, you won't be able to use - rights of GNOME Foundation Members before renewing your membership. -
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- -- The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the GNOME Foundation launch the Women's - Outreach Program. Seven women were selected as interns working on a number of - different GNOME projects. Work continued towards GNOME 3.0 and the GNOME - Foundation welcomed eleven new members. Read about all this and - more! --
- GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, was held in the third quarter of - 2010 and many teams had a chance to get to gether face to face. - The GNOME Foundation hired a system adminsitrator, the GNOME.Asia - conference in August was a success, and progress was made on GNOME 3.0. - Read about all this and - more! --
- The GNOME Foundation's fourth annual report is available for - download (30 MB, PDF) - now.-
The annual report is a summary of GNOME community - activities in 2009. It includes a review of the year, accounts of - various community activities and events around the world, an interview - with the GNOME Release team, and GNOME Foundation development - actions during the year. -
- The GNOME Project has received two grants for a total of $15,000 from - Mozilla and from the F123.org-Mais Diferenças partnership for - accessibility work. Read the press - release. --
- The second quarter of 2010 was a big one for the GNOME Foundation. We - elected our new GNOME Board of Directors, raised enough money to hire - a system administrator and held numerous successful events while - planning for GUADEC, our annual get together! Read about all this and - more! --
- Collabora is joining the GNOME Foundation advisory board today. A - long time supporter of GNOME and member of the GNOME community, - Collabora contributes directly to GNOME projects like Empathy, - PiTiVi, Totem and Epiphany. Read the press - release. --
- Big happenings in Q1! The GNOME Foundation raised enough money to - hire a system administrator! We have several new board members. The - accessibility team is looking for a new team lead. GNOME 2.30 - the - last GNOME 2 release - went out. We are planning our first official - GNOME training for GUADEC. There were several amazing hackfests in - areas like usability and accessibility with more being planned. Read about all this and - more! (PDF - version) --
- Following the successful Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in 2009, the - GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. Boards have decided to co-locate their - flagship conferences once again in 2011, and are taking bids to host - the combined event. The Desktop Summit 2011 will be the largest free - desktop event ever. Read the press - release. --
- The GNOME Foundation has received a substantial donation from the - Mozilla Corporation to benefit accessibility (a11y) efforts. The - donation will help continue the collaborative efforts between GNOME - and Mozilla on a11y. The donation of $10,000 will be used in part to - send GNOME developers to the 25th Annual International CSUN - Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Read the press - release. --
- The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q4 2009 Quarterly - report (PDF - version). Q4 is normally a quiet quarter — but not for - GNOME! During Q4 we had our annual GNOME Asia, GNOME Forum Brazil and - Boston Summit events as well as a record four hackfests! The - Marketing, Zeitgeist, Video and WebKitGTK+ teams all made good - progress on their goals during their hackfests. Next quarter we'll - continue the good work with hackfests planned in areas like usability - and accessibility. GNOME will also be represented at a number of - events like FOSDEM, SCALE, FOSS 2010 Workshop, Open Mobility, Libre - Planet and more! In addition to events, teams like the System - Administration team have made a lot of progress — they've installed - Piwik, Plone, Splinter, and CiviCRM to improve GNOME's infrastructure. - This quarter's update also includes an update from the GNOME Board of - Directors. Read on - to hear all of the fabulous work that was done on GNOME in Q4 2009! --
- The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that GUADEC 2010 will be - held in The Hague, Netherlands July 24th-30th, 2010. The conference - is expected to draw more than 500 attendees to discuss and direct the - future of the GNOME Project. The Hague was one of several locations - proposed for GUADEC in 2010. It was chosen in part due to the - excellent facilities at the bid site, as well as easily accessible - site for those traveling to GUADEC. Read the press - release. --
- The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q3 2009 Quarterly - report (PDF - version). Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and - this one was bigger and better than usual. During Q3 we had our - annual GUADEC, and GNOME 2.28 was released with lots of preparation - work for GNOME 3.0. OSiM Mobile was well attended by GNOME Mobile - member companies and products that use GNOME Mobile technologies like - Moblin 2.0 and the Nokia N900 were released. We've raised $23,415 - through Friends of GNOME so far this year! Our Advisory Board members - have been very generous as well and we have many hackfests planned - for Q4! Read on to - hear what GNOME teams have accomplished in Q3 and what they are - planning for Q4! --
- The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q2 2009 Quarterly - report. In it you can learn how our new system administration - team is already hard at work on projects like switching the version - control system to git. The bugsquad team closed 12,549 bugs in Q2. - The release teamput out 2.26.0 and announced GNOME 3.0. The marketing - team announced plans for a GNOME store, a press team and a GNOME 3.0 - campaign. And our extended community raised $12,392 through Friends - of GNOME! Read about all - this and more - our members have been busy working on a free - desktop accessible for everyone! --
- This year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit represented the first time - the GNOME and KDE communities have co-located their annual - conferences in the same location. The summit accomplished its goal of - increasing co-operation between GNOME and KDE to improve the Free - Desktop experience. Read the press - release. --
- The third annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for - download (18680 KB, PDF) now.-
- The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2008. - It includes a review of the year, accounts of various community - activities and events around the world, and foundation development - actions during the year. -
- Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining - the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs - creates software for young children used on platforms like the One - Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and - relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy. - Read - more --
- The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of - the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in - Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. - Read - more --
- The GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support, - with Google and Motorola joining the GNOME Foundation as Advisory - Board members. - Read - more --
- The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their - yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The - conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the - same organizers. - Read - more --
- Bringing to an end a long search, the GNOME Foundation has hired - Stormy Peters, a well-known industry analyst with a long-standing - relationship with GNOME, as their Executive Director. The hire was - announced at GUADEC 2008, GNOME's flagship conference, in Istanbul. - Read - more --
- The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host - Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects - respectively, during the Summer of 2009. - Read - more --
- The 3rd GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation - Collaboration Summit in Austin from the 8th to the 10th of April will be - a forum where industry and community merge into one, enabling effective - collaboration on adapting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile - computing. Read - more --
- The second annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for - download (1860 KB, PDF) now.-
- The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2007. - It includes a review of the year, accounts of various community - activities and events around the world, and foundation development - actions during the year. -
- The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation will increase their - collaboration to improve developer support and user experience. As - part of this partnership, the Mozilla Foundation joins the GNOME - Foundation advisory board and announces a grant of $10,000 to be - spent on the improvement of accessibility.-
- Read the announcement - for more information. -
- The ninth GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, will be held in - Istanbul, Turkey from the 7th to the 12th of July 2008. The - conference will bring together the GNOME development and user - community and key personalities from businesses and governments, to - discuss the future direction of the GNOME project. Read the press - release. --
- The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, - offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will - promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as - well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME - accessibility offering. Read the full announcement. --
- Yearly election for Board of Directors of GNOME Foundation ended. - There were no challenges to preliminary - results and new - board members were announced. Elected board will serve for a - period of 18 months. --
- Yearly election for Board of Directors of GNOME Foundation has begun. - Announcement - from Elections & Membership Committee was sent to - foundation-announce mailing list. Time line and information about the - election can be viewed from announcement mail. --
- The Board is proposing a change to the GNOME Foundation bylaws to - allow the directors to determine the length of the next Board term - when elections are called. An earlier - proposal was discussed on foundation-list in August, and this modified - proposal is a result of legal advice to the Board, suggesting - that we change the bylaws to provide flexibility in - future. --
- The voting period will begin on 2007-09-28 and end on 2007-10-12. --
- Following its increasing involvement in GNOME, Igalia is joining the - GNOME Foundation as an Advisory Board member.-
- See the announcement - for more information. -
- The GNOME Foundation would like to warmly welcome Canonical Ltd. as - an Advisory Board member. Canonical Ltd. is the commercial sponsor - of Ubuntu.-
- See the announcement - for more information. -
- The first annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for - download (935 KB, PDF) now.-
- The report includes a review of the year, accounts of - various community initiaves we have supported during the year, the - events we have been involved with, and the avenues of development - that we have been exploring for the foundation. -
- The GNOME Foundation is welcoming Intel as an Advisory Board member. - This is part of Intel's increasing commitment to GNOME and to the - free software desktop.-
- See more information in the announce. -
- Groups interested in hosting the next GUADEC in 2007 are invited to - write a formal invitation to the board of the GNOME Foundation. --
- The invitation should be send to the board and Anne Østergaard at the - latest on April 19th 2006. See all the details in this - mail. -
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased - to announce the official results for the 2005 GNOME Foundation - elections. The Foundation board directors for the 2005/2006 term of - office are: --
- Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena-Quintero, David Neary, - Anne Østergaard, Vincent Untz, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh -
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased - to announce that the results for the reducing board size referendum - are now official. There will be 7 slots to be filled in all future - GNOME Foundation elections, instead of 11 previously. --
- The preliminary results of the reducing board size referendum have - been posted. - You can verify the - results yourself. - Any challenges to these results must be received by November 13th. --
- The GNOME Foundation elections will - begin this month. If you want to run for these elections, you have to - nominate yourself before November 14th. Take a look at the rules and the timeline. --
- The GNOME Foundation will hold a referendum about reducing the board - size. Take a look at the rules and the timeline. --
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased - to announce that the results for the 2004 GNOME Foundation elections - are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2004/2005 - term of office are: --
- Jonathan Blandford, Murray Cumming, Jody Goldberg, Miguel de Icaza, - Federico Mena-Quintero, David Neary, Tim Ney, Christian Schaller, - Owen Taylor, Daniel Veillard, Luis Villa. -
- The preliminary results of the elections have been posted. - You can verify the results - yourself. - Any challenges to these results must be received by December 20th. --
- The GNOME Foundation elections will - begin in November. If you want to run for these elections, you have to - nominate yourself before November 8th. Take a look at the rules and the timeline. --
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased - to announce that the results for the anonymous voting referendum - are now official. All future GNOME Foundation elections and referenda - will use an anonymous voting process. --
- The preliminary results of the anonymous voting referendum have been - posted. - You can verify the results - yourself. - Any challenges to these results must be received by October 22nd. --
- The GNOME Foundation will hold a referendum about anonymous voting - in a few weeks. Take a look at the rules and the timeline. --
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased - to announce that the results for the 2003 GNOME Foundation elections - are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2003/2004 - term of office are: --
- Jonathan Blandford, Dave Camp, Glynn Foster, Nat Friedman, Jody - Goldberg, Bill Haneman, Leslie Proctor, Owen Taylor, Malcolm - Tredinnick, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh. -
- The preliminary results of the elections have been posted. - You can verify the results - yourself. - Any challenges to these results must be received by December 19th. --
- The fifth annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference - (GUADEC) will draw businesses, government, education and end users to - Kristiansand, Norway June 28-30, 2004. See press - release. --
- The GNOME Foundation elections will - begin in November. If you want to run for these elections, you have to - nominate yourself before November 7th. Take a look at the rules and the timeline. --
- Free software luminaries, open source developers gather to advance the - next generation of the multi-platform desktop environment in June, - Dublin Ireland. --
- Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license - agreement, giving advanced font capabilities to all free and open - source software developers and users. --
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased - to announce that the results for the 2002 GNOME Foundation elections - are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2002/2003 - term of office are: --
- Jonathan Blandford, Miguel de Icaza, Glynn Foster, Nat Friedman, - Jim Gettys, Jody Goldberg, Bill Haneman, James Henstridge, Daniel - Veillard, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh. -
- The GNOME Foundation elections have - begun. There are 23 candidates running for - these elections. --
- The GNOME Foundation by-laws have - now been posted in PDF format. --
- We are currently working to renew all old-style GNOME Foundation - memberships under the new rules, available here. Affected members will receive mail - today explaining what they need to do. --
- The Friends of GNOME program has been launched to help raise funds - for development, education and promotion for GNOME worldwide. The - GNOME Summit is one - event which is supported through the generosity of this program. --
- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee are pleased - to announce the following members as official Foundation board - directors for the 2001/2002 term of office: --
- Jonathan Blandford, Miguel de Icaza, Nat Friedman, Jim Gettys, Jody - Goldberg, Telsa Gwynne, James Henstridge, George Lebl, Federico - Mena-Quintero, Havoc Pennington and Daniel Veillard. -
- The preliminary results of the election have been posted. - Any challenges to these results must be received by December 4. --
- All 2001 election candidates have been compiled into a Final List of - Candidates. Voting begins on the 20th November and finishes on - the 27th November. --
- The 2001 elections for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors has - been announced.-
- The announcement includes the timeline and details for who is - eligible for nomination and to vote. -
- The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that Tim Ney is - joining the GNOME Foundation as its executive director. For more - information, see the press - release and the announcement - sent by Havoc Pennington. --
- A new membership qualification policy - has been adopted and the GNOME Foundation Membership has been - re-opened to new members. If you would like to become a member, - please apply here. --
- Minutes from the most recent board meeting can always be found in - the foundation-announce - mailing list archives. --
Hi GNOME Foundation members and fans,
-Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and this one was bigger and better than usual. During Q3 we had our annual GUADEC, GNOME Users and Developers Conference, which we held jointly with Akademy in the first ever Gran Canaria Desktop Summit! The co-located event was a huge success with lots of good sessions in both the Akademy tracks as well as the GUADEC tracks and lots of good cross desktop talks and conversations that will lead to more collaboration throughout the year. We hope to co-locate again in the future!
- -GNOME 2.28 was released in September. Quite a few products had significant updates in preparation for GNOME 3.0 - including a release of GNOME Shell! - and a couple of changes were made to improve usability such as a different default toolbar and turning off menu and button icons by default. During Q4 the release team will decide if GNOME 3.0 will be in March or September of 2010!
- -There were a few structural changes in how things work in the GNOME project. For example, we created a new press team, a subproject under the marketing team focused on press relationships and press releases, as well as things like monthly meetings by the Bugsquad team.
- -The GNOME Accessibility team has been hard at work preparing for GNOME 3.0 by working on accessibility in projects like GNOME Shell, Clutter and Banshee as well as working on new tools like an onscreen keyboard.
- -GNOME Mobile had an awesome quarter with great attendance at OSiM Mobile by GNOME Mobile member companies and the release of products that use GNOME Mobile technologies like Moblin 2.0 and the Nokia N900. In addition, LiMo announced that they will soon release phones that use GNOME technologies!
- -Our marketing team has been hard at work. Friends of GNOME can now make monthly contributions in any amount they'd like and we've raised $23,415 so far this year! Their good work will continue and get an extra boost with a marketing hackfest in November sponsored by Novell and Google.
- -Speaking of hackfests, next quarter will be a busy one with lots of good work being done in preparation for GNOME 3.0. We are planning hackfests around the Boston Summit, one for marketing, Zeitgeist and WebKitGTK+ plus more in the beginning of next year in areas like accessiblity and video.
- -Read on to hear what GNOME teams have accomplished in Q3 and what they are planning for Q4!
- -Best wishes and happy hacking! Enjoy your GNOME desktop!
- -
Stormy Peters
- Executive Director,
- GNOME Foundation
-
For the release team, the third quarter started with the last 2.26 -release, which went out on July 1st. The focus then quickly became the -2.27 development cycle that would lead to GNOME 2.28.
- -Five GNOME 2.27 releases were published during those three months, and -the usual freezes (API/ABI, feature, user interface, string) were -applied to help the community focus on getting a high quality release. -In July, a meeting was held where one of the main topics was the new -modules that would be included in GNOME 2.28.
- -This release contains a good balance between integration of pre-existing -applications (gnome-bluetooth), great new tools (gnome-disk-utility), -and new external dependencies that will allow developers to provide even -more great features (seed, webkit, DeviceKit-disks, libchamplain, -libgdata). GNOME 2.28.0 went out as scheduled on September 23rd.
- -In parallel of all those releases, we monitored the progress of GNOME on -a few goals like, for example, the cleanup of modules to stop using -deprecated libraries and APIs.
- -We also modified the release schedule to move the module proposal period -and the decision on module proposals earlier in the cycle, in response -to feedback from some maintainers and also to help evaluate earlier what -GNOME 3.0 would consist of.
- -Looking ahead, the release team already has a good amount of work -planned for the next quarter: there will of course be a first update to -GNOME 2.28, with 2.28.1 which will be released at the end of October, -and also the first versions of the 2.29 releases. A good number of new -modules were proposed for inclusion during the 2.29 development cycle, -and discussion around those proposals will help the release team decide -what will be going in during a meeting at the beginning of November. -Another meeting in November will be dedicated to GNOME 3.0: we will -evaluate if 3.0 can be ready for March 2010 or if waiting six more -months is needed to ensure that 3.0 is of high quality, as expected by -our community and our users.
-In August GNOME Bugzilla was updated to version 3.4 by Max-Kanat Alexander with huge help of Olav Vitters and Owen Taylor. The previous version was several years old and did not receive any upstream security fixes anymore. It also had several GNOME-only enhancements that partially have been ported to 3.4 though some regressions remained. -The server hardware was also improved so timeout issues when running complex queries do not happen anymore.
- -From July to September, 9227 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 8751 were closed. -Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (484 reports), Fabio Durán Verdugo (455), Andre Klapper (269), Bastien Nocera (261) and Matthew Barnes (251). -Top bug reporters were Pedro Villavicencio (136 reports), Owen Taylor (116), Bastien Nocera (99), Colin Walters (92) and Matthias Clasen (87).
- -The GNOME Bugsquad has started to have monthly meetings to discuss policies and issues. The new policy to handle old forgotten reports is -in place and has been revised after feedback from developers. -UNCONFIRMED bug reports (but not enhancement requests) with one year without any activity will be set to NEEDINFO state and reporters will be asked to update the report’s status by testing again on a recent GNOME version.
- -When reports are closed as "FIXED" reporters will now kindly be asked to verify the fix once it has landed in their distribution and if they have some time.
- -As there are many modules in GNOME Bugzilla that have not seen any code changes for years (except for translation updates) the Bugsquad has started trying to identify those obsolete/unmaintained modules and contact the maintainers. Without a response the remaining reports will probably be closed as WONTFIX while explaining to the reporter that the module is not maintained anymore and will not receive any updates.
- -In order to improve workflow the Bugsquad now also has its own module in GNOME Bugzilla to keep track of assigned tasks. - -The Marketing Team was active in the third quarter with a focus on the GNOME 2.28 release, including helping write the release notes and the press release announcing GNOME 2.28.
- -A new sub-team, the GNOME Press Team, was created with a focus on engaging the press worldwide and helping write press releases about GNOME in the news. The Marketing Team also chose CivicCRM as a CRM system to help track press contacts.
- -Jaap Haitsma updated the Friends of GNOME web page, including adding the ability for subscribers to choose their monthly donation amount and launched the GNOME Amazon store available at http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/. The GNOME Foundation receives a referral fee anytime anyone buys something from the GNOME Amazon Store.
- -GNOME Journal had two releases in the third quarter in July and August with articles interviews with Owen Taylor, Lucas Rocha and Laszlo Peter; a recap of the Writing Open Source Conference; a review of GNOME-DO and Project Hamster and more.
- -Lastly, Paul Cutler gave a presentation at Ohio Linux Fest in September on GNOME 3.0 and made the slides and presentation materials available under a Creative Commons license and available for download on the GNOME Marketing Wiki.
- -Looking forward to Q4, the Marketing team is planning a hackfest in Chicago in November and plans on working on conference and presentation materials, case studies, a GNOME 3.0 campaign, the GNOME website and more.
-Several usability-focused sessions took place at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in July:
- -Kristin Travis and Jenya Gestrin from Sun Microsystems demonstrated the work they've been doing on a potential control center redesign for GNOME 3.0. This work was started last year, and has already been the subject of an initial usability study.
- -GNOME 2.28 was released with some notable changes recommended by the usability team: turning off button and menu icons by default, and switching to a different toolbar style by default. These changes improve visual consistency, reduce clutter, and reduce the need to continually invent new icons for every new function that becomes available in GNOME. This should also prove beneficial for the accessibility themes, allowing them to provide better icon coverage than has been possible up to now.
- -A preview of GNOME Shell was released alongside GNOME 2.28. GNOME Shell will underpin the GNOME 3.0 desktop, and will be an important focus for the usability team between now and the release of GNOME 3.0.
- - -Dr. Joseph Scheuhammer (Adaptive Technology Research Centre at the University of Toronto) has continued his work with embedding magnification support in GNOME Shell and has a full screen magnification prototype working (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification). This work is planned to supplant gnome-mag and eliminate a Bonobo/CORBA dependency.
- -Ben Konrath (Adaptive Technology Research Centre at the University of Toronto) has begun work on an on-screen keyboard. This work is planned to supplant the existing GNOME Onscreen Keyboard (GOK) and eliminate a Bonobo/CORBA dependency.
- -Ke Wang (Sun Microsystems) has completed the initial development of Java ATK Wrapper. This work supplants the Java Access Bridge for GNOME and eliminates a Bonobo/CORBA dependency.
- -Luke Yelavich (Canonical) continues to work on Speech Dispatcher as a means to supplant gnome-speech and eliminate a Bonobo/CORBA dependency. Willie Walker from Sun Microsystems also submitted a patch to make Speech Dispatcher work on OpenSolaris.
- -Emli-Mari Nel from OpenGazer (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/) and Flavio Percoco Premoli from MouseTrap (http://live.gnome.org/MouseTrap) began discussions for how they can collaborate with each other to bring low cost mouse pointer control solutions to the desktop.
- -Alejandro Piñeiro (Igalia) continues to work on clutter accessibility and has begun brainstorming ways for integrating AT-SPI support into GNOME Shell.
- -Eitan Isaacson migrated the GNU LDTP project to the Python pyatspi bindings. The GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU LDTP) is used by Mago (http://live.gnome.org/DesktopTesting), and the migration to pyatspi will enable it to more easily shift to AT-SPI/D-Bus. Eitan also worked on accessibility to the Banshee music player (http://monotonous.org/tag/banshee-a11y/?order=ASC).
- -Xan Lopez (Igalia) and Joanmarie Diggs continued their collaboration on WebKit accessibility. Progress continues to be made on this very difficult task.
- -Mark Doffman (Codethink), Mike Gorse (Novell), and Willie Walker (Sun Microsystems) continued to hammer away at AT-SPI/D-Bus, working through a number of difficult design decisions. The team also welcomed help from the wonderful mind of Michael Meeks (Novell).
- -Moving forward, the team will continue on their adventure through the "perfect storm" for GNOME 2.30 accessibility: Bonobo deprecation, GNOME Shell accessibility, and WebKit accessibility. The team is also preparing for a GNOME Booth and Hackfest at the CSUN Accessibility conference in Los Angeles in March 22-27 2010. Please contact the team at gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org if you are interested in participating.
-The third quarter of 2009 saw the release of GNOME 2.28, which -included the new Mallard-based help for Empathy. The team has -continued to test and develop Mallard based on real-world use -and feedback from others.
- -Phil has been actively promoting Mallard, particularly within -the Ubuntu community. His experiences help us to understand -what our downstream partners need from us.
- -Shaun has been actively developing Yelp 3.0, which has a more -document-focused approach than the current Yelp. This work -includes splitting the core document display system into a -separate library which can be used to build stand-alone help -viewers or embed a help viewer into larger applications.
- -GNOME Mobile was present in a number of events this quarter:
-A number of GNOME-based devices have been announced or released this -quarter - much of the excitement concerned the Moblin v2 release, and -the announcement of the Nokia N900, a mobile phone & internet tablet -based on Maemo 5 (Fremantle). At OSiM the LiMo Foundation also announced -the forthcoming release of a number of GNOME-based phones.
- -The GNOME 2.28 and GTK+ 2.18 releases contained some interesting GNOME -Mobile related news. GTK+ 2.18 now supports client-side windows, making -the rendering of GTK+ widgets in Clutter more straightforward, and -WebKit greatly improved its accessibility support. Clutter, GUPnP and -PulseAudio were officially added to the GNOME Mobile release set for 2.28.
-During the third quarter of 2009 GNOME was present in these events:
- -Future events include:
- -In addition GNOME is planning many hackfests for Q4 2009. Please let the organizers know if you are interested in attending.
-| Income | |
| $12,500 | GUADEC-UK (closing Birmingham books) |
| $29 | Interest |
| $1,000 | Novell's sponsorship of 2008 Boston Summit after hours event |
| $5,000 | New Advisory Board Member Fee |
| $10,000 | Access Advisory Board Member Fee (check, to be deposited) |
| $4,462 | Friends of GNOME |
| Expenses | |
| $3,640 | GCDS Keynoters: |
| $1,356 | Robert Lefkowitz |
| $1,516 | Walter Bender |
| $768 | Richard Stallman |
| $16,698 | GCDS Travel: |
| $1,500 | Jonh Wendell |
| $1,200 | Vinicius Depizzol |
| $1,050 | Srinivasa Ragavan |
| $826 | Shreyas Srinivasa |
| $609 | Anne Østergaard |
| $409 | Ruben Vermeersch |
| $400 | Daniel Siegel |
| $275 | Kaser Felix |
| $1,050 | Marina Zhurakhinskaya |
| $1,000 | Andrew Overholt |
| $800 | David Jordan |
| $950 | Og Maciel |
| $1,250 | Raphael Nunes |
| $950 | Bharath Aharya |
| $950 | Akhil Laddha |
| $578 | Ian Marcinowski * |
| $632 | Tobias Mueller * |
| $605 | Symeon Xenitellis * |
| $514 | Bastien Nocerra * |
| $420 | Clemens Buss |
| $1,000 | Paul Cutler |
| $486 | Documentation Summit: |
| $486 | Milo Casagrande |
| $20,160 | Administrative: |
| $15,848 | Payroll |
| $160 | Paychex |
| $429 | Bank wire fees |
| $1,218 | Annual Report Design & Printing |
| $361 | Postcard printing |
| $18 | Baby gift for Kristian |
| $2,121 | AMS (insurance premiums) |
| $6 | Postage |
* There was an error in those reimbursements. The bank sent the US -dollar amount in foreign currency (ie. instead of USD$350 in one -instance, they sent GBP350.) Bank had sent a retrieval request for the -three latter ones and then it was necessary to fix the issue.
-During Q3, the travel committee added a new member: Bharath Acharya. He has been a very enthusiastic contributor and has already helped several people out with their travel sponsorships.
- -Between the end of July and August, we reimbursed the four contributors who attended to the Documentation Summit.
- -At the same time, we wired reimbursements to GUADEC sponsored contributors. Most of them between July 30 and August 10. There was an issue with the currency used at the bank, which finally was solved. There are two pending reimbursements to contributors who have not yet sent their receipts. It is worth mentioning that one contributor decided to withdraw his sponsorship request.
- -We have also been managing requests for events of the next quarter, such as the Zeitgeist hackfest at Bolzano and the Boston Summit.
- - -For Bolzano, we booked the accommodation for eleven contributors and processed their applications.
- -In the case of Boston Summit, we processed the requests for two contributors. Unfortunately, one of them had problems getting a US visa. On the other hand, the other contributor was able to attend without any problem, and he wrote several good reports about his participation on Boston Summit.
- -We have already started processing the requests for the Marketing Team hackfest which will be held in Chicago next November.
--The Membership and Elections Committee would like to inform you about our -activities in 2009/Q3:
- -We have received 10 applications for new GNOME Foundation membership, -plus 38 applications for renewing the membership. During the same -period 24 members haven't renewed their membership and we ended with -353 members. You can see a full list of members at -http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php . The new members -are:
- -You can see a full list of members at http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php.
- -If you have any further question, do not hesitate to ask us on -membership-committee@gnome.org.
- -The GNOME community is interested in increasing women participation in the project. The goals are to increase the visibility of the existing women contributors and to create a support system for encouraging women participation. The gnome-women-list has been used as the main communication channel and there has been a round of introductions, a call for authors for a GNOME Journal issue with articles by women, and a discussion about a new Women Outreach Program on it.
- -The purpose of the Women Outreach Program is to encourage women participation in GNOME throughout the year and to create internship opportunities in the summer. We need to raise money for the stipends for the summer participants and a donations page has been set up for that at http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/women Máirín Duffy has created the graphic for the page banner.
- -In addition to the donations, we are currently looking for people interested in mentoring the participants and creating the necessary resources that will help the new contributors to get started. There is a mentor sign up section on the program wiki page http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram
- -Máirín Duffy, Stormy Peters, Hanna Wallach, Chris Ball, Brian Cameron, Paul Cutler, Diego Escalante Urrelo, and Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier have been providing great feedback and ideas about the Women Outreach Program and have been putting together plans for the GNOME Journal issue with articles by women.
- -There were the following events and interviews related to the GNOME women outreach: -
The plans for the next quarter include a November issue of the GNOME Journal with articles by women, further fund-raising activity, creation of the program resources and search for the participants.
-Hi GNOME Foundation members and fans,
-Q4 is normally a quiet quarter - but not for GNOME! We ended the year with a lot of really productive activity. We had a record four hackfests and two summits, the Boston Summit and GNOME Asia. Lots of progress was made, plans were set for 2010 and we're all looking forward to GNOME 3.0!
- -As you can see from the following team updates, the whole community has been busy and not just at events. In this issue you'll find the first quarterly update from the GNOME Board of Directors, you'll learn what keeps the release team busy between releases, you'll see the amazing amount of work the accessibility team is doing in preparation for GNOME 3.0 and much, much more.
- -Read on to hear what GNOME teams have accomplished in Q4!
- -If you'd like to receive this report via email, please let me know at stormy@gnome.org. Please use the subject, "Subscribe to GNOME Quarterly Report via email".
- -Best wishes and happy hacking! Enjoy your GNOME desktop!
- -Stormy Peters
- Executive Director,
- GNOME Foundation
First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to -express a huge thank you to all the volunteers who help to make the -GNOME community possible, and to all those who use the GNOME desktop -and understand the value of free software on the desktop. It is you -that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding.
- -The GNOME Foundation board of directors continues to work hard to -promote the GNOME community and to ensure that the GNOME community -runs as smoothly as possible.
- -Planning for the upcoming GUADEC 2010 has been of particular focus for -the board in Q4. The board worked closely with those who submitted -bids to ensure that the options were as competitive as possible, and -the board was excited to announce last November that GUADEC 2010 will -be held in The Hague, Netherlands from July 24-30. Planning is, of -course, ongoing, so the board anticipates that there will continue to -be a fair amount of work going forward to make GUADEC 2010 a successful -prelude to the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release.
- -Ensuring that the GNOME 3.0 release is successful has been a major -focus of the board in Q4. The board recognizes that events and -hackfests are essential for GNOME community planning, and has worked -hard in the Q4 timeframe to ensure that the GNOME Community events -calendar provides ample opportunities for productive face-to-face -interaction leading up to the release.
- -In the Q4 timeframe the board worked to ensure that the Boston Summit, -the GNOME.Asia Summit, and the Marketing Hackfests were successful and -productive. The board invested considerable time in Q4 to plan -additional hackfests in the next quarter which will focus on WebKit, -accessibility and usability - all important topics for GNOME 3.0.
- -To continue to provide for a growing GNOME community, it has been -necessary to focus on improving GNOME community fundraising. In Q4 the -board announced the doubling of advisory board fees, and this will -provide the GNOME Foundation with significant new resources to plan -exciting new events, improve infrastructure, and fund new projects.
- -Ensuring that the GNOME community has positive relations with the -members of the GNOME advisory board is an important ongoing task for -the board. In Q4 the board organized two advisory board meetings. The -first was held in October to discuss finances and to ensure that the -advisory board felt the raising of fees was agreeable. The second -meeting was held in December to discuss past and future GNOME -community events. This meeting was intended to both raise awareness -of upcoming events and to get feedback regarding what future event -topics would be most important and exciting to plan moving forward. -Since most hackfests are funded by sponsorships from organizations on -the advisory board, it is important to have some alignment in terms of -event topics planning forward.
- -Looking forward to the next quarter, the GNOME board will continue to -focus on ensuring that the GNOME 3.0 release is a success. The board -will be working closely with the marketing team and with events -planning to provide the resources the GNOME community needs to make -this happen. In addition, the board anticipates a fair amount of work -will be spent working to improve GNOME infrastructure in the next -quarter. Several GNOME community servers are at the end of their life -and need to be replaced, and the GNOME community is working hard to -adopt a new CRM system, for example. All in all, the next quarter and -year is bound to be exciting for the GNOME community!
-The last quarter of 2009 started just after the release of GNOME 2.28, -and therefore the release team could enjoy a (short) break where there -were no releases to handle for a whole month.
- -Of course, this did not last long: between the end of October and the -end of December, two stable releases of 2.28 went out, and the 2.29 -development cycle led to four releases, the last one arriving just in -time for the holidays! The GNOME community has been working hard and the -2.29 releases have many interesting changes, ranging from new features -(look at the latest nautilus!) to architectural work needed for GNOME -3.0 (like evolution without bonobo).
- -On the GNOME 3.0 front, the release team asked for feedback about when -to release GNOME 3.0 in 2010: March or September. The 3.0 planning -document was suggesting March with no hard commitment, and the answers -from the various teams in the community made it clear that six more -months would make a big difference in the ability to fulfill our plans. It was agreed -to target September for GNOME 3.0, and we worked on an official announcement for the -3.0 release date. The release schedule was adapted accordingly.
- -In parallel with the 3.0 discussions, we evaluated the modules proposed -for inclusion during the 2.29 development cycle. Based on feedback from -the community, the timeline for new module proposals was modified back -in Q3 to have decisions published earlier -- in November instead of -January, in this case. This change should help get more work done -for integration of the accepted modules, and should contribute to our -long-standing tradition of high-quality releases. For 2.30, -gnome-packagekit and nautilus-sendto will be included in the desktop, -and we accepted two exciting projects, tracker and vala, as external -dependencies. The release team also wanted to have clutter become part -of the desktop (as a potential first step towards the platform), but -some discussion about copyright assignments blocked the decision; the -help of the GNOME Foundation was requested to determine what should be -the next steps there. The GNOME Foundation Board is actively working on -this topic.
- -2010 will of course be the year of GNOME 3.0, and this will be quite -visible in the activities of the release team. While the first quarter -will most likely see a lot of focus on getting GNOME 2.30 out, we expect -to see a big push for 3.0-related activities at the same time.
- -From October to December, 8940 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 8374 were closed.
-Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (1092 reports), Fabio Durán Verdugo (681), Andre Klapper (387), Bastien Nocera (253) and Milan Crha (243).
-Top bug reporters were Akhil Laddha (132 reports), Pedro Villavicencio (128), Bastien Nocera (113), Guillaume Desmottes (81) and Javier Jardón (72).
- -On a related note, the Annual GNOME Bugzilla statistics for 2009 have also been published on the corresponding mailing lists.
- -In its monthly meetings, the GNOME Bugsquad has started to define Bugsquad Goals. This is about setting small concrete goals that will help with integration and consistency. More information can be found on the according site in the GNOME Wiki.
- -Also, it has been discussed to celebrate a Bugday again for the sake of community building and introducing potential new Bugsquad members into triaging. As usually in FOSS communities more manpower is welcome.
- -The GNOME Marketing team was fortunate to participate in a hackfest in Chicago in the fourth quarter thanks to sponsorship by Novell and Google. Members of the marketing team met over two days and worked on a number of initiatives, including GNOME 3.0 planning, creating conference materials including brochures and materials for presenters and booth organizers and more. The majority of this work will be completed in Q1 2010.
- -In addition to the hackfest, Andreas Nilsson continued to work on a GNOME merchandise store which should launch in the near future. The System Administration team installed Piwik for web analytics and Jaap Haitsma updated a number of webpages to take advantage of Piwik. CiviCRM was also installed by the System Administration team and Stormy Peters has begun setting up CiviCRM to track Foundation members, Friends of GNOME, journalists' contact information and more.
-In Q4 the usability team organised a hackfest to be held on 22-26 February 2010, in Canonical's London offices. Final agenda is still being worked out, but issues we're hoping to cover include:
-So far, 12 people, including several from major GNOME distributions, have registered their interest in attending. Thanks are due to Brian Cameron from Sun for getting the hackfest off the ground, and to Canonical for their sponsorship of the event. See http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London2010 for more information.
- -In a separate but related activity, Allan Caeg and others have been discussing and mocking up ideas for an open source usability testing suite, based on experiences with closed source tools such as Morae (Windows) and Silverback (Mac), and previous GNOME efforts such as Pongo. See http://live.gnome.org/action/diff/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/UsabilityTestingSuite for more information.
- -During the quarter, 70 reported usability issues (as flagged with the ‘usability’ keyword in bugzilla.gnome.org) were resolved.
- -Finally, Máirín Duffy from Red Hat and Charline Poirier from Canonical have both submitted papers for the FLOSS HCI Workshop at the ACM's annual CHI conference, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia in April 2010.
-GNOME Accessibility Development: -
GNOME Accessibility Community Building/Outreach: -
The documentation team continued rewriting various Gnome -help documents in Mallard. Mario Blättermann worked on the Tetravex -help, Milo Casagrande worked on the gbrainy help, and Paul Cutler worked on -the Tomboy help. We hope to have even more topic-oriented -help available for Gnome 2.30.
- -Shaun McCance continued developing Mallard and projectmallard.org, -and continued his work on Yelp 3.0 and the Yelp tools.
- -Vikram Dhillon started developing page templates that we hope will -help writers to plan and write better Mallard help documents.
- -GNOME was really busy in the final quarter of Q4. In a quarter that is normally pretty quiet, we got a lot done.
- -We had a lot of very productive hackfests: -
We also held several annual GNOME events:
And GNOME was represented at other events: -
Next year expect to see GNOME at: -
| Income | |
| Friends of GNOME | |
| $6478 | Friends of GNOME |
| GNOME.Asia | |
| $5,000 | Sun |
| $3,000 | IBM |
| Hackfest Sponsorships | |
| $2,975 | Canonical |
| $15,000 | Novell |
| $4,950 | Collabora |
| GUADEC - GCDS | |
| $12,700 | Red Hat |
| Advisory Board Fees | |
| $10,000 | Igalia - 2010 |
| $10,000 | Motorola - 2009 |
| $10,000 | Access - 2009 |
| $10,000 | IBM - 2009 |
| $10,000 | IBM - 2008 |
| $10,000 | IBM - 2007 |
| Income Affiliate Programs | |
| $64 | Amazon |
| Expenses | |
| Administrative | |
| $234 | Bank wire fees |
| $108 | Bank service charge |
| $87 | Bank fees - paypal |
| $5 | Annual Report Mailing |
| $100 | Insurance |
| Employee Wages | |
| $750 | 401K |
| $331 | Paychex EIB |
| $160 | Payroll fees |
| $3080 | Paychex TPS |
| $7495 | Paychex Payroll |
| $76 | Paychex Workers Comp |
| Events | |
| $961 | Event Box US |
| $8730 | GNOME Asia |
| $2195 | Boston Summit |
| Local Outreach | |
| $2682 | Forum do GNOME |
| GUADEC | |
| $429 | Tobias Mueller |
| $297 | Bastien Nocera |
| $275 | Sebastian Faubel |
| $200 | Janos Reviczky |
| $55 | Simon Wenner |
| Hackfests | |
| $2250 | Jugendhaus Kassianeum |
| $373 | Jason Clinton |
| $1611 | Behdad Esfahbod |
| $1200 | Vinicius Scopel Depizzol |
| $661 | Ketil Wendelbo Aanenson |
| $336 | Clemens Buss |
| $244 | Markus Korn |
| $225 | Jason Clinton |
| Executive Director's Travel | |
| $1372 | OSW, Latinoware |
| $2619 | Marketing hackfest, GNOME Asia, London |
The final Q4 quarter of 2009 has kept the travel committee on its feet with a lot of events and hackfests lined up. -We sponsored:
At the end of Q3, the GNOME Board and the Travel Committee setup a travel policy and the duties of people who receive sponsorship. We asked all the sponsored contributors to share their experiences in blogs, so the ones who missed out could relive the fun and various sessions at the hackfests and events. We are happy to see the results.
- -For GNOME Asia, we had all the contributors jotting down their experiences and Emily Chen summed it up in her blog here --> http://blogs.sun.com/emily/entry/sponsor_speakers_to_gnome_asia -Jason has the Marketing Hackfest summed up in his journal --> http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/tag/marketing
- -This really helps GNOME reach out to a lot of people and we would like to build up on this practice with the Accessibility and Usability Hackfests lined up at the start of year 2010.
-The GNOME membership and elections committee has processed 13 -applications for a Foundation Membership and 17 applications for -renewing a previous existing membership. During the same period, 12 -members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up -with 358 members (+3 compared to the previous quarter).
- -Our new members are: -
You can see a full list of members at http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php.
- -If you have any further question, do not hesitate to ask us on -membership-committee@gnome.org.
- -The GNOME Journal issue with all the articles written by women involved in GNOME was published in November. Sumana Harihareswara, Leslie Hawthorn, Diana Katherine Horqque, Danielle Madeley, Cathy Malmrose, Stormy Peters, Ara Pulido, Hanna Wallach, and Marina Zhurakhinskaya worked on the articles for this issue. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Paul Cutler, Sumana Harihareswara, Jim Hodapp and Stormy Peters worked on editing the articles. The articles included introductions to technical projects such as GNOME Shell, Telepathy, Empathy and Mago, tips on using Epiphany, a story about young girls having fun building Linux desktops, an interview with the Google Summer of Code organizer Leslie Hawthorn, and a follow-up with the participants of the GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program in 2006.
- -The new GNOME Outreach Program for Women has been announced in several blog posts, including ones by Peter Brown in the FSF blog and by Marina Zhurakhinskaya in her blog which is aggregated on Planet GNOME. The information about the program was picked up by other bloggers and various free software news feeds on Twitter. The list of mentors for the program already includes people working on GNOME Shell, Empathy, GNOME Games, Anjuta, documentation and marketing. More people are welcome to sign up as mentors.
- -Several women have already e-mailed women-outreach@gnome.org to express interest in the program and have been put in touch with the mentors to start learning about the projects that might interest them. One of the goals of the program is to help people find someone willing to help them get started contributing to GNOME any time during the year. Beyond that, we are encouraging students and mentors to work together before the application period for summer internships, so that the students are well familiar with the projects before they apply and the mentors have the contributions they can take into account during the selection process.
- -Máirín Duffy, Leslie Hawthorn, Stormy Peters, Hanna Wallach, and Marina Zhurakhinskaya are involved in the planning of the women in free software track at the LibrePlanet conference hosted by FSF on March 19-21. One of the goals of the conference is to highlight and increase women's participation in free software. GNOME project and GNOME Outreach Program for Women will have a strong representation at this conference.
- -The plans for the next quarter include raising funds for sponsoring the summer internships, defining the application process, and finding participants by advertising at colleges and through Google AdWords.
-During Q4 2010 the art team did: -
The System Administration team updated a number of GNOME systems in the fourth quarter. -
Lastly, Andrea Veri joined the Accounts team and he has helped provide much needed support with account requests in Request Tracker. Welcome Andrea!
-The GNOME Web team has been gradually working on reaching alpha status -on the new GNOME website. Alexandro Silva and Carsten Senger worked on -instance of the new website will allow editors to start working on the -missing bits of the website content. The idea is to have an initial -complete version of the website together with GNOME's 2.30 release.
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- GNOME Foundation
- Providing a Free Desktop for the World
- January, February, March 2010
-
Hi GNOME Foundation members and fans,
- -Best wishes and happy hacking! Enjoy your GNOME desktop!
- -Stormy Peters
- Executive Director,
- GNOME Foundation
First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to express a huge thank you to all the volunteers who help to make the GNOME community possible, and to all those who use the GNOME desktop and understand the value of free software on the desktop. It is you that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding.
- -In Q1, the GNOME community has gone through some significant -organizational changes. Lucas Rocha stepped down from the board to -spend more time with his family and new baby and Behdad Esfahbod -stepped down because other interests were consuming too much of his -time. Jorge Castro and Paul Cutler have stepped up to replace Lucas -and Behdad. A warm welcome to the new board members and the board -wishes to thank both Lucas and Behdad for the years of dedicated -service towards the GNOME community. We wish Lucas the best with his -family and Behdad with his future endeavors. Also, Willie Walker is -stepping down as the GNOME accessibility team lead. The board would -like to thank Willie for all of his dedicated help over the years and -wishes him the best for the future.
- -On March 31, the board was excited to announce the successful release -of GNOME 2.30, the latest stable release of the popular Free Software -desktop environment and applications suite. The next release will be -the highly anticipated GNOME 3 release. The board is working hard to -ensure it will be a success.
- -Much energy in Q1 has been focused on planning for the GUADEC 2010 -event which will be held in The Hague, Netherlands from July 26-30. -The GUADEC 2010 website is looking handsome and is now live at -http://www.guadec.org/. Planning is going smoothly and the talk -schedule will soon be made public. GUADEC organizers have made a call -for volunteers on February 1st, so please consider volunteering to help -if you can.
- -The board reached an agreement to have a training session at GUADEC -which will be run by Neary Consulting. The fee will be approximately -???1,500 per person. The training session will consists of full two-day -sessions before the event covering the following topics: - -
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This will be a joint-venture, where the GNOME Foundation will earn 40% -and Neary Consulting will earn 60% of the revenues. Neary Consulting -will be in charge of contracting teachers, preparing the training -material, marketing, etc. and GNOME Foundation will provide branding, -support, and quality control. The training materials will be released -with a free license. -
- -The board has also been working hard to organize relevant hackfests to -prepare and plan for the GNOME 3 release. In Q1 the GNOME Foundation -helped to organize The GNOME Usability Hackfest in London (February -22-26), the Desktop Help Hackfest in Chicago (March 20-21), and the -Accessibility Hackfest at the CSUN conference in San Diego (March -23-27).
- - - -In Q1, the GNOME community has been working to improve infrastructure -and has made progress with adopting a new CRM system, though more work -is needed. The Foundation is now conducting regular public IRC meetings -to encourage more community involvement in GNOME Foundation business. -The new Friends of GNOME donation ruler was successfully launched and -has made a significant impact towards improving fundraising towards -hiring a GNOME system administrator.
- -In February, the GNOME Foundation received a substantial $10,000 -(US$) donation from the Mozilla Corporation to benefit GNOME -accessibility. The board would like to thank the Mozilla Corporation -for promoting this humanitarian project and we are excited to have the -resources to further promote software that breaks barriers that would -otherwise prevent people from being able to make use of free desktop -software.
- -On March 16th, the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. boards decided to -co-locate their flagship conferences once again in 2011, and are now -taking bids to host the combined event. This follows on the -successful 2009 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit and will again provide -both communities with the opportunity for both communities to -share talks, work together to improve free desktop software, and -socialize.
- -Looking forward to the next quarter, the board anticipates that a -significant amount of energy will be spent planning for GUADEC and -helping to ensure the success of GNOME 3 which is planned for release -in September. The board is continuing to plan hackfests for the next -quarter including a GSettings hackfest in Boston, USA (April 12-17), -a Python Bindings hackfest in Boston, USA (April 14-18), and another -Marketing hackfest in Zaragoza, Spain (May 5-7). To further outreach -to developing nations, the GNOME community is planning to have a -presence at FOSS Nigeria in Kano, Nigeria (April 23-25) and the -Idlelo open source event in Accra, Ghana (May 17-21).
- -Please consider becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donations really do -help the GNOME Foundation continue to grow and provide support and -services for the success of the GNOME project.
- -The board is always looking for people willing to help with different -tasks. If you are interested, we encourage you to get in touch with the -GNOME board of directors (board@gnome.org) to discuss the best way for -you to get involved.
-The main focus in the beginning of 2010 was the final sprint towards the last major release of the GNOME 2.x cycle. With two development releases, two beta releases, one release candidate, the start of all the usual freezes and a good number of freeze break requests, the three months of Q1 illustrated well the broad work accomplished by the whole community for GNOME 2.30.0. This effort lead to the successful release of 2.30.0 on March 29th. The release notes highlight some of the new features or good improvements in this release: sending files easily to contacts, improved file management, better experience for instant messaging, dbus-based gnome-keyring (using a protocol that will be shared with KDE), etc.
- -Obviously, the release team did not just work on getting GNOME 2.30.0 out, but also laid some foundations for the next cycle. As a first step, an initial draft of the 2.31/3.0 development cycle was published, and after some adjustments, got announced. Continuing our long-standing tradition of six-months release cycles, GNOME 3.0.0 will be out on September 29th.
- -The period for new module proposals opened in February, with some initial discussion from the community. This instance is obviously a bit different compared to previous module proposal periods since the next release is GNOME 3.0 and the new modules will receive even more spotlight than usual. The proposed modules include the expected clutter and gnome-shell, as well as various applications: deja-dup (a backup tool), mousetrap (an accessibility tool to control the mouse cursor), pdfmod (an application to modify PDF files), rygel (a collection of DLNA services) and simple-scan (a scanning tool). Other modules might still get proposed as the period for module proposals closes at the beginning of May.
- -An important area the release team wanted to explore for 3.0 is the reorganization of the modulesets. As of today, we have the Platform, the Desktop, the Bindings, the Administrator Suite and the Developer Tools. This model has served us well and has actually evolved with time (we didn't have the Administrator Suite and the Developer Tools at first). However, we feel that this organization is reaching its limits, and we have explored several potential changes. A sample of issues illustrate the need for an evolution here. First, the arbitrary separation between the Platform and the Bindings can lead people to think that the bindings are second-class citizen while this is certainly not the case. Another issue that we want to address is that the Desktop set has expanded so much that it's now unclear which type of application should go in and which shouldn't; it's also forcing us to choose one application over another, or to avoid this choice, like in the famous Rhythmbox vs Banshee case. Moreover, we strongly believe that we should encourage a strong ecosystem of applications around GNOME, and integrating all applications in the GNOME Desktop moduleset is not the best way to achieve this.
- -In the next quarter, GNOME will release two 2.30 stable releases, effectively marking the end of the 2.x cycle. Of course, most of the community is already heavily involved in the 2.31 development cycle that will lead to GNOME 3.0 a few months after GUADEC! - -
- -From January to March, 8547 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 7776 were closed.
-Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (598 reports), Fabio Dur??n Verdugo (391), Tobias Mueller (314), J??rg Billeter (274) and Guillaume Desmottes (237).
-Top bug reporters were Akhil Laddha (91 reports), Bastien Nocera (78), Jean-Fran??ois Fortin Tam (76), Reinout van Schouwen (70), and William Jon McCann (68).
- -Apart from business as usual there has been no other activity.
- -The Marketing team has been busy brainstorming GNOME 3.0 marketing -activities which will be worked on at the upcoming Marketing Hackfest in -Zaragoza, Spain the first week of May. Discussion has centered around -answering the question "What is GNOME 3.0" including the impact of GNOME -Shell, new and updated applications on the GNOME Desktop and potential promotional -videos to show users the changes.
- -In addition to GNOME 3.0 planning the GNOME Press Team welcomed a new -team lead in Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Andreas Nilsson was instrumental -in launching the new GNOME store at http://www.zazzle.com/gnome, Lucas -Rocha and Andreas Nilsson helped with the Sysadmin fundraising campaign -and the ruler on various GNOME websites and the new gnome.org website -saw a number of content updates as it gets closer to launching later -this year.
- -Lastly, GNOME Journal saw two issues released in the first quarter. -Issue 18 was a special edition focused on Multimedia with reviews of -PiTiVi and Banshee, an interiew with Jonathan Thomas, creator of -OpenShot and an article focusing on writing multimedia applications with -Vala. Issue 19 released in late March featured an interview with Juan -Jos?? S??nchez Penas of the GNOME Advisory Board, opportunistic -development, an overview of Mallard, an article about the GNOME Miro -Community and a case study on the recent GNOME Bugzilla upgrade. -
-The main focus for the usability team this quarter has been organising, attending, and working on tasks arising from the week-long GNOME User Experience Hackfest that was held in London in February. The hackfest was sponsored by Canonical, Google, and the GNOME Foundation, with Canonical's London office also being the venue.
- -It was one of the largest GNOME hackfests ever organised, with around 30 attendees over the week. As such, many topics were covered, including: -
-Thanks to M??ir??n Duffy from Red Hat, and Robby Clements and Josh Adams from Isotope 11, the latter of these discussions has spawned a new project called Design Hub: http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/DesignHub -
--Pointers to most of the blog output that was produced during the hackfest can be found on Brian Cameron's blog: http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_usability_hackfest_write_up. -
-The GNOME Accessibility (A11y) team has had a number of developments in the past quarter. The biggest event was when many of us travelled to San Diego in March of 2010 to participate in the first ever GNOME A11y Hackfest and to man GNOME Foundation's booth at the CSUN Accessibility Technology conference. This was organized by Eitan Isaacson and made possible through the generous grant from the Mozilla Foundation. Many of the Hackfest sessions were led by Willie Walker.
- -The Hackfest largely focused on team organization and priorities for the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release. And the conference booth exposed many people unfamiliar with FOSS to the benefits of using a GNOME desktop for their accessibility needs.
- -Individually, we've seen contribution and development continue to grow. -
For the next quarter, the team intends to focus primarily on accessibility for GNOME 3.0/GNOME Shell as well as working with projects like Project Possibility, HFOSS.org, and others to form strong partnership with students developing their skills around accessibility technology.
- -There is great concern about the accessibilty of GNOME 3.0, and folks like Joseph Scheuhammer and Alejandro Pi??eiro continue to give it their attention. The roadmap for GNOME Shell accessibility can be found at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne#Accessibility
-In the first quarter of 2010, the documentation team -completed four Mallard documents for the GNOME 2.30 -desktop. They began planning on other help documents, -and helped plan and write help for applications not -in the official GNOME release.
- -Shaun hosted the Desktop Help Summit, a small gathering -of key documentation people from GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Fedora, -and Ubuntu. The Summit helped us understand what problems -distributors are having, and how we provide documentation -that better reflects what our users actually use.
- -At the Summit, Shaun and Richard Johnson (KDE) created a -proposal for a common place to install documentation and -a standard way to reference it. This will help third-party -developers integrate with the desktop, and it will help -distributors create and manage common documentation.
- -After the Summit, Shaun, Phil, and Milo had a planning -session for the new Mallard-based help for 3.0. They -focused on Internet connectivity and file management.
- -Phil has been talking with the Ubuntu team about using -Mallard, and how GNOME's use of Mallard affects Ubuntu. -The Ubuntu documentation team seems largely positive. -There are some concerns which are being discussed and -handled by the community..
- -Third party related news: Intel & Nokia announce MeeGo project and make -initial source release (based on GNOME Mobile). Current MeeGo -architecture/components design is shown here: http://meego.com/developers/meego-architecture
- -Nokia have proposed budget to GNOME to enable porting of GNOME -applications to MeeGo - we are still brainstorming how to spend the money.
-We had some great hackfests and events with a GNOME presense in the first quarter of 2010. For more information on the hackfests, you can check out the website, http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests. -
In the second quarter of 2010 we are planning: -
| Income | |
| Total | |
| $204,275 | Total Income |
| Friends of GNOME | |
| $9,587 | Friends of GNOME |
| Accessibility | |
| $10,000 | Mozilla |
| Advisory Board Fees | |
| $70,000 | 2010 |
| $10,000 | 2009 |
| Events | |
| $1,000 | Boston Summit |
| $1,000 | GNOME Asia |
| $3,929 | GUADEC (2009) |
| Income Affiliate Programs | |
| $111.22 | Amazon |
| Hackfests | |
| $3,875 | Hackfests |
| One time donation | |
| $7,213 | One time donation |
| Other | |
| $14,150 | Google Summer of Code |
| $73,350 | Corporate Donations |
| $60 | Interest - Bank |
| Expenses | |
| Total | |
| $69,543 | Total Expenses |
| Accessibility | |
| $6,000 | Contracts |
| Hackfests | |
| $4,337 | Hackfests |
| Events | |
| $196 | Event Box US |
| $7,798 | GNOME Asia |
| $582 | GUADEC (2009) |
| $2049 | Other Events |
| Administrative | |
| $364 | Bank fees |
| $5956 | 401K Plan/Wages |
| $13,020 | Payroll taxes/Wages |
| $818 | Medicare/Wages |
| $35 | Office supplies |
| $24,961 | Wages |
| Other expenses | |
| $3,438 | Other expenses |
GNOME started the year 2010 with a great vision for GNOME3 and kick -started the year with the Usability and Accessibility Hackfests.
- -The Travel Committee sponsored 2 contributors for the Usability Hackfest -held in London. They were sponsored for their airfare and also the -accommodation. You can read more about this Hackfest at -http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London2010 We also sponsored -contributors for the Accessibility Hackfest in San Diego. With some last -minute additions and changes, we managed to sponsor 8 of them. The -details on the a11y hackfest can be found at http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfest2010.
- - -The hackfest organizers have done a great job of aggregating all the -blogs. You could read on all the developments at -http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests
- -The Travel Committee started Q1 with a goal to clear off all the pending -reimbursements, and by the first week of April we did achieve it. We -reviewed all the previous applications, collected the invoices from all -the sponsored contributors and had them reimbursed within a week. This -closes the chapter for 2009. The Travel Committee also made its -announcement of accepting sponsorship requests for GUADEC 2010.
-The GNOME membership and elections committee has processed 24 -applications for a Foundation Membership and 20 applications for -renewing a previous existing membership. During the same period, 13 -members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up -with 370 members (+12 to the previous quarter).
- -Our new members are: -
You can see a full list of members at http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php.
- -If you have any further question, do not hesitate to ask us on -membership-committee@gnome.org.
- -Several women from GNOME participated in a very successful track on women in free software at the LibrePlanet conference hosted by FSF on March 19-21 in Cambridge, MA. It was a great opportunity to meet women from other free software projects and discuss the strategies for recruiting and retaining women in free software. In addition, M??ir??n Duffy made a presentation about GIMP and Inkscape and Marina Zhurakhinskaya made a presentation about GNOME Shell.
- -We have encouraged women to apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with GNOME this year by e-mailing the GNOME women mailing list, spreading the word on Facebook, identi.ca, and Twitter, and e-mailing the individual women who got in touch with us through the outreach program. In the end, there were five women applicants for GSoC with GNOME this year - two of them originally got in touch with us through the outreach program and three applied on their own. We guided all of them through the application process, matched them up with projects and mentors, and provided application feedback. The selection process is still underway.
- -In the next quarter we look forward to supporting the selected GSoC participant(s). We'll keep up our efforts to encourage women participation in GNOME by making it more obvious that the mentors participating in the Outreach Program for Women are happy to help women get started with the projects any time throughout the year and following up with interested women.
-The Art Team has been quite active this quarter.
- -Lapo Calamandrei and Jakub Steiner delivered the finishing touches of GNOME's new icon theme, which has been under development for a couple of years now. It is great that we can finally see this work released in GNOME 2.30. With that comes a whole new set of high resolution icons. A lot of icon improvements have also been contributed by the broader community.
- -Vinicius Depizzol has been doing a lot beautiful design work for the new GNOME and GUADEC websites.
- -At the User Experience Hackfest, Garrett LeSage, Jakub Steiner and Hylke Bons made the first steps towards a new visual style and theme for GNOME 3.0 and gnome-shell, including a symbolic icon set. Thomas Wood and Benjamin Berg started creating the technical foundations needed to make these designs a reality.
- -Andreas Nilsson released a banner for GNOME 2.30 and did the new GNOME Store website layout, http://www.zazzle.com/gnome.
- -The Art Team also did the Sys Admin Fundraising Campaign ruler and the Thank You banner.
- -In addition to that the Art Team has been working on refreshing old assets that are scattered across the desktop.
-The Sysadmin Team was happy to welcome to new members in 2010, Christer -Edwards and Ray Wang. In the first three months of the year, the -Sysadmin team worked on deploying a new server (Combobox) graciously -donated to the GNOME Foundation by Jeff Schroeder who is also on the -Sysadmin team.
- -In addition, the Sysadmin team upgraded Openfire for jabber.gnome.org, -Postfix was updated to reduce spam and a number of closed mailing lists -were removed.
-Content is still being worked out.
-Johannes will be fixing front to match expected design soon.
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- GNOME Foundation
- Providing a Free Desktop for the World
- April, May, June 2010
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First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to -express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the -GNOME community possible. To all those who use the GNOME desktop -and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you -that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding. Thank you -to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much valued -direction for the community.
- -The GNOME Foundation board member elections concluded on June 23rd and -we have a new board. Everyone please welcome Brian Cameron, Emily -Chen, Paul Cutler, Og Maciel, Germán Póo-Caamaño, Andreas Nilsson, and -Bastien Nocera who will be serving the community for the next year. -The new board is enthusiastic about GNOME's future. We wish to thank -Jorge Castro, Behdad Esfahbod, Lucas Rocha, Srinivasa Ragavan, Vincent -Untz, and Diego Escalante Urrelo as they step down from the board. -Their dedicated service to the GNOME community is valued and much -appreciated.
- -On June 1st, The GNOME Foundation announced plans to hire a system -administrator. The application process has concluded and the board is -now in an interview process. Therefore, the GNOME Foundation should -have a new system administrator soon, and we expect that this will -significantly improve the services and resources that the GNOME -Foundation provides.
- -The GNOME Foundation has been making an effort to foster stronger -connections with the developing world. Ben Konrath and Fernando -Herrera represented GNOME and provided GNOME training at IDLELO 4 -(Fourth African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons) held in -Accra, Ghana over May 17-21. To help further promote GNOME in the -developing world, the developing-world-list@gnome.org mailing list has -been set up to help foster discussion about sharing the benefits of -free software in the developing world. Please consider subscribing if -you have an interest to contribute.
- -Lately, the board has been busy planning GUADEC 2010 in The Hague -(July 26-30) so that it can be a productive meeting of the minds. It is important to -make the best use of our time at GUADEC to prepare for promoting GNOME 3.0 and making the release a success. For 2011, the GNOME Foundation -and KDE e.V. board of directors are jointly planning a combined Desktop -Summit. Planning is underway and bids are being reviewed.
- -The board has also been working hard to organize relevant hackfests to -prepare and plan for the GNOME 3 release. In Q2 the GNOME Foundation -helped to organize a Marketing Hackfest (May 4-7), a Python Bindings -Hackfest (April 14-18), and a GSettings Hackfest (April 12-17).
- -There is a lot to look forward to in the next quarter. GUADEC is in -soon upon us and the combined COSCUP / GNOME.Asia Summit will be held -in Taipei, Taiwan over August 14-15. We will also be planning for the -Accessibility Hackfest and AEGIS Conference in October and The Boston -Summit in November.
- -We very much appreciate when you email board-@gnome.org to let us know -if there is anything The GNOME Foundation can do to help or if there -are any opportunities that you think The GNOME Foundation should know -about. The board is always looking for people willing to help with -different tasks. If you are interested, we encourage you to contact us -and get involved. Keep the emails coming.
- -Please also consider becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donations really -do help the GNOME Foundation continue provide support and services -which help the success of the GNOME project.
- - - -Having said all that, there has been some concern lately that email -discussion on foundation-list@gnome.org has been too confrontational and -unproductive. Let me remind all GNOME Fondation members to be -considerate and to help make The GNOME Foundation forums productive and -friendly. We will not shy away from controversial topics, but lets -focus on the topics under discussion and try to keep things relevant.
- -A special thanks to Stormy Peters for being the best CEO that The -GNOME Foundation could ask for and doing things like making the -quarterly reports happen.
- -Brian Cameron
-GNOME Foundation Secretary
Various localization teams that are part of the GNOME Translation Project -continued focusing their localization effort on stable GNOME 2.30.1 -and 2.30.2 releases which were released on April 28 and June 23, -respectively. Localization teams will begin working on -localization for the upcoming GNOME 3 release next.
- -The GNOME translation community that gather together on the gnome-i18n mailing -list discussed and conducted common translation project administrivia, -including assistance in changing coordinators in several localization -teams, the most notable case being the Slovak translation team, in which -several translators expressed their discontent with the current way of -coordination. The issue was thoroughly discussed within the Coordination -Team in order to mediate the dispute and was settled in the beginning -of July when the current Slovak coordinator announced his resignation.
- -Among other things discussed was the legal issue of whether translators who -are not legal experts should translate legal notices or license texts that -usually come with the free software distribution. This topic was further -discussed on the GNOME legal-list with Luis Villa.
- -Also, there was a change done in the structure of the GNOME Translation -Project coordination. Previously, the project was formally led by two -spokespeople who were also senior members of the extended Coordination -Team. Now, the spokesperson status has been obsoleted in favor of a -larger Coordination Team.
- -For string freeze break requests during the GNOME Desktop development -cycle, developers are now required to obtain the approval from two members -of the Coordination Team. The Coordination Team that now consists of 11 -members will also seek ways to improve the responsiveness about requests.
- -One of the important tasks that the GNOME Translation Project intends to -accomplish during Q3 is completing the implementation of Git commit support -through the infrastructure running on l10n.gnome.org.
- -The GNOME Marketing team kicked off the second quarter with a hackfest -in Zaragoza, Spain. The hackfest focused on delivering marketing -activities and materials for the GNOME 3.0 launch later this year.
- -The marketing team discussed and started work on planning a GNOME 3 -website that will showcase videos, screencasts, screenshots and -information about GNOME 3.0; developed brochures and presentations about -GNOME that can be used by volunteers at conferences; planned and started -creating videos about GNOME 3.0 and its features; and started the -planning process for worldwide launch parties to celebrate the upcoming -GNOME 3.0 process. The marketing team would like to thank all of the -sponsors that made the recent marketing hackfest possible, including the -city of Zaragoza, the Aragon Regional Goverenment, ITA, ASOLIF and -CESLA.
- -Other marketing activities in the second quarter included further work -on the ideas started at the hackfest. The marketing team also helped -with a new t-shirt design proposed by Brian Cameron. Luis Medinas and -team members have been helping to grow the GNOME Fan page on Facebook, -consistently updating the page with news about GNOME. Lastly, the GNOME -Foundation was recently granted non-profit status on Youtube thanks to work done by Bryen Yunashko. Youtube -will play a role in the upcoming marketing videos to be released later -this year, in addition to GNOME Miro and Blip.tv for video distribution.
- -From April to June, 9617 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 9325 were closed (4688 of them as FIXED).
- -Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (737 reports), Tobias Mueller (574), Fabio Durán Verdugo (363), Milan Crha (319) and William Jon McCann (276).
- -Top bug reporters were Bastien Nocera (109 reports), Andre Klapper (107), Christian Persch (90), Akhil Laddha (85) and Garrett Regier (78).
- -Apart from business as usual there has been no other activity.
- -Christina Boumpouka and Emel Elvin Yildiz were the two women among the 22 students accepted to work on GNOME through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program this year. Christina Boumpouka has originally contacted us through the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) and we encouraged her to apply for GSoC. She is working on the GNOME Shell project. Emel Elvin Yildiz has been involved with GNOME before and applied on her own to work on BuilDj, but has since dropped out of the program.
- -The GNOME Foundation has allocated $25,000 towards the OPW internships. We are going to split the program between the summers in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres and start by offering at least three internships from mid-December 2010 to mid-March 2011. This time frame coincides with the school break in some countries in the Southern Hemisphere and works out best in terms of giving us sufficient amount of time to plan and promote the program. The following page contains the program schedule, as well as information for participants, mentors, and companies: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010 We welcome more people to sign up as mentors and we are asking companies to consider sponsoring additional internships as part of this program.
- -We continue working with FSF on the movement to increase women's participation in free software as a whole. Deborah Nicholson from FSF has recently published a list of recommendations based on the discussions and activities that took place over the last year: http://www.fsf.org/news/recommendations-from-the-womens-caucus.
- -Getting free software into the hands of young women is one such recommendation. Máirín Duffy is currently working with Deborah Nicholson on an outreach program with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. They are in the early stages of planning a pilot 10-week long Inkscape course at a Boston area community center this coming Fall. The course will introduce a group of Girl Scouts to free software. The FSF is working to produce gNewSense-based live USB keys that the students can keep to work on their projects, and Máirín is developing the course materials and will be teaching the pilot course. Depending on the success of the pilot program, the course has the potential to be used again and again for other Girl Scout troops.
- -We are planning to have a women's dinner at GUADEC in order to allow everyone to meet each other and share ideas and experiences. We'll be planning and promoting the OPW internships at GUADEC and after the conference. We'd like to announce the program widely on college campuses and on free software news sites by the end of August.
- -During Q2 2010 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 23 -applications for a new foundation membership and 37 applications for -renewals of a membership. Out of those, 57 were processed. During the -same period, 16 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped -out. We ended up with 382 members (+12 to the previous quarter).
- -We ended up with 14 new members:
-The GNOME membership and elections committee also held the last GNOME -Foundation Board or Directors elections. At first, we had too few -candidates to actually fill the 7 seats in the board. But then the -deadline for announcing a candidacy was pushed back and more people -considered becoming a member of the Board. So we went into the voting -phase with 11 candidates.
- -The new members of the Board are¹: - Brian Cameron, - Emily Chen, - Paul Cutler, - Og Maciel, - Germán Póo-Caamaño, - Andreas Nilsson and - Bastien Nocera
- -¹ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2010-June/msg00004.html
- -Hylke Bons announced Sparkleshare, a file sharing tool with an -emphasis on allowing collaboration between software designers. -Sparkleshare is one of several collaborative design tool concepts that -were developed at the Usability Hackfest in London earlier this year.
Hylke Bons, Garrett Le Sage and Allan Day have been developing a -series of design personas. A first draft is planned to be completed -prior to GUADEC.
Work continued on the new version of the HIG. Calum Benson has been -analysing the current version and the list of UI patterns to be covered -has been elaborated and refined.
Hylke Bons, Garrett Le Sage, Lapo Calamanderi Allan Day, and others -collaborated on a redesign of Nautilus. Garrett presented these design -proposals on his blog and discussions with developers have begun.
Allan Day and Matthias Clasen conducted a UI review of the Deja Dup -backup utility as a part of the application's module inclusion proposal. -A series of recommendations were made and a set of mockups produced.
Andreas Nilsson, Allan Day and Hylke Bons participated in a Ubuntu -Developer Summit session titled 'Working Better with Upstream', where -they had a productive exchange about the User Experience Advocates -project. A subsequent discussion on this topic took place on the GNOME -Usability mailing list and a BoF session has been planned for GUADEC.
There were some discussions on the mailing list about the $50,000 received from Nokia to promote GTK+ on Meego.
- -Cornelius Hald expressed interest in ensuring Hildon works with stock GTK+ and is looking for assistance. There is still a little confusion over what patches might need migrating from "Maemo GTK+" to GTK+. Maintaining Hildon on top of the official GNOME GTK+ would allow the hundreds of Maemo applications to work on MeeGo and other GTK+ based platforms with no extra work from distributors.
- -The documentation team continued planning the new GNOME -desktop help in Mallard, and Phil Bull began writing the -first topics for the desktop help, with contributions -from Cristopher Thomas. Phil reviewed and edited the -Evince and Color Manager help. Jim Campbell worked on -the Gedit help. Milo Casagrande worked on the Rhythmbox -help. Paul Cutler worked on the Banshee and Tomboy help, -and Shaun McCance started help pages for the Banshee -Community Extensions.
- -The GNOME Foundation sponsored Fernando Herrera and Benjamin Konrath to -conduct GNOME Training at Idlelo in the month of May. Read more on the -reports here and here.
- -We also had Jonh Wendell and Antonio Fernandes represent GNOME this year -at ENSOL 2010. The reports can be found in here and here.
- -It is that time of the year again and yes GUADEC is here. The GNOME -Foundation was flooded with travel subsidy requests from all around the -world. After 3 iterations, we did manage to sponsor 60 applicants this -year. This year the committee also involved itself into booking the -hotels for all the applicants and following up with the candidates for -their VISA invite letters.
- -The Travel Committee also sponsored 8 contributors for the Marketing -Hackfest at Zaragoza (Spain) held from May 4-7, 2010. The discussions, -organization and many more things pertaining to the success of this -hackfest can be read at -http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing-2010-05.
- -The Travel committee continues its tradition of initiating a good -practice every quarter and this quarter was no different. Stormy -initiated a post-mortem survey to check on how well the hackfest was -planned and the things that rocked, things that backfired etc. The -survey was opened up for all the sponsored participants of the Marketing -Hackfest. The results were promised to be confidential and anonymous. -The results helped us analyze on how best we could make use of the -available resources and plan the next one better. It helped us narrow -down on the exact issues.
- -Looking at the success of this survey, we plan to roll out similar -surveys to all hackfests and conferences hereon.
- -A great quarter with lots of hackfests and events!
- -GSettings Hackfest. April 12-17. Boston, MA.
- -Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. April 14-16. San Francisco, CA. Many GNOME folks were present and there was a excellent GNOME dinner hosted by Yorba.
- -Python Bindings Hackfest. April 14-18. Boston, MA.
- -FLISOL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre). April 24.
- -GNOME Hispano Encuentro en Sevilla. May 1-2. Seville, Spain.
- -Marketing Hackfest. May 5-7. Zaragoza, Spain. See the marketing section for a summary.
- -Idlelo 4. May 17-21. Accra, Ghana. Ben Konrath and Fernando Herrera represented GNOME at Idlelo 4 in Ghana at the booth, the event and a preconference training. Both Ben and Fernando did a lot of preparation to make the event a big success from a GNOME perspective. The GNOME booth was really busy throught the whole conference. DVDs were popular as bandwidth is slow and expensive.
- -LinuxTag. June 9-12. Berlin, Germany. Although GNOME did not have a booth, there were a lot of GNOME people present (including Openismus) and several GNOME people gave talks on GNOME, like Vincent Untz and Johannes Schmid. Vincent Untz and Stormy Peters also participated in a RadioTux interview.
- -Transfer Summit. June 24-25. Oxford, UK. Several GNOME folks were at the Transfer Summit. Stormy Peters gave a talk on GNOME.
- -Since the release of GNOME 2.30.0 occurred on the very last day of the first quarter of 2010, the very first action taken by the release team in Q2 was to enjoy some time to celebrate this release. And an hour later, the team looked at the plans for the next few months and started working on the next releases. This includes the 2.31 development cycle, as well as two stable releases of GNOME 2.30 that went out, the first in April and the second in May, and that were integrated by our distributors.
- -One of the main activities of the quarter was the monitoring of the development of GNOME 3. At the platform level, new APIs like GSettings and GDBus, landed in our libraries, and the version development versions of GTK+ 3 were released; this triggered the beginning of the migration to those new technologies for various modules. In addition, we continued pushing the cleanup work to remove the use of deprecated libraries in our applications. At the user experience level, we evaluated the progress of GNOME Shell, as well as other components having critical changes for GNOME 3, like the control center. In addition, several discussions were held with maintainers of those components to get more information on the remaining work to be done.
- -One strength of GNOME that we are proud of is that it's usable on various operating systems, based on different kernels. However, this generally requires some work since GNOME needs low-level integration to offer a good experience for hardware support and multimedia. To help with this, the release team created the portability matrix: this is a document collecting in one place the information of what work is required to port GNOME, as well as the current status of the various ports.
- -Finally, the release team continued the work on the reorganization of the modulesets. A proposal based on two main ideas was sent to the community. The first point was to extend our platform by including bindings in the platform as well as adding libraries that do not offer API/ABI stability yet but that are aimed to live in the platform (this includes GStreamer, part of the telepathy stack or evolution-data-server, for example). The core platform would still be offer API/ABI stability. The second point was to refocus the Desktop moduleset on core components, and to have normal applications live outside the moduleset. The idea behind this point was to extend the GNOME brand and encourage a rich ecosystem of GNOME applications, and bootstrap this effort with our high-quality applications that are shipped as part of GNOME. The community generally liked the reorganization of the platform, but raised various issues about the second point. Some additional work will be done in the next quarters to find a solution that addresses those issues.
- -This work on the modulesets reorganization influenced the decisions of new modules approved for this cycle: great applications (deja-dup, pdfmod, simple-scan) were proposed, but not accepted because we want to encourage the growth of an application ecosystem around GNOME. But new features like color management, UPnP support and symbolic icons will be part of GNOME thanks to gnome-color-manager, Rygel and gnomee-icon-theme-symbolic. Caribou will also replace gok as the on-screen keyboard, and last but not least, the GNOME Shell was officially approved for integration.
- -The next quarter will be a critical one since it will lead to the release of the next stable branch of GNOME. GUADEC will be most useful for the release team, since most contributors will be present in the Hague, and help evaluate us where we stand in the middle of this development cycle!
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First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the GNOME community possible. To all those who use the GNOME desktop and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you that makes the GNOME community both rich and rewarding. Thank you to our advisory board members and sponsors for providing much valued direction for the community.
- -This has been a busy quarter for The GNOME Foundation. Highlights include:
- -The GNOME Foundation board of directors very much appreciates when you email board-list@gnome.org to let us know if there is anything The GNOME Foundation can do to help or if there are any opportunities that you think The GNOME Foundation should know about. Many different skill sets are needed to help GNOME's mission. If you are willing to help, there is a diverse set of interesting tasks to choose from. We need you.
- -Please also consider becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donations really do help the GNOME Foundation continue provide support and services which help the success of the GNOME project.
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During Q3 2010 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 12 applications for a new foundation membership and 41 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 41 were processed. During the same period, 14 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 351 members.
- -We ended up with 7 new members:
- -The documentation team held an all-day BOF at GUADEC to meet with application developers and discuss plans for the 3.0 documentation. The team also held an all-day planning session at GUADEC to map out the GNOME 3.0 desktop help.
- -During the BOF, we discussed Anjuta documentation and developer documentation in general. Phil Bull has made progress on an Anjuta overview. This discussion also led to the planning of the developer documentation hackfest, to be held in December 2010.
- -We were also approached by the Evolution maintainers during the BOF. Phil Bull has been working on creating new topic-oriented help for Evolution, based on the existing Evolution FAQ.
- -The desktop help has been progressing, thanks in large part to new contributors April Gonzales and Cristopher Thomas. Some parts of the desktop help cannot be written yet, because 3.0 is a moving target. Shaun McCance began planning the accessibility topics, and will attend the accessibility hackfest in October 2010 to discuss with the accessibility hackers and users.
- -Paul Cutler finished the Banshee help. Milo Casagrande began work on the Rhythmbox help and updated the Empathy help. Phil Bull created new help for Evince.
- -From July to September, 7622 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 7193 were closed. Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (596 reports), Matthias Clasen (287), Fabio Durán Verdugo (254), André Klapper (236) and Felipe Besoaín Pino (231).
- -Top bug reporters were Akhil Laddha (125 reports), Philip Withnall (106), Pedro Villavicencio (97), David Woodhouse (82) and Guillaume Desmottes (70).
- -Apart from business as usual there has been no other activity.
- -On July 29, Andre Klapper represented the GNOME Translation Project at the AGM meeting at GUADEC with a Project update report. At GUADEC, he also gave a talk on "Identifying software projects and translation teams in need" where he provided an overview of interesting data combined & gathered from Damned Lies, GNOME Bugzilla and other relevant sources.
- -Gil Forcada, with the feedback from other community members, conducted the GNOME I18N Survey by sending a questionnaire on August 13 to every GTP language coordinator, and collecting answers for two weeks. Out of 120 coordinators, 36 answered. The rationale behind the survey was to know each other within the GNOME translation community better, and thus to find ways the GTP can improve the overall experience of translating GNOME.
- -The sent questionnaire consisted of more than 20 questions on various areas of community l10n in GNOME, e.g. inquiring about general team information, coordinatorship & membership, team workflow, QA processes, use & evaluation of GNOME Damned Lies infrastructure, collaborating with downstream translators, other translation teams, and language institutions, community knowledge sharing, etc.
- -As for the GNOME development itself, GTP language teams have been busy working on providing l10n support for the new GNOME stable release 2.32, which was delivered on September 29. GTP has been also investigating approaches to help out language teams that seemed to be considerably short on manpower and/or proper coordinatorship, this included the Persian and Welsh teams.
- -We also communicated with GNOME developers to try to solve i18n issues with translating strings within submodules, strings with constructed sentences, and some other problems that (re)appeared during the Q3 period.
- -During Q4, apart from working on l10n support for the upcoming GNOME 3, GTP community aims for identifying issues with the current i18n & l10n infrastructure inside and outside the GNOME Project, like the Git commit functionality, and solving them, hopefully implementing the necessary GTP support for repositories hosted at git.gnome.org and elsewhere. This is to be done in conjunction with the Release Team's proposal for moduleset reorganization.
- -Application Design
- -Ongoing work on design work took place around Nautilus. A new round of mockups were created, as well as specifications for icon view layouts. Cosimo Cecchi implemented designs for a new sidebar and connect to server dialog. Several design concepts were developed for Epiphany as a result of discussions with developers at GUADEC. Some redesign proposals were created for Evolution. Hylke Bons revised his voice recorder designs following interest from a developer. These are being implemented.
- -GNOME 3 Theming
- -Lapo Calamandrei developed the GNOME 3 window manager theme.
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- -Thanks to the creation of Sparkleshare, the GNOME designers started using a public version control repository for storing and collaborating on design work. The design team started holding weekly design office hours on #gnome-design.
- -GNOME 3 Core Desktop Designs
- -Designs for the new GNOME 3 Control Center got underway: specifications were created for the background chooser, screensaver, power, time and date chooser, tablets and web accounts panels. New designs for the GNOME Shell date and calender widget.
- -Human Interface Guidelines
- -Drafted some initial GNOME 3 UI patterns for further discussion.
- -There seemed to be a stronger presence of women at GUADEC this year. We held the first women’s dinner at GUADEC which was attended by 15 women. Everyone really enjoyed meeting and talking to each other. Marina Zhurakhinskaya made short presentations to the GNOME Advisory Board and at the Annual General Meeting about the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) efforts.
- -We announced the OPW internships for December 15, 2010 to March 15, 2011 dates on September 15. Máirín Duffy designed a catchy flyer for the program. Many members of the community helped spread the word by micro-blogging, blogging, sending information to the universities, and handing out flyers at conferences.
- -We are currently in the middle of the application process with the application deadline on October 25 and accepted participants announcement on November 3. We have already received a good number of applications and inquiries. We should be able to accept at least five participants, with three being sponsored by the GNOME Foundation and two being sponsored by Google. The following page contains all the information about the program: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010
- -Stormy Peters attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on September 28 - October 2. She organized the first Free and Open Source Software booth at the conference and participated in the Open Source Track. At the booth, they handed out 180 flyers about the GNOME Outreach Program for Women as well as lots of GNOME stickers - the logo on a field of grass was the most popular. Heidi Ellis also attended - her class at Western New England College is working on Caribou as part of GNOME’s a11y and HFOSS program.
- -The FSF Womens' Caucus' “Bringing free software to girls and young women” outreach program with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and Red Hat has started. Máirín Duffy taught the first class session on October 15. The class will run on a weekly basis through mid-December. Red Hat produced live USB keys with the GNOME-based Fedora Design Suite that were distributed to the girls. Their first project involved photomanipulation with Gimp. Future projects will involve Gimp, Inkscape, and other creative tools. This page contains more information about the course: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Women%27s_Caucus/Girl_Scouts_Free_Software_Outreach
- -In the next quarter, we look forward to working with the OPW internships participants and introducing them to the community.
- -The Sysadmin team has seen some major changes over the last quarter, primarily the hiring of a part-time System Administrator Christer Edwards. Christer can now be considered a liason between the general community and the team. Any questions or concerns regarding the progress of bugzilla issues, or project ideas can be directed through him.
- -In addition to the above, the team has been primarily focused on a few specific tasks:
- -First, the team has been putting a lot of attention into everyone's favorite new project, Snowy, which is moving along nicely. The alpha testing has been open and the stable public release is anticipated around the release of GNOME 3.0.
- -Second, a baseline was set for server reporting and the noise was significantly cut down. This allows us to better monitor the daily health of the servers and catch issues early.
- -Thirdly, a monitoring solution is being put in place to keep us apprised of outages. This includes core services such as mail and DNS as well as web services, load, etc. This is still in progress, but the final solution should give us early notice on any outages which we can hopefully act on before they affect the general community.
- -Lastly, some new services were implemented for community use such as a public Gobby service, and Collabtive, a Project Management web service currently being tested. We've also started publishing scheduled maintenance on the http://blogs.gnome.org/Sysadmin. Anyone needing access to these services can contact Christer or the other team members.
- -In the next quarter we look forward to continued improvements in documenting procedures, standardization and expansion.
- -The Accessibility Team continued improving the user experience with GNOME 2, while at the same preparing for the GNOME 3 release:
- -When not working on code, the team was busily preparing for October's AEGIS Conference and associated A11y Hackfest in Sevilla.
- -Going into the fourth quarter, the team plans to focus on GNOME 3.0.
- -For more detailed information on the Accessibility Team's work this quarter, please see the team wiki.
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- -Usability and design work for GNOME 3.0 continued on gnome-shell, control center, and on the GNOME 3.0 theme and wallpapers. Some members of the art and usability teams participated in the GNOME Boston Summit in November.
- -The Art Team produced the website for the GNOME 3 T-Shirt design competition.
- -The Usability team produced and sought feedback on some high-level design concepts for Nautilus and Evolution.
- -A number of IRC meetings were held in November to advance production of the GNOME 3 Human Interface Guidelines. The chat logs are available.
- -Several usability "office hours" were held on the #gnome-design IRC channel -- these are scheduled for Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC. Members of the art and usability teams are available at this time every week to answer any GNOME design questions from users, developers and anyone else who might be interested!
- -From October to December, 7240 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 7152 were closed. Top bug closers were Fabio Durán Verdugo (686 reports), Akhil Laddha (484 reports), Milan Crha (252), Bastien Nocera (234) and Felipe Besoaín Pino (224).
- -Top bug reporters were William Jon McCann (89 reports), Bastien Nocera (80), Milan Crha (80), Akhil Laddha (76) and Matthias Clasen (73).
- -Apart from business as usual there has been no other activity.
- -The documentation team started pushing harder on the new Mallard-based desktop help. Two interns from the Outreach Program for Women, Tiffany Antopolski and Natalia Ruz, have been hard at work ensuring the Gnome 3 desktop will be well-documented.
- -As part of the Google Code-in, Jason Lo worked on converting the Character Map help to Mallard.
- -Andre Klapper and Barbara Tobias have joined Phil and April in working on the Evolution documentation rewrite. Andre has done a significant amount of planning..
- -Shaun attended the AEGIS conference and the accompanying Gnome accessibility hackfest. He advised accessibility team members on creating topic-oriented help, and began working on accessibility for the desktop help.
- -In December, writers and developers met in Berlin for the development documentation and tools hackfest. A new set of demo tutorials was created to help familiarize developers with the Gnome developer platform. Work is ongoing.
- -Phil began work on the new documentation style guide, and converted the usability team's new HIG material to Mallard.
-On October 16, Gil Forcada presented results of the GNOME I18N Survey which was referred to in the previous report. A brief analysis of the results were included.
- -Discussion on the possibility and feasibility of translating schema files within separated gettext domains or catalogs emerged from the survey analysis debate, as well as the point of localizing certain types of strings that are usually not user-visible. Especially the price of splitting limited resources within smaller translation teams was compared with the eventual need to make significant changes to the current GNOME i18n infrastructure and also to various module build systems.
- -With regard to the Release Team's second proposal for moduleset reorganization from October 7, which would allow various software projects outside of the GNOME infrastructure to become officially endorsed GNOME software, members of the GNOME Translation Project expressed strong preference for working on l10n support within the GNOME official i18n and SCM infrastructure.
- -In the debate which spread over the gnome-18n and desktop-devel-list groups, GNOME translators were mainly concerned about translation quality, string freeze periods and release schedules, about expecting developers or maintainers to integrate translations manually to their respective repositories in a suitable, timely manner, and generally about changing the current module requirements by dropping them and/or making them optional for official GNOME software and GNOME developers.
- -Several proposals were made to (require to) allow the DL infrastructure on l10n.gnome.org auto-commit translations to code repositories not hosted on git.gnome.org, to migrate from the DL application altogether and replace it with Transifex, and generally to specify l10n requirements for official modules more narrowly and precisely. No final resolution was made in this regard.
- -The Sysadmin team work on a Damned Lies auto-commit, providing translators a way to manage l10n support without interacting with Git system directly, was resumed during October and November. Furthermore, GTP members discussed options to integrate automatic QA checking with l10n.gnome.org.
- -During Q3 2010 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 12 applications for a new foundation membership and 41 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 41 were processed. During the same period, 14 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 351 members.
- -We welcomed 11 new members:
- -The GNOME project proudly announced eight Outreach Program for Women interns on November 5 with a press release. We were able to accept eight strong candidates thanks to Google sponsoring four of them, the GNOME Foundation sponsoring three, and Collabora sponsoring one. The participants, as well as their location, project, and mentor, are:
- -This blog post has more information about each participant as well as the links to their individual blogs. The participants have started their internships on December 15 and have been updating the GNOME community about their work with frequent blog posts that are aggregated on Planet GNOME. The internships period will end March 15. We are hoping that all of the participants will stay active in the GNOME community past the completion of their internships.
- -We are planning to run the next round of internships from the end of May through the end of August, with the application process announced sometime in the beginning of March and the application deadline on April 8. This application deadline is same as the application deadline for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year, which will allow us to direct qualifying applicants to apply for both programs. GNOME has historically had few female applicants for GSoC, and running these programs in parallel will bring the attention of more female student coders to the opportunity to participate in GSoC. Unlike GSoC, GNOME Outreach Program for Women doesn’t require applicants to be students and includes non-coding internships, such as documentation, graphic design and marketing.
- -Stormy Peters attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on September 28 - October 2. She organized the first Free and Open Source Software booth at the conference and participated in the Open Source Track. At the booth, they handed out 180 flyers about the GNOME Outreach Program for Women as well as lots of GNOME stickers - the logo on a field of grass was the most popular. Heidi Ellis also attended - her class at Western New England College is working on Caribou as part of GNOME’s a11y and HFOSS program.
- -Máirín Duffy has completed teaching Girl Scouts’ Digital Media Course that she developed as part of the FSF Womens' Caucus' “Bringing free software to girls and young women” outreach program with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and Red Hat. The course consisted of 9 weekly two hour sessions teaching photo and image manipulation using Gimp and Inkscape. The excellent handout materials that Máirín developed for the course can be found in her wrap up blog post. These materials can be used for other similar courses by anyone interested in teaching them.
- -During Q4 2010 the Sysadmin Team has made a number of great improvements to the GNOME infrastructure. To follow these updates regularly, please see the Sysadmin Blog.
- -In early Q4 we began defining procedures for server downtime and maintenance. In the past these tasks were simply done "as needed", often without public notice. We've now documented procedures for maintenance announcements, "gotchas" and other requirements for all servers. Going forward all planned downtime will be announced with 48hrs notice on the Sysadmin blog, http://news.gnome.org and the devel-announce-list.
- -We were also able to implement the use of a tool called 'listadmin' for moderation of the mailman queues. This dramatically improves the efficiency of the Moderators Team, essentially allowing all GNOME mailing lists to be moderated in under fifteen minutes! GNOME mailing lists are now moderated daily, filtering spam and allowing legitimate email through in a more timely manner.
- -Our monitoring solution has seen continued improvement. It now includes over 200 checks! We have plans to make this information public sometime during Q1 2011.
- -Finally, we've configured HTTPS Strict Transport Security for all GNOME domains that require SSL. This means that supported browsers will automatically connect directly to SSL for subsequent connections, bypassing unsecured http connections entirely. GNOME domains now supporting SSL connections are: bugzilla, mango, live (wiki), mail (mailman), nagios, snowy, and RT.
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The release team had all its eyes on the preparation of GNOME 3.0, in preparation of the release climax. From March, with many freezes then in place we got to review/accept/decline lots of requests (Olav had a post about this on his blog ). And the quarter ended with three members of the team, Andre, Vincent, and Frederic (P.) flying to Bangalore for GNOME.Asia and the release hackfest.
- - -All about the final push towards GNOME 3.0 this quarter. The art and usability teams have been involved in:
- -From January to March, 7877 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 8584 were closed. Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (1065 reports), Fabio Durán Verdugo (827), Matthias Clasen (379), Bastien Nocera (359) and Milan Crha (249).
- -Top bug reporters were William Jon ?McCann (129 reports), Matthias Clasen (112), Bastien Nocera (112), Cosimo Cecchi (106) and Guillaume Desmottes (80).
- -Apart from business as usual there has been no other activity.
- - -In January, the Board interviewed candidates for the marketing contract position and chose Allan Day and Sumana Harihareswara. Allan and Sumana started in February. Allan's status updates: week 1, week 2, week 3, March 23rd, March 30th. Sumana's status updates: March 8th, March 28th, end of March.
- -Allan, Sumana, and volunteers organized two User Days.
- -Pockey Lam started encouraging and organizing launch parties for GNOME 3, and was able to sign up more than a hundred.
- -Jason Clinton worked on making videos.
- -Sumana put press contacts into GNOME's CiviCRM contacts database.
- -Allan drafted GNOME 3.0 release notes.
- -Andreas Nilsson worked with Allan and several other volunteers on the new gnome3.org and gnome.org websites.
- -With help from Sri Ramkrishna and other volunteers, Sumana wrote the press release.
- -With help from volunteers, a bilingual edition of GNOME Journal came out in March, and Sumana and volunteers worked towards the GNOME 3 edition that came out in April.
- - -During this quarter, the GNOME Foundation kickstarted the GTK+/MeeGo integration project, which allowed a team of developers from Igalia to work improving the mobile story for GTK+. Through the course of this project, special effort was devoted to getting the most interesting features from the Maemo/GTK+ and Hildon projects in upstream GTK+ -- achieving the integration of a few and a good progress in others -- and the improvement of the GTK+ input method for MeeGo.
- - -The Web Team worked hard on the new Wordpress-based website for GNOME during this first quarter of 2011. The new website has been successfully released together with GNOME 3 thanks to the contributions from several members of the design and marketing teams. Special thanks to Vinicius Depizzol, who got the Wordpress implementation done and produced most of the new website design. Next step is to make the new website translatable via a Wordpress plugin that integrates with GNOME's translation infrastructure.
- - -The documentation team worked hard to produce new topic-oriented help for GNOME 3. The new help is built on the Mallard-based application help work done since 2.28. In March 2011, members of the documentation team met up for a documentation sprint in Toronto. The team produced over 200 pages of user help for the GNOME desktop, and updated the developer tutorials and platform overview.
- -As announced on foundation-list, the requirements to join the foundation have changed: Applicants now need two vouchers for their application to be processed and eventually accepted. Also, wiki and web pages have been modified and cleared up.
- -Staff has changed, too. We'd like to thank Susana Pereira for her work as she left and welcome Christer Edwards to join the Membership and Elections Committee.
- -The application page has been updated (it now asks less but more specific questions to grab all the details we really need to process an application succesfully) together with having quite all the Wiki pages under the MembershipCommittee area renewed and updated. Now everything should be ordered in a correct and good way. (easy to read, browse, search through)
- -During Q1 2011 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 12 applications for a new foundation membership and 28 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 46 were processed. During the same period, 15 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 348 members.
- -We ended up with 13 new members:
-Strong of now 3 years experience, GNOME.Asia Summit ran stronger than ever its forth edition in Bangalore, India. Planned as a "dream event" at the end of the 2010 edition in Taipei, the GNOME.Asia committee scheduled one extra week hackfest prior to the summit itself in coordination with the GNOME release and marketing teams, just before the 3.0 release date. Fifteen GNOME contributors including 3 board directors spent a very productive week planning and ironing out the final touch that went into the successful GNOME 3.0 launch. Each team worked around the clock between Intel offices, DSI University and the service apartments housing them. Among some of the major achievements of the week one could cite a much improved fallback mode for people with graphic adaptors not supporting 3D acceleration, the new GNOME website, a successful GNOME release parties campaign, GNOME Users days where users could join either online or on site to ask questions, find answers and get their machines installed with GNOME 3.
- -In parallel free GNOME training was provided to 260 university students of Bangalore, business models around free software were explained to local businesses and academics by members of Oracle, Lanedo or EDF (the world biggest energy provider) and collaboration plans between GNOME and free software projects using GNOME technologies were heavily discussed.
- -The summit itself benefited from having all those GNOME contributors on site and inspiring an audience of over one thousand people. All previous records related to the number of GNOME talks, the various extra activities organized, the number of GNOME user groups created after the summit in India alone (4) or the financial performance have been either broken or equalled. It was probably the most GNOME technology focused event with over 90% of the talks covering GNOME related topics. The fact that a lot of GNOME development happens in India is probably not a coincidence in that number which is a 20% increase over the Beijing edition (2008). The ambiance was electric, the opening Indian traditional dance in the luxurious main hall spectacular and the food just plain delicious!
- -This would of course not have been possible without the support of a now very diverse organization committee, a strong local team and their volunteers, the GNOME Foundation, the GNOME release and marketing teams and a stronger commitment from our sponsors Google, Oracle, Mozilla, Novell, Lemote, Lanedo, EDF, Candis Group, Intel, Joomlart, DSI University and Linux Pilot.
- - -The GNOME 3.0 release had far more contributions by women than any previous release in GNOME history. This is largely thanks to the hard work of the eight participants of the first round of the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) internships, who participated in the program from December 15, 2010 to March 15, 2011. All of them had their work included in the main branches of their projects and therefore included in GNOME 3.0.
- -The interns also participated in GNOME events and continued on with their involvement in GNOME after the end of the internships. Tiffany Antopolski and Natalia Ruz participated in the User Help Hackfest in Toronto in March. Chandni Verma participated in the GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and delivered a well-received talk about her work on Empathy at the GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore in April. Luciana Fujii Pontello became the maintainer of the Cheese project.
- -Thanks to generous sponsors, Collabora, Google, Mozilla and the GNOME Foundation, GNOME was able to accept eight strong participants for the new round of internships to take place between May 23 and August 22, 2011. Setting the same application dates for this round of OPW internships as the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application dates proved to be a successful strategy for encouraging more women to apply for GSoC in GNOME. In addition to the eight OPW interns, there are seven female interns among the 27 GSoC interns in GNOME. This is an unprecedented number of female GSoC participants in GNOME, as it had at most one female participant in some of the previous years. All women who applied for GSoC in 2011 found mentors and project ideas, made a first contribution, and navigated the application process with the help of the resources available through the OPW.
- -The OPW interns, as well as their location, project, and mentor(s), are: -The press release and the program details page have more information about the program. The list of GNOME projects that participate in the program has grown to 13, and more projects are encouraged to join in!
- -In the next quarter, we look forward to the start of the internships of the program’s participants, their frequent blog updates, and their participation in GNOME events.
- -GNOME Store Launched In Beijing
-The Beijing GNOME Users Group launched a GNOME store on March 1st, 2011. The GNOME store is on Taobao, and here is the link: http://gnome.taobao.com/
- -You will find GNOME 3 merchandise for sale, like GNOME 3 T-shirts, banners, stickers, GNOME Balloons， GNOME 3 DVDs. All funds received will be used to benefit local (Asian/Chinese/Beijing) GNOME community projects.This store is run by the GNOME Beijing User's Group with permission from The GNOME Foundation.The sales report will be published quarterly. Click GNOME-Store-Report.pdf to read the Beijing GNOME store sales report.
- -New Users Group
-The Gugmasters-list (mailing list) had been very active in Q1 2011, we widely used this list to promote the GNOME 3.0 Release Party campaign. It created a quite some traffic. We have 72 members in total subscribed in this mailing list.
- -We also received emails from different communities showing interest to establish their local GNOME communities including:
-We will follow up with them accordingly. Besides, we expect to have more GNOME User Groups establishing in the 2nd quarter due to the launch of GNOME 3.0 and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 in April. Stay tuned!
- - -During this quarter, GNOME translation teams worked on delivering localization support for GNOME 3, which was released on April 4 with more than 50 fully supported languages. In comparison to previous development cycles, the road to the GNOME 3.0.0 release was marked with many string freeze breaks that occurred very late in the cycle so that translation teams had to put extra effort into delivering high quality GNOME translations.
- -GNOME translators also worked on localization support for additional marketing resources related to GNOME 3, including the gnome3.org website.
- -In preparation for the 3.0.0 release, there was a module set reorganization done in Damned Lies’ GNOME 3.0 release set in order to better match the gnome-3.0 module set as maintained in JHBuild. Possible ways on how to further improve the GNOME modules representation in Damned Lies were discussed in the gnome-i18n mailing list.
- -Also, a new functionality was introduced to Damned Lies in that the service now offers translators the so called reduced PO files; these files do not include strings that are rarely visible to (end) users, such as “gschema.xml.in” strings, making it easier for translation teams with limited manpower to translate the GNOME modules.
- - -Several significant improvements were made in the area of GNOME Shell accessibility: GNOME Shell is mostly keyboard navigable, and is recognized as an application by the accessibility framework. The work required to make GNOME Shell fully accessible to screen readers is ongoing. However, because Assistive Technologies now have more of the information they need to provide access to this environment, it was possible to begin implementing support for GNOME Shell within Orca.
- -GNOME Shell Magnifier's functionality was expanded to include support for brightness, contrast, and inverse video. The incorporation of these proposed features into GNOME Shell, along with some corresponding additions to the Universal Access control panel, should make GNOME 3 much more accessible to users with low vision.
- -Many new improvements were made to WebKitGtk accessibility, which in turn made it possible for the Orca team to greatly enhance its support for both Yelp 3 and Epiphany. We are quite pleased with the progress thus far towards making content viewed in GNOME's web browser compellingly accessible, and are looking forward to making it even better in the months to come. Thanks to the Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos for their support in this area!
- -AT-SPI2 was greatly stabilized after the refactor done in the previous quarter. Various memory leaks, crashes, non-working functions, and other miscellaneous problems have since been fixed. While there are additional issues to resolve, AT-SPI2 is now generally usable and performs comparable to AT-SPI1. Furthermore, AT-SPI2 makes it possible to implement accessibility support in Qt. The work being done by Frederik Gladhorn in this area will lead to GNOME users having even more accessible applications available to them. Thanks to Nokia for supporting Frederik in this effort!
- -Community Outreach -The orca-es-list, an official GNOME list for Spanish-speaking users of the Orca screen reader, was created in January. Providing ways for non-English speakers to get more involved in the Orca community has been a long-time goal of the Orca team -- and up until recently, an unachievable one. Now, thanks to the continued involvement of developers from Emergya, the willingness of existing Spanish-speaking community members to contribute their time and knowledge, and the GNOME infrastructure through which to host it, the team is able to support such as list. For more information, please see: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-es-list.
- -In February, several team members participated in the first Accessibility Devroom at FOSDEM. In addition to giving and attending sessions, we had the opportunity to connect with several XFCE developers who stopped by. As a result, our team has since begun collaborating with theirs so that they can achieve the accessibility goals they have on their roadmap for their 4.10 release.
- -GNOME Accessibility was proudly represented by five members from our team at CSUN - The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in San Diego, California this March. Along with developers from Mozilla, we were the FOSS ambassadors in a mostly proprietary technology market. Our booth and presentations gave us the opportunity to demonstrate unique alternatives to a variety of mainstream and assistive technologies, including providing demonstrations of GNOME 3.
- - -Plans for the Second Quarter -The team plans to focus on refining GNOME 3 Accessibility support, fixing what they can for 3.0.2 and aiming towards much-improved access for the 3.2 release. In addition, developers working on accessibility for the free desktop will be coming together for the ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest which will take place at Igalia in A Coruña, Spain in May.
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From April to June, 7333 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 6451 were closed.
- -Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (467 reports), Fabio Durán Verdugo (329), Sebastian Dröge (262), Cosimo Cecchi (246) and Matthias Clasen (230).
- -Top bug reporters were Guillaume Desmottes (69 reports), Colin Walters (69), Joanmarie Diggs (67), Cosimo Cecchi (60) and Jean-François Fortin Tam (56).
- -Several products have been closed for new bug entry and have been moved to the "Deprecated" classification, such as at-poke, fast-user-switch-applet, resapplet and Sawfish.
- - -The April release of GNOME 3.0 included months of work by the documentation team on the new topic-oriented Desktop Help. Even after the release, the team continued improving and refining the help in response to reviews and user feedback.
- -In June, six members of the documentation team attended the Open Help Conference to meet with documentation and support people from other prominent open source projects. After the conference, the GNOME and Mozilla teams each held a three-day sprint. This helped GNOME bring new contributors up to speed, including two interns from the Outreach Program for Women.
- -The documentation team drafted content outlines for many GNOME application help documents. Building on that work, more than half of our application help is now in Mallard.
- - -The previous quarter ended with several members of the release team gathering in Bangalore for GNOME.Asia and a release hackfest. Those were long days, with many last-minute fixes to check for integration, but it all paid off and on April 6th Vincent Untz sent the "GNOME 3.0 Released" email, while party balloons were flooding Planet GNOME.
- -Later on Vincent Untz announced changes in the release team, Karsten Bräckelmann, Frédéric Crozat, Lucas Rocha and himslef were retiring, and Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Javier Jardón and Colin Walters were joining, with Luca Ferretti becoming a full fledged member and Frederic Peters taking the release manager hat.
- -A schedule for 3.1 was published, a noteworthy change is that it was decided to identify desktop wide features planned for 3.2, instead of focusing on individual modules, and such features were discussed on desktop devel list, and edited on the wiki. The process is still not finalized but it should help on giving a global direction for the project.
- -Mundane tasks continued to happen, with new team members getting their training on new stable and development releases (Javier on 3.0.2, and Alejandro on 3.1.2).
- - -For more details on all the above, see Allan Day's blog posts: Presenting GNOME Contacts and News from GNOME Shell land.
-Other work this quarter included further Nautilus design enhancements, prototyping designs for a system settings panel for graphics tablets, and investigating alternatives to traditional menu bars, and work on a printable GNOME 3 "cheat sheet".
- -During Q2 2011 The GNOME membership and elections committee received 10 applications for a new foundation membership and 47 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 57 were processed. During the same period, 21 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 348 members.
- -We ended up with 8 new members: -The GNOME membership and elections committee also held the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors elections. A lively discussion enabled the 13 candidates to present themselves. The 7 seats in the board were given to¹: Shaun McCance, Emmanuele Bassi, Stormy Peters, Bastien Nocera, Brian Cameron, Germán Póo-Caamaño, Ryan Lortie.
- -¹ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2011-June/msg00002.html
- - -A 2011 GNOME 3 Launch Party was organized by the GNOME Users Groups of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Beijing. The Users Groups used video streaming so that five cities (Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung) were able to celebrate the GNOME 3 Launch Party at the same time. The groups created a how-to instructional video on justin.tv showing how to do this for other teams. The live stream picture is gnome3tw.jpg. For more pictures about GNOME-TW, you can click here. The Taiwan and Beijing Groups created a step-by-step guide on how to write a gnome-shell extension. The Users groups used Convore to chat in real time.
- -Workshop for GTK+ Programing
- -A Vala workshop for GTK+ with OSSF was scheduled. This will be the the third training course for users who wants to learn more about the GTK+ project.
-Slides from the previous two workshops are available at: - -The Gugmasters-list (mailing list) had been very active in Q2 2011 and the list was widely used to promote the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011, GNOME 3.0 Release Party campaign, Best GNOME 3 Photo Competition, build new GNOME users group world wide, and call for bids for GUADEC 2012.
- -We also received emails from many communities showing interest to establish their local GNOME communities including: -It is great to have so many new users group established in Q2, we will follow up with them accordingly.
- - -In May, members from the GNOME Accessibility Team joined other accessibility developers for a five-day ATK/AT-SPI hackfest at Igalia in A Coruña. Unlike the more traditional hackfests, the primary work done was not coding; instead, the group conducted an intensive analysis on the current state of ATK and began the design of what will become ATK 3. Thanks to G.P.U.L, Xunta de Galicia, Mozilla, Igalia, and the GNOME Foundation for making this event possible!
- - -Towards GNOME 3.2 - -The team continued to address accessibility issues in GNOME 3. In addition to ongoing bug fixing in all of the team's modules: -The team is quite pleased to have its first intern from the GNOME Outreach Program for Women, Aline Bessa from Brazil. Aline's background in computer science, her interest in accessibility, and her seemingly limitless enthusiasm have proven extremely valuable. She has already contributed a completely new, topic-based documentation for Accerciser and has since progressed to fixing bugs and working on enhancements for this tool. Aline is also making much-needed improvements and additions to the libatspi documentation. Thanks Aline for all your dedication and hard work, and thanks to the Outreach Program organizers and supporters for making it all possible!
- -Plans for the Third Quarter -In addition to continuing its work towards GNOME 3.2, the team plans to begin implementation of the agreed-upon improvements to ATK and work towards more performant desktop accessibility.
- - -Thanks to generous sponsors, Collabora, Google, Mozilla and the GNOME Foundation, GNOME was able to accept eight strong participants for the new round of internships that are taking place between May 23 and August 22, 2011. Setting the same application dates for this round of OPW internships as the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application dates proved to be a successful strategy for encouraging more women to apply for GSoC in GNOME. In addition to the eight OPW interns, there are seven female interns among the 27 GSoC interns in GNOME. This is an unprecedented number of female GSoC participants in GNOME, as it had at most one female participant in some of the previous years. All women who applied for GSoC in 2011 found mentors and project ideas, made a first contribution, and navigated the application process with the help of the resources available through the OPW.
- -The OPW interns, as well as their location, project, and mentor(s), are: -The press release and the program details page have more information about the program. The list of GNOME projects that participate in the program has grown to 13, and more projects are encouraged to join in!
- -The GNOME Foundation has approved funding for two more rounds of the Outreach Program for Women internships with at least three participants each. The next round will take place between December 2011 and March 2012. The application deadline for this round will be in the end of October 2011. We will soon update the information on the wiki about the internships and will open the application period.
- -The Desktop Summit is the big event for the GNOME community in the next quarter. It will be taking place August 6-12 in Berlin, Germany. Eleven Outreach Program for Women interns from the past two rounds of the program will be attending the event. They will do lightning talks about their work during the GNOME and KDE Interns Showcase session. First round's intern Chandni Verma will do a talk Knock Knock! What is new? about her experience with the program and contributions to Empathy. Encouraged by the last year's great GNOME women's dinner experience, we will gather for another one this year, making it an annual tradition. There will also be a Women's Networking BoF that will allow GNOME and KDE women to meet e - ach other and talk about the work they are doing, how they started contributing, and the women outreach efforts in both projects.
- - -During Q2 2011 GNOME localization teams continued their work on adding and updating translations for the modules that are hosted at GNOME and make use of the GNOME i18n infrastructure.
- -Claude Paroz worked with Shaun ?McCance on a new help build system which is based on ITS Tool and is supposed to replace the currently used xml2po utility in the near future.
- -Furthermore, with the necessary support from the GNOME Documentation Project, GNOME translators started their work on translating the new GNOME User Documentation that was written in Mallard and is using the new help build system.
- -Also in this quarter, as part of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women internships, Priscilla Mahlangu began her work on the Zulu localization of the GNOME Desktop with Friedel Wolff as her mentor.
- - -We had a very successful GNOME 3.0 release. Our program to support release parties by sending goodies paid off, resulting in over 100 release parties being held all over the world. We had some excellent press coverage both on the web and in print media, and the release attracted a lot of attention of social media sites.
- -Marketing played a role in the launch of the new www.gnome.org website (though this was mostly thanks to a long running effort by Vinicius Depizzol and Andreas Nilsson). The site is a great improvement and has had very positive feedback.
- -In conjunction with the release of GNOME 3.0, we organised a release party photo competition. There were many excellent entries for that, and the winning images were great.
- -We continued to develop our social media presence in Q2. Our social channels have been further integrated with one another, and our Facebook page received a number of improvements. The number of people following our social media feeds has seen major increases in the recent period, and we were pleased to break the 10,000 follower barrier on Twitter in May.
- -There have also been general improvements to our processes and documentation. Marketing information on the GNOME wiki has been improved, and processes for utilising the web site to make announcements have been created.
- - -This last quarter has been a relatively slow one for the GNOME Sysadmin Team, but any good admin knows that is just the way it should be! For the most part everything has been running very smoothly. The infrastructure is doing what it was meant to!
- -We are in the process of expanding and improving our hardware base. We have two new servers racked and networked, we're just waiting on some entitlements from Red Hat and we'll push forward.
- -I'm sure we'll have much more to report in the upcoming quarter. Look forward to a number of service improvements, improved stability, faster and newer hardware and more.
- - -The web team have been quite busy during Q2. We launched our new gnome.org website at the same time as GNOME 3.0 This is a new design and a huge content cleanup for our main face to the world. This work would not have been possible without the help of the marketing team that helped us with amazing content and the sysadmin team that provided a close to seamless deployment of the site. The new site is based on WordPress making editing of the website easy and straight forward. Something that's coming down the pipeline for 3.2 is is the new translation infrastructure that Vinicius Depizzol is working on as part of his Google Summer of Code project. This makes use of the existing GNOME translation system and made quite some progress during Q2.
- -At the same time as we launched gnome.org we also launched our new GNOME Developer Website at developer.gnome.org. This site is the result of the work done at the GNOME Development Documentation Hackfest last December in Berlin. The new site features video tutorials for getting started with GNOME development, an overview of our platform and documentation for all you need to create a GNOME app.
- -Last, but no least, Alberto Ruiz, also gave Planet GNOME a well deserved face lift.
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This quarter was a time of change for GNOME's Board of Directors, with a new Board of Directors taking charge of the foundation. The new Board is: Emmanuele Bassi, Brian Cameron, Ryan Lortie, Shaun McCance, Bastien Nocera, Stormy Peters and Germán Póo-Caamaño.
- -It's also time to give a big thank you to our outgoing board members: Emily Chen, Paul Cutler, Og Maciel and Andreas Nilsson. They each have done a tremendous amount of work for the GNOME Foundation.
- -New officers were also elected from the Board. Brian Cameron now serves as President, Bastien Nocera serves as Vice President, Emmanuele Bassi serves as Secretary and Shaun McCance serves as Treasurer.
- -This was been a busy quarter for The GNOME Foundation. Highlights include: -As always, please email the GNOME Foundation's board of directors at board-list@gnome.org if there is anything The GNOME Foundation can do to help or if there are any opportunities that you think The GNOME Foundation should know about.
- -Please also consider becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donations really do help the GNOME Foundation continue provide support and services which help the success of the GNOME project. There are many ways to support and contribute to GNOME beyond a financial contribution, including volunteering. For example, GNOME is in the process of improving its website and would appreciate any help with this endeavor!
- -Hello GNOME Foundation members and friends! The third quarter of 2011 -- my first as GNOME's executive director -- started with a bang at the Desktop Summit. I was thrilled to meet a lot of you in person. It reminded me yet again how amazing and dedicated the GNOME community is. I'm extremely proud to be a part of that community, and that pride only grows over time as we keep making GNOME better. GNOME 3.2 is so impressive that I find myself telling people about it everywhere I go.
- -There's still quite as bit of work ahead of us and I look forward to tackling it together. If you think of anything that the Foundation can do better or if there's something I can help with, definitely let me know.
- - - -From July to September, 6795 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 6683 were closed.
- -Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (794 reports), Matthias Clasen (249), Fabio Durán Verdugo (241), Milan Crha (239) and André Klapper (225).
- -Top bug reporters were Akhil Laddha (132 reports), Pedro Villavicencio (123), Vincent Untz (93), Guillaume Desmottes (89), Matthias Clasen (75).
- - -From the 3.1.3 development release to the final 3.2.0 release, the Release Team managed seven releases this quarter, paying special attention to the progress made on important 3.1 features (see http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features), as well as keeping its usual role of gatekeeper during freezes (and good thing we didn't have the amount of freeze break requests we had for 3.0). We also called for volunteers to work on 3.2 live images and it was handled by Javier Hernández, who already had some experience using the Open Build Service for the 3.0 accessibility live image, we will try to do it again for 3.4, probably starting earlier so we can get images out for the beta releases. Click here to read the press release about GNOME 3.2, to know more about what's improved and refined in GNOME 3.2
- - -During Q3 2011, The GNOME membership and elections committee received 17 applications for a new foundation membership and 30 applications for renewals of a membership. Out of those, 45 were processed. During the same period, 10 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 347 members.
- -We ended up with 14 new members: -Nine OPW interns attended the Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany on August 6-12. Some of them did lightning talks about their work during the GNOME and KDE Interns Showcase session. The GNOME women's dinner was attended by 23 women. There was also a Women's Networking BoF at the conference.
- -The 15 female interns GNOME had this summer made a lot of great contributions to it. The accomplishments of each one of them are descibed in this blog post.
- -Three OPW interns attended the Montreal Summit in Canada on October 8-10. Marina Zhurakhinskaya ran a session about outreach initiatives in GNOME there in which all three of the interns and many other community members participated.
- -Marina and André Klapper represented GNOME at the Google Summer of Code mentors summit in Mountain View, California on October 21-23. Marina and Pat Tressel from the Sahana Project co-hosted two well-attended sessions on women outreach. Marina presented on the GNOME community's positive experience with women outreach and encouraged other organizations to create lists of mentors with whom newcomers can connect to ask for help.
- -An application process for the new OPW internships round completed on October 31 and we are looking forward to the announcement and the work of the new group of interns.
- - -During Q3, GNOME localization teams efforts were focused mainly on delivering translation support for the GNOME 3.2 release, which was shipped on September 28. In this release, there were more than 50 languages with at least 80 percent of strings translated, including the user and administration guides.
- -One of the participants in the GNOME Outreach Program for Women that took place from May 23 to August 22, Priscilla Mahlangu, completed the first localization intern in the history of the program after working on Zulu translations with Friedel Wolff as her mentor. As a result, she managed to improve Zulu localization from ca. 4 percent of translated strings to ca. 10 percent.
- -As the first team ever, the Spanish team was able to complete the translation of the official GIMP documentation, thanks to the work done by a Spanish translator, Ignacio Ant.
- -Thanks to the contributions from Claude Paroz and Gil Forcada, the GNOME localization platform Damned Lies, running on l10n.gnome.org, saw a number of improvements in this quarter, including work on implementing support for word statistics.
- - -There is a number of GNOME Users Groups (GUG) worldwide that actively promoted GNOME this quarter. One of them is the group in Philippines. This GUG is composed of people who regularly organize FOSS events like annual Software Freedom Day celebrations in different parts of the country. They regularly advocate GNOME in these events along with KahelOS, a GNOME based GNU/Linux distribution championed by members of this group. This quarter, they also celebrated the release of GNOME 3.2 along with other GUGs around the world.
- - -In addition to the usual release activities associated with the 3.2 release in September, this quarter the design team participated in the ongoing prototyping and design of applications and features including:
-The Accessibility Team actively worked on a number of fronts during the third quarter:
- -And we are looking forward to an even more accessible GNOME 3.4.
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