On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:17 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > On 2014-06-16 16:25, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I've compiled a list of email addresses of donors of the last 365 days. > > I suggest writing an email to those donors, thanking them for their > > support, > > inviting them to GUADEC, telling them what we've done so far. > > > > Any volunteer for drafting such an email? > > This is a great idea! The text can be pretty short. Here's a possible > draft, please improve and correct: Great text, have some minor comments.
> Dear GNOME supporter, > > Thank you so much for your financial support of GNOME in the past year. > We wanted to check in with you and let you know that your money has made > a big difference in helping the GNOME Foundation run and support our > community in their efforts to make GNOME great. Replace "money" with "donation"? > To point out some highlights from the past year: > > * We held our first ever West Coast Hackfest > * GNOME.Asia in Beijing was very successful (with FIXME attendees and > FIXME speakers) Will ask the organizers about the exact numbers. > * We released GNOME 3.12 (check out the cool video FIXME link) > * We cheered as Allan Day won the award for best individual contributor > for the UK Open Source Awards, and our accessibility team received an > honorable mention for the Chris Nicol prize. Thanks for mention this! > * We gained two new advisory board members (thanks, Private Internet > Access and Linux Foundation!) > * We hosted Pitivi's fundraising campaign (there's still time to donate! > FIXME link) > > We've also banded together to deal with the administrative crisis caused > by the success of our popular Outreach Program for Women (we're still > working on it but are in much better shape). > I think this section about this issue could be improved or removed, "administrative crisis" is a very strong wording. Also to my knowledge the foundation have not yet publicized information about this beside on the wiki (which is widely not read by the general public). > We hope you will consider coming to Strasbourg and joining the fun as we > get together for GUADEC 2014 on July 26-August 1. We'll be talking about > and working on a lot of exciting things. And we'd love to have you > there. Remove "And"? > > FWIW: Allan and I were thinking about writing the donors of the last 3 > > months or > > so in order to thank them for enabling us to have a great event in > > China. Maybe > > with some photos of people that we sponsored to go and some reports. > > By now, I think it's a bit too late, but maybe someone else doesn't > > and wants to > > get it done. This sounds as a really great idea, I definitely think the foundation should write something about the GNOME Asia Summit 2014. Max recently wrote a great blogpost [1] about the event, I really recommend everyone to check it out . 1http://sakananote2english.blogspot.tw/2014/06/gnomeasia-summit-2014.html > I think at this point lumping that in with this email makes the most > sense. But we should do these quarterly :) Agree. _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
