On 17 June 2014 05:05, Oliver Propst <oliver.pro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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!
"Who is Allan Day?", would be nice to mention who he is as I doubt many of our user community know who the developers and other contributors are. >> * 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 _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
