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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:05 PM, 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) > with 355 attendees and 46 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 > > ^^ Thanks > > 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 > Max
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