gnomeweb-wml r6220 - in trunk: . www.gnome.org www.gnome.org/press/releases

[vuntz svn gnome org]

Author: vuntz
Date: Mon Jul  7 13:45:12 2008
New Revision: 6220
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=6220&view=rev

Log:
2008-07-07  Vincent Untz  <vuntz gnome org>

	Link to the PR, and change the name of the PR file.

	* www.gnome.org/index.wml:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/stormy_executivedir.wml:


Added:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.wml   (contents, props changed)
      - copied, changed from r6219, /trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/stormy_executivedir.wml
Removed:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/stormy_executivedir.wml
Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml	Mon Jul  7 13:45:12 2008
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 <div id="bottomLeftLeft">
 <h2>Latest News</h2>
 
+<h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html";>GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</a></h3>
+<p>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.</p>
+
 <h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/soc/";>Google Summer of Code</a></h3>
 <p>For the fourth consecutive year, GNOME is participating to the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/";>Google Summer of Code</a>. If you are a student and you want to learn more, you can read the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Students";>information for students</a> and then look at the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Ideas";>ideas for projects</a> on our wiki to prepare your application!</p>
 
@@ -28,9 +31,6 @@
 features. Learn more about this release through the detailed 
 <a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/";>release notes</a>.</p>
 
-<h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/";>GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility</a></h3>
-<p>The GNOME Foundation is running an <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/";>accessibility outreach program</a>, 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 <a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html";>announcement</a>, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/rules/";>contest rules</a> and apply for some of the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/";>tasks</a>!.</p>
-
 </div>
 
 <div id="bottomLeftRight">

Copied: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.wml (from r6219, /trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/stormy_executivedir.wml)
==============================================================================
--- /trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/stormy_executivedir.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.wml	Mon Jul  7 13:45:12 2008
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
 GNOME", said Luis Villa, a Director of the GNOME Foundation. "With her 
 unique background and experience, she'll be a natural at growing industry 
 support for the project and connecting interested parties to our 
-community."</p>
+community."
+</p>
 
 <p>
 Stormy's combination of industry expertise and community background will 
@@ -33,17 +34,11 @@
 with both community volunteers and commercial industry members across a 
 variety of open source projects will serve the GNOME Foundation well." 
 </p>
+
 <p>
-The GNOME community has an active global developer base focused on 
-providing an easy to understand user experience on PCs and mobile 
-devices.</p>
-<p>It also has support from a broad range of industry players, 
-from some of the world's largest enterprise software companies to 
-small consultancies. Hiring Stormy will allow the Foundation to extend 
-its outreach to all of these parties, as well as increasing contact 
-with new constituencies like mobile developers and governments 
-considering deploying GNOME.
+The GNOME community has an active global developer base and industry players focused on providing an easy to understand user experience on PCs and mobile devices. The past year there has seen tremendous growth in the number of devices that ship with GNOME- mass-market laptops, phones, and even GPS devices. Hiring Stormy as executive director will help GNOME capitalize on this momentum, exactly at a time when more of the world is realizing the value of combining free and open source software with great user experiences, while also helping GNOME consolidate its traditional strengths in enterprise and other large-scale deployments.
 </p>
+
 <p>
 Stormy has also been involved in the GNOME community for a long time, 
 having been one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation 
@@ -65,16 +60,6 @@
 her new role to help her achieve this goal." 
 </p>
 
-<p>
-During the past year there's been tremendous growth in the number of 
-devices that ship with GNOME and other free and open source software 
-installed from laptops to phones, and even GPS devices. An executive 
-director will help GNOME capitalize on this momentum, exactly at a time 
-when more of the world is realizing the value of free and open source 
-software, and understanding the necessity of a great user experience as 
-part of that platform.
-</p>
-
 <h3>About Stormy Peters</h3>
 
 <p>
@@ -124,6 +109,14 @@
 Foundation can be found at www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org. 
 </p>
 
+<p>
+GNOME Foundation sponsoring members include Access, Canonical, Debian,
+the Free Software Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Igalia, Imendio, 
+Intel, Mozilla, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, Opened Hand, Red Hat, and Sun 
+Microsystems, with legal pro bono work provided by Software Freedom Law 
+Center and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati.
+</p>
+
 <h2 id="head-3b6920c012555df321e6cbf0358952c61aace39d">Media Enquiries</h2>
 <ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p class="line862">
  GNOME Foundation Executive Director<br/>

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am	Mon Jul  7 13:45:12 2008
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 	guadec2008.html \
 	2008-03-mofojoins.html \
 	2008-04-mobilesummit.html \
-	2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html
+	2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html \
+	2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml	Mon Jul  7 13:45:12 2008
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
 <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
 <tr><th align="left" colspan="2">2008</th></tr>
 <tr>
+	<td>Jul 07, 2008</td>
+	<td><a href="/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html">GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 	<td>Apr 22, 2008</td>
 	<td><a href="/press/releases/2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html">KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation to co-host flagship conferences</a></td>
 </tr>