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[gnomeweb-wml] [press] Add press release for GNOME 2.28

commit 1aa6924945a9a7b4be9103e8c9a6f0c6089fa788
Author: Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>
Date:   Wed Sep 23 23:50:26 2009 +0100

    [press] Add press release for GNOME 2.28

 www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.wml |  102 +++++++++++++++++++++
 www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am          |    3 +-
 www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml            |    4 +
 3 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.wml b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.wml
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+++ b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.wml
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
+<html>
+
+<head>
+<title>Made to Share! GNOME 2.28 Released!</title>
+<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h1>Made to Share! GNOME 2.28 Released!</h1>
+
+<p><i>GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth
+support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer
+Platform.</i></p>
+
+<p>The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability of
+GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the past six
+months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME Developer
+Platform.</p>
+
+<p>GNOME 2.28 furthers the GNOME mission by making sure people have a free
+desktop they can use to communicate with their friends using the latest
+technology.</p>
+
+<p>GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve the user
+experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth devices for the
+first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones and other peripherals.
+Bastien Nocera, one of the leading developers of GNOME's Bluetooth featureset
+says: â??With the addition of the Bluetooth management tools and the enhancements
+to our Volume Control applications, we've given GNOME users access to more
+hardware features, whilst keeping our design principles.â??</p>
+
+<p>Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework, has
+seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom themes,
+geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for users to share
+their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME Remote Desktop server
+and viewer, Vino and Vinagre. "The Telepathy team is proud of the
+cooperation between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre developers. Thanks to
+their work, our users will be able to easily share their desktop with
+their contacts without having to care about the underlying technical
+details. This is a great step for us as it marks the first use in GNOME of
+the collaborative features offered by the Telepathy framework. We hope to
+soon see more and more applications integrating Telepathy in order to
+increase the collaborative user experience in the GNOME desktop," says
+Guillame Desmottes, one of the main contributors to Empathy.</p>
+
+<p>Other improvements to the GNOME Desktop include:</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide mode for users with netbooks.</li>
+  <li>GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.</li>
+  <li>The Evince document viewer has been ported to Microsoft Windows®.</li>
+  <li>Gedit has been ported to Mac OS® X.</li>
+  <li>... and more.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>For users with accessibility needs, Orca, the GNOME screen reader
+application, has seen numerous updates, including  support for mouseovers,
+moving the mouse without performing a click, the ability to pronounce
+mis-spellled words, and more.</p>
+
+<p>The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing
+deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no longer any
+applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs, libgnomeprint, or
+libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME libraries have also seen
+improvements.</p>
+
+<p>For the full list of changes, please see the release notes at <a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/";>http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/</a>.</p>
+
+<h2>About GNOME</h2>
+
+<p>The GNOME Project is creating a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop
+environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework
+for software developers. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around
+the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix
+distributions as well as many mobile platforms like cellular phones and
+tablets.</p>
+
+<p>The GNOME project has three main goals:</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>Free and open source desktop accessible to all. GNOME is a free desktop available  to everyone, regardless of language, physical ability, technical expertise.</li>
+  <li>Development platform. GNOME is a powerful development platform for developing free and open source software applications.</li>
+  <li>GNOME Mobile. GNOME technologies provide a foundation for mobile applications from tablets to cellular phones.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Media Enquiries</h2>
+
+<ul> 
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p> 
+ GNOME Foundation Executive Director<br/> 
+ Stormy Peters<br/> 
+ Email: <a class="mailto" href="mailto:gnome-press-contact gnome org">gnome-press-contact gnome org</a><br> 
+ Phone: +1-617-206-3947
+</p></li> 
+</ul> 
+
+</body>
+
+</html>
diff --git a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
index 13127b6..981d881 100644
--- a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
+++ b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ page_SCRIPTS = \
 	2009-06-desktop-summit-platinum.html \
 	2009-06-desktop-summit-keynotes.html \
 	2009-08-desktop-summit-conclusion.html \
-	2009-09-softwarefreedomday.html
+	2009-09-softwarefreedomday.html \
+	2009-09-gnome228.html
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common
diff --git a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml
index 316ddad..b447319 100644
--- a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml
+++ b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ The press contact for the GNOME Foundation can be reached at <a href="mailto:gno
 <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
 <tr><th align="left" colspan="2">2009</th></tr>
 <tr>
+	<td>Sep 23, 2009</td>
+	<td><a href="/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.html">Made to Share! GNOME 2.28 Released!</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 	<td>Sep 19, 2009</td>
 	<td><a href="/press/releases/2009-09-softwarefreedomday.html">GNOME promotes Software Freedom Day</a></td>
 </tr>
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