Re: 2.4 Release Notes Feature List [was Re: freezing 2.4 already?]

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:54, Sander Vesik wrote:
> Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:15, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > 
> >>John Fleck wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 14:50, Luis Villa wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hey, so... between this and the 'what is new in nautilus' list on
> >>>>gnomedesktop.org, I was thinking that maybe it is time for people to
> >>>>start combing ChangeLogs and preparing a feature list and screenshots
> >>>>for the 2.4 Release Notes. I know someone volunteered to do this after
> >>>>2.2, but I don't recall who. Anyone want to step up to the plate?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Uh, that was, ummm, me.
> >>>
> >>>So yeah, I'm planning on doing this. People should send me stuff...
> >>>
> >>
> >>hopefully you will be getting some help from the announced-on-guadec
> >>gnome community marketing project
> > 
> > 
> > Hopefully the people who couldn't make guadec will have some clue what
> > this actually is when the talks are put online/someone writes up the
> > ideas behind gnome community marketing.
> > 
> > Pretty pleeeaase?
> > 
> 
> the notes I have from it (and i claim no authority on it - it was jeff's
> talk and neither am i a good note-taker) - caution, i might have got
> stuff wrong,there are probably omissions and so on - read (practicly
> verbatim):
> 
> 
> * why community mareting - comapnies push products, who pushes
>    the platform? xd2 doesn't mention gnome. no message from the
>    community
> * overview of OOo marekting project
> * what could gnome marketing do:
> 	* communicate - release notes, brochures, posters,
> 	  interviews, profiles
> 	* non-documentation website content
> 	* communicate with other teams
> 	* regional and localised promotion
> * kickstarting the project - open and closed marketing lists
> * can immediately do :
> 	* what is gnome
> 	* release notes for gnome 2.4
> 
> 
> but of course, nobody should draw anything from these and wait for jeff's
> real thing (or at least jeff's comments) to show up. there might have
> been (and hopefully were) better note-takers around on the talk too.
> 
> [next came luis's teams & bugsquad talk with much better working slides]

Thanks, Sander. Although I'm still looking forward to official
slides/comments, this has been very helpful.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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