Re: draft GNOME 2.10 press release

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:32:58 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> Thanks. This is much better than take2. I've made the changes mentioned
> below and attached version 4. I'm not sure that this deals with all the
> issues mentioned when reviewing my first draft, but it's too late now so
> let's call this done in a couple of hours time.
>
> Luis, please send it to gnome-i18n for translation, and CC Leslie. We
> should probably tell people to feel free to distribute it to local media
> organizations on March 8th, the day before the release.

I'll do that now.

> And please update the version in cvs in 
> releng/2.x/2.10/press_release/

Doing.

<snip lots of changes>

These all look great, Murray. Thanks for backstopping. I've also added
in Christian's more correct title, etc., with his permission.

Luis

> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 03:45 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Attached is the latest. I broke up some sentences, killed some
> > adjectives, and cleaned up some wording.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a source for the first quote;
> > frankly I had no time to look. Because the quote is about interaction
> > with 'outside' communities like gstreamer, perhaps you could do that
> > with your fluendo/gstreamer hat on, Christian?
> >
> > Appears readable in OOo 1.1, but for some reason it takes up quite a
> > bit more space, not sure what to do about that.
> >
> > Anyway, if everyone could proof it for a few hours and then, I guess,
> > hand off to the translators, that would be great...
> > Luis (who has on his TODO 'get more real marketers involved in the
> > 2.12 release')
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:22:06 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > > This is a draft of our press release for GNOME 2.10, for marketing-list
> > > to comment on. This is absolutely definitely not for release yet, so I
> > > don't want to see links to it all over the web. The attachment is an
> > > OpenOffice document.
> > >
> > > I'm not a PR person, so I'm prepared for all kinds of constructive
> > > criticism.
> > >
> > > At the moment, I'm thinking of removing the bug-fix count because I
> > > think it's not a meaningful thing to most people, and will do more harm
> > > than good.
> > >
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