Re: draft GNOME 2.10 press release

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:50 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> I am totally hating OOo right now. It is a gigantic piece of shit. And
> I'm just not having a good day in general. If someone could make
> christian's quote be the following:

Done. It's in cvs, so go ahead.

> "This GNOME release is exciting", says Christian Schaller, Fluendo
> Business Manager and GStreamer development team member.  "Not only is
> GNOME fixing problems for end users, but by working actively with
> other free software communities like freedesktop.org, GStreamer, and
> GTK+, GNOME is driving forward the entire Free Software desktop."
>
> And add Fluendo to the list of sponsors in the 'about gnome' section.
>
> And then redistribute to i18n, leslie, etc., I'd appreciate it.
>
> Luis (fuming, just fuming)
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:49:20 -0500, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> > 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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