Re: GNOME 2.24 press release

["Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org>]

Thanks, Brian. I agree with all your comments and will incorporate them. (The deskbar changes ended up in communication because I originally tried to make that a "web 2.0 connection" type category but that didn't work well.)

Anybody else? Any of our regular press writing folks?

Stormy

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com> wrote:

Stormy:

Better late than never, I think we should put together a press release.
I believe it should be short and highlight at most 3 things/themes. Or at
least the first paragraph should say everything important and highlight at
most 3 things and then the rest of the press release can include more
detail.

Here's the three I'd suggest just from reading the release notes:

  - A new suite of communication tools: audio/video conferencing (Ekiga),

"communication and multimedia" might be more accurate.

Ekiga isn't new.  The Ekiga 3.0 release is a great step forward, though.
Might want to make that more clear.

  new instant messaging client (Empathy), even better digital tv, and deskbar
  plug-ins to bring the web and tools to your environment. (Might be better
  just to highlight audio/video conferencing tool.)

The Deskbar changes aren't really related to communication or
multimedia.

Also the improved sound theme support fits into "multimedia".

  - Continued support of the core GNOME values with enhanced accessibility

  features and support for developers. (Could list a few examples.)

Although the release notes don't highlight this, there has been a fair
bit of infrastructure work.  gnome-session, gnome-settings-daemon and
GDM have all been rewritten in order to take better advantage of D-Bus
and work better.

Brian