Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
> On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:07 pm, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:26:46PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
> > > "I'd like to offer my congratulations to GNOME team for their 3.2
> > > release," said Rick Spencer, Director of Engineering, Ubuntu, at
> > > Canonical. "Coming on the heals of the groundbreaking 3.0 release, 3.2
> > > continues to offer innovation and refinement. We're proud to have the
> > > great work in GNOME 3.2 as one of the pillars of Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu
> > > wouldn't be what it is today without GNOME."
> >
> > I'd prefer a quote from a customer. E.g. from that project in Spain
> > where we have 100.000+ users. Canonical only uses GNOME, I don't see the
> > relevance in a marketing message. It seems like a 'Android devs think it
> > is cool too' quote.
>
> Is there an individual in particular that you're thinking of for the
> quote? Do you think we can get it quickly? I think it would be ok to add a

Juanjo should be able to help. But not sure of how quickly.

Juanjo: Could you get us a quote from someone at Andalucía saying
something (positive:P) about GNOME 3 and the GNOME 3.2 release?

Karen: Apologies for not saying sooner. I thought I mentioned to a few
that a customer quote would be cool, but didn't track this.

> fourth quote, since one of the ones we have is generically from the GNOME
> release team. I think the Canonical quote is useful, since it's positive
> press about GNOME from the company that's been the center of a lot of
> negative press for GNOME and says that 3.2 is being used in Ubuntu in an
> ongoing way.

They're only using parts of GNOME, don't use GNOME shell. There is a
push to promote GNOME as being part of the whole OS, not just pick and
choose. Canonical picks and chooses parts for their default install. I
think it would give a pretty confusing message.

Because it is a public mailing list I'll  mention explicitly: I don't
have any problems with Canonical doing above. But from a marketing
perspective, this is not what I'd put in the press release if later on
we'll go for more integration... e.g. looking fwd section of the
release-notes already mention something about systemd (I wrote that :P).

-- 
Regards,
Olav