[fdn-ann] Copy of the invite

["Barbara Heffner" <bheffner chenpr com>]

Bart - you asked for this below.

On behalf of the GNOME project, you are cordially invited to a press
conference on August 15th at LinuxWorld. This event will be kicked off by
Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project and Helix Code. The GNOME
project provides a fully open sourced, free desktop environment for
Unix-like systems.

Miguel will be joined by senior executives from several leading firms,
including Eazel, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Collab.Net. These executives
will discuss plans for the evolution of the GNOME platform and the GNOME
organization. There will be ample time for Q&A.

Date/Time: August 15th from noon - 1:30 (Lunch will be provided)
Location: Room K, San Jose Convention Center

Please let me know if you plan to attend. You can RSVP by emailing me at
croux@chenpr.com or calling me at 650-357-8749.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
-Cecile



At 12:17 PM 8/1/00 -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
>Hi Cecile,
>
>Can you send us a copy of the invitations?
>
>Too bad about the IBM conflict.  Can we invite those reporters who go to that
>event to stop by ours after the IBM thing?  I wonder if this will make it
>harder to have an IBM person on stage for our press event.
>
>This also makes me feel more strongly that the pre-briefings are a good idea.
>
>Bart
>
>Cecile Roux wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > We sent the GNOME invitations last night and this morning and we are
> > already getting some RSVPs.
> >
> > A couple of reporters noted however that our event was at the same time
> > than an IBM press event.
> > IBM will be announcing new hardware, software, open source contributions,
> > and offering an overview of IBM's Linux commitment. Their event is from
> > 12:00pm - 1:00 on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 in a room next to the convention
> > center. Apparently IBM started their outreach early this morning.
> >
> > I will be sending a list of all the invitees, and status as well as the
> > invitation to you later today.
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any questions.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -Cecile
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