Re: [fdn-ann] messaging statement

["Cecile Roux" <croux chenpr com>]

Hi Bart,
Regarding the number of people attending the press conference, we currently 
have 11 persons who confirmed they were attending. We are half way through 
the follow up calls and I would expect having a total of 25+ reporters in 
attendance.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks and best regards,
-Cecile


At 02:33 PM 8/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I think Russ makes the good point that we already have a ton of speakers, 
>so we don't want
>additional speakers.  But I do think it'd be good to have additional Gnome 
>Hackers on, or near,
>the stage, to answer questions, talk to reporters after the press 
>conference, and to balance out
>the scene.
>
>Barbara: How many press people do you expect at the conference?  Are we 
>going to have more people
>on stage than in the audience?
>
>Now that we have Maciej on board, I think Greg is drafting the next 
>version of the press release
>that will include the Gnome Office announcement,
>
>Bart
>
>Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> > Bart Decrem <bart@eazel.com> writes:
> >
> > > Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > >
> > > > BTW, I do think we should get more people
> > > > representing the community rather than corporations in the press
> > > > conference. We have Miguel and then it's all corporate
> > > > executives. That risks having the press conference sound like lots of
> > > > corporate stuff, and a little about GNOME.
> > >
> > > I totally agreed.  I brought this up during the first phone 
> conference call with the PR team
> > > (Nat, Jacob and Miguel participated) and I suggested that any members 
> of the Gnome Steering
> > > Committee or other Gnome hackers should feel free to join on 
> stage.  So I'm kind of counting
> > > on that.  So all Gnome steering committee members who will be at LWE 
> are hereby invited to
> > > join us on stage!
> >
> > Russ doesn't seem to agree, since he thinks the big news item is about
> > industry players. I wish we could get consensus on this point.
> >
> > >
> > > OK, I was just thinking about what the news of the day will be.  And 
> I see for pieces of
> > > news:
> > > 1- Gnome is getting more organized and creating a Gnome foundation
> > > 2- All these companies are expressing their support for Gnome
> > > 3- Open Office is going to get integrated with Gnome Office ("wow, 
> Sun is really embracing
> > > Gnome")
> > > 4- Sun is going to adopt Gnome as the Solaris desktop
> > >
> > > I think 2, 3 and 4 are bigger news items than 1 (from the perspective 
> of the NYTimes) and
> > > will help generate tremendous momentum for Gnome.
> >
> > I agree. Let's make it one release, then, as long as it covers all
> > the points effectively. I just don't want 1 to get completely lost in 
> the oinse.
> >
> >  - Maciej
>
>
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