Re: Draft for review: press event invite

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Miguel makes a good point that it makes the press release a bit more confusing,
but I think that, on balance, Maciej is correct and that the announcement should
come from the steering committee, represented by Miguel.

Bart

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> Miguel de Icaza <miguel@helixcode.com> writes:
>
> > > On behalf of the Gnome Steering Committee, 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.
> >
> > I would change that to "On behalf of the GNOME project".
> >
>
> One of the reasons the Steering Committee was originally formed, if
> you look at the initial purpose statement, was to supervise the
> formation of the GNOME Foundation. So I think it would make sense to
> say the Steering Committee is announcing this and sending the
> invitation. I'm not sure I would feel as comfortable claiming that we
> are speaking on behalf of the whole GNOME project.
>
>  - Maciej
>
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