Re: New York Times story (GNOME Foundation == OSF??)

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if we should re-write the opening sentence to say:

"The GNOME project today announced the creation of the GNOME Foundation,
which will be governed by a board of directors elected by the hundreds of
volunteer developers who contribute to GNOME."

Would that clarify things at least somewhat?

Bart

Mark Galassi wrote:

>     Telsa> You think that's bad? Have a look at how the Register are
>     Telsa> telling it [...]:
>
>     Telsa>    Sun sources tell us that it will unveil its "GNOME
>     Telsa> Foundation" initiative at the San Jose LinuxWorld expo this
>     Telsa> week.
>
>     Telsa> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12552.html
>
> Slashdot's story also sucks.
>
> It appears that the GNOME companies that are using their public
> relations (PR) engines to make this announcements have failed the
> GNOME hackers.
>
> I am not saying they have betrayed us; just that they got all excited
> by their corporate games and petrodollars to spend on PR, and they did
> not really understand what ends up happening with press releases.
>
> This kind of publicity that Sun and the other companies are cornering
> is quite standard; I think they should have seen it coming.
>
> I would like to see if anyone who will run for the GNOME foundation
> board is willing to strongly recommend that tomorrow's press release
> be amended to try to not just be fair, but also counter-balance this
> negative image that we are all getting.
>
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