Fwd: Re: Gnome on The Linux Show

[Leslie Proctor <proctors pacbell net>]

Hey everyone:  

Jeff and I will be on this program tonight - 8pm
Central Time, USA - tune in via the web at
www.linuxshow.com.

LP

> 
> Tonight Live: The GNOME 2.4 Desktop >> on The Linux
> Show!!
> Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
> Tuesday, December 16th, 2003 from Chicago IL the
> Home of Da Bearse
> Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.
> 
> At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin
> Hill, Arne Flones, Doc 
> Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back
> live tonight. We 
> are continuing our Desktop thread and will contiune
> that for tonights show.
> 
> Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of
> the week including: 
> Linus delves into US Copyright Law, A Novell officer
> speaks on move to 
> Linux, Microsoft Hot Air, a clueless pundit or
> two........ and way more.
> 
> Story Links
> 
>      * The News This Weeks
>      * Reasoning Study Reveals Code Quality of MySQL
> Open Source 
> Database Ranks Higher than Commercial Equivalents
>      * Linux set for Mars landing-By Peter Williams
> National Space 
> Centre, Leicester - VnuNet
>      * Linux to Gain Ground in 2004-by Jennifer
> Mears, Network World 
> Fusion - PC World
>      * Open source said on cusp of broad
> acceptance-by Paul Krill - 
> InfoWorld
>      * Toshiba readies tiny, coin-size hard disk-CNN
> Staff
>      * Bush Signs Anti-Spam Bill-Wired/Associated
> Press -
>      * Copyright Doesn't Cover This Site -by
> Michelle Delio - Wired
>      * 6,000 years of sex at Chinese museum-By
> Elaine Kurtenbach - MSNBC
> 
> # The Weekly SCO
> 
>      * Now is the winter of SCO discontent-By Peter
> Williams and Ian 
> Lynch - VnuNet
>      * Tigran Aivazian Says His SMP Contributions to
> Linux Kernel While 
> at SCO Were Approved by his Boss- Groklaw
>      * SCO code to be protected in closed court-By
> Andrew Colley, ZDNet 
> Australia
> 
> # Old SCO
> 
>      * The Most Recent McBride FUD letter
>      * Larry Lessig finally chimes in on SCO
>      * Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, SCO?-By
> Staff- Groklaw
>      * The Grinch Who Stole Linux-By Scott Lazar of
> Groklaw
>      * Novell deal good for Linux, bad for SCO-By
> Peter Williams - 
> vnunet.com
>      * SGI: Letter to the Linux Community- Get bit
> SCO
>      * Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO-
>      * An Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good
> thoughts by ESR
>      * 'SCO' code could be written out of Linux-
>      * Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO's Linux
> Claims -
>      * CALDERA Employees work on Kernel- Jeff:I told
> you so
>      * Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux- from
> e-week
>      * SCO Owns Your Computer- Byte (how
> appropriate)
>      * OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM
> Complaint-
>      * Eric Raymond's attempt to find holes in SCO's
> claim-
>      * SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight-
> by TODD R. WEISS of 
> Computer World This may be the defining story of the
> entire SCO situation
> 
> # The SCO/Microsoft Connection
> 
>      * The Linux and Main Summary- has to be good,
> quoted jeff.....
>      * Linux & Main editorial citing Microsoft- By
> Dennis Powell
>      * "SCO ANNOUNCES UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH
> MICROSOFT" - the official 
> press release
>      * If it Look like a duck, smells like a duck,
> walks like a duck? 
> Its a duck HEY DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!!!
>      * OK, So Why Did Microsoft Buy That SCO
> License?- by Maureen O'Gara 
> of LinuxGram
> 
> Segment Two- The GNOME 2.4 Desktop-
> 
> Tonight we are going to joined by Jeff Waugh and
> Leslie Proctor of the 
> Gnome Foundation. Our topic is GNOME 2.4 Desktop.
> GNOME runs on a 
> variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux (commonly
> called Linux), 
> Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin. GNOME
> includes powerful features 
> such as high-quality smooth text rendering and first
> class 
> internationalization and accessibility support,
> including support for 
> bi-directional text.
> 
> Jeff Waugh is the head beekeeper of the GNOME
> Release Team, a director 
> of the GNOME Foundation, and President of the Sydney
> Linux Users Group. 
> In his spare time, he is an independent IT
> consultant specialising in 
> Open Source and Free Software.
> 
> Leslie Proctor has been involved in GNOME and free
> software since early 
> 1999. She coordinated the press and marketing
> efforts for the launch of 
> GNOME, and has been involved with the project since
> that time as the 
> Marketing Lead for the GNOME Foundation. A marketing
> and public 
> relations professional with almost 20 years of
> experience, Leslie is 
> also a writer, speaker and open source software
> advocate. She is a 
> member-elect of the GNOME Foundation Board of
> Directors.
> 
> The GNOME Foundation is comprised of hundreds of
> volunteer developers 
> and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation
> is an organization 
> committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME.
> The Foundation 
> provides organizational, financial and legal support
> to the GNOME 
> project and helps determine its vision and roadmap.
> GNOME is an entirely 
> free user environment for desktops, networked
> servers and portable 
> Internet devices. The modern architecture and design
> of GNOME includes a 
> technically advanced application development
> platform and a powerful 
> end-user desktop environment. Major leading software
> industry and 
> computer manufacturers support the GNOME development
> effort, which is 
> led by a worldwide community of volunteers. More
> information on GNOME is 
> available at www.gnome.org.
> 
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