Re: Today is the day!

[Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org>]

Sorry for all the emails, I'm going to change it to commas and fix the
typo "involved".

Paul

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
> Updated release announcement, thanks for Jim pointing out the typo:
>
>
> After an extended break, the latest issue of the GNOME Journal has
> been published.  It features an interview with Stormy Peters,
> the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation by Jayson Rowe; a
> review of the Gourmet Recipe Manager application by Sriram Ramkrishna; a look at
> the GConf Configuation System for developers by Natan Yellin; an
> Introduction to the Message Indicator for developers by Ken VanDine,
> and a letter from our editor, Jim Hodapp.
>
> The GNOME Journal team is excited to be publishing again, and has
> plans for new editions planned throughout 2009.  If you would like to
> get involvoed, please visit http://www.gnomejournal.org/contribute/
> for more information.
>
> The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by
> the GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative
> Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
>> Ok team, I think we're ready.
>>
>> I've taken another look at the article titles and excerpts, though I'd
>> like another pair of eyes to review if possible, and compared them to
>> previous articles, and I think they look good.
>>
>> I've re-sized the images into thumbnails in the Gourmet Recipe Manager
>> article to match the sizes in a previous article.
>>
>> Natan sent in his about the author blurb.
>>
>> I've taken the liberty of updating http://www.gnomejournal.org/about/
>> - my thought being as we haven't had a release in over a year, and in
>> some ways it's a new team.  If you disagree with the changes, please
>> let me know, as I'm sure past writers and editors contributed heavily,
>> and I don't mean to offend anyone.  I also added Natan and Jayson as
>> writers - since they both wrote articles in this edition and have
>> signed up for articles in edition 15, I thought I'd add them to thank
>> them as they have consecutive contributions.
>>
>> For issue 15, I'd like to update our CC license from CC SA-BY 2.0 to
>> CC SA-BY 3.0 (only difference - you can use a similar license rather
>> than the exact same one if build upon the work - I think this may be
>> important for Sri's idea of getting our content in to other sources).
>>
>> Here is my draft of the release announcement, as recommended by
>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/AnnouncementGuide:
>>
>> The GNOME Journal, May 2009 Edition
>>
>> http://www.gnomejournal.org
>>
>> After an extended break, the latest issue of the GNOME Journal has
>> been published.  It features a look an interview with Stormy Peters,
>> the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation by Jayson Rowe; a
>> review of the Gourmet Recipe Manager by Sriram Ramkrishna; a look at
>> the GConf Configuation System for developers by Natan Yellin; an
>> Introduction to the Message Indicator for developers by Ken VanDine,
>> and a letter from our editor, Jim Hodapp.
>>
>> The GNOME Journal team is excited to be publishing again, and has
>> plans for new editions planned throughout 2009.  If you would like to
>> get involvoed, please visit http://www.gnomejournal.org/contribute/
>> for more information.
>>
>> The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by
>> the GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative
>> Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
>>
>> (End announcement)
>>
>> Per the announcement guide, who has the Digg login for GNOME Journal?
>> Are you all ready to blog and micro-blog about today's release?!  (I
>> know I am - I plan on doing a general microblog, and then every hour
>> mentioning one specific article).
>>
>> Paul
>>
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