Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- To: marketing-list gnome org, Joachim <joachim gnome googlemail com>, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>
- Subject: Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:22:05 -0700
<quote who="Joachim">
> Jeff, your communications would sound more sincere and less glib if you
> stopped loading them with meaningless words like 'rock' 'awesome' and the
> like.
Tough. That's the way I talk.
> Because someone -- I forget who, can't see to check, hate mailing lists,
> pointed out the marketing team has no mandate. Maybe it needs one?
So you're asking for a 'mandate' without having a definition of such, and
don't really know why? C'mon, seriously.
> As I see it, the major task facing the marketing team at the moment is
> getting the new wgo website up.
I understand what Quim was trying to do with this, but I don't think there's
any real advantage to making this a marketing team project. It needs the
focus of a tight, trusted team to put it together, define standards and make
it participatory once the basics are complete. Cacophony doesn't get things
done.
> This involves writing stuff about what Gnome is and what it does. And yet
> you've just gone and changed that quite substantially without bothering to
> give us a heads up.
Changed? Okay, mobile/embedded has been on the agenda since at least 1999,
probably before, it had a resurgence in 2003/2004, and it's now an obvious
part of the GNOME ecosystem. GNOME Mobile is recognition, support and some
good promotion, not change.
I don't expect everyone in the GNOME community to give the marketing team a
heads up when they're going to do something cool. It should *ABSOLUTELY NOT*
be an expectation of the marketing team.
- Jeff
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