Re: Showing off the N800 on the gnome.org frontpage?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

I am for this because I think it shows that there is a burgeoning market
for GNOME technology and I think showing that will attract more
developers and more companies and hopefully more users.  So yeah, let's
do it.  However, it would be nice to say something about "embedded
market" or something like that.

sri

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 00:31 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm writing this in fear of opening a can of worms, but in order to 
> avoid the whole community to hunt me down with tar and feathers, I 
> thought I better do a quick check on how you feel about a idea of mine. ;)
> Thomas Wood and myself was thinking of doing a cool splash on the 
> gnome.org frontpage showing off the N800 device with a text saying "runs 
> gnome technology, fits in your pocket.." or something together with a 
> pic of the cool little machine.
> How do you people feel about that?
> I know we don't promote distros when they come out, politically polite 
> as we are, but GNOME tech powering a small device like that is too cool 
> to not show off. And well, I guess it would shut a osnews reporter or 
> two that think GNOME development is stalling up. :)
> - Andreas
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Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>