Re: Press release for 2.20?

["Quim Gil" <qgil gnome org>]

On 9/2/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> I'm very much against starting with stuff that's only interesting for
> developers. Most readers will be enthusiastic _users_.

We can discuss this ad aeternum.  :)  I think our original texts will
be read mainly by developers and other kind of people happy to see
that we are working to improve our services to developers. Entuthiast
users will read what others will write about us, each one adapting the
message to their audiences.


> It's interesting, but probably not immediately useful for real users
> right now.

Also discussed: nothing of GNOME 2.20 is 'immediately useful for real
users' the day we release a new version. Only a minority of users of a
minority of distros testing non-stable versions can enjoy that.

Besides: if you notice, most of the stuff that gets press and readers
excitement in the tech sector is still not ready for consumption.
Competitive advantage is what rules most of the news: when you see
something nobody else has done yet. I don't know the details of our
'competitors' but I believe i18n is one of our competitive advantages.

We have a nice story (and images) in 2.20. Connect it to MIT's OLPC,
United Nations + governments supporting free software + Edubuntu
projects in Africa, growing implementation of GNOME technologies in
Asia and you are there.

> I'd prefer something like "new features in the Evolution email and
> calendar client for users

Let me read again the release notes... Well, dunno. You are right that
there is in fact stuff to be mentioned in the summary (i.e. the
backup/restore feature) but opening... I don't know either whether
Evolution is still the application we want to push upfront
systematically. But that's another story.

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