Re: Letter announcing LWN benefit to our subscribers

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Hi Og!

It was great meeting you during the hackfest. Here is my little 
contribution to your first draft, now in v0.2

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Dear Friend of GNOME,

Friends of GNOME started not so long ago with the objective of 
diversifying the GNOME foundation sources of incomes and getting 
independent funding from on our own community of users and developers.

Thanks to the support of people like yourself, we have managed to
sponsor xx hackfests in 2 years including the Boston Summit earlier this 
month, allowing over 70 GNOME developers to get together to make GNOME 
3.0 better, and plan for the future of GNOME.

[-- I need to discuss further with Andreas and Paul as they seem more 
familiar with all the recent achievements --].

As a token of our gratitude, we are now offering current and new
subscribers a FREE annual subscription to LWN, the best and most 
accurate news source for Free Software, written weekly by real kernel 
hackers and community contributors. It is our way to let you know that 
we value your unwavering loyalty and support, and go out of way to make 
your support mutually beneficial.

In order for you to receive your complementary subscription, simply
reply to this email stating your interest and we will email you
instructions on how to proceed and activate your account.

You have allowed us to do so much more and GNOME wouldn't be quite where 
it is today without you. Please do let us know if you have further 
suggestion that would enhance the program.

Warm regards,

The GNOME Foundation

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Fred



My take

On 11/18/2010 08:14 AM, Og Maciel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> So today, thanks to Rosanna, I received 100 subscription codes for
> LWN. As some of you may already know, we're offering free, annual
> subscriptions to our current and future FoG subscribers. I want to
> send out an email to each one of them (97 active subscriptions is the
> number I came up with so far) and was wondering if someone wants to
> help me with the text itself? Something like:
>
> ===============
> Dear Friend of GNOME,
>
> Friends of GNOME started not so long ago with the objective of...
>
> Thanks to the support of people like yourself, we have managed to
> sponsor blah blah blah.
>
> As a token of our gratitude, we are now offering current and new
> subscribers a FREE annual subscription to LWN, [say something about
> LWN here and why it is so cool to get a subscription]. It is our way
> to let you know that we value your unwavering loyalty and support,
> blah blah.
>
> In order for you to receive your complementary subscription, simply
> reply to this email stating your interest and we will email you
> instructions on how to proceed and activate your account.
>
> [Closing paragraph]
>
> The GNOME Foundation
>
> ===================
>
> Thanks in advance,