Re: Urgent - 3.2 Press Release

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

Hi all,

As we're getting close, here's the draft of a press release. I'm still
waiting on one of the quotes and hopefully I'll get that tomorrow and send
it on (I left a FIXME in there for now). Please improve this draft! :)

I think in particular we probably need a transition sentence for Jim
Whitehurst's quote. Also, I switched between GNOME 3 and 3.0 as I thought
the context required - is this the way to go?

karen


GNOME3 Improved and Refined with the Release of GNOME 3.2

Groton, MA, September 28 2011: Today, the GNOME Desktop project released
GNOME 3.2, the first follow-up release to its ground-breaking GNOME 3.0.
With GNOME 3, GNOME undertook a major redesign and reimagined the user
interface for the next generation of the desktop. From 3.2, GNOME is
refining the project and starting to introduce new, modern GNOME
applications that will deeply integrate with the GNOME 3 experience and
which are designed for modern users.

GNOME 3.2 improves the sleek GNOME 3.0 by adding refinements to the visual
theme, enabling easier window resizing, fully integrated messaging, new
contacts framework and integration and improved document management. It
introduces the building blocks for new application experiences and the
basis for integration of online services.

As the GNOME release team explains, "the GNOME 3.2 release builds on the
foundations that we have laid with 3.0 and offers a much more complete
experience. From new applications for contacts and documents, a redesigned
login screen, as well as high-end features such as color management and
graphics tablets, it contains numerous new and exciting features and
improvements. We are proud of what the GNOME community is delivering in
this release, and we hope you like it. Give it a try!"

Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat, stated
"I am thrilled to see that the great innovation we saw in GNOME 3.0
continues to mature at such a rapid rate with 3.2."

[FIXME - Third quote to be added]

Users and fans of GNOME have planned release parties in a number of cities
around the world. Users can download GNOME 3.2 from http://gnome.org to
try the new release immediately, or wait for distributions to carry it
over the coming months.

The GNOME Project was started in 1997 by two then-university students,
Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero. Their aim: to produce a free
(as in freedom) desktop environment. Since then, GNOME has grown into a
hugely successful enterprise. Used by millions of people across the world,
it is a popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux and UNIX-type operating
systems. The desktop has been utilised in successful, large-scale
enterprise and public deployments, and the project?s developer
technologies are utilized in a large number of popular mobile devices.

The GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the
advancement of GNOME, comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and
industry-leading companies. The Foundation is a member directed, 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and legal
support to the GNOME project. The GNOME Foundation is supporting the
pursuit of software freedom through the innovative, accessible, and
beautiful user experience created by GNOME contributors around the world.
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