Re: [Fwd: Re: GNOME foundation exposure in BSD Mag?]

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Tue, August 14, 2012 5:23 am, Juanjo Marín wrote:
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> ----- Mensaje original -----
>> De: Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
>> Para: Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
>> CC: marketing-list gnome org
>> Enviado: Martes 14 de agosto de 2012 4:09
>> Asunto: Re: [Fwd: Re: GNOME foundation exposure in BSD Mag?]
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>> On Mon, August 13, 2012 2:00 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>>>  On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
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>>>>  I think it's a great opportunity! Antoine suggests something very
>>>>  simple,
>>>>  which makes sense to me. Is there anyone here who has the time and
>> would
>>>>  be able to work on this?
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>>>  I haven't seen any follow up responses here.  When is the deadline
>> again?
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>> Ok, the deadline is August 25th but Antoine says that earlier would be
>> better.
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>> Do we think we stand a chance at making this deadline? I think simple is
>> best for this so hopefully it wouldn't take too much time...
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> Some notes about the status of GNOME 3 in the BSD world:
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> AFAIK, GNOME 3 is not yet ready in BSD systems. My limited

Thanks for the update. I was thinking that perhaps this is a good reason
we should go with Emily's suggestion regarding advertising the OPW?

karen

> understanding is that GNOME uses specific Linux technologies, so it
> needs some modifications for using native technologies of other systems
> (or someone who port those Linux technologies to those systems)
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> https://live.gnome.org/PortabilityMatrix
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> The FreeBSD GNOME team is working in a port of GNOME 3.4. it will
> be push to merge _after_ FreeBSD 9.1 is released (FreeBSD 9.1
> release  annoucement will be on 17th August 2012), though they don't
> have a date for the release of the GNOME 3.4 port (that will be more
> a beta version than a stable version because they are a small team to
> do the testing)
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> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/contact.html
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> When FreeBSD releases the GNOME 3 port,  it will be added to
> PC-BSD.
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> http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/GNOME3
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> By now, people who want to run GNOME 3, have to compile themselves.
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> http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=14811
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> About OpenBSD, OpenBSD 5.1 was released in May, but it only
> supports the GNOME 3 fallback mode.
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> http://www.openbsd.org/51.html
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> Cheers,
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>     -- Juanjo Marin
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