Re: push back on negative articles

[Brett Legree <brett legree gmail com>]

Alex,

Oh, I agree completely :) I do not suggest getting down into the mud,
with this or anything to do with Linux.

It is imperative that we always speak highly of the software we
believe in *without* resorting to slagging the competition, no matter
what we may think personally.

Your idea of press releases is great (I am willing to assist, I like
to write) and when it comes to responding to the sorts of articles Sri
mentioned, I often do but will just talk about the great features of
the project in question, how it is improving, and so on.

-Brett

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:20 AM, alex diavatis
<alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Sri, Brett,
>
> Calling trash an article (doesn't matter if it is or isn't) will lead to
> negative critics back to you.
> Instead I propose to make each month (or every 2 or 3) a "positive" press
> release about the future of gnome, what happened in the past month,
> what decisions are made etc etc and always discuss the controversial
> features and say yes we know there are problems, but etc etc
>
> I would like to see a press release like
> (http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/gnome-os/) to coming signed by
> the Gnome Team or
> Gnome Foundation, or Gnome People instead just from a single developer.
>
> That would be posted in all major blogs, and so people will get positive
> feedback about Gnome. There are many other pros such as a better
> communication
> between users and foundation and that you show that you care. This is what
> they do big game authors. It works great.
>
> I really would like to see such thing from Gnome. Every Month, or Two :)
>
> Thank you
> - alex
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Brett Legree <brett legree gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Agreed - that article was complete and utter sensationalistic garbage.
>>
>> GNOME 3 doesn't seem to be "failing" on my desktop.
>>
>> -Brett
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
>> wrote:
>> > We really need to push back on negative articles like this one:
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.datamation.com/open-source/gnome-seven-possible-recovery-strategies-3.html
>> >
>> > "conventional wisdom is that GNOME 3 has failed"
>> >
>> > seriously.  What the hell.
>> >
>> > sri
>> >
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