Re: Writing a press release pre-summit?

[Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>]

Hi,

The release is live (sorry for the delay, I was waiting for a quote to
clear).

http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-04-mobilesummit.html

See you all in Austin next week!

Cheers,
Dave.

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Taking into account Lefty's excellent comments, here's another draft -
> if there are no objections I will try to get this up on gnome.org tomorrow.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> 3rd GNOME Mobile Summit to be held in Austin
> ============================================
> 
> The 3rd GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation
> Collaboration Summit in Austin from the 8th to the 10th of April will be
> a forum where industry and community merge into one, enabling effective
> collaboration on adapting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile
> computing.
> 
> The GNOME Mobile Initiative, which first met at GUADEC, the GNOME Users'
> and Developers' European Conference in 2006 and publicly launched in
> April 2007, is a community effort to ensure that free and open source
> software is optimized for the growing Linux-based mobile device space.
> The Initiative has already had several meetings, both formally and
> informally, and garnered considerable community and industry support.
> 
> Dave Neary, the co-ordinator of the GNOME Mobile track at the summit,
> believes that this meeting will accelerate the adoption of the GNOME
> platform on mobile devices. “Members of the GNOME Mobile group have been
> realising the leverage that collaborating closely with a free software
> community can give. Improved time to market, reduced R&D and maintenance
> costs, and above all, a highly performant and capable application
> platform on which to build your applications.”
> 
> Up to this point, the focus has been on co-ordinating integration
> efforts and reducing the amount of code being maintained outside the
> project, but that focus is expected to change as the initiative
> continues to mature and grow.
> 
> Ross Burton of OpenedHand, recently appointed release manager of the
> initiative, outlines his plans for the future of the project: “We are
> now moving beyond the initial phase of co-operation which consisted in
> people centralising work which they had been doing inside their
> companies to the core products. The next step is a roadmap which will
> systematically address the needs of consumers of the GNOME Mobile
> platform and ensure that the work is done in the community, and the
> creation of a mobile-specific release set of GNOME and GNOME-related
> projects.”
> 
> GNOME Mobile has a growing number of members, including industry
> heavyweights such as Nokia, ACCESS and FIC, the support of mobile
> consortia LiPS, the Linux Foundation’s MLI and Moblin, and a growing
> number of independent developers and community projects.
> 
> "The GNOME Mobile Initiative is at the heart of almost every important
> open source mobile effort going on in the industry today. The mainstream
> free software technologies such as GTK+, Gstreamer, matchbox and many
> other vibrant community-based projects are the linchpins of efforts like
> the ACCESS Linux Platform, Nokia's Maemo platform, and the LiMo
> Foundation Platform. GNOME Mobile is the leading edge of development for
> the most exciting device space in decades, the rapidly growing world of
> open source-based mobile devices," said David "Lefty" Schlesinger,
> Director of Open Source Technologies for ACCESS Co., Ltd., and a member
> of the LiMo Foundation  Architectural Council.
> 
> For more information, and for press enquiries, please contact
> gnome-press-contact gnome org
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
bolsh gnome org