thanks. I confess I was stricken with inconsolable grief that my name had been so transformed to a plant's… but, seriously: gee whiz, let's let trivialities stay trivial.
So, enjoy the northern hemisphere's effort at cheer, Louis On 2011-12-24, at 04:46 , Ross Gardler wrote: > sorry, auto-correct messed with Louis' name > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On Dec 24, 2011 9:39 AM, "Ross Gardler" <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > >> Lotus, please do conduct the kind of outreach you are talking about. >> However, please now we have an official Apache blog. Let's not use another. >> >> It would be great ifyou can wind down the previous b Blogspot gradually >> and migrate people to our blog. >> >> Ross >> >> Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. >> On Dec 24, 2011 3:07 AM, "Louis Suárez-Potts" <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 2011-12-23, at 19:41 , Shane Curcuru wrote: >>> >>>> But I have and idea. Why not make a blog post, and then use the new >>> announce list (and various social media channels) to tell this story? >>> >>> That is what we did at an early stage in the PR evolution, before we >>> worked with professional (costly/pro-bono) PR agencies. We maintained--and >>> I still have it in my Blogger account--newsletter.blogspot; prior to that, >>> I maintained newsletter@openoffice and so on. >>> >>> I'd be interested if others would want to rekindle the PR steam engine >>> and start anew. I am much, much less involved in this project's doings, >>> now, fwiw. >>> >>> In short, a *communal* blogpost, as we maintained for a while (Khirano >>> can recall, I am sure) seems apt. I can also ask my far too many press >>> friends and contacts to listen up. >>> >>> But what do we want? Users, developers, contributors? Someone(s) to see >>> that we are not the thawed out undead but freshborn of the living? And so >>> do we simply want the world to see us as a community they can count in and >>> on? >>> >>> >>> Louis >> >>
