Hi Og!
It was great meeting you during the hackfest. Here is my little
contribution to your first draft, now in v0.2
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Dear Friend of GNOME,
Friends of GNOME started not so long ago with the objective of
diversifying the GNOME foundation sources of incomes and getting
independent funding from on our own community of users and developers.
Thanks to the support of people like yourself, we have managed to
sponsor xx hackfests in 2 years including the Boston Summit earlier this
month, allowing over 70 GNOME developers to get together to make GNOME
3.0 better, and plan for the future of GNOME.
[-- I need to discuss further with Andreas and Paul as they seem more
familiar with all the recent achievements --].
As a token of our gratitude, we are now offering current and new
subscribers a FREE annual subscription to LWN, the best and most
accurate news source for Free Software, written weekly by real kernel
hackers and community contributors. It is our way to let you know that
we value your unwavering loyalty and support, and go out of way to make
your support mutually beneficial.
In order for you to receive your complementary subscription, simply
reply to this email stating your interest and we will email you
instructions on how to proceed and activate your account.
You have allowed us to do so much more and GNOME wouldn't be quite where
it is today without you. Please do let us know if you have further
suggestion that would enhance the program.
Warm regards,
The GNOME Foundation
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Fred
My take
On 11/18/2010 08:14 AM, Og Maciel wrote:
Hi folks,
So today, thanks to Rosanna, I received 100 subscription codes for
LWN. As some of you may already know, we're offering free, annual
subscriptions to our current and future FoG subscribers. I want to
send out an email to each one of them (97 active subscriptions is the
number I came up with so far) and was wondering if someone wants to
help me with the text itself? Something like:
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Dear Friend of GNOME,
Friends of GNOME started not so long ago with the objective of...
Thanks to the support of people like yourself, we have managed to
sponsor blah blah blah.
As a token of our gratitude, we are now offering current and new
subscribers a FREE annual subscription to LWN, [say something about
LWN here and why it is so cool to get a subscription]. It is our way
to let you know that we value your unwavering loyalty and support,
blah blah.
In order for you to receive your complementary subscription, simply
reply to this email stating your interest and we will email you
instructions on how to proceed and activate your account.
[Closing paragraph]
The GNOME Foundation
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Thanks in advance,
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