Intro

2008-07-18 Thread Lefty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've just joined the gnome-web and marketing lists. For folks who haven't met me, I'm David Schlesinger (generally known as "Lefty"), director of Open Source Technologies for ACCESS Co., Ltd. In discussions at GUADEC last week, the need to refres

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-18 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Alex Hudson schrieb: > But, here's the thing. I'm not sure 3.0 will come about if people just > wait around for the 'big idea' to kick it off. Stuff like RedHat's > online desktop and things are great, but I would compare that to the > idea of time-based releases. Previously, people would release s

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-18 Thread Thilo Pfennig
Luis Villa wrote: > In short, I think you're letting minor technical considerations (and > perhaps perceived pressure from KDE?) set out an agenda, rather than > making the user and improvements for the user set the agenda, and I > think that is exactly backwards, screwing us up with users, > I

Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

2008-07-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 06:39:57AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:53 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > PS. I'm still unclear about what opening the big tent means exactly - > > > does it mean having a number of criteria, and any application meeting > > > those criteria becom