I have updated the website recently to show the themes.

I am also posting, pretty much daily, about progress with GNUstep on
twitter.  The best we can do is to try to put ourselves out there the way
we really are.  Looking at GNUstep's stats on github tells the story that
we are not dead.

Also, the discussion on hackernews showed that a lot of people are turning
around their opinions.   We will not change the general impression of the
project in a day (or even a month or a year) but if we persist in making it
known that we are not a bunch of Luddites, then people will, eventually,
pick up on that.

We must strive to change people's opinions.

GC


On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 5:31 AM [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
> obviously we have a problem  with our representation to the world. People
> think we are for nostalgics or dead. I know, we had this discussion many
> times before (lengthy at times), but the situation doesn’t seem to be
> resolved. IIRC after the last discussion about our web presence the only
> „measure“ that was taken was to add an screenshot „carousel“ to the front
> page … not enough IMHO …
>
> Why I am writing this now? Well on the german internet news site
> https://heise.de/newsticker there was an news article about NeXT being
> bought by Apple 25 years ago.
> In the associated discussion forum there was a mention of our web
> presence, http://www.gnustep.org/:
>
>
> https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/Vor-25-Jahren-Apple-kauft-Next-mitsamt-Steve-Jobs/GNUStep/posting-40185491/show/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de
>
> it mentioned our web presence correctly but with the appendage "for
> nostalgics“.
>
> In the reactions to this post there another misconceptions like:
>
>
> https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/Vor-25-Jahren-Apple-kauft-Next-mitsamt-Steve-Jobs/Re-GNUStep/posting-40187338/show/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de
>
> quote: "Nice, really! Unfortunately a little lifeless since 2018, or am I
> wrong?“
>
> this impression was gained when viewing our website!
>
> Think about it.
>
>
> kind regards and happy holidays,
>
>         Lars
>


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