The other day I was in a second hand store talking to the owner who also owns the antique shop. I just happened to find a couple of hdmi splitters, and a short circuit dvd for which I had to go get cash across the street to buy. I appreciated the little journey of having to walk to the bank to get the money and come back.
So I came back and he said you know, I have a book written by somebody famous. Maybe you might know who this guy is. He showed me a signed copy of a GNU make manual. I didn’t ask if it was for sale I mean, of course I would’ve bought it, and I know that I would’ve read it cover to cover if I did. I was definitely like wow this is amazing. But I could tell that it meant something to him so I wouldn’t dare ask. As small as an event as this was, I just thought this was really cool he had this and it prompted a very enjoyable conversation. Maybe it’s a silly idea but like a GNUstep show and tell? I don’t know probably a silly idea, but as far as anything written, I really like reading about the history of things. -------- Original Message -------- On Thursday, 02/12/26 at 06:55 Stefan Bidigaray <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me start out by saying that even though I no longer contribute to GNUstep > due to time constraints, I still keep up with the list. I also have an OSnews > account and support the site. > > Thom, the main editor at OSnews, is always pretty open, so I'd bet he'd be OK > with posting an article about the anniversary. I'd even bet that he would > write a short summary himself if asked. > > It's pretty easy to submit news to the website. There's an option in the > menus. Thom is also active on Mastodon, I believe, so someone might be able > to reach out to him there. I'm not into social media, so I don't know much > about his work there. > > Another option would be reaching out through his patreon account. > > Let me know if I can facilitate contact with him. > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 06:30 [email protected] via Discussion > list for the GNUstep programming environment <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Riccardo, >> >> you mentioned OSNews, I think informing and supporting them when writing an >> article would be great. >> >> Anyone on this list has a contact at OSNews and could ask them? >> >> kind regards, >> >> Lars >> >>> Am 12.02.2026 um 12:22 schrieb Riccardo Mottola >>> <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> [email protected] via Discussion list for the GNUstep >>> programming environment wrote: >>>> should we, or some journalist wee task with this, write a newspiece of >>>> this so that publications like heise.de <http://heise.de> can put it into >>>> their newsticker? >>> >>> we could think some more outlets... possibly those where we don't badly >>> treated. I think e.g. OSNews? >>> >>> But can we think of some other places like magazines? Most of those I know >>> don't exist anymore, like PC Magazine or such. >>> >>> Well, of course also our Facebook group. >>> >>> Riccardo >>>
