Claus Schwarm wrote: > IIRC, the German team already mixed the GNOME release with CeBIT in the > past. This was done for GNOME 2.14, 2.16, and 2.18. See, for example > [1] and [2] (in German). >
That's wrong. We just demonstrated the latest testing releases (and of course we use to have a GNOME related talk which usually focused on "What you can get in <1 or 2> weeks?". But by moving the release date we would be able to officially present the new release and avoid the confusion of the press (which just seems to perceive it wrongly). > OTOH, Cebit will produce lots of IT news, and the GNOME release might be > overlooked when all the big companies make their annoucements. > > So, what we would need is NOT a special messeage (I really hope I > interprete the term correctly) but a few reminders and motivators. For > example, we would need to have a GNOME celebrity at the booth to make > the annoucement or be ready for interviews. Stuff like that. > > So, in my opinion, if there's a plan by the German team to make the > release at the Cebit a little bit of an event, then changing the > schedule would be good thing. > Regards, Sven -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
