Alex, Oh, I agree completely :) I do not suggest getting down into the mud, with this or anything to do with Linux.
It is imperative that we always speak highly of the software we believe in *without* resorting to slagging the competition, no matter what we may think personally. Your idea of press releases is great (I am willing to assist, I like to write) and when it comes to responding to the sorts of articles Sri mentioned, I often do but will just talk about the great features of the project in question, how it is improving, and so on. -Brett On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:20 AM, alex diavatis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Sri, Brett, > > Calling trash an article (doesn't matter if it is or isn't) will lead to > negative critics back to you. > Instead I propose to make each month (or every 2 or 3) a "positive" press > release about the future of gnome, what happened in the past month, > what decisions are made etc etc and always discuss the controversial > features and say yes we know there are problems, but etc etc > > I would like to see a press release like > (http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/gnome-os/) to coming signed by > the Gnome Team or > Gnome Foundation, or Gnome People instead just from a single developer. > > That would be posted in all major blogs, and so people will get positive > feedback about Gnome. There are many other pros such as a better > communication > between users and foundation and that you show that you care. This is what > they do big game authors. It works great. > > I really would like to see such thing from Gnome. Every Month, or Two :) > > Thank you > - alex > > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Brett Legree <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Agreed - that article was complete and utter sensationalistic garbage. >> >> GNOME 3 doesn't seem to be "failing" on my desktop. >> >> -Brett >> >> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > We really need to push back on negative articles like this one: >> > >> > >> > http://www.datamation.com/open-source/gnome-seven-possible-recovery-strategies-3.html >> > >> > "conventional wisdom is that GNOME 3 has failed" >> > >> > seriously. What the hell. >> > >> > sri >> > >> > -- >> > marketing-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
