On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 17:44:37 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > Folks, > > As you know, GNOME 3 will be coming out *very* soon and soon after that, > we will be providing GNOME3 with 11.4. We will even be shipping LiveCDs > to GNOME Foundation with GNOME3 built in. > > GNOME Foundation is doing a lot of work to organize the launch of > GNOME3. But like any other project, there's never quite enough launch > parties. We also have our own launch parties (yes some will continue on > in the next months ahead even if March 10 was our launch date.) > > I think it will develop strong goodwill between projects if we can > either plan co-launch parties with GNOME Foundation or, in regions where > there is no one to have GNOME3 launch parties, consider offering a 11.4 > launch party and invite GNOME3 to join in on the launch party. Or, if a > GNOME Ambassador is not in your area, consider doing it yourself. I am > certain that the GNOME Foundation will appreciate and remember the > support that openSUSE has given to raising visibility. GNOME is one of > several important desktops that openSUSE provides and we should show our > appreciation for the hard work that upstream projects do that help make > our own Project even better. > > Both GNOME and openSUSE are equally generating good noise out there > right now. Combined, we can take that noise to a higher level. > > Along this same vein, I mention GNOME3 because it is just around the > corner. But in fact, we should definitely look for other opportunities > to co-launch with other projects whose software we use to make openSUSE > as awesome as it is today. Any other interesting launches coming up > that we should think about? > > Bryen M Yunashko > openSUSE Marketing Team
Well along this vein as osCommerce 3 has just launched, how about promoting openSUSE Lamp Servers with osCommerce don't know quite how it will work - but like you said any excuse to push openSUSE along with the release of another project? (osCommerce 3 releasse announcement has just hit my e-mail seconds before I read this one (I am way behind on my mail).. Just a thought.. -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44(0)1204 410474 Mob: +44(0)7868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Distributing openSUSE in the UK Registered Linux User: 529825 ----------------------------------------- -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44(0)1204 410474 Mob: +44(0)7868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Distributing openSUSE in the UK Registered Linux User: 529825 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
