Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-04-05 Thread Pockey Lam
Dear Sumana, Would you please point me to the final press release? As I am planning to send them to every launch party organizers to help us to localize and spread the word in their local area. Thanks, Pockey On 03/31/2011 12:18 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/30/2011 12:34 AM,

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-04-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks, Pockey! It's here: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2011-04-gnome-3.0-released.html best, Sumana On 04/05/2011 06:35 AM, Pockey Lam wrote: Dear Sumana, Would you please point me to the final press release? As I am planning to send them to every launch party organizers to help us

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-04-01 Thread Juanjo Marin
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/30/2011 12:34 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I believe Federico's full name is Federico Mena Quintero. Aieee, how did I miss that? Thanks, fixed. About to start sending this out. If you want to translate the press

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Sumana: On 03/28/11 07:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today the GNOME Desktop project releases GNOME 3.0, its first major release in nine years. A revolutionary new user interface, new features for developers, and a stronger accessibility foundation make this a

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today the GNOME Desktop project releases GNOME 3.0, its first major release in nine years. A revolutionary new user interface, new features for developers, and a stronger accessibility foundation

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-29 Thread John Stowers
Hi, Comments inline, apologies for brevity; im not trying to sound rude. I'm also not quite clear on the audience for this - if you think the market for this release is the tech press then my comments might be less relevant. Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today the GNOME Desktop project releases

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks for your comments, Olav, Brian, Dave, Sri, and John. I also got a review from marketing guy Ryan Singer, who said the press release looks pretty good. And I've added a quote from Miguel de Icaza. I've changed Linux throughout to either free and open source or Unix-type. I've changed

ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
With Sri's help, I've written a very rough draft for the GNOME 3.0 press release. Please comment, critique, and suggest edits within the next 36 hours (before about 8am Wednesday, US East Coast time). I'm waiting on quotes from Miguel Stormy -- as soon as I get one of them, I'm going to

Re: ROUGH draft of GNOME 3.0 press release (request for comments)

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I've already taken out the accessibility paragraph, on the advice of #a11y. mgorse sumanah: There is a QT bridge now, which I think is still a work in progress, but a lot of progress is being made. The port of AT-SPI to DBus helped since QT already supports DBus * sumanah nods sumanah