Re: [gugmasters] what kind of T-shirts? What kind of buttons and badges ?

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 01/29/2011 04:39 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I saw the discussion initiated on the softwarefreedomday.org mailing
> list about the GNOME 3.0 launch party.
>
> I went to see the goodies and what sort of launch party is to be
> organized but the content seems to be sparse and un-coordinated.
Thank you for your compliments and encouragements.

> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Goodies
> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Resources
>
> If I look at the Resources page it sends me everywhere. What would
> have been good/great if there was a simple pdf/odf or/and movies which
> can be read and easily known.

As we say in French "the most beautiful girl in the world can only give 
what she has...".

Obviously you're not following GNOME 3.0 development and marketing very 
closely which explains some of your 'surprise'. Let me brief you a 
little to clarify things.

GNOME 3.0 is still very alpha with changes happening as we speak. In 
fact we're asking for people to do some homework since they will be 
representing GNOME 3.0 to their local community and a simple pdf won't 
cut it. API/ABI/feature freeze should happen on January 31st (in 2 days) 
to be more exact.

This is of course affecting our marketing abilities, videos, 
screenshots, etc we can generate. In fact we do plan to have slides, 
videos, USB downloadable images of GNOME 3.0 for people to run and demo 
(discussed on the marketing list) and other information.

As a matter of fact we have just launched gnome3.org and we have the 
same dilemma in content creation.

> Also there has to be some sort of an early release snapshot bundled
> with Ubuntu/Debian (whichever distribution the GNOME people prefer)
> to showcase the new GNOME 3.0 with some specific feature-list.
>
> Getting people around is not the big deal, getting people to know the
> goodness is the real deal.

In Free Software projects I would say it's a bit like going to someone's 
one: you are required to look around a bit to learn more about the 
place. It is usually a good practice to introduce oneself and ask 
questions first when you don't find what you're looking for.

Fred