[Promotion] hello

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Friday 20 January 2006 22:28, Patrick Trettenbrein wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2006 21:58 schrieb Thilo Pfennig:
> >  * KDE vs. GNOME: How do we stop flames between users. Should there be
> > an open letter to the users? I think those flames don't make free
> > desktops attractive.
>
> You're definitely right. Maybe we should work something out and announce
> the foundation of a "freedesktop marketing" for both KDE and GNOME togheter
> in the press? I'm sure it'd be interesting news to all users to hear that
> the enemys unite. :)

At the Desktop Architects Meeting [1] in Portland end of last year it was 
decided to write and publish a common statement including freedesktop.org, 
KDE, GNOME and any other organization who wants to join. See [2] for the mail 
with the latest draft.

Maybe this could be the open letter you are proposing. It would be great if 
people from this list could help to get this done. Especially on the GNOME 
side we need some help with that.

The idea is that it's published in parallel on the home pages of GNOME, KDE 
and other projects working on the free desktop. This really could show the 
world that we are working together on our common goal, to make the free 
desktop succeed.

[1] 
http://groups.osdl.org/workgroups/dtl/desktop_architects/december_2005_meeting
[2] 
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2006-January/000698.html

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>