---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thilo Pfennig <<a href="mailto:tpfennig@gmail.com">tpfennig@gmail.com</a>> Date: 10.02.2006 17:13 Subject: Re: [Promotion] wake up... a news portal for free software? To: Tom Chance <<a href="mailto:tom@acrewoods.net">tom@acrewoods.net</a>> Thanks for the feedback Tom and Quim, <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We have to face up to the realities of the non-geek media and tackle them, rather than hiding behind groovy geek approaches. You get press coverage with good stories, good material to convey those stories and a lot of hard work.</blockquote><div> </div></div>This is surely true. And I think I would not want anybody to switch in the free desktop environment to found a press site instead of making good stories or good marketing. If they do it. I think sharing knowledge should be happening today, not waiting on a new site. I still believe such a site can be useful and I would still target the free desktop projects as major users, although I rather would have people from the boarders of the movement to jump in here to build this. Because that is what I thought this site could do: Leave the developers more time for their work. This site should be helpful where ressources for marketing and public relation are the lowest (that means the smaller the community the more useful it would be). thanks again for the feedback. If somebody else have thoughts about this or how such a site could be most useful, your comments are welcome.<div> Thilo -- <a href="http://vinci.wordpress.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://vinci.wordpress.com</a> </div> -- <a href="http://vinci.wordpress.com">http://vinci.wordpress.com</a>