GNOME 2.28 Press Release

[Paul Cutler-3]

I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press release, but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be asking, but thought I'd throw it out there).

Paul

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[Vincent Untz]

Le mardi 22 septembre 2009, à 17:06 -0500, Paul Cutler a écrit :
> I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press release,
> but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be asking,
> but thought I'd throw it out there).

I can only tell I'm not working on it... That being said, the important
part is to contact the press -- with a press release, or with some other
content.

Vincent

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[Paul Cutler-3]

Do we not typically do press releases for GNOME releases?  Looking at http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ I don't see any press releases for past releleases such as 2.26 or 2.24. 

We also need to add the SFD press release to that page, but I'm not sure how we do that.

Thanks.

Paul

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@...> wrote:

Le mardi 22 septembre 2009, à 17:06 -0500, Paul Cutler a écrit :

> I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press release,
> but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be asking,
> but thought I'd throw it out there).

I can only tell I'm not working on it... That being said, the important
part is to contact the press -- with a press release, or with some other
content.

Vincent

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[Stormy Peters-2]

I think we should do a press release.

Have you started one? Do you need my help? I've got some time ...

I'm sure between the quotes you got and the release notes you wrote we have enough content. We can then send the release notes and the press release to press.

How about the other folks on the press team? What do you think?

Stormy

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@...> wrote:

Do we not typically do press releases for GNOME releases?  Looking at http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ I don't see any press releases for past releleases such as 2.26 or 2.24. 

We also need to add the SFD press release to that page, but I'm not sure how we do that.

Thanks.

Paul

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@...> wrote:

Le mardi 22 septembre 2009, à 17:06 -0500, Paul Cutler a écrit :

> I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press release,
> but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be asking,
> but thought I'd throw it out there).

I can only tell I'm not working on it... That being said, the important
part is to contact the press -- with a press release, or with some other
content.

Vincent

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[Paul Cutler-3]

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I've never written a press release before, here's a first draft.  The only thing that I haven't been able to fit in a comment that we deliver GNOME every 6 months.  I wrote this in Abiword - if anyone wants the file, let me know.

Paul

GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer Platform.

September 23rd, 2009

The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability of GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the past six months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME Developer Platform.  GNOME's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone regardless of their physical ability, financial ability or the language they speak.

GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve the user experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth devices for the first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones and other peripherals.  Bastien Nocera, maintainer of the gnome-bluetooth module says: “With the addition of the Bluetooth management tools and the

enhancements to our Volume Control applications, we've given GNOME users

access to more hardware features, whilst keeping our design principles.”

Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework, has seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom themes, geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for users to share their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME Remote Desktop server and viewer, Vino and Vinagre.  "The Telepathy team is proud of the cooperation between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre developers. Thanks to their work, our users will be able to easily share their desktop with their contacts without having to care about the underlying technical details. This is a great step for us as it marks the first use in GNOME of the collaborative features offered by the Telepathy framework. We hope to soon see more and more applications integrating Telepathy in order to increase the collaborative user experience in the GNOME desktop," says Guillame Desmottes.

Other improvements to the GNOME Desktop include:

• Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide mode for users with netbooks.
•  GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
•  The Evince document viewer is now available for both Linux and Microsoft Windows® platforms.
• Gedit has been ported to Mac OS® X.
• ... and more

For users with accessibility needs, Orca, the GNOME screen reader application, has seen numerous updates, including  support for mouseovers, moving the mouse without performing a click, the ability to pronounce mis-spellled words, and more.

For the full list of changes, please see the release notes at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/.

The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no longer any applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs, libgnomeprint, or libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME libraries have also seen improvements.

About GNOME



The GNOME Project is creating a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions as well as many mobile platforms like cellular phones and tablets.

The GNOME project has three main goals:

• Free and open source desktop accessible to all. GNOME is a free desktop available  to everyone, regardless of language, physical ability, technical expertise.
• Development platform. GNOME is a powerful development platform for developing free and open source software applications.
• GNOME Mobile. GNOME technologies provide a foundation for mobile applications from tablets to cellular phones.



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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy@...> wrote:

I think we should do a press release.

Have you started one? Do you need my help? I've got some time ...

I'm sure between the quotes you got and the release notes you wrote we have enough content. We can then send the release notes and the press release to press.

How about the other folks on the press team? What do you think?

Stormy

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@...> wrote:

Do we not typically do press releases for GNOME releases?  Looking at http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ I don't see any press releases for past releleases such as 2.26 or 2.24. 

We also need to add the SFD press release to that page, but I'm not sure how we do that.

Thanks.

Paul

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@...> wrote:

Le mardi 22 septembre 2009, à 17:06 -0500, Paul Cutler a écrit :

> I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press release,
> but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be asking,
> but thought I'd throw it out there).

I can only tell I'm not working on it... That being said, the important
part is to contact the press -- with a press release, or with some other
content.

Vincent

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[Lucas Rocha-2]

Hi,

2009/9/23 Paul Cutler <pcutler@...>:
> Do we not typically do press releases for GNOME releases?  Looking at
> http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ I don't see any press releases for past
> releleases such as 2.26 or 2.24.

Still planning to do it? We still have a couple hours to publish it.

> We also need to add the SFD press release to that page, but I'm not sure how
> we do that.

This is because someone we forgot to add it. I just added an entry for
the SFD press release in this page.

--lucasr

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@...> wrote:
>>
>> Le mardi 22 septembre 2009, à 17:06 -0500, Paul Cutler a écrit :
>> > I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press
>> > release,
>> > but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be
>> > asking,
>> > but thought I'd throw it out there).
>>
>> I can only tell I'm not working on it... That being said, the important
>> part is to contact the press -- with a press release, or with some other
>> content.
>>
>> Vincent
>>
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[Diego Escalante Urrelo]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:47 -0500, Paul Cutler wrote:

> I've never written a press release before, here's a first draft.  The
> only thing that I haven't been able to fit in a comment that we
> deliver GNOME every 6 months.  I wrote this in Abiword - if anyone
> wants the file, let me know.
>
> Paul
>
> GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth
> support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer
> Platform.
>

Perhaps:
GNOME 2.28 "made for sharing" includes an improved instant messaging
client, integrated Bluetooth headsets and networking support and many
improvements in the GNOME Developer Platform.

> September 23rd, 2009
>
> The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability
> of GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the
> past six months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME
> Developer Platform.  GNOME's mission is to provide a free desktop
> accessible to everyone regardless of their physical ability, financial
> ability or the language they speak.
>
> GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve
> the user experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth
> devices for the first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones
> and other peripherals.  Bastien Nocera, maintainer of the
> gnome-bluetooth module says: “With the addition of the Bluetooth
> management tools and the
>
> enhancements to our Volume Control applications, we've given GNOME
> users
>
> access to more hardware features, whilst keeping our design
> principles.”
>

Perhaps it would be more relevant to mention Bastien as "hacker of the
GNOME Bluetooth stack|set|pack", maintainer and module might sound a bit
too nerdish.
Maybe "Bastien Nocera, one of the leading developers of GNOME's
Bluetooth capabilities|featureset".

> Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework,
> has seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom
> themes, geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for
> users to share their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME
> Remote Desktop server and viewer, Vino and Vinagre.  "The Telepathy
> team is proud of the cooperation between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre
> developers. Thanks to their work, our users will be able to easily
> share their desktop with their contacts without having to care about
> the underlying technical details. This is a great step for us as it
> marks the first use in GNOME of the collaborative features offered
> by the Telepathy framework. We hope to soon see more and more
> applications integrating Telepathy in order to increase the
> collaborative user experience in the GNOME desktop," says Guillame
> Desmottes.
>

This <p> feels a bit long, perhaps it's just because of my mail client.
Maybe put a <br> before the quote by Guillame. Also we need to say
'Guillame Desmottes, one of the main contributors of Empathy'.


> The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing
> deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no
> longer any applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs,
> libgnomeprint, or libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME
> libraries have also seen improvements.
>

I would move this before the reference to the release notes.


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[Stormy Peters-2]

Thanks, Paul! I made a few minor suggestions below.

I was thinking, there's no reason we need to do text only press releases. Can we call the quotes out in blurbs or in color on the web page?

We need a shorter title that people can grab on to. This title could be a good subtitle.

We could use our catchy phrase.

Made to Share! GNOME 2.28 releases!

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@...> wrote:

GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer Platform.

(and this would be the subtitle)

September 23rd, 2009

The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability of GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the past six months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME Developer Platform.   

[new paragraph]

GNOME's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone regardless of their physical ability, financial ability or the language they speak.

GNOME 2.28 furthers the GNOME mission by making sure people have a free desktop they can use to communicate with their friends using the latest technology.

GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve the user experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth devices for the first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones and other peripherals.  Bastien Nocera, maintainer of the gnome-bluetooth module says: “With the addition of the Bluetooth management tools and the

enhancements to our Volume Control applications, we've given GNOME users

access to more hardware features, whilst keeping our design principles.”

Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework, has seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom themes, geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for users to share their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME Remote Desktop server and viewer, Vino and Vinagre.  "The Telepathy team is proud of the cooperation between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre developers. Thanks to their work, our users will be able to easily share their desktop with their contacts without having to care about the underlying technical details. This is a great step for us as it marks the first use in GNOME of the collaborative features offered by the Telepathy framework. We hope to soon see more and more applications integrating Telepathy in order to increase the collaborative user experience in the GNOME desktop," says Guillame Desmottes.

Other improvements to the GNOME Desktop include:

• Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide mode for users with netbooks.
•  GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
•  The Evince document viewer is now available for both Linux and Microsoft Windows® platforms.
• Gedit has been ported to Mac OS® X.
• ... and more

For users with accessibility needs, Orca, the GNOME screen reader application, has seen numerous updates, including  support for mouseovers, moving the mouse without performing a click, the ability to pronounce mis-spellled words, and more.

For the full list of changes, please see the release notes at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/.

The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no longer any applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs, libgnomeprint, or libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME libraries have also seen improvements.

About GNOME



The GNOME Project is creating a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions as well as many mobile platforms like cellular phones and tablets.

The GNOME project has three main goals:

• Free and open source desktop accessible to all. GNOME is a free desktop available  to everyone, regardless of language, physical ability, technical expertise.
• Development platform. GNOME is a powerful development platform for developing free and open source software applications.
• GNOME Mobile. GNOME technologies provide a foundation for mobile applications from tablets to cellular phones.



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• GNOME Foundation Executive Director
  Stormy Peters
  Email: ...
  Phone: [phone]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy@...> wrote:

I think we should do a press release.

Have you started one? Do you need my help? I've got some time ...

I'm sure between the quotes you got and the release notes you wrote we have enough content. We can then send the release notes and the press release to press.

How about the other folks on the press team? What do you think?

Stormy

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@...> wrote:

Do we not typically do press releases for GNOME releases?  Looking at http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ I don't see any press releases for past releleases such as 2.26 or 2.24. 

We also need to add the SFD press release to that page, but I'm not sure how we do that.

Thanks.

Paul

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@...> wrote:

Le mardi 22 septembre 2009, à 17:06 -0500, Paul Cutler a écrit :

> I've been working on gathering quotes from developers for the press release,
> but I was wondering if anyone is working on it?  (Little late to be asking,
> but thought I'd throw it out there).

I can only tell I'm not working on it... That being said, the important
part is to contact the press -- with a press release, or with some other
content.

Vincent

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[Brian Cameron]

Paul:

>     * Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide
>       mode for users with netbooks.
>     *  GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing
>       bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
>     *  The Evince document viewer is now available for both Linux and
>       Microsoft Windows® platforms.

Evince has always been available for Linux, and other operating systems
like OpenSolaris and BSD.  I think the news is that it has now been
ported to Windows.  Perhaps we should just mention that it is now
available for Windows rather than call out all platforms that it works
with.

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Thanks all for the feedback.  Here is the final draft, Lucas is getting ready to publish.  I'm not sure who usually forwards this to press contacts.

Made to Share!  GNOME 2.28 Released!

GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer Platform.

September 23rd, 2009

The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability of GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the past six months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME Developer Platform.  

GNOME 2.28 furthers the GNOME mission by making sure people have a free desktop they can use to communicate with their friends using the latest technology.

GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve the user experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth devices for the first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones and other peripherals.  Bastien Nocera, one of the leading developers of GNOME's Bluetooth featureset says: “With the addition of the Bluetooth management tools and the enhancements to our Volume Control applications, we've given GNOME users access to more hardware features, whilst keeping our design principles.”

Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework, has seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom themes, geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for users to share their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME Remote Desktop server and viewer, Vino and Vinagre.  "The Telepathy team is proud of the cooperation between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre developers. Thanks to their work, our users will be able to easily share their desktop with their contacts without having to care about the underlying technical details. This is a great step for us as it marks the first use in GNOME of the collaborative features offered by the Telepathy framework. We hope to soon see more and more applications integrating Telepathy in order to increase the collaborative user experience in the GNOME desktop," says Guillame Desmottes, one of the main contributors to Empathy.

Other improvements to the GNOME Desktop include:

• Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide mode for users with netbooks.
• GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
• The Evince document viewer has been ported to Microsoft Windows®.
• Gedit has been ported to Mac OS® X.
• ... and more

For users with accessibility needs, Orca, the GNOME screen reader application, has seen numerous updates, including  support for mouseovers, moving the mouse without performing a click, the ability to pronounce mis-spellled words, and more.

The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no longer any applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs, libgnomeprint, or libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME libraries have also seen improvements.

For the full list of changes, please see the release notes at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/.

About GNOME



The GNOME Project is creating a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions as well as many mobile platforms like cellular phones and tablets.

The GNOME project has three main goals:

• Free and open source desktop accessible to all. GNOME is a free desktop available  to everyone, regardless of language, physical ability, technical expertise.
• Development platform. GNOME is a powerful development platform for developing free and open source software applications.
• GNOME Mobile. GNOME technologies provide a foundation for mobile applications from tablets to cellular phones.



Media Enquiries

• GNOME Foundation Executive Director
  Stormy Peters
  Email: ...
  Phone: [phone]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron@...> wrote:

Paul:

   * Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide

     mode for users with netbooks.
   *  GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing
     bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
   *  The Evince document viewer is now available for both Linux and
     Microsoft Windows® platforms.

Evince has always been available for Linux, and other operating systems
like OpenSolaris and BSD.  I think the news is that it has now been
ported to Windows.  Perhaps we should just mention that it is now
available for Windows rather than call out all platforms that it works
with.

Brian

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[Lucas Rocha-2]

Hi all,

FYI: published at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.html

--lucasr


2009/9/23 Paul Cutler <pcutler@...>:

> Thanks all for the feedback.  Here is the final draft, Lucas is getting
> ready to publish.  I'm not sure who usually forwards this to press contacts.
>
> Made to Share!  GNOME 2.28 Released!
>
> GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth
> support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer Platform.
>
> September 23rd, 2009
>
> The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability of
> GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the past six
> months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME Developer
> Platform.
>
> GNOME 2.28 furthers the GNOME mission by making sure people have a free
> desktop they can use to communicate with their friends using the latest
> technology.
>
> GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve the user
> experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth devices for the
> first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones and other peripherals.
>  Bastien Nocera, one of the leading developers of GNOME's
> Bluetooth featureset says: “With the addition of the Bluetooth management
> tools and the enhancements to our Volume Control applications, we've given
> GNOME users access to more hardware features, whilst keeping our design
> principles.”
>
> Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework, has
> seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom themes,
> geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for users to share
> their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME Remote Desktop server and
> viewer, Vino and Vinagre.  "The Telepathy team is proud of the cooperation
> between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre developers. Thanks to their work, our
> users will be able to easily share their desktop with their contacts without
> having to care about the underlying technical details. This is a great step
> for us as it marks the first use in GNOME of the collaborative features
> offered by the Telepathy framework. We hope to soon see more and more
> applications integrating Telepathy in order to increase the collaborative
> user experience in the GNOME desktop," says Guillame Desmottes, one of the
> main contributors to Empathy.
>
> Other improvements to the GNOME Desktop include:
>
> Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide mode for
> users with netbooks.
> GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing bugs with the
> switch to Webkit as its engine.
> The Evince document viewer has been ported to Microsoft Windows®.
> Gedit has been ported to Mac OS® X.
> ... and more
>
> For users with accessibility needs, Orca, the GNOME screen reader
> application, has seen numerous updates, including  support for mouseovers,
> moving the mouse without performing a click, the ability to pronounce
> mis-spellled words, and more.
>
> The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing
> deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no longer
> any applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs, libgnomeprint, or
> libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME libraries have also seen
> improvements.
>
> For the full list of changes, please see the release notes at
> http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/.
>
> About GNOME
>
> 
>
> The GNOME Project is creating a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop
> environment for users, as well as a powerful application development
> framework for software developers. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of
> people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux
> and Unix distributions as well as many mobile platforms like cellular phones
> and tablets.
>
> The GNOME project has three main goals:
>
> Free and open source desktop accessible to all. GNOME is a free desktop
> available  to everyone, regardless of language, physical ability, technical
> expertise.
> Development platform. GNOME is a powerful development platform for
> developing free and open source software applications.
> GNOME Mobile. GNOME technologies provide a foundation for mobile
> applications from tablets to cellular phones.
>
> 
>
> Media Enquiries
>
> GNOME Foundation Executive Director
> Stormy Peters
> Email: gnome-press-contact@...
> Phone: [phone]
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Paul:
>>
>>>    * Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide
>>>      mode for users with netbooks.
>>>    *  GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing
>>>      bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
>>>    *  The Evince document viewer is now available for both Linux and
>>>      Microsoft Windows® platforms.
>>
>> Evince has always been available for Linux, and other operating systems
>> like OpenSolaris and BSD.  I think the news is that it has now been
>> ported to Windows.  Perhaps we should just mention that it is now
>> available for Windows rather than call out all platforms that it works
>> with.
>>
>> Brian
>
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[Stormy Peters-2]

I sent it to:

Roberto Galoppini
Julie Bort
Todd Weiss
Paula Rooney
Dru Lavigne
Sean Michael Kerner
Alex Fletcher
Stephen O'Grady
David Berlind
Sarah Stokely
Tina Gasperson
Vance McCarthy
Jonathan Corbet
Andreas Proschofsky
Ryan Paul
Dana Blankenhorn
Scott Ruecker
Matt Asay
Bruce Byfield
Carla Schroder

Feel free to send it to any other press folks you know.

Stormy

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr@...> wrote:

Hi all,

FYI: published at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-gnome228.html

--lucasr


2009/9/23 Paul Cutler <pcutler@...>:

> Thanks all for the feedback.  Here is the final draft, Lucas is getting
> ready to publish.  I'm not sure who usually forwards this to press contacts.
>
> Made to Share!  GNOME 2.28 Released!
>
> GNOME 2.28 enhances Empathy Instant Messaging, adds official Bluetooth
> support, and improves other applications and the GNOME Developer Platform.
>
> September 23rd, 2009
>
> The GNOME Community is excited to announce the immediate availability of
> GNOME 2.28. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide have worked over the past six
> months to deliver improvements to the GNOME Desktop and GNOME Developer
> Platform.
>
> GNOME 2.28 furthers the GNOME mission by making sure people have a free
> desktop they can use to communicate with their friends using the latest
> technology.
>
> GNOME 2.28 delivers a number of new feature enhancements to improve the user
> experience.  GNOME 2.28 adds official support for Bluetooth devices for the
> first time, including mice, keyboards, mobile phones and other peripherals.
>  Bastien Nocera, one of the leading developers of GNOME's
> Bluetooth featureset says: “With the addition of the Bluetooth management
> tools and the enhancements to our Volume Control applications, we've given
> GNOME users access to more hardware features, whilst keeping our design
> principles.”
>
> Empathy, GNOME's instant messenger, built on the Telepathy framework, has
> seen numerous improvements, including the ability to add custom themes,
> geolocation support for Jabber clients, and the ability for users to share
> their desktop with their contacts using the GNOME Remote Desktop server and
> viewer, Vino and Vinagre.  "The Telepathy team is proud of the cooperation
> between the Empathy, Vino and Vinagre developers. Thanks to their work, our
> users will be able to easily share their desktop with their contacts without
> having to care about the underlying technical details. This is a great step
> for us as it marks the first use in GNOME of the collaborative features
> offered by the Telepathy framework. We hope to soon see more and more
> applications integrating Telepathy in order to increase the collaborative
> user experience in the GNOME desktop," says Guillame Desmottes, one of the
> main contributors to Empathy.
>
> Other improvements to the GNOME Desktop include:
>
> Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide mode for
> users with netbooks.
> GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing bugs with the
> switch to Webkit as its engine.
> The Evince document viewer has been ported to Microsoft Windows®.
> Gedit has been ported to Mac OS® X.
> ... and more
>
> For users with accessibility needs, Orca, the GNOME screen reader
> application, has seen numerous updates, including  support for mouseovers,
> moving the mouse without performing a click, the ability to pronounce
> mis-spellled words, and more.
>
> The GNOME Developer Platform has seen significant progress in removing
> deprecated modules and functionality.  In GNOME 2.28, there are no longer
> any applications that depend on esound, libgnomevfs, libgnomeprint, or
> libgnomeprintui.  GTK+, Glib and other GNOME libraries have also seen
> improvements.
>
> For the full list of changes, please see the release notes at
> http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/.
>
> About GNOME
>
> 
>
> The GNOME Project is creating a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop
> environment for users, as well as a powerful application development
> framework for software developers. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of
> people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux
> and Unix distributions as well as many mobile platforms like cellular phones
> and tablets.
>
> The GNOME project has three main goals:
>
> Free and open source desktop accessible to all. GNOME is a free desktop
> available  to everyone, regardless of language, physical ability, technical
> expertise.
> Development platform. GNOME is a powerful development platform for
> developing free and open source software applications.
> GNOME Mobile. GNOME technologies provide a foundation for mobile
> applications from tablets to cellular phones.
>
> 
>
> Media Enquiries
>
> GNOME Foundation Executive Director
> Stormy Peters
> Email: gnome-press-contact@...
> Phone: [phone]
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Paul:
>>
>>>    * Cheese, the GNOME webcam application, features an all new wide
>>>      mode for users with netbooks.
>>>    *  GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, fixed a number of long-standing
>>>      bugs with the switch to Webkit as its engine.
>>>    *  The Evince document viewer is now available for both Linux and
>>>      Microsoft Windows® platforms.
>>
>> Evince has always been available for Linux, and other operating systems
>> like OpenSolaris and BSD.  I think the news is that it has now been
>> ported to Windows.  Perhaps we should just mention that it is now
>> available for Windows rather than call out all platforms that it works
>> with.
>>
>> Brian
>
>

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