Re: Reminder: 35th GNUstep anniversary upcoming in two weeks!

Hi Riccardo,

> Am 28.04.2026 um 19:22 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
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> Hi,
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> [email protected] via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment wrote:
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>> - Do we want a celebration banner on our website?
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> Sure! I'd replace the current banner with a single big image.. eg with GNUstep logo, cake and 35 candles or somethign similar. If someone wants to draw or even play with AI... keep it up like a month or so, then revert.

I could imagine an Orca holding a glass of champagne in front of a GNUstep logo shaped birthday cake.

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>> - Do we want the media to report this? Are any media contacts known (I tried to mail the german IT news site „heise.de <http://heise.de>“ but never got any response).
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> OSNews? slashdot? Ars Technica?
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> TO be honest, I don't follow much media anymore given the bias and relative low quality, so at the same time I'm not up to date which are the best ones to show, especially thinking about our typical audience.
> 

I think it is not that important that every little detail is correct when the media writes about GNUstep (I assume that is it what you mean by „low quality“), but that the media writes about GNUstep at all. Today I had a conversation in the forums of heise.de <http://heise.de/> where I mentioned GNUstep. My conversational partner then stated that he had never heard about GNUstep, hence it must be „in the niche of a niche“ and thusly irrelevant. GNUstep doesn’t need a better media coverage, it needs media coverage at all.

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>> - Do we want to be in whatever GNU newsletter? Who has contacts here?
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> I only know of a "release" letter, but I would not rush for a release on the exact date.
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>> - I think while it would have been great to have a anniversary release, I don’t think it is a good idea to rush one now.
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> Me neither, short time frame, we are working on great stuff and I'd prefer not to disrupt it.
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> I think base is more or less releasable, but gui is influx and I noticed recently issues. We could still decide to keep all the major stuff in a branch and decide for a release in some months and still call it "anniversary release".
> It would be nice to release other stuff together... e.g. Addresses, GWorkspace andother things that were touched  recently
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>> - What else?
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> - gadgets?
> - post(s) on our Facebook Group of course

and at Reddit. Folks, we have a reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnustep/

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> 
> Riccardo

kind regards,

	Lars

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