Announcing..

[Luke Schierer]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:49:22PM -0500, Gary Kramlich wrote:
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> Luke Schierer wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:21:35PM -0500, Gary Kramlich wrote:
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> >> John Bailey (rekkanoryo) has just informed us in
> >> devel at conference.pidgin.im that the story as just hit slashdot's
> >> firehose, which is meant to be a catch for misinformed stories, but is
> >> slowly climbing up to being published.
> >>
> >> My question is, are we announcing today, or are we going to continue to
> >> wait.  I vote for today since the post to translators is already
> >> archived and showing up on digg and wikipedia.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> > 
> > It should not be hard to edit the emails I sent to packagers and
> > translators into a general announcement.  I'm all for doing so.  I'm on
> > a computer currently, but I will be going to the Easter Vigil Mass
> > tonight, so my availability this evening and tomorrow is limited.
> > 
> > luke
> 
> Well, the slashdot story is in the blue right now, when it gets to red
> it'll be published in 20 mins, which is what I have been told.  And we
> don't have enough people to keep it off, so what do we want to do when
> this hits?  I'm perched and ready to +m #gaim, I've already +m'd
> #pidgin.  But without an announcement, and no explanation, we're looking
> really bad.

Okay, I've got an edited version of my text that I'll post to the
pidgin.im news shortly.

luke