I would have to say that I believe the Goddard quote takes away from the hype of the slogan. Put me down for +1 on leaving it out. --jfalco On 03/06/2010 02:05 PM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > These both look great. One question: Why do we have the Goddard quote > in the email? While I think it is definitely an inspirational message, > I don't know that we want to be mixing it in with the slogan > announcement, particularly since I believe that quote may have been a > proposed slogan, or at least part of it. > > If we do want to provide that quote in the mail, I think we should > either introduce it a bit (ie: here's an inspirational quote from > robert goddard), or at least move it away from where we say the slogan > is rock it. After all, we don't want people to be rocking an incorrect > slogan :) > > What does everyone think? > > Also, I'm happy to send out the email Monday (I'm assuming you mean > both announcements), although I feel a little odd about it since the > slogan picked was the one I proposed. :). Nelson spent quite a bit of > time crafting the announcement; I hate to take away his opportunity > here to send it. As Mel has always said, doing these announcements is > a great way to let newcomers be known in the Fedora community. > > -From the land of Nyquil and Dayquil, Robyn > > On 3/6/10, Paul Frields<stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Nelson and I had a good conversation this afternoon about the slogan >> announcement. We realized we really need two different emails. >> >> One is the general announcement, sent to the lists shown on the slogan >> SOP. The other is a specific email sent only to the trans@ list, to >> give translators context for their work in translating the slogan on >> the website. >> >> I've shown the candidate text on the slogan page here: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_slogan_announcement >> >> Robyn, if you agree with this, you can send this text out on Monday or so. >> >> Paul >> -- >> marketing mailing list >> marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >> >> > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing