Any chance the GNOME Women’s Summer Outreach poster could drop the “Linux” bit? Or did I just imagine that we spent the last six years fixing, distributing and supporting GNOME on Solaris? 
Any chance the GNOME Women’s Summer Outreach poster could drop the “Linux” bit? Or did I just imagine that we spent the last six years fixing, distributing and supporting GNOME on Solaris?
The svg’s available…. http://gnome.org/projects/wsop/poster.svg
If anything it should say GNU/Linux.
Calum, I also wanted to add I’m sorry that I wasn’t thinking about that when i made the poster – all of this has been done extremely short-notice on extremely tight deadlines. If you wouldn’t mind updating the poster I posted a link to the SVG and if not I can try to do it tonight when I have more time. Thanks for pointing out the mistake.
So we discussed this a bit in #wsop and decided that the initial reasoning (‘Linux’ is more likely to be recognized by CS students than ‘GNOME’) is sound, and maybe it’d be better to putting something like:
‘Linux/Unix’ (wgo says ‘GNOME offers an easy to understand desktop for your Linux or UNIX computer.’ on the front page) Alternatively we could do something like: ‘Linux/Solaris/*BSD’ but that gets complicated and I’m sure we’re leaving somebody out… What do you think?It was just a dream. A beautiful dream.
What about “Gain experience developing open-source desktop
applications”?
Don’t sweat it, I understand that Linux is a cooler buzzword… but at Sun, everyone’s an OpenSolaris marketing bod these days, so we’re trained to pounce on such things like mountain (view) lions
I put up my best effort at http://www.gnome.org/~calum/poster.svg. Another alternative might be “Linux, Unix and more…”, which would completely cover the bases.
@DavidC: yeah, that was my first thought too, but the next line mentions open source as well, and I do agree with Máirín that “Linux” is more attention-grabbing.