Re: Re: Sourceforge community award

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

I also do like Brian's description a lot.  But it is 190 characters,
I am not sure if we can stretch the "about 140" this much?  I have
been trying to shorten it a bit - please check if it still captures
the essence.....

Here is the current state of our reply to Sourceforge - please comment

> 1. Complete this sentence in about 140 characters: "Our project is
> [-foo-]."  For example, "Our project is a tool that helps you wash  
> your
> car."
>

    Org-mode masters personal/project information your way, in plain  
text,
    with features out of your way until you want them, backed by the
    power of Emacs.


> 2. Complete this sentence, also in about 140 characters: "We should  
> win
> because [-bar-]."  For example, "We should win because we have a  
> strong
> community and we solve a universal problem."

    We should win because by allowing people to evolve their
    productive selves, org-mode has created one of the best
    communities in the open-source world.

>
> 3. Please provide a logo (or screenshot, if you'd prefer) for your
> project.  It should be at least 640x480, but we'll also be showing it
> as a thumbnail.

I am attaching the picture to this email, you can also retrieve it from

http://orgmode.org/Org-mode-scc.png

(((Thanks to Greg Newman for fixing up the unicorn and pasting it nicely
into the screenshot - any objections against this picture?  Note that
it needs to work as a thumbnail as well, which this one will, I  
believe.)))

For the time being, I am sending you this link, which is a Google Tech  
Talk
by me (Carsten Dominik, main author of Org-mode).

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM

Before the deadline you should get another email from Bastien Guerry,
with a link to a new video which we made just for this occasion.
If so, please link to that video instead.

> 5. In some cases, I'm mailing several people in your community because
> I don't know who the right person is.  If you're not the right person
> for me to be dealing with, please let me know.	I certainly don't want
> to be irritating.

Main address:       carsten.dominik@gmail.com
Secondary address:  bastienguerry@googlemail.com

> 6. Our finalists are usually pretty interesting people.  Are you
> willing to be contacted by our public relations team about interviews
> with the press?

Yes.