Re: People think we are for nostalgics or dead.

[Gregory Casamento]

I have updated the website recently to show the themes.  

I am also posting, pretty much daily, about progress with GNUstep on twitter.  The best we can do is to try to put ourselves out there the way we really are.  Looking at GNUstep's stats on github tells the story that we are not dead. 

Also, the discussion on hackernews showed that a lot of people are turning around their opinions.   We will not change the general impression of the project in a day (or even a month or a year) but if we persist in making it known that we are not a bunch of Luddites, then people will, eventually, pick up on that.

We must strive to change people's opinions.

GC

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 5:31 AM lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:

Hi there,


obviously we have a problem  with our representation to the world. People think we are for nostalgics or dead. I know, we had this discussion many times before (lengthy at times), but the situation doesn’t seem to be resolved. IIRC after the last discussion about our web presence the only „measure“ that was taken was to add an screenshot „carousel“ to the front page … not enough IMHO …

Why I am writing this now? Well on the german internet news site https://heise.de/newsticker there was an news article about NeXT being bought by Apple 25 years ago.
In the associated discussion forum there was a mention of our web presence, http://www.gnustep.org/:

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/Vor-25-Jahren-Apple-kauft-Next-mitsamt-Steve-Jobs/GNUStep/posting-40185491/show/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de

it mentioned our web presence correctly but with the appendage "for nostalgics“.

In the reactions to this post there another misconceptions like:

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/Vor-25-Jahren-Apple-kauft-Next-mitsamt-Steve-Jobs/Re-GNUStep/posting-40187338/show/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de

quote: "Nice, really! Unfortunately a little lifeless since 2018, or am I wrong?“

this impression was gained when viewing our website!

Think about it.


kind regards and happy holidays,

        Lars

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