Announcement draft

[C. Boemann]

On Tuesday 26 April 2011 18:20:49 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 26 April 2011 16:06, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 16:00:52 Inge Wallin wrote:
> >> Here is a first draft of the announcement of snapshot 1.  I have already
> >> had some feedback from Cyrille that I incorporated.
> >> 
> >> Please comment on the overall structure (is this what we want to focus
> >> on?) as well as the actual content.  Also remember that this is a first
> >> draft that will be polished over the next few days.
> >> 
> >> When we have the screenshots and visual tour on the website, I will also
> >> add references to those.
> >> 
> >>       -Inge
> > 
> > Based on feedback from my first draft, I have embellished it a bit.  Here
> > is a longer version. :-P
> 
> Nice work!
> First, one thing: I'd like to propose to have two messages: to users
> and developers. Only the latter would mention GUI/engine separation
> and stuff like that. If we start doing the separation for any
> announcement, we can escape from the 'geek' area.
> Simple test: just give the text to read to your family and see what's
> a like black magic to them, then improve incrementally.
Very good point. 100% agree