GNOME: Oh dear, here they come again

I was hopeful to see some major changes in GNOME Topaz (3.0). But now I have quickly viewed the discussions on the marketing list. Especially those threads:

GNOME Marketing Strategy (Was Audiences), Paul Cutler
GNOME 3.0 slogans, Michael Hasselmann

PLEASE DONT (do it again)
Dont waste your time thinking again about target audiences and slogans. Some say the real [...]

EU Parliament video stream is not open

I recently discovered the EU parliament life video stream. But I found that there is no open standard. They only provide WMV and MPEG4. This sounds weird, because the EU ist struggling for year against Microsofts monopoles in different sectors. But when it comes to the coverage of the heart of the EU they depend [...]