Re: GNUstep slogan - discussion and voting

[Daniel Santos]

Now I get it. The slogan is to attract developers. But developers 
usually aren't attracted by short vague sentences, that make them invest 
their precious time and effort on something they haven't investigated 
properly. When you choose a technology to implement something, you check 
first if it can do the job for you.

But anyway, take a look at this one :

GNUStep - object oriented portability

Daniel Santos

Nicolas Roard wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 12:13 AM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
> <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
>   
> > > GNUstep - Not your father's Cocoa!
> > >
> > > GNUstep - The greatest API you've never heard of!
> > >       
> > nice, I like the humor in it. But will a great API alone make
> > developers consider GNUstep?
> >     
>
> I like both, probably with a preference to the 2nd as I'm not so keen
> as selling gnustep as a cocoa clone..
>
>   
> > > GNUstep - code intelligently
> > >       
> > better than my original proposal, second choice to me
> >
> >     
> > > GNUstep - code less, deploy everywhere
> > >       
> > [X] my favorite, short and to the point. It lines out what we are (a
> > framework/environment for development), it sums up the main
> > advantages (code less, cross platform capability)
> >
> >     
> > > GNUstep - code smartly
> > >       
> > same as code intelligently
> >     
>
> No, I think it's better than code intelligently as there's also the
> "dressed smartly" which is the case with GNUstep, isn't it ?
>
>   
> > > GNUstep - make your users smile today
> > >       
> > nice and positive, but you still get no idea what GNUstep is about
> > (WindowMaker - make your users smile today would also work for
> > WindowMaker)
> >     
>
> nice, but.. not really informative.
>
>   
> > > GNUstep - write once deploy everywhere
> > >       
> > that one is also not bad but it misses to point out that GNUstep
> > saves you a lot of time and code (which you don't need to write)
> >     
>
> yeah, and it's close to the java slogan... possibly  a bad association :D
>
> my order would be (in descending order):
> GNUstep - code smartly
> GNUstep - The greatest API you've never heard of!
> GNUstep - code less, deploy everywhere
> GNUstep - code intelligently
>
>