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Propaganda News and IRC Party

Posted by Hemos on from the visit-with-the-people-who-make-my-desktop-possible dept.

ranc0r writes "The staff of PROPAGANDA will be holding and IRC party on irc.openprojects.net #propaganda today at 3PM CST to celebrate the sucess of the website, which has served over 250,000+ visitors seamless tiles for their X11 desktop. Also, Bowie Poag will be turning over the site to Asmodean of Revelation fame. Come wish Bowie good luck on his upcoming projects and tell Asmodean what you would like to see in the future. Oh yeah, I also heard that Jack himself will be there! "

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  1. Interesting by Foogle · · Score: 3
    I love Propaganda. It's funny too, because if you think about it, the content of the site (that being the images) really has nothing to do with Linux at all. It's the concept -- the implementation of the idea -- that involves Linux and the open source community. I mean, this guy could've just made his pictures and released them to winfiles.com or something retarded like that, but no. Instead he made a whole site with an innovative, if not a little crazy, storyline about JFK and Linux.

    It's really quite admirable if you think about it. It's also a great draw for his site -- I think Propaganda and Linux are a good match :)

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  2. Re:trouble taking them seriously... by Vic · · Score: 2

    It's incredibly significant. The No Sympathy For Redmond invasion tour is a strong force leading the People on the path to destroying Microsoft, one desktop at a time.

    I take them very seriously. If you are not part of Propaganda, you must fear them. All hail JFK.

  3. Re:Propaganda uses M$ Techniques by Foogle · · Score: 2
    um, no. There's a difference between Microsoft's "embrace/extend/buy" and Propaganda and Revelation's combining. P&R aren't really competitors. Neither one of them makes money off it's product. It's not like, by combining, they have a greater power over the market -- there is no market. Well there is one, actually, but since Propaganda is GPL'ed, it's a market where the producer can't possibly maximize his profits through sales, and the consumer maximizes their utility through not spending anything.

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  4. Ack.. slept through my own irc party by Asmodean451 · · Score: 2

    ACK! I thought the party was tomorrow bowie.. oh well.. In any case, I might as well post my little blurb about things. The last couple of months have been quite interesting. I started Revelation about the beginning of the summer, and through some wonderful help from the themes.org and geeknews.net people (who posted news about Revelation), I was able to get up to about an 8k/day hit average within a week. Running Propaganda will be highly enjoyable.. I've seen the posts about people who don't know what Propaganda is or are confused by us.

    We are the propaganda arm of the Linux movement! :)

    There's a great JFK received that I'd like to point out in this respect. It was from a sysadmin who had seen the cool screenshots on Propaganda and had been so interested by them that he ended up installing a Linux partition. This is our lifelong mission: to go where no Linux-er has gone before, to go into the heathen lands of M$ and rescue the poor lost souls =)

    Anyway, Propaganda won't change all too much, the same crazy storylines, the same cool tiles.. (just a slightly different style =)..

    Remember kids: Same propaganda time, same propaganda channel!

  5. A note of thanks.. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 5

    Hi everyone,

    As you may have heard, i'm passing the reins of the project to Asmodean (Naru Sundar), who has been a friendly competitor to ours for quite some time.. With him at the wheel, Propaganda will continue to have someone who can devote the time and energy such a project needs to continue to be successful. Trust me -- Asmodean is good. :) I wouldn't hand over the project to someone I didnt have total faith in. The volumes will keep coming, the goofyness will keep going, and there will always be something new to see. :) As for me, i'll be devoting my time to working on System 12, a soon-to-be-opened community project that I hope will someday enjoy as much success as Propaganda has enjoyed.

    Speaking of which, I figured i'd drop a line here for those of you who couldn't make it, and thank you and everyone who helped make the project a success for nearly a year..You guys are the ones who continue to ensure its success in years to come.. Everyone from the folks who used to visit the site back when it was running on a 56K modem in November '98 to the new guys who just today came to visit us to enjoy the work for the first time. :) To all of you, thank you..

    Special thanks go out to the long list of folks who supported me and helped me make the project as popular as it is..Rob and Hemos here at Slashdot for giving me my first big break during Christmas of 98, to Trae and company at themes.org/VA Linux Systems for providing a real home for the project thru thick and thin, to the many folks at Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake Linux, Debian, KDE, and GNOME for helping distribute the stuff, and to Kristen and Brian for being the best cheerleaders anybody could hope for. You rule! :)

    10 months of work, 14 volumes, 730+ images, a quarter of a million people, and over half a billion tiles in circulation later, my job (personally) is done.. A year ago, I decided to use my talent to draw attention to Linux as a platform, and show the masses that we can be as good or better than anything else out there..Best of all, now we all have something that we can enjoy and use freely for years to come. :)

    A big part of what makes the Linux community work so well is that we're all marching toward the same goal..We all care about long-forgotten concepts like pride of workmanship, community responsibility, and devoting our time and energy to help make things better for everyone, not just ourselves...Just because thats how it should be done. The only reason I was able to do what i've done for the past 10 months is because the rest of you pitched in, did your part and helped me get there..And as long as that tradition continues, we're all going to benefit. :)

    Thanks again to everyone..its been a wild, wild ride. :)

    Bowie J. Poag

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