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[Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

Helen,
That's great news!  If he is a big fan, then hopefully he will mention us on
the Ubuntu news site, and possibly get some Ubuntu packaging experts to help
us out.  Very exciting.

Thanks!
-Jonathan



On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Helen McCall <wildnfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Jonathan.
>
> Today I have been on the #ubuntu-news channel talking to Craig Eddy who
> edits the Ubuntu news reports.
>  I talked him through installing OpenShot first. He was using an old
> Dell 32 bit machine running 9.04. His first attempt failed and so I
> talked him through carefully and he got it working.
>
> His comment after installing was; "Tell Jonathan thank you for putting
> in option 2 - reinstall.  it wipes out the directories that went bad and
> re-downloads everything fresh.  Nicely done."
>
> I then talked him through using it whilst he played around with an old
> government film about ploughing! He then declared OpenShot was the best
> he had yet seen. He said once we get the install a bit smoother with
> proper packages we should have no trouble with getting it into the
> Ubuntu repos.
>
> Then he said he was going to use it to produce some "info-mercials"
> about Ubuntu to run at Ubuntu fests.
>
> Best wishes, Helen
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